ions and ions ago…in a molecule far, far away…

It’s classic diversionary tactics, of course, but I actually sort of agree with her - to a point. This make me feel a bit ill.

Climate change *is* happening, and we probably *are* involved, but the point that this kind of change isn’t historically unprecedented stands. There’s a certain amount of hubris and self-obsession involved in the idea that we can “solve” a crisis in a system so mind-bogglingly complex we barely understand it, even if we are partially responsible for throwing it off.

But there are certainly many, many other reasons not to “Drill, Baby, Drill”, ranging from the environmental to the economic and political, and beyond that, I highly doubt Palin is in any hurry to send money to the third world to help adapt when the sea level rises and floods everything. Disingenuous twat.

Indeed, the science is complex, and there are all sorts of legitimate reasons to challenge the validity of the models. As for “hubris” regarding mankind’s perceived ability to either effect or prevent global-scale catastrophe, you really can’t blame anyone for being a tad circumspect in a post-Chernobyl age.

On the other hand, citing Winter cold and snowfalls as a repudiation of Global Warming simply demonstrates appalling ignorance of how shit actually works, and/or a deep commitment to the new Conservative strategy of undermining both Science and Government as authorities, in order to rehabilitate “God” and “Common Sense”—i.e., the Warm, Comforting Woobies of uneducated nitwits.

Sarah Palin, who is a devious, self-serving fuckstick whose own hubris could use a 100,000-mile checkup, might as well be Tweeting a message to the Wright Brothers:

Machines 2 heavy 2 ever fly. What’s next—use hot water 2 move a train? Science in 4 big s’prize if try to imitate glory of God’s Design. 

ions n brain spinz slowz n AK cuz of eons of cold. Fox told me. OUT

Strange FTW!

Machines 2 heavy 2 ever fly. What’s next—use hot water 2 move a train? Science in 4 big s’prize if try to imitate glory of God’s Design.

In other words: Drill baby, Drill!

I love how the same cobags that want everyone to believe a ton of shit that can’t be proven (and would rather spoil the game if it were) are insisting on better science to prove global warming and man’s part in it.

I saw a lovely cartoon the other day it was basically a wing nut who said “what happens if we go to all this trouble to make the world a better place and we are wrong?”  Exactly, all of the things that are being proposed will simply make the world a better place to live, will reduce the US’s dependance on foreign oil, will make the air easier to breath, will stop habitats of endangered wild life being threatened, I mean what is NOT to love?  It doesn’t matter if the science ends up being totally and utterly fucked up, we end up with a better planet!  I just don’t get it.

I’ve always thought that myself, Litlebritdifrnt. You’ve got two choices: make some changes in how we live that will use less energy and produce less pollution and might also save the entire the entire planet from eventual disaster, or do nothing and hope that the entire scientific community is wrong. What’s the upside to the latter choice? Just that you don’t have to actually get off your butt and change anything.

“Change 4 ions”. Instant campaign slogan.

If an “ion” is more than about 6500 years, Sarah Palin just lost Texas.

Real Americans know that spelling is a liberal plot.