The GOP hates science, petro-politics hates science, the religious right hates science, Rick Perry hates science. Rick Perry's administration blocked the publication of a Rice University study because the author refused to remove his research findings of to climate change sea level rise in the Galveston area. Rick won't have it, no sir-eeee, won't have it. So the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality blocked John Anderson's, a leading expert on sea level rise with more than 200 publications, chapter from inclusion in the publication.
Now, as you might know, or not know, the internet is full of hall monitors, checking passes and traffic volume. The more visits and googles a subject gets, the more the reporterless news media looks and "reports" on a subject. Statistician and political writer Nate at "538" has followed this over the years on many items that arose out of the internet traffic to big story status on the evening news, finally getting coverage it should. To this extent, please google "flood-gate Rick Perry", you will find only a couple of stories, visit them, as the count rises more will pick up this story. Or, go direct to one of them at: http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/10/12/342210/flood-gate-perry-sea-level-rise-censorship/ In fact, you may also know, or not, there are companies who for a fee sets up robots to google crap they want brought to the front, as the count mounts, they get it. The Santorum google was one such event, set up as a joke, poor Santorum, but so it goes. Fuck Rick Perry.
I don't see where this crap is coming from - If you are a hard-core thumper then you believe that everyting is God's work - I assure you that if a cure for cancer is found that the zealots will claim that God guided that science. So, is not science the very work of God? And, isn't to deny science the same as denying God?
ReplyDeleteYes, Fuck Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, the pizza man and his "9-9-9" (half off a large with three toppings if you make more than $250K),
the kook, the adulter, and that crazy bitch from
Minnisota. Huntsamn is the only one that makes any sense - alas, he wears magic skivies...
Oh, fuck Mike Pence, Richard Lugar, Daniel Coats, and Larry Bucshon!
Sarge
Sarge, and it goes on, from Media Matters:
ReplyDeleteA study published in the prestigious journal American Economic Review estimates that the costs imposed on society by air pollution from coal-fired power plants are greater than the value added to the economy by the industry. The study concluded that coal may be 'underregulated' since the price we pay for coal-fired power doesn't account for its costs.
According to a Nexis search, not a single major newspaper or television network has covered the study. By contrast, an industry-funded report on the cost of EPA regulations of these air pollutants has received considerable media attention.
In other words, coal produced energy makes industry and business hum, and they make money and pay wages. Yet, the cost of coal pollution on health and environment is greater. Coal is a net loss. And not one mainstream media reported this.