My next post was going to be about Phil Valentine’s assertion in the Tennessean that “There is absolutely no evidence that carbon dioxide causes any kind of climate change.” Thanks, Bruce Barry, for saving me some key strokes:
And the nominees for most witless and uninformed assertion about the environment and climate change in a Sunday Tennessean op-ed this week are…
Bob Corker for his performance in “Return Cap-and-Trade Proceeds to People,†featuring this nugget: “No one can quantify how much of global warming is caused by natural cycles vs. man-made greenhouse emissions.â€
Phil Valentine for his performance in “Earth Day Extremists were Wrong in the ’70s, and Still Are†featuring this gem: “There is absolutely no evidence that carbon dioxide causes any kind of climate change.â€
Bonus! They both win! (And the Tennessean gets an honorable mention for “for outstanding editorial oversight in the pursuit of scientific integrity.”) Read the truth about these assertions here and here.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm…I love the smell of intellectual dishonesty between 4 and 8 pm in the afternoon…
What amazes me about these talk show ideologues like Gill and Valentine is that they continue to cling hopelessly to their tired-old schtick when public opinion on everything from the war to global climate change is clearly evolving. I guess that’s what happens when you base your livelihood on narrowly-focused ideology rather than truth, civil dialogue, and the desire for smart public policy that works for everyone.
UPDATE: Liz Garrigan wants us to be fair to Corker.
I am as chagrined as the author of this post at the misinformation spread by Mr. Valentine on his radio show. But now I am really insulted, in his latest flaunting of his expensive bio-diesal conversion car and how he is now beating big-oil by brewing up his own home-brew batches of “fuel” for his car. I wonder if he is also avoiding paying his share of the state and federal gasoline and road taxes by avoiding giving his money to big-oil. So I gues the rest of us can carry his share of the tax burden again like we do for all of his ilk.
I guess you guys have not been outside lately…
Bert, you obviously don’t know the laws on producing fuel for personal use, do you?
Matthew.. I’ve been outside ALL summer.. did we even break 100 degrees this year? OH no!! Now carbon dioxide is causing global cooling! We are going to freeze! I guess too many people stopped driving SUVs over the past year, huh? Get back in those SUVs.. we need some HEAT!!
Get a life people, and stop with the notion that we can change the temperature of the Earth. I know, I know, you don’t believe in God, and you don’t believe in the sun’s ability to warm and cool… but you are all making fools of yourselves. Stop, already.
If you morons can’t handle the truth-don’t read any of the columns that you bitch about. Obviously, you don’t comprehend the information. You have no facts, so your same old , tired-ass rhetoric screams ” RACISM ” which makes you look like a dumbass. Just follow the mindless sheeple right off the cliff with the rest of the george Soros puppet brains in the white house. Bill Mahr must have been right when he said Americans were too stupid to know what’s going on. Unfortunately, it’ll be too late for you—- you won’t figure out what a fraud that asshole is until you are ” OVOMITTING ” all over yourselves. I’d rather be an asshole than a “DUMB ASSHOLE “
Too bad they’re taking our country with them as they are walking toward that cliff…
Maybe they are just naive, ga.shull… give them a little credit.
Oh, no, they can’t be naive.. they remember Carter. Surely they remember the Carter era, being the scholars they are.
Oh, I’m a liar now.. have to be. Or racist.. which is it Mary?
Phil Valentine is a coward. He hides behind a microphone behind locked doors. He lacks the courage to say to a persons face he does behind that locked door and mic.