The Scientists Speak
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is releasing their report on global warming and it is dire. Millions of miles of coastline threatened, melting polar ice and glaciers, intense storms and droughts, just for starters. Not surprisingly the report has been toned down thanks to some pressure from the US, China, and Saudi Arabia. Why is our govt so f'ing anti-science? You can argue about how fast the effects of global warming will be felt, but some of W's "scientists" deny that it exists. We will have had 8 years when Shrubs term is up, in which we have rolled back environmental protections and drastically increased our CO2 emissions. It will take alot of work to undo the damage that this administration has wrought.Labels: global warming, W
posted by Elvez73 at 8:32 AM
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First, a comment completely unrelated to your excellent post: the Psychedelic Republican cards are available by mail at
http://www.psychedelicrepublicans.com/
And yes, they ARE hilarious!!!
I think part of why the government is so anti-science is that they ingest vast amounts of mind-altering chemicals. Probably LSD, psilocybin, mescaline... But far more likely is that they are high on power and/or religion, as the picture in your article suggests. I may have to steal that one from you, I hope you don't mind. It is one of the best I have seen in ages!!!!
WHERE did you get that poster? It's great!
I think they're anti-science because science is the work of the devil, or something. It has a pesky way of refuting the writings in the Good Book, like the creation myth.
Seriously, this is what scares me the most about this Administration, and Bush in particular. He believes absolutely that he is doing the work of his god,and part of that work includes facilitating Armaggedon, and he's surrounded by people who use that to manipulate him (so they can control all the oil.) That's fine if you're just some nutcase from Bugfuck, Texas, but not if you're the guy with his finger on the button.
That is a great card.
CNN is running a program this weekend called "What would Jesus really do?" I caught part of it last night. One of the pastors they were interviewing said that he has no doubt that if Jesus were alive today, he'd be caring for HIV patients. I thought that was a great comment, as it flies in the face of what the evangelicals are "preaching."
Global warming is the worst issue that we are facing, yet politicians are more concerned with oil profits. This kind of boneheaded short-sightedness is going to be the end of us.
Snave steal away, one of my friends sent me that pic, I'll have to find out where he got it. Candace your right that these guys are working towards God's final judgement, destroying the planet is of no consequence if the Rapture is coming. lizzy I saw the trailer for that CNN show I'll have to set my tivo to check it out.
I remember reading a term in a book, 1984 if memory serves, where one of the three nations in the world at the time had as its national religion something that translated into "death worship." It is of this that many, though not all, evangelical Christians remind me. Many of them seem to be so anxious for the "Rapture" (and will someone PLEASE show me where that bullshit is found in the Bible?), yet they're completely disinterested in working to improve the world now, sure that, no matter what they do, they're "saved." Well, I also save pennies, but only because they're not worth the effort to spend them. But on my next trip to a Coinstar, I'll dispose of them like the rubbish they are.
It will take alot of work to undo the damage that this administration has wrought.
If it can be undone at all.
Came over from snave's. Cool blog!
Pretty amazing thing I have noticed about the Bible... it never mentions knowledge as being a good thing, never promotes learning about the natural world... It is no small wonder to me that extreme fundamentalists are so against science, so against public schooling, so against discussions of issues.
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