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doxydad

(1,363 posts)
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 06:57 AM Jun 2014

NO SCIENCE HERE! LA GOP candidate: Climate change is a hoax, can be disproved with thermometer

A Louisiana State Representative, seeking her district’s U.S. House seat, has posted a campaign video calling climate change “the greatest deception in the history of mankind,” and stating that it can be disproved using a simple thermometer.

In the video Lenar Whitney, who is running for the seat representing Louisiana’s sixth congressional district being vacated by Republican Bill Cassidy, claims climate change is being pushed by liberals, including former Vice President Al Gore, as a way to gain more power for government and raise taxes.

Using terminology usually associated with former half-term Governor Sarah Palin, Whitney claims that her pronouncement that climate change is a fraud, “caused liberals in the lamestream media to become unglued,” before equating herself with George Orwell, who once said: “In a time of universal deceit – telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Calling former VP Al Gore’s “propaganda” film “The (sic) Inconvenient Truth,” Whitney explains that scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming can be disproved using a “thermometer.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/29/la-gop-candidate-for-congress-climate-change-is-a-hoax-can-be-disproved-with-thermometer/

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NO SCIENCE HERE! LA GOP candidate: Climate change is a hoax, can be disproved with thermometer (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
Let's see if she can learn the difficult art of mud breathing as LA sinks. hobbit709 Jun 2014 #1
It should be easy to beat her with a good Democratic candidate yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #2
In the dictionary, next to dimwit ... GeorgeGist Jun 2014 #3
Dear God... she is the twin of... CurtEastPoint Jun 2014 #7
I think she's a dead ringer for Nina Hartley. Frank Cannon Jun 2014 #17
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that! CaptainTruth Jun 2014 #19
I'm pretty sure Nina's a Dem. Frank Cannon Jun 2014 #23
*mumbles* Yeah I kinda thought that too... truebrit71 Jun 2014 #21
I suppose it's something that she knows who Orwell was cali Jun 2014 #4
Christian Dominionist of the New Apostolic Reformation theology movement? blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #5
What an example for the students of her district shenmue Jun 2014 #6
*Holds up light bulb* Takket Jun 2014 #8
Where's she sticking that thermometer? tanyev Jun 2014 #9
Good one! doxydad Jun 2014 #10
The best part? By 2100 her state House district will be under water. hatrack Jun 2014 #11
I say she should disprove gravity too hankthecrank Jun 2014 #12
Her problem is that she hasn't taken the thermometer outside Tyrs WolfDaemon Jun 2014 #13
It is disappointing Thespian2 Jun 2014 #14
She is an example of the power of the oil industry. Any candidate from that District Dustlawyer Jun 2014 #15
K&R. mattclearing Jun 2014 #16
The idiots are cross pollinating with the big mouthed religious zealots. Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #18
As I like to say to all climate change deniers...in the words of the WWE's "The Rock"... world wide wally Jun 2014 #20
Funny... cuz LA is going under. ananda Jun 2014 #22
*facepalm* sakabatou Jun 2014 #24

CaptainTruth

(6,576 posts)
19. Glad I'm not the only one who thought that!
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:51 AM
Jun 2014

But I have far more respect for Nina Hartley ... she would never play whore to the fossil fuel industry.

Frank Cannon

(7,570 posts)
23. I'm pretty sure Nina's a Dem.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 10:04 AM
Jun 2014

And far, far more intelligent than this idiot.

But, my God, she looks just like her.

Takket

(21,529 posts)
8. *Holds up light bulb*
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 07:42 AM
Jun 2014

Look, this light bulb I'm holding up isn't lit up. I guess I just proved electricity is a hoax. You suckers! Now I will laugh as all of your computers, running off a force that does not exist, shut down before your eyes.

Goodbye DU,
Goodbye internet,
Goodbye TV!!!!!!!!!!

hankthecrank

(653 posts)
12. I say she should disprove gravity too
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:37 AM
Jun 2014

All she has to do is stand under a 10 ton rock

That way she won't craw back under it

Tyrs WolfDaemon

(2,289 posts)
13. Her problem is that she hasn't taken the thermometer outside
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:57 AM
Jun 2014

She thinks just putting one on the wall in front of the AC vent will tell you the temp of the whole world.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
14. It is disappointing
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:04 AM
Jun 2014

that people like Lenar Whitney think they have enough intelligence to be state leaders, even in Louisiana. Has this woman ever taken an intelligence test? Can she read cursive writing? Can she read? How many scientific papers on climate change has she attempted to read? When did she view Gore's film? Does she understand the difference between temperature and climate? Is she actually human? How does America produce so many idiots like Lenar?

Dustlawyer

(10,494 posts)
15. She is an example of the power of the oil industry. Any candidate from that District
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:07 AM
Jun 2014

has to say that crazy shite because the main employer by far is the oil industry. It is a modern day Hunger Games. The Tributes from her District would wear oil derricks on their heads! The sad thing is that the people of that District know that is the case, but they need those jobs. They want a Representative in the pocket of the oil industry because that is in their self interests. They will put up with all of the negatives: contamination; loss of wet lands; pollution; whatever, to keep their precious jobs.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
18. The idiots are cross pollinating with the big mouthed religious zealots.
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:39 AM
Jun 2014

When religion meets stupid the result is this.

world wide wally

(21,739 posts)
20. As I like to say to all climate change deniers...in the words of the WWE's "The Rock"...
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 09:53 AM
Jun 2014

It doesn't MATTER what you think!

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