(I hate to throw rubato a fat pitch, but this was just too absurd to pass up...)
Republican Calls Climate Change A Hoax Because Earth And Mars Have 'Exactly' Same Temperature
In a condemnatory speech last week against the Obama administration’s new Environmental Protection Agency carbon emission regulations, Kentucky state Sen. Brandon Smith (R) claimed that man-made climate change is scientifically implausible because Mars and Earth share “exactly” the same temperature.
Smith, the owner of a mining company called Mohawk Energy, argued that despite the fact that the red planet doesn’t have any coal mines, Mars and Earth share a temperature. Therefore, Smith reasoned, coal companies on Earth should be exempt from emission regulations.
During a Natural Resources and Environment Committee meeting Thursday, Smith, the Senate majority whip, said:
As you [Energy & Environment Cabinet official] sit there in your chair with your data, we sit up here in ours with our data and our constituents and stuff behind us. I won’t get into the debate about climate change but I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.
[Here he is, actually saying it:]
According to NASA, the average temperature on Earth is 57 degrees Fahrenheit -- 138 degrees above Mars' average of -81 degrees.
I have to say that in watching that video, what struck me most wasn't the mind bogglingly ignorant assertions he was making...
It was the calm, condescending, faux scholarly way " I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that" that he used to make his "point"...
A complete ignoramus trying to sound like he knows what he's talking about...
Lord Jim wrote:It was the calm, condescending, faux scholarly way " I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that" that he used to make his "point"...
That's what jumped out at me also. The guy is a moron.
Now old on..... there are moments when the temperature at Mars' equator might be 70 deg F. And the rest sounds like Cleveland so no wonder the convention is coming here.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.
