Well worth a few minutes of three-day weekend Zen
Former Florida Governor and presumed current front runner in the 2016 GOP primary, Jeb Bush, spoke on climate change this week. In just a couple of sentences, he managed to confuse everyone:
First, Jeb Bush said he was “not a scientist” when it comes to climate change. Now, he says the scientists are not to be believed. In comments reported by CNN on Wednesday, the potential 2016 presidential candidate called the science of human-caused climate change “convoluted,” and questioned the degree to which carbon emissions are responsible. “For the people to say the science is decided on this is really arrogant, to be honest with you,” he reportedly said. “It’s this intellectual arrogance that now you can’t have a conversation about it, even.”
Mr. Bush, good grief, conservatives have consistently
rejected the science on this, they have systematically misinformed their base, almost to a man they hold climate scientists and anyone else who cites the science in utter contempt. In some cases they have used every underhanded political power play available to torment climate scientists at the
professional and personal level, including dragging them into court and academic hearings threatening their research and their very freedom. There is one state run by a Republican clown who has decreed the term "climate change"
cannot be said aloud.
This is all done so that a handful of ultra-rich oil clans, like the Bushes for example, can make a few more meaningless dollars on top of their zillions they already have and could not spend in a 100 lifetimes. So listening to Jeb evade and whine about being treated unfairly is an exercise in the surreal, and that's saying it nicely.
- Dogs have been with us for a long time.
- Satellites reveal Antarctica in flux:
Satellites have seen a sudden dramatic change in the behaviour of glaciers on the Antarctica Peninsula, according to a Bristol University-led study.
The ice streams were broadly stable up until 2009, since when they have been losing on the order of 56 billion tonnes of ice a year to the ocean.
- Do you think your password and secret questions are solid? According to a recent article, not so much:
A new report from Google found that secret questions are the least reliable way to regain entry into your account. Of the millions of account recovery attempts analyzed by the search giant, about 40 percent of people could not recall the answers to their secret questions when necessary.