re: Sen. Brandon Smith- America's new dumbest Senator

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And that is why we are talking about this anyway. Because Al Gore made a movie, and Cap and Trade was proposed.

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You're talking about this because Al Gore made a movie and Cap and Trade was proposed. Because you're a reactionary who has turned who was frankly a rather boring Democrat into some sort of Emmanuel Goldstein for green-socialism, which is more than that mediocrity rates. In reality, this has been talked about for over a century. Arrhenius, Callendar, Keeling, Manabe, Hansen, hell there were three IPCCs before Al Gore stepped into an editing booth.

I'm talking about this because I see a bunch of conservatives deciding that because they don't like the policy, which is understandable, they've decided they also don't like the science.

Which leads to them saying a bunch of profoundly stupid things about biology, chemistry, physics, and statistics, and making terrible arguments because this has become a tribalist issue which means the captain has turned off the critical thinking sign, please feel free to copy/paste that thing you found on that blog.

Which leads them to infer some massive conspiracy, maintained through a social network of idiots treating every "adjustment," no matter how well-explained, well-confirmed, or well-justified in the primary literature (lol consulting the primary literature), as a fraud, and endlessly quoting one 15-year-old email about one tree ring series in one graph.

Which leads them to check out of the real debate, about how the problem should be solved, meaning the debate is dominated by the left, attempting to solve the power problem with wishes and butterfly farts, as they are doing in Germany and soon France, actually going backwards because they are idiots who think nuclear power is the devil.

That's why I'm talking about this. I could give two fricks for ALGORE and his Learjet.

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I suspect he was attempting say something far different from what the nitwits at HuffPo are reporting and, as people often do, he worded it poorly.

Its been reported that temperatures on Mars are rising and that is the point I'm sure he was attempting to make.

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No, I don't think they took him out of context. He said "exact same temperature". Pretty precise wording right there, and no one called him out on that. Shouldn't it be disturbing that there wasn't a single red flag from any of these people that run our country that they're dumb enough to think that Mars has the same temperature as the Earth. If that were the case, all we'd really need are oxygen tanks, goggles, and ear protection to walk on Mars.

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Also, CO2 makes up a miniscule amount of Earth's atmosphere, yet we are still led to believe it is a driving factor on the thermostat of earth.

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So you are disputing really just facts on CO2's chemical properties? It's not an opinion, it's a fact that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. You've shown how ignorant you really are. I'm done arguing with you

Dude why are you a dick?

I'm just thinking you're deliberately trolling.

Tuba didnt you tell someone to lighten up this morning??

Has to be trolling, can't be serious.

It's trolling now, he's trying to save face on an Internet message board

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Sure it could. But the odds of getting that many nuclear facility licenses issued by DOE and state officials... DOE has issued two licenses (in 2012) since 1978.

Not to mention the cost (about $7-12 billion per plant). Right now 104 reactors supply roughly 18% of our electricity.

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Yes, but you're assuming the status quo, and now you're talking about the stuff that I support as a solution to global warming instead of BIOFUELZ.

Specifically, there's a massive double standard where it takes a minimum of six years to get a nuclear reactor through NRC while gas plants only occasionally have to deal with FERC (if their power transmission is across an interstate border) and for the most part will just sail through a state regulator inside of two years. On top of that, a ton of those costs are wrapped up in fighting speculative, margin-draining lawsuits that are brought about the instant a plant is announced, which helped killed the Levy facility in Florida before a shovel had even hit the ground. You want to talk about an area where we could use tort reform, there it is.