A science- free Congress? Climate scientists speak out

Heck, there are plenty of congressmen who think the Earth is 6,000 years old, and all of humanity came from Adam and Eve in a garden.

Of course to them science is witchcraft.

Don't add your own opinion about the science communities not paying much attention to this when there are so much research on climate change. You might as well say, "why give a fuck about our planet, lets let it rot in pollution but hey at least our economy is good ..for now"

Warming" is the inexorable increase in potential energy residing in the atmosphere. It's caused by an increase in the mass and volume of compounds known to trap thermal energy before it can dissipate (radiate off) into the Cosmos. We label such compounds "greenhouse gases", and often point to Venus' super-hot atmosphere as an example of what happens when "greenhouse gases" run amok. Do note that term: "potential energy". The correct syntax defining what it is, and what this "potential" actually is, isn't a linguistic construct. It is a set of complex polynomial equations that most Americans (Sen. Imhof especially) couldn't identify (let alone read) if their lives depended on it. A single page-full of these, long strings of equations exploring the relationships between constants and variables, would be bad enough. But one usually encounters great blocks of them, page-after-page-after-page after-page; where the beef is; what makes the subject inaccessible. So it's much easier for Sen. Imhof to simply say "balderdash!" and dismiss it out of hand as so much hokus-pokus (or some kind of infernal conspiracy) instead of going back to graduate school to study advanced mathematics and physics for the next ten years; why we're stuck with this debate -- because we say "warming".

"Warming" has nothing to do with the temperature in -- say, Dallas, Texas two weeks before the Super Bowl. The atmosphere retains more potential energy, and because it does it is more dynamic. More energy is available to push air masses around the planet. So, in the case of Dallas before the Super Bowl, a bubble of frigid air that covered the middle of Siberia got shoved over the North Pole, twisted like a pretzel and catapulted down to Texas so quickly that it snowed (not because it was frigid, but because it hit a bubble of warm, moist air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico). The energy that could shove so much frigid air out of Siberia originated in the mid-ocean tropics on the other side of the world. It was an eruption from the humid sub-tropical zones named the "Tropic of Cancer" and "Tropic of Capricorn" on maps. Thanks to the increased potential energy these so-called "Tropics" are now larger in area, more saturated with water vapor, bulge higher into the stratosphere and expand/contract with greater force than before. Essentially, they act like bellows; what happened here.

The role that carbon (soot), waste gases (mainly, combustion byproducts like carbon monoxide and dioxide), water vapor, methane and a host of so-called "ODS's" (Ozone Depleting Substances) play in this atmospheric cycle (or loop) between the tropics and the poles is so well established that one wonders what Sen. Inhofe thinks he can accomplish through partisan legislation. It brings to mind Robert Cardinal Bellarmine (1542-1621), to whom it fell to persecute Gallileo for advocating "Heliocentrism", the idea that the Earth orbits the Sun and not the other way around. Heliocentrism was considered heresy by many because it conflicted with the reigning political (Catholic) doctrine of the day and challenged the political order of Feudal society, much as "Global Warming" conflicts with the reigning neo-capitalist post-industrial (Republican) ideology in ours; essentially, what Sen. Imhofe is about, and we have here.

Most GOP/Tea Bag members of Congress belive the earth is flat.

Republican voters are screwing it up for all of us.

Perhaps the time has come for some major RECALLS of the traitors of the working class and those that would destroy our environment for profits.

We don't have the money to buy these legislators but WE THE PEOPLE have the power of the VOTE. We DO outnumber them!

Congress making a law to counter and deny the laws of nature. Good job guys, that should do it, you can go home now and collect your campaign contributions.

"I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." ~Galileo Galilei

"Nothing exemplifies this more than a bill by House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), to overturn the scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health."

Let me see if I understand this correctly. Mr Upton, who with his Republican cohorts clamors for *less* government intervention, wants to overturn scientific findings with legislation. He wants to legislate the facts, the truth, away.

There is no debate in the scientific community about these facts.

I wonder if Mr Upton was one of the P.R. people for the tobacco industry who made a high-dollar living, for so long, claiming that cigarette smoking was not harmful to health, and this is the only kind of behavior he knows. Or perhaps he is just after the continued high-dollar support from the Koch Bros. Or maybe he is afraid for his safety and the safety of his family if he does not tow the preferred line. Or, perhaps he is suicidal.

Ignoring these facts any longer *is* suicidal.

"... asking our elected representatives to separate science from policy."

OK, that shit does NOT fly.

It is now your duty to attack any and every global warming doubter with everything that you've got, even if they're "on the fence".

Anyone who wants some great ammo, check out this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/potholer54

The regressives have put the Anti- Chairmen in place across the board on just about every committee.
Darryl Issa for ethics, the guy is a car thief.
Virginia Foxx for higher education and training.
Michele Bachmann on intelligence, really.

Ah... the extreme of the extreme... no wonder no-one of any importance takes the slightest notice of these zealots.

They need to be eviscerated daily in public for their greed and for making this a politically divisive issue. We need scientists to speak out against these anti-science ignorant coal and oil whores every day to expose their greed, their lies, their deceptions and their betrayal of this planet and our children's future.