He does know who the people who watch his program are thinking and most probably agree with him. Give the people what they want.

But republicans are going to have enough troubles this fall as it looks like now. Imagine if they had to admit that they were wrong about global warming all along. The would be in even worse trouble.

Which is why, even though Nuclear does have all those problems this website writes about so well, if there was just something that the deniers and delayer politicians can rally around that they were right about and could promote, it might make it easier for them to change their minds or at least be less of a loss for them. But to be wrong about global warming and then to be wrong about the solutions to it, they are going to keep fighting ways to fix it just for their own political survivial.

they are going to keep fighting ways to fix it just for their own political survivial.

what if nuclear is not a solution they’re trying to sell. what if it’s one of many red- and purple-state subsidies, including the military, on which their governance depends. what if federal subsidies are their entire economic program, as a direct (and economically unproductive) wealth transfer from tax surplus states (almost all blue) to tax deficit states.

what if, further, they decided to do this entire buying-votes project on credit.

and then they did not regulate the credit industry, letting it run roughshod over everything, recreating the circumstances of 1929 — which had its own resource-depletion disaster in the dust bowl — except from some keynesian control measures still running?

where does one draw the line, here, on throwing these idiots a bone?

they wanted to bankrupt the government and reform the country’s economy in the image of the late 19th century and by gum they got it and nobody wants any of it and again, what bone should you throw.

their faith is a dead end. it isn’t pro-business and it isn’t pro-america. they’re just nuts.

democrats have their own pork. democrats have their own corruption.

but it isn’t their whole plan.

“Do you think it’s been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is a sphere and is not flat?”

Or

“Do you think it’s been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is greater than 6000 years old?”

How about warming temps?

UAH: Global Temperature Dives in May
http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 03/ uah-global-temperature-dives-in-may/

[JR: Yeah, the UAH. We can believe there numbers — not! See “Should you believe anything John Christy and Roy Spencer say?“]

It’s what keeps you nice and warm in Texas instead of shivering in temperatures 33°C colder than they would be without the greenhouse effect.

But hey, never let the facts get in the way of expressing a perfectly ignorant opinion.

http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 06/ 06/ rss-global-temperature-also-cooler-in-may/

“renewable energy: it doesn’t work. that’s why it’s growing so fast!”

I pay (voluntarily) an additional fee on my utility bill to get some of that wind farm electricity - windtricity.com

If it were competitive to the South Texas Nuclear Project (or coal fired plants), there would be no need for additional fees or subsidies.

Some time ago, the republican party used to be the one people love and trust more in. The thing is, the amount of difference only shows how unscientific this whole global warming debate is, from both sides…

The science is already politized enough without the people taking part in it. Just let it be and concentrate on the science please. Also get Al Gore out of all this if you can.

And “solar’s close”? It was “close” back in the early 80’s when I was a partner in Applied Solar Engineering Inc. We designed and built quite a few systems in Texas, including several in oil fields.
Check out www.wikipatents.com/4479486.html for one of my patents. When Reagan ended the solar subsidies our firm went belly up.

If solar cannot compete without subsidies, with oil at $135/barrel, it will never be “close”.

The price of oil doesn’t affect the competitiveness of solar — the two are not currently fungible.

The good news is that solar is competitive now, either with a carbon price or subsidies comparable in value to that given to all other energy sources.

If solar were competitive today, that would be good news - I’d hang out my shingle again, if I can find it (Its been 20+ years). Do I tell my clients to see Al Gore to collect the carbon credits? How exactly do those credits put bread on my table?

In all honesty, my only bitch about nuclear power, and has been for most of my adult life, is the waste. If the waste could be cheaply transported to a lunar dump site, then I could support replacing all our oil and coal fired electric generating plants with nuclear. It would be as a very expensive insurance policy, just in case there were actually anything to the CO2 hysterics.

Right now I’m trying to figure out a way to capture all the C02 that escapes when I drink my Miller Lite. After that, I’ll work on the lunar dump problem.

The moon controls our tides and many of the natural cycles on our planet. Turning it into a radioactive second sun might not be the best idea.

It is okay to call a skeptic a denier (”Denier, denier, planet’s on fire!”) as in Holocost Denier, but you seem to take offense at calling a Believer a watermellon?

i don’t take offense. i point out that when you randomly accuse people of being mass murderers because they’ve called you a giant partisan idiot, it makes you look like a giant partisan idiot.

Thin skin?

of course. poke your own. very thin.