Inconvenient truth. Jindal caught out by Howard Fineman.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says he can’t be expected to know about climate science because he is “not a scientist.” Same for Florida Governor Rick Scott (R), Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), and Sen.Marco Rubio (R-FL).
But what happens when a highly educated guy who did study science in college wants to run for national office in a party that increasingly stands against facts and science? In the case of Louisiana Governor and perennial presidential wannabee Bobby Jindal (R), you act dumb and make tortuous statements.
How dumb?
At a breakfast organized by The Christian Monitor, Jindal was introduced as a biology major, Rhodes Scholar, and former President of the University of Louisiana System. Naturally, at one point HuffPost’s Howard Fineman said, “I want to ask a couple of science questions.”
Jindal cluelessly fails to see what’s coming and excitedly interjects “I’m a biology major.” Fineman is happy to repeat that point and, of course, then asks him a bunch of obvious science questions, including whether he accepts evolution.
So Jindal now feels compelled to explain, “I was not an evolutionary biologist.” Yeah, Jindal apparently got one of those Biology degrees from Brown University (with honors at the age of 20!) that doesn’t require learning about evolution — the central organizing principle of modern biology.Climate Progress
Biology Major Bobby Jindal Pleads Ignorance On Evolution And Climate Science
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3 comments:
" then asks him a bunch of obvious science questions, including whether he accepts evolution."
How is this a "science question"?
This would be like saying "who was Marx?" is an "economics question"....
Climate science isn't really a science, more like economics where certain assumptions are in-built to various models -- that support different outcomes and different fuels depending on how simplistic the model. Hundreds of billions of dollars of investment were made to convert to natural gas for electricity generation because climate science predicted it would slow climate change. Instead, it accelerated climate change (OOPS!) since the climate change science forgot to include the impact of aerosols, particulates, oceans, and realistic geologic cycling while overestimating the impact of CO2.
But not to be deterred by the mistake, they have the right answer this time! ;) Of course they do. They've setup new centers to study particulates and aerosols.
If Republicans were to back climate "science", the solutions would be designed to be palatable to Red states instead of designed for Blue states. The republican ideas would be opposed by all democrats because they would be designed to burden the blue states instead of red states!
90% of scientists would agree that the models predict what they predict!
Agweb posted a nice animation of actual temperatures as they've varied over the last century without the goofy models, just the NOAA temp maps one after another. Pretty clear, isn't it?
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