Once upon a time, 65 million years ago to be exact, there was a smart species. The RaptorRepublicanos species, a semi-intelligent technologically advanced species (that actually existed at the time and lived in what is now Siberia, Australia and Antarctica, surrounding the Thetis ocean), detected troubling signs.
ALL scientists of the species predicted that an asteroid impact was very likely. They observed that the Baptistina asteroid was flying closer and closer to earth once a year for thousands of years. They knew that the asteroid would hit within a few years. They had the technology to send a probe to change the orbit of the asteroid, but that would take a lot of investment in time and resources.
Unfortunately the economy was not recovering from the collapse Apatosaurus species, that was hunted to near extinction because a serum made from their genitalia could help RaptorRepublicans have sex at old age and multiply. The former leader of the species, RhinoReagan, swore to T-Rex almighty that this was the only way to make all RaptorRepublicans happy and free.
It didn't help that Apatosaurus genitalia were also useful in building the rockets that could save them.
As a result regular consumers of Apastosaurus were unhappy at their leaders. That species was their source of food.
So they, very logically, elected a new RaptorRepublican leader, ElephentusPerrisaurus, that told them that the scientists were the problem, and that if they didn't spend all their time looking at asteroids they would still have the resources to raise more Aspastosaurus.
Then, when the atmospheric temperature was rapidly rising, and there were reports of 3000 feet tsunamis, super heated ashes falling from the sky, a blast wave, and major fires, Perrisaurus thanked T-rex almighty, and the Dinosaurs became free (and quite extinct) .
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Is this story more or less logical than saying, like Rick Perry did, that scientists are manipulating data in support of the hypothesis that humans influencing global warming because they want to win grant money? And, of course, the fact that anyone would listen to these guys amazes me.
I am not a very liberal progressive. I am quite a strong supporter of Obama's rather centrist approach. I am, however, incredibly bothered by the collapse of logical reasoning capability even amongst our own members.
But global warming statement by the now forerunner in the GOP? That's extremely stupid.
We don't have to prove to anyone that global warming is a result of human intervention, you know. Even if most of the CO2 increase is a result of whales eating too much kelp in Mexican restaurants, we have to do something about it, right?