“I’m not impressed by numbers,”
Bet he’s impressed by 'em if Rog knocked a couple of zeros off his paycheck.
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Well said. All of Einstein’s 1905 papers were quickly accepted by the physics community.
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You know this guy is right. There is NO WAY that humans and our consumption of fossil fuel (coal, oil etc.) in the last 200 years would have any effect on the atmosphere. And there is no way the destruction of vast areas of the rain forest would have any effect on the quality of life here in America. I mean aren’t those rain forests on the other side of the globe (and is it really a sphere?).
How can you have your head buried so far in the sand to not see that these things are linked?
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Charles, it is a free country. You are entitled to have any number of fantasies. However, as a newsman and a professional journalist you really should be more skeptical of any line of reasoning that relies on so much science for hire. Just as the tame pollsters paid by Rove, the RNC and Fox talked themselves into believing a convenient Republican reality and were proven spectacularly wrong so is the fate of the climate change deniers.
You may bet on the tortoise to win the race because you like to root for the underdog but the smart money is always going to bet on the hare.
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“It’s the oldest superstition around. It was in the Old Testament, it’s in the rain dance of Native Americans – if you sin, the skies will not cooperate.”
Oh I get it. It’s like if you point a gun at your head and pull the trigger, the idea that you’re going to die for it is mere superstition. We silly humans think God is going to punish us with death for shooting ourselves in the head. I guess if you look at it that way, Charles, everything we know is just superstition. You can stop talking now. You have nothing of value to say for the rest of your life.
Putting aside the fact of climate change, how can anyone argue that our current energy policy is in the best interests of our security or environment?
What’s somewhat ironic is that Krauthammer kind of looks like a pterodactyl.
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Well said. And the paymaster is the Australian, Rupert Murdoch, who has done more to divide the United States than any person, alive or dead.
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This may be the best example I have ever seen of someone being exactly 180 degrees off course, 100% wrong.
From wikipedia
Superstition is the belief in supernatural causality—that one event leads to the cause of another without any natural process linking the two events—such as astrology, religion, omens, witchcraft, prophecies, etc., that contradicts natural science.
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This is not even close to being news.
Numbers - there you go again, arguing facts when every one knows it’s only opinions that matter.
I’m trying to figure out why so many MDs are such self-righteously stupid. My guess is that there persona as doctors give them a sense of omnipotence and all-knowing wisdom. I’ve met a doctor or two like that.
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Yes, we can’t perfectly predict the weather this weekend. And I can’t predict whether this nickel will come up heads or tails when I flip it. So I have no way of knowing how the distribution of heads and tails will work out over time.
The only question is whether he’s a conscious liar and hypocrite, or an unconscious one. Just disgusting.
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I have a feeling the Indian Rain Dance has more to do with spiritual and metaphysical beliefs more than mere superstitions. Just how far is Krauthammer going to go in offending the American Indian culture with his nonsense?
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Yeah and no doubt he’s buying seaside property in Florida where, in a few years, he will be standing like Canute knee-deep in the rising sea and commanding it to stop.
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I’d like to test the theory of gravity with this asshole and a cliff.
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Science-based climate change: superstition, Bible/word of god: must be treated as fact. OK.
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Does Krauthammer also deny the Holocaust was real? I wouldn’t be surprised if he falls somewhere in THAT camp of denialists, too!
Florida? Don’t you mean Kansas?
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Some of the biggest Tea Party whack jobs are physicians, and that Yolo is a veterinarian. We’re dealing with cultists here, not people who approach these things rationally. They can treat your cough or your cow, but they can’t think rationally about the climate or the debt limit. It’s morbidly fascinating, actually.
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You’re a hot dog, Krauthammer,
But you better not lie and stammer!
Planet! Dr. Kraut! Janet! Brad! Rocky!
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Hey, remember when Rick Perry and Republicans issued a state-sanctioned “Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas” in a futile attempt to help the state survive a severe drought caused by climate change?
Clearly, the big issue here is those loony scientists and their foolish superstitions. Amiright, Fox News?
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