Sen. Domenici: Anyone who thinks hurricanes related to warming is "NUTS"

[Bluebear]

What a distinguished, Senatorial approach to debating issues. I heard on the news that Feinstein was discussing studies that shint that global warming might be increasing the severity of hurricanes, when Sen. Domenici interrupted her and said for every one of her studies he could find another one that disagreed, and that anyone who equates the current hurricane season with global warming is "nuts". :crazy:

[The Magistrate]

1. The "Studies" That Disagree, Sir

Are paid for by the oil industry and Republican think tanks: they are an excellent illustration of the "garbage in, garbage out" principle of analysis....

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[craigolemiss]

2. Jesus created the Earth 6000 years ago, and

it's flat, I tell ya its flat, and it's all Bill Clinton's fault if you can find any roundness---9/11 9/11--stay the course--Why do you hate America?--We must teach our children this.

[donheld]

9. Yes, Jesus started on Sunday, finished on Friday and

took a nap on Saturday. Any other study is just plain nuts :crazy:

[SaveElmer]

3. Yes and I'm sure...

For every study you can find that says smoking causes lung cancer...you can also find one (provided by R.J. Reynolds of course), that says it doesn't.

What a f*in tool

[leftofthedial]

4. repuke piece of crap lying dogmatist

[phusion]

5. oh gawd

Domenici is a shame to this state...

It's high time he retires...What do you say, Petey?

:puke:

[dethl]

6. How I'd love to vote you out Pete...

Stupid * supporter. I wish your seat wasn't secure. :(

[Maple]

7. I do so love that kind of scientific thinking

and name-calling over simple facts.

It's that kind of mentality that's held us back for centuries.

[mestup]

8. It's pitiful when these dinosaur politicians make fools of themselves

"Nuts," sounds so Limbaugh/O'Reilly.

It's sad. Someone needs to tell these people the war is over. They lost.

Even Nascar Dads can watch a documentary on Animal Planet about starving Polar bears.

[punpirate]

10. Domenici has retained his position...

... by virtue of continued support, over four decades, of the oil and gas, nuclear and mining industries of the state.

He's not about to change now. He's going to continue to parrot ExxonMobil's line about global warming because it's secured his position and made him some money over the years.

He's the model for corporate whoredom. Nothing more, nothing less. He doesn't understand science any more than he understands his constituency (which is very little at all).

It should be remembered that ol' Pete is the senior senator from one of the poorest states in the country (usually topped as the worst in all fundamental categories by only Mississippi). That it's gotten poorer during his stewardship should say something about Pete and his priorities.

[phusion]

13. You're right

We always laugh because we're usually best at being last around here. Education, obesity, crime, you name it -- we're near the bottom!

[Not_Giving_Up]

11. I'll keep that in mind as I evacuate to get away from Rita

Hopefully my trailer will survive, but I doubt it.

[autorank]

12. This guy took a long walk down "goofy street."

[me b zola]

14. "science is nuts!"

WTF is wrong with the creatures who listen to these stupid fucks?

[slor]

15. Maybe he should be given the Luntz memo...

and shown that talking points cannot dispute this, because "science is not" on their side.

[Piperay]

16. "Mother Nature bats last"

he can think whatever he wants cause he is going to find out sooner rather than later that he is the one who is "nuts". :-(

[Vinca]

17. At the end of the day you'd think they would put down the Kool-Aid

and listen to the scientists and save future generations of their own families from the hazards of global warming. But . . . obviously . . . the revenue generated by big oil is more important. I hate these people.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Are they People? I mean really? Sounds like *nuts* would describe

his thinking process or lack thereof.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

19. Note to Pete: Quoth the Exxon studies....

Nevermore.

[annabanana]

20. I think we should TELL him who's "nuts"..

http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactform.cfm

(enjoy)

[Junkdrawer]

21. Consequences Mr. Domenici, this is "only the beginning of the reckoning"..

....

The president says that he is not sure that global warming is a real threat. He says that he is not ready to do anything meaningful to prepare us for a threat that he's not certain is real. He tells us that he believes the science of global warming is in dispute. This is the same president who said last week, "Nobody could have predicted that the levees would break." It's important to establish accountability in order to make our democracy work. And the uncertainty and lack of resolution, the willful misunderstanding of what the scientific community is saying, the preference for what a few supporters in the coal and oil industry - far from all, but a few - want him to do: ignore the science. That is a serious problem. The President talked about the analogies to World War II - let me give another analogy to World War II.

Winston Churchill, when the storm was gathering on continental Europe, provided warnings of what was at stake. And he said this about the government then in power in England - which wasn't sure that the threat was real, he said, "They go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent." He continued, "The era of procrastination, of half measures, of soothing and baffling expedience of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."

Ladies and gentlemen, the warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences. Churchill also said this, and he directed it at the people of his country who were looking for any way to avoid having to really confront the threat that he was warning of and asking them to prepare for. He said that he understood why there was a natural desire to deny the reality of the situation and to search for vain hope that it wasn't really as serious as some claimed it was. He said they should know the truth. And after the appeasement by Neville Chamberlain, he sad, "This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This only the first sip, the first foretaste, of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year - unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we rise again and take our stand for freedom."

....

Al Gore - 2005

http://www.algore.org/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=289&Itemid=78&pop=1&page=0

[rman]

22. "The Republican War on Science" - NPR radio

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4848808

[salin]

23. add scientist to his resume - as he knows more than the experts

and per his "he can find another study that disagrees"... challenge him to find studies that are not out of conservative thinktanks and are subject to peer review. Likely to shrink the number of legitimate studies.

what a nut.