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At a confirmation hearing for Janet McCabe, President Obamas pick to head the Environmental Protection Agencys Air and Radiation office, Alabama Republican Senator Jeff Sessions said he could not support her because of her views on climate change.
f you continue to insist that weve had more hurricanes in the last century and that theyve increased as a result of global warming climate change I dont see how I can support your nomination, Sessions said.
Sessions, who serves on the Environment and Public Works Committee, has long denied the existence of man-made climate change.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/obama-nominee-janet-mccabe-trouble-over-climate-change
Arkansas Granny
(31,517 posts)And I mean no disrespect to pigs.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)A point of pride, nowadays, with these types.
spanone
(135,838 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)From what I have seen so far, I believe they do.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)exist. And I do not mean poor in lack of money although that is also true. They deliberately dumb down their children.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)If slave was caught reading he would be whipped. After Civil War they would burn their books.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Heaven forbid their people learn to think and analyze what the politicians say.
No wonder they don't believe in science or global warming! Such fools.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)They just ASSUME everyone else does the same thing and that's how things work.
On the subject of Global Warming - Climate Change" they have come to the conclusion that it is a SCAM perpetrated by the anti-Capitalists of the world to raise money.
A while back Limbaugh went into hysterics over a poll that showed a majority of Americas said they wouldn't mind seeing their taxes go up a little to fix the issue and Limbaugh exclaimed, "Do you see what's happening here???"
It all went downhill after that with the notion that scientists were standing in line at some kind of pay window and someone from the government was handing them stacks of cash for studies that fit the agenda.
Because,....you know,.....GREED is a motive they understand.
kardonb
(777 posts)YES!!!
Johonny
(20,851 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)The one place that we need a person like Janet McCabe, they don't want to support your nomination because she is the right person!
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)Senator, if you are expecting to ever get a nomination that cannot read, do basic arithmetic, or comprehend basic physics for this or ANY other position whatsoever then I am afraid the Senator is setting himself up for consistent disappointment fueled by unrealistic and frankly frightening expectations of a person of basic education living in the 21st century with a shred of honesty anywhere in their mortal frame.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)It is almost as fundamentally dishonest as spouting their bullshit to dignify it as anything but tomfoolery, at best.
Mr. Mustard
(63 posts)and no matter how fired up the Dem base becomes, it requires our Dem leaders to take risks and call these jerks out, each and every time.
But that would jeopardize their cushy jobs, wouldn't it?
So, the mass extinctions, fossil fuels causing climate change that threaten humans has become political.
We should be running around like our hair is on fire, but we fiddle while the earth melts.
TheKentuckian
(25,026 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)he simply works full time for the dark side..
PosterChild
(1,307 posts)malaise
(269,004 posts)All these morons should be forced to live in hurricane states.
caraher
(6,278 posts)Unfortunately, even if there are more hurricanes, they have alternative explanations like... ummm, maybe God's wrath over gay marriage?
lunasun
(21,646 posts)LongTomH
(8,636 posts)The idea of moving the convention up a few months is to give them a head start on the primary campaign.
Let's see.....what is it about high summer in Las Vegas? Oh, yeah! Triple digit temperatures. The hotels and convention hall will be air conditioned, of course, but they will have to go outside at some point!
Arkana
(24,347 posts)and hot dogs.
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Bandit
(21,475 posts)Even if every single Republican votes against her nomination, which I am sure they will, it won't matter because Democrats have the Majority.
frylock
(34,825 posts)Nobel_Twaddle_III
(323 posts)Obviously
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)http://www.wunderground.com/education/webster.asp
pscot
(21,024 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)will people vote the ignorant assholes out? sometimes I don't know what to do with the anger I feel towards the idiots running our country
a little research... Sessions is upset that Janet McCabe claims hurricanes are on the increase because of human induced climate change... Sessions says that data collected by the IPCC directly contradicts McCabes claim that there have been more hurricanes and similar weather events in recent years than there were in decades past...
he says, The IPCC says current data sets indicate no significant observable trends in global tropical cyclone frequency over the last century" he says to McCabe Does that not dispute what you just told us?
part of their report...
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq-3-3.html
spanone
(135,838 posts)dotymed
(5,610 posts)I was among the first responders, it was devastation beyond imagining. Sadly, I fear that was just a prelude to what we have brought upon our civilization. "Our" earth has no options left. It must heal itself of the infestation that is destroying it. It has done this before. How many times, I do not believe that science really knows. I hate to think of the very real threat of extinction that my grandchildren face.
I believe that the earth has had more advanced cultures than we will ever know. Amazingly, we have had the technology to greatly lessen our impact on this planet for (at least) many decades.
I had a professor and friend who was/is a "trust fund baby." He is now in his eighties and his Father passed on a few years ago. Anyway, I was amazed (I was much younger then) when he told me that his very elite family regularly used technology that was not available to the average person, in fact we had no idea that most of these technologies were available.
The wealthy had microwave ovens in the 1950's. I never saw one until the late '70's. The same is true with remote controlled tee vee. We actually had to walk and manually switch channels. The whole 4-5 that were available to us.
IMO, sen. Jeff Sessions has proven to all that he is a mental midget who is actually stupid enough to believe his own propaganda.
America will never progress while we have "elected leaders(?)" of his caliber.
Again IMO, there must be large amounts of money spent to insure that people like this "lead" what was once a beacon of hope in our deteriorating world. Of course, along with that reasoning, there must be a plan (it is obvious) to loot and destroy, from within, our nation. The only thing "trickling down" is extreme ignorance and propaganda.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)is some kind of "belief." Every.Time. it comes up. It is not a question of faith.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Absolutely this needs to be reframed. It's the FACT of climate change (evolution, a round earth orbiting the sun, etc. ) You can't use "theory" because these idiots don't understand what a scientific theory is.
Armadotrasgo
(28 posts)Or is he just a person who questions whether recent human activity is the primary cause? Sometimes I can't tell because sound bites are, well, sound bites.
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Someone who denies the human cause IS a denier.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Vashta Nerada
(3,922 posts)No. Science is NOT a belief. Science is supported by observation and evidence.
Good god.
AverageJoe90
(10,745 posts)It may be true that we have no sure way to tell what role that AGW has played in the increase of hurricanes right now. But that's not really why Sessions is complaining, of course. He's just upset that she was appointed by a liberal African-American president who happens to disagree with him on environment & energy issues. That's why.
Cha
(297,246 posts)Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)nirvana555
(448 posts)"so-called" Christians don't believe in climate change. Here's my question, why don't these people believe in climate change?
GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)deniers is money being pumped into conservative think tanks by oil, coal, and gas companies. Because any serious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions would require tighter regulations on that industry, which would cost them a lot of money.
I think it manifests itself as conservatives who think Al Gore is a liar, that climate change educators are tree-hugging hippies, and/or believe too much science is anti-religion.
Also, some are just Fox News watching idiots. And yet others, like Sessions, are bought and paid for industry whores.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)He's vile and corrupt, but he's not stupid. He's just one of the evil fucking old money hatemongers you hardly ever see anymore.
His name pretty much tells the whole story: Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
Chemisse
(30,813 posts)And perhaps score above 70 on an IQ test.
I'd bet we could have been spared many of these morans, including Sarah Palin, with this kind of a requirement.
Botany
(70,508 posts)Response to spanone (Original post)
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