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ashling

(25,771 posts) Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:47 PM Jun 2014

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

[font size = 4]NO, Really![/font size = 4]

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.”

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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GOP rep.: Global warming is a hoax because dinosaurs went extinct without car pollution (Original Post) ashling Jun 2014 OP

I wish the GOP morons would go extinct . Historic NY Jun 2014 #1

Makes sense. ..nt TeeYiYi Jun 2014 #2

Yup! No cars. But they had a fucking 10-15 km wide space rock. longship Jun 2014 #3

Miller is wrong they did have cars back then. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #4

The green gases came from farting I s'pose nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #5

Yes, but then as now most of it was industrial. Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #6

Of course nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #7

... Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #8

Sadly, our journalists seem to know even less science than the GOP. SunSeeker Jun 2014 #14

There is a reason both Hunter and Issa nadinbrzezinski Jun 2014 #17

You can see in his expression; he knows exactly what he's peddling. What an utter piece of shit. Gravitycollapse Jun 2014 #9

He said with his dinosaur head up his a$$. Cha Jun 2014 #10

Kinda looks donco Jun 2014 #11

Lui's response was "We'll have to leave it there." SunSeeker Jun 2014 #12

well, that 'splains it! nevermind spanone Jun 2014 #13

Obviously he never saw The Flintstones. n/t Bonhomme Richard Jun 2014 #15

Corporate interests flows freely from their right wing mouths and with no B Calm Jun 2014 #16

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)

1. I wish the GOP morons would go extinct .

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:49 PM

Jun 2014

TeeYiYi

(8,028 posts)

2. Makes sense. ..nt

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 10:58 PM

Jun 2014

TYY

longship

(40,416 posts)

3. Yup! No cars. But they had a fucking 10-15 km wide space rock.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:09 PM

Jun 2014

They had determined that a 10-to-15-kilometre (6.2 to 9.3 mi) space rock hurtled into Earth at Chicxulub on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. The collision would have released the same energy as 100 teratonnes of TNT (420 ZJ), over a billion times the energy of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

So, that dude's right. No cars.

Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction

75% of life on Earth perished.

Uncle Joe

(58,284 posts)

4. Miller is wrong they did have cars back then.

Reply to longship (Reply #3)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:18 PM

Jun 2014

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

5. The green gases came from farting I s'pose

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #4)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:21 PM

Jun 2014

Uncle Joe

(58,284 posts)

6. Yes, but then as now most of it was industrial.

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #5)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:25 PM

Jun 2014

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

7. Of course

Reply to Uncle Joe (Reply #6)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:33 PM

Jun 2014

Uncle Joe

(58,284 posts)

8. ...

Reply to nadinbrzezinski (Reply #7)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:36 PM

Jun 2014

Peace to you, nadin.

SunSeeker

(51,513 posts)

14. Sadly, our journalists seem to know even less science than the GOP.

Reply to longship (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:28 AM

Jun 2014

How Richard Lui can keep a straight face when that evil shithead vomited out that dinosaur line is beyond me. All I can figure is he is a worthless dumbass or on the take...or both, like that scumbag Jeff Miller.

Just once I'd like to see a journalist challenge one of these scumbags with the scientific facts of climate change, like the fact that the exponential increase in greenhouse gases started with the industrial revolution and man's burning of fossil fuels. Or point out that there are readily identified solutions, like switching to renewable energy and reforestation. How about asking them if they are ok with our society collapsing from climate change without even trying to stop climate change.

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)

17. There is a reason both Hunter and Issa

Reply to SunSeeker (Reply #14)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 10:24 AM

Jun 2014

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Avoid me like the plague, well, this is one of many.

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)

9. You can see in his expression; he knows exactly what he's peddling. What an utter piece of shit.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:36 PM

Jun 2014

This is the kind of stuff that might drive me to drink.

Cha

(296,848 posts)

10. He said with his dinosaur head up his a$$.

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:39 PM

Jun 2014

donco

(1,548 posts)

11. Kinda looks

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Mon Jun 9, 2014, 11:41 PM

Jun 2014

like Thurston Howell II.

SunSeeker

(51,513 posts)

12. Lui's response was "We'll have to leave it there."

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:58 AM

Jun 2014

Wolf Blitzer is going to sue him for copyright infringement.

Hey Lui, you worthless stuffed suit, how about pointing out that the amount of increased carbon in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution began is exactly the amount of carbon human beings have put out since the beginning of the industrial revolution? How about asking him if there are two sides to THAT FACT?!