Legislatures in North Carolina and Virginia have decided that "sea level rise" is some evil conspiracy by enviromentalist tree huggers and commie pinko liburals working in tandem with a global cabal of mad scientists and so have effectively banned the use of the phrase, and say that climate change science is all hokum.
Not so long ago Cowboy Rick Perry and his shabby pack of spin doctors and cohorts in the state house were caught red handed selectively editing clmate chnage reports and papers, deleting all the bits they didnt like, and were outed by scientists who had done the research on those projects.
WTF??????
What do they call these bits of work and legislation.... The King Canute Says It Just Aint So Act?
Recently Gallup/USAToday published its annual poll demonstrating that over 40% of Americans are fully blown creationists who think that the Earth is less than 10,000 years old, with a further large segment maintaining the belief in God The Merry Tinkerer who uses life on Earth as his own genetic and evolutionary Lego set and who think that the age of the Earth MAY be older than 10,000 years. Around 15% actually agree that life on Earth developed entirely naturally, and that the Earth is definitely older than 10,00 years old. FIFTEEN PERCENT!!!!
WTF??????
Other recent polling shows that over 33% of Americans not only believe in the phenomenon of UFOs, they think that they have already landed and made contact with humanity. One in five Americans polled call into doubt whether the US moon landings were real, and suspect the whole Apollo program was a hoax. 45% of Americans think that the US government has covered up their involvement in the 9/11 attacks, with a further 10% not sure whether they have or havent. CT nutballs abound, rattling on about HAARP, chemtrails, NWO, black helicopters, FEMA death camps, Birthers, Truthers, Vacciners......
Gabba Gabba WTF??????????
When did America. the only country to put men on the Moon, become a nation where reality has become some sort of abstract concept? When did it become a nation of people who maintain belief in the most stupid and paranoid delusional versions of the world around them?
So maybe my chums across the Atlantic it is time to stop standing in slack jawed amazement when it is revealed that deep in Texas the Repubtards want kids stopped from learning critical thinking skills. Maybe its time to stop toleratng creotards who think the Earth is a recent creation by God The Merry Prankster. Maybe its time to stop letting governors like Bobby The Exorcist Jindal gut public library programs and education budgets. Maybe its time to stop all the King Canute insanity.
Maybe its time to start demanding much better standards from your educators and media outlets......science instead of superstition, facts instead of opinions.
Because from out here, outside the goldfish bowl, it sure looks like Americans rightly deserve the cliched label the rest of the West sticks on you....
dumb ignorant hicks.
Time to wake up from that American Dream, smell the coffee, and recognise that screaming I Aint No Kin To A Monkey, Climate Change Is A Lubural Lie, and Amerikuh Is Numbah Wun just dont make it so.....no matter how loud and often you shout it ;-)