So I was in a room with my friend, the phrenologist, and was complaining that my head hurt; he promptly replied that nothing was wrong and that I was simply making up the ailment to get out of work. My other friend in the room, a doctor, thought I was suffering from a stroke. Not liking the thought that I might die, I naturally listened to the one who made me feel warm and fuzzy inside…turns out that fuzzy feeling was me loosing the ability to move on my left side.
Well, thankfully, I recovered just in time to read Representative Kerry Gibson’s (R – Ogden – District 6) HJR 12 – Climate Change Joint Resolution. Ya see, this Dairy Farmer knows a thing or two about them bookitie smarts all them educated people are talking about in the big cities, and he wants to put a stop to all this climate change nonsense they have been talking about.
HJR 12 is asking the Environmental Protection Agency to halt any and all carbon dioxide reduction policies, programs, and regulations until climate data and global warming science are substantiated.
Now I am not going to go on about all the usual stuff these climate change deniers bring out, stories about how it was cold yesterday so the climate can not be changed or how (quoting the bill mind you) “global temperatures have been level in declining in some areas (my house, for example, has been climate stable)” or how a set of emails up playing the threat means that certifiable data is suddenly. No I am not going to talk about how stupid it is to point to the failed Copenhagen accords is proof that the science is bad or to say that capping CO2 emissions would, somehow, put “billions of human beings into long-term poverty,” no…I am going to talk about the fact that we live in a society where a diary farmer thinks he has all the answers when compared to years of data analysis and thousands of scientists saying that this is a real problmem.
And how we live in a society where people will listen to him.
These are the same people who don’t believe in evolution, and would have stoned Galileo on his outlandish thoughts on “global rounding and solar circulation.”
Yes, we have little faith in our scientists these days, and it allows mental nymphs such as Gibson to actually think that what he is saying is correct – and for some of his colleges to go along with it.
Now, I could be wrong, Gibson could be a full-time climatologist on the side – but if that is the case he should really tell the people running the state website to change his profession on his profile; furthermore, I will fully admit that I am not a climatologist either. But I also will state that people are experts for a reason – they spend their lives learning about particular topics and not just think that one or two counter points means that an entire theory was bunk.
To use an example that Gibson might understand: Every dairy cow I have ever heard of produces milk, but I heard a story once about how a guy milked a bull, so that must mean that Gibson should be able to drink bull milk as well and not have any sort of concerns. Crass? You bet, but it proves a point. Of course I am wrong about “bull milk” and you would think me a fool to be preaching that as fact – but it is the exact same thing. The science is in on climate change, and I am sorry if you don’t like the facts.
Click here to tell Representative Gibson not to drink bull milk.
