My. To think, just a few years back, this kind of thing would have been immediately shouted down by the more politically savvy and sophisticated types on the right for being “unhelpful”, representing the very kind of kneejerk pushback against SCIENCE that alienates moderates and independents (who as we all know are the most wise and thoughtful among us), thus assuring the GOP its deserved place in the political wilderness, controlled as the Party sometimes is by superstitious godbotherers and conservative cranks who embarrass their more urbane and worldly compatriots.
And now, just a few short years later, this kind of conspiracy paranoia — spoken aloud, and actually believed — while likely to raise a similar kind of response from our GOP betters, may in fact be given a few days to breathe before our betters distance themselves from it, terrified at how the mainstream press is likely to characterize their anti-SCIENCE doltishness.
So. Progress!
— Unless some enterprising reporter rushes to jam a microphone in Chris Christie’s face, that is. In which case, never mind.
When it comes to anthropogenic gases, I always vote with the silent majority.
agw crowd should have tried “silently but deadly”
Hey, good news! Fiat is going to open two new Jeep factories!
The bad news? They’ll be in Russia.
Silver lining: The attendant CO2 emissions will be waaaaaaay over there where they won’t bother Gaia!
This is a tremendous piece of outsider scholarship, submitted to the IPCC AR5 and modified for a post at the 2012 Best Science blog – a climate skeptic clean sweep. I agree with Rawls: that is statistical fraud, not just poorly executed science.
Waiter! There’s a hockey stick in my soup.
And it keeps telling lies.
Separated at Birth: Andrew Sullivan and …? And we wonder why we have these problems?