Mary Matalin calls global warming “a largely unscientific hoax”
The conservative operative and wife of James Carville explained on CNN today why conservatives don’t like McCain’s views on global warming: It’s “a largely unscientific hoax.” Oh, well, then never mind.
Her husband takes a different view (duh): “What we need to do, as a party, is try our best to focus on those two issues, energy independence and global warming, above the other environmental and energy issues out there.”
So to him, global warming is the top environmental issue. To her it is a hoax. If they can be married, why can’t the Sunnis and Shiites live in harmony???
February 20th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
I suspect the key to the marriage is that neither one of them has beliefs in any sense of the word that others might associate with. They are both political operatives and as such have positions… positions they are highly paid to market. I could be horribly wrong, but I’m guessing neither of them is a whiz at science.
February 21st, 2008 at 12:22 am
I’m going around a little on why global warming isn’t a ‘scientific hoax’ instead of an ‘unscientific hoax.’ Are these climatologists ‘unscientists?’
February 21st, 2008 at 1:06 am
Every lid has a jar.
February 21st, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Ronald — Because as unscience it is a hoax. As opposed to what is it as a science.
February 21st, 2008 at 8:58 pm
thanks, yah, that helped.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I always wonder why people who think global warming is a scientific hoax never have any explanation for why thousands of scientists would get together to perform such a hoax. Same thing with evolution. Someone please explain to me the benefit of fooling everybody?
February 24th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Eric:
one word: FUNDING.
scientists who deny global warming find themselves unable to raise money for research. Global Warming is nothing like evolution which has a strong basis in fact based on the fossil record. The only thing we know about global climate — based on fossil records and proxy data — is that the climate is always changing.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
In my experience, scientists who deny global warming aren’t very bright.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Whoops, input Steve’s name instead of my own there. I turned in a 600-page manuscript the other day and my brain hasn’t quite recovered. Eric
March 18th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I must say that I wouldn’t worry much about what Mary says since she believed in, and fully backed our present president (GWB). However, she did have enough sense to marry the man who was instumental in electing Bill Clinton and that’s one plus for her, IMO.