Tragic Planet

I thought that recently announced Republican Presidential Candidate and Law & Order actor Fred Thompson looked like a smart and reasonable guy, but then I read the transcript of his interview with Paul Harvey:

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.

NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.

This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.

Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.

Ask Galileo.

Wow, just wow! This guy is either very dishonest or a total moron when it comes to science and global warming. He just blindly repeats a whole bunch of fallacies that have been spread by the oil-industry sponsored denialist PR machine and been dispelled many times over. He even throws in Galileo in there, a scientist who was threaten of death because the denialists wouldn’t accept his discoveries about the solar system.

This crank is right up there with that Inhofe idiot. Is it the oil money that makes them like that or do they get a lobotomy when they join the Republican party? I sure this idiot doesn’t get elected: the last thing this planet needs is a literate and eloquent version of George W. Bush.

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