Disturbing is one word I’d use here. Insane is another. You want a phrase? Sharp as a marble. All of that completely understates my feelings on republicans in Utah (and around the country) when it comes to this planet and the environment.
A couple of things have sparked my annoyance in the last week:
First, as reported by Robert Gehrke of the Tribune:
“Jon Huntsman, as much as I like you, you’re wrong on global warming. It’s a farce,” said Chaffetz, Huntsman’s former chief of staff, to applause.
I was unaware that the BYU football team taught climatology, meteorology, geology and environmental sciences to its kickers (you know, the guys too fragile to actually play the game). My guess is he either majored in Pyramid Schemes or Hyperbole in college, as I can’t find any mention of what he studied in college on his website.
I don’t want to “kick” Chaffetz too hard, mostly because I’m still pretty pissed at Yapius and the gang for knocking Jacobs out of the 2006 race BEFORE he could knock off Cannon AND THEN show the world that he was insane, but, really, a farce? Hey, Jason, your RNC talking points are a couple of years out of date.
Then comes this gem from Paul Rolly in the Tribune:
Speaking of resolutions: Delegates at the Salt Lake County Republican Convention May 8 passed a resolution on energy independence that states, “Utah alone has enough oil and natural gas resources to supply the United States for tens of thousands of years.”
Two delegates – a geologist and an engineer – stood to speak against the resolution because, they said, that statement was blatantly false.
But they were talking to Utah Republicans, who have shown disdain for science getting in the way of ideological blustering.
The resolution cited as its source “members of the Utah State Legislature,” the same body where the statement once was made that since there is a dog species, and there is a cat species, but there is no “dat” species, the theory of evolution obviously is bunk.
Seriously: members of the Utah State Legislature. These people are running the show?
Maybe they should take a look at the 2007 IPCC report on Climate Change. I know, I know, it has a lot of big words, but, I’m sure if one of these boneheaded Republicans needed help with it, and they asked nicely, a Democrat would be happy to read it to them and explain the hard parts. I’ll even throw in some crayons so that they can take notes.
That is hilarious. The Utah Legislature obviously needs to get rid of the Utah Geologic Survey, because they themselves have all the answers. I’m sure oil companies will be lining up at the next Natural Resources Interim Committee Meeting to find out where they need to drill.
One thing for sure about Chaffetz, a helmut doesn’t make you a real football player, any more than having attended college makes you a climatologist.
Man. That makes me embarrassed to be a Utahn.
There are many different types of people out there. Unfortunately one of the most populous types of people are stupid people. They have successfully infiltrated nearly every social political and religious group in the world.
The sheer number of the stupid people in the world alone is staggering, But when one realizes that most stupid people are very vocal (AKA “LOUD”) about emphatically expressing “facts”
(AKA opinions that have little or no factual basis but are either stated as facts to hide the stupid ones ignorance, or even worse, opinions formed by reading biased, inaccurate, or even just incomplete or theoretical and convincing themselves that since they read it it must be the absolute truth and that anything else that even whispers a hint of disagreeance is to be treated as the wost type of blasphemy)
And that most of the media we see is produced by these stupid people, Terror for the future of man kind truly starts to set in.
Now A few things about myself. I am a Republican. Unfortunately no one group has a monopoly on stupidity and Republicans definitely have their fair share. My purpose in writing this is to “unstupidize” as many stupid people as I can no matter what political affiliation the may be.
Unlike Chaffetz, I have studied extensively in the subjects of the Environment Science, Pollution, Energy, both renewable and traditional, Geology, and many other such subjects. It is my livelihood as well as my passion. When it comes to the subject of global warming, there are few definitive answers, but there are some..
Is global warming happening? Yes
Is this a bad thing? There are benefits and disadvantages, as with most changes.
Is it global warming caused by the greenhouse effect? Possibly. The greenhouse affect allows life to exist on earth. Without it Earth would be a dead frozen planet. But it is a distinct possibility.
Is it global warming caused by man made greenhouse gases? Maybe. Water Vapor actually constitutes the vast majority of the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. CO2 is about 1%. The amount of CO2 mankind is responsible is very small it is at most a couple percent. In summary, Man made CO2 contributes only a tiny fraction of a percent to the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. However, Some scientists believe that this little amount has just the right properties to cause the global warming we are experiencing.
In summary,
Should we be careful about what we put out into the environment? YES
Should we do our best to conserve energy and research renewable energy sources? YES
Is the world going to end unless we take drastic measures suggested/demanded by many environmental activists who don’t have a clue (AKA Al Gore) as to what they are talking about? Not a Chance
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