This Woman is an Idiot

Climate change denying Republican candidate for Louisiana Congress Lenar Whitney tweets the following: Libs criticize me because I am not a scientist: "you're a politician, what do you know about global warming" To that I have two words: AL GORE

Unfortunately, her “logic” is fallacious. For a non-scientist, one entirely unschooled in climate science, to assert that she knows better than the near unanimity of scientists worldwide is to believe and not to think. As for her smug use of “Al Gore” as supreme rebuttal, I’m afraid the argument does not work in that direction. And why? Because, unlike her, Al Gore is deferring to the judgment of thousands of trained scientists who have studied this data for decades. In the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth,” he was – forgive me, Al – merely the mouthpiece for the findings of scientists.

BILL

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