Science and the Right Wing: “It’s Only Statistical Evidence”
Over the last few months i’ve read a great number of articles on global warming, carbon offsets and carbon trading. One of the most unbelieveable facts that i’ve found, is the marketing efforts of the Flat Earth Society, AKA Right Wing America to deny that global warming is occuring. Well if not for the long history of this groups opposition to any scientific fact that doesn’t meet Right Wing dogma, this campaign would be shocking. Today, the only thing shocking is the number of so called “educated” Americans who base their scientific opinions on what they are told by Rush Limbaugh, a man who says “nature has an infinite ability to cleanse itself”, and other equally stupid statements on the environment.
The Anti-Science crowd takes pride in denying facts such as: global temperatures are rising, carbon dioxide levels are rising, the seas are rising and for most of the last 40 years denying that smoking causes cancer. Yes these IQ monsters spent years denying a link between cigarettes and cancer with the pithy, yet stupid comment: “it’s only statistical evidence”. When most have clearly never studied statistics, let alone understands the science.
Yes these are the same people who 500 years ago begged Columbus to stay home lest he fall off the edge of the planet. The people who killed others for saying the Earth revolves around the sun. The ones who decided that swans were created from barnacles on ships and that hauled John Scopes into court for teaching evolution. Yes these are folks who feel their religious beliefs trump science and the rest of us need to yield to their beliefs. These so called religious people can’t believe that their god would create a universe based on the laws of physics and create life that evolves and adapts over long periods of time. I guess their god doesn’t have the rational thinking needed to creat such wonders? Maybe they’re just narrow thinkers, followers of uninformed leaders.
When it comes to global warming, it’s certainly reasonable to debate how much man has contributed to this problem and what can be done to fight it, but to deny the fact that it exists and is getting worse is to uninformed or dishonest. Will all those who disbelieve, please swap land with those living near or below sea level? Now that’s a solution to global warming — LOL.