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2009-12-02 Home Front: Politix

White House Dismisses 'Climategate' Because 'Most People' Believe in Global Warming

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Posted by Fred 2009-12-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The believers are so close they are just hoping to brass it out and do what they want to do before the chance passes. Too bad this stuff wasn't leaked a year ago.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-12-02 00:28|| 2009-12-02 00:28|| Front Page Top

#2 We're doing science by poll now?

Twits.

Posted by mojo 2009-12-02 01:27|| 2009-12-02 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Nothing President Obama signs in Copenhagen is binding upon the U.S. until the Senate votes for it. The Senate rejected Kyoto, once upon a time.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-12-02 05:07|| 2009-12-02 05:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Quite right. Harry Reid is too busy with pending "health care" legislation to be concerned about Copenhagen.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-12-02 05:11|| 2009-12-02 05:11|| Front Page Top

#5 See! It is a religion!
They profess belief!

Posted by 3dc 2009-12-02 06:31|| 2009-12-02 06:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Aren't you glad Obama took the politics out of science?

Posted by DMFD 2009-12-02 08:12|| 2009-12-02 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 The Senate rejected Kyoto, once upon a time.

Clinton never sent it to the Senate for ratification. The Senate sent him a message, Byrd-Hagel Resolution, passed 95-0, not to even bother. [It's dead Jim]

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-02 08:40|| 2009-12-02 08:40|| Front Page Top

#8 But White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs dismissed the controversy on Monday, saying that most people don't dispute global warming.

"In the order of several thousand scientists have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening," Gibbs said. "I don't think that any of that is, quite frankly among most people, in dispute."

Well now which is it? What the hell does climate change mean anyway? Glaciers caused the high plains, but there are no glaciers there any more... should I worry about that?

Someone please tell me what the ideal average temperature of the Earth ought to be anyway. Or how much rainfall we ought to get.

Posted by Fletch Platypus8360 2009-12-02 10:40|| 2009-12-02 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 Climate change IS happening. Always has happened. Always will happen. Climate is nothing but long-term weather, right? And as the saying goes in a lot of places "Don't like the weather? Wait a few minutes and it'll change."

Posted by Glenmore 2009-12-02 12:44|| 2009-12-02 12:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Most people belived the sun revolved around the Earth too. Didn't mean they were right.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-12-02 12:45|| 2009-12-02 12:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, Darth. That was a scientific consensus.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-12-02 13:31|| 2009-12-02 13:31|| Front Page Top

#12 The great tragedy of Science the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas H. Huxley

Posted by tipper 2009-12-02 19:37|| 2009-12-02 19:37|| Front Page Top

#13 I seem to remember a law passed by Congress that rules and regulations had to be based on "hard science". Now we see that the "science" of anthropogenic climate change is a mixture of hype and huxterism, with virtually NO real science. The EPA and the White House should read the NIPCC report, and the fact that 31,000 scientists, including more than 9000 PhDs, signed a letter to Congress repudiating "AGW". Someone needs to whap Gibbs upside the head with a cluebat. Probably wouldn't hurt to use the same one on "president" Obumble.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-12-02 21:10|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-12-02 21:10|| Front Page Top

#14 'Most people' will still consider Pluto a planet, even though it is approximately a fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon and a third its volume, not based on cold science, but on cultural habit.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-12-02 22:58|| 2009-12-02 22:58|| Front Page Top

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