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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 03:05 PM Jun 2014

URGENT News From the Shallow End of the Gene Pool....

GOP rep.: Global warming is a hoax because dinosaurs went extinct without car pollution

By David Edwards
Monday, June 9, 2014 13:28 EDT

Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) on Monday cited the extinction of the dinosaurs as proof that man-made global warming was a hoax.

During an interview on MSNBC, host Richard Lui asked Miller if the Republican Party was going to lose votes because of people like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who recently insisted that scientists were wrong about human activity causing climate change.

Miller argued that polls showing that Americans agreed with scientists over Rubio, 56 to 33 percent, were meaningless because “anybody would answer a poll and say that they believe the scientists, but you have to understand that it is not settled science.”

“The issue of climate change has been happening for a long time, and for us to be able to think that we, as matter of fact, can change what’s going on right now to any substantive measure is really kind of foolish in my opinion,” he said. “I’m concerned with the truth. And the truth is, climate has been changing for a long time. They call it global warming, global cooling. Now, everybody wants to call it climate change.”

“Yes, the climate is changing. But it has been doing that for centuries,” Miller added. “And for us to say that it is a settled argument right now, I think, again, is a foolish argument to make because there are scientists on both sides of the issue that say that it is not settled.”

“But man made, isn’t that the question?” Lui pressed.

“But then, why did the dinosaurs go extinct?” Miller shot back in frustration. “Were there men that were causing — were there cars running around at that point that were causing global warming? No. The climate has changed since Earth was created.”

Many scientists believe that climate change caused by a giant asteroid or comet led to the extinction of about 70 percent of dinosaurs.

Watch the video below from MSNBC, broadcast June 9, 2104.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/09/gop-rep-global-warming-is-a-hoax-because-dinosaurs-went-extinct-without-car-pollution/

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URGENT News From the Shallow End of the Gene Pool.... (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
There really ought to be some sort of IQ test needed to JaneyVee Jun 2014 #1
I thought Florida had a better educational system Ilsa Jun 2014 #2
Public education in Florida is (or was) better than this csziggy Jun 2014 #6
I know it is none of my business, but oldandhappy Jun 2014 #7
I haven't spent much time with them at all since I left for college csziggy Jun 2014 #8
Jeff Miller is an excellent argument ... GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #3
If the deniers could read AND comprehend Faux pas Jun 2014 #4
Dinosaur farts are the obvious culprit. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2014 #5
 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
1. There really ought to be some sort of IQ test needed to
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 03:08 PM
Jun 2014

Run for office. We don't want Idiocracy to go from the fiction section to the documentary section any time soon.

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
2. I thought Florida had a better educational system
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 03:14 PM
Jun 2014

than this. Someone needs to explain to him how things become extinct.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
6. Public education in Florida is (or was) better than this
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 03:54 PM
Jun 2014

But after integration, a lot of people in Florida sent their children to hastily established private schools, many of which were started by churches. That is what happened to my cousins. While my sisters and I attended the public schools and got decent, if not excellent, instruction that included a good grounding in science, my cousins - in the same county but one town over - went to church run schools that taught very little science and a very biased view of history.

Only one of my three siblings became a conservative, while all six of those cousins are all seriously conservative. For all I know, they could be Tea Party members. I seldom see them and never talk politics with them on our very short visits.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
7. I know it is none of my business, but
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 04:43 PM
Jun 2014

how about employment? Are your six cousins with the conservative manipulated education making a living? I am curious because I see rich conservatives on TV and I see retired with benefits in my senior mobile home park. I have no connection any longer with actual working folk in the 40 - 60 range. I am wondering about this slanted education business and resulting employment.

Would appreciate your comments. You do not have to say specifically re your family.

csziggy

(34,120 posts)
8. I haven't spent much time with them at all since I left for college
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 05:34 PM
Jun 2014

So far as I know the females (most of them) are stay at home Moms, sending their children to the same sort of religious oriented schools they attended. Their husbands are very conservative, one was a politician but never made it above the county commission level.

The one male cousin is an architect now living in France.

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