I'm married with two daughters and have been teaching political science in a red state for 19 years. My blogging covers a lot of issues but I'm a progressive kind of guy who tends to focus on political process, conservatism, and religiosity. Living in the Bible Belt gives me a little different though not necessarily more friendly perspective on conservatism. I also get in the occasional sports post.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
All This Science, I Don't Understand
That was the Elton John "Rocket Man" lyric that I was thinking about last night while I was helping Miss Teen RSI with DNA and RNA.
That lyric reminds me of ignorant people like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck who think one cold winter disproves the long-term climate trend of global warming. All this climate science they don't understand.
It is appalling to me how so many people on the right can reject a scientific theory that NASA, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, National Academy of Sciences and every single peer-reviewed scientific journal on the question have found to correct. It is also ridiculous to claim that there is global cooling when NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies found 2000-2009 to be a decade with record HIGH temperatures. As one smart politician said, you have the right to your own opinion but not your own facts.
That lyric reminds me of ignorant people like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck who think one cold winter disproves the long-term climate trend of global warming. All this climate science they don't understand.
ReplyDeleteIt is appalling to me how so many people on the right can reject a scientific theory that NASA, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, National Academy of Sciences and every single peer-reviewed scientific journal on the question have found to correct. It is also ridiculous to claim that there is global cooling when NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies found 2000-2009 to be a decade with record HIGH temperatures. As one smart politician said, you have the right to your own opinion but not your own facts.
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