GOP’s “inane” war on science: Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists
“Millions are already dying, or have died, as a result of changes in the climate,” Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., told Salon.
I got some criticism last year, when I said “millions will die” as a result of climate change. And they said, “Oh, you’re being hysterical.” And I showed them the World Health Organization figures, and because of droughts, and agricultural disruption, and changes in diseases – disease patterns and epidemiology — millions are already dying, or have died, as a result of changes in the climate …
“I wish we could get more Americans and, hence, their representatives thinking like scientists, which means basing our conclusions on evidence.”
GOP’s “inane” war on science: Plasma physicist congressman takes on the denialists – Salon.com
A good place for scientists to start is by actually looking at the evidence. Disease wiped out most of Europe during the Little Ice Age. The Anasazi were wiped out by an 80 year drought in the 13th century. Millions of people in China were killed by a drought in 1960. The entire population of Greenland was killed by climate change during the LIA. Half of Oklahoma fled the state in the 1930’s due to heat and drought.
Holt is a typical scientific dolt, arrogantly jumping into a field he knows nothing about, and reaching nonsensical conclusions based on a half-baked examination of data he doesn’t understand the first thing about. Climate is cyclical. Only a scientific dolt would believe that he controls the climate.
