Comments on: Regarding the Lieberman-Warner Debate, Rep. Rohrabacher: “Do you really think the world is filled with morons?”

By: Blunder guff

Blunder guff — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:00:02 +0000

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:42:58 +0000

oh and please don’t give me the BS that it is too expense and people could not afford it, as the reality of it is, that both a PV & Thermal system is an investment in the house. Unlike every other “investment” in the house (an extra bedroom, two extra bathrooms, a skylight, etc.) this is the only part of the investment that pays for itself and is not dependent upon property values going up. as gas, oil & electric rates increase, the payback period decreases. Show me a payback period on a house that can match what the payback period would be on a PV or Thermal as fuel prices continue to rise.

By: Hans

Hans — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:36:53 +0000

“Only an ignorant child or a liberal would believe such BS.”

only a conservative in bed with big oil would say such BS!

I could connect to your house a system that is able to heat your hot water to 140-160 by the power of the sun alone, in almost any climate with average daylight hours. A small pump not requiring much electricity would drive the system. You could increase the collector area and tie it to a radiant heat system and heat your house.

you could reasonably go with a PV system tied to the grid that could give you a Net Zero balance over the period of a one year.

so who is the ignorant child or [fool] here?

By: Peter Walstrom

Peter Walstrom — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:44:16 +0000

Rep. Rohrabacher:
Re your floor speech: The “William Harper” fired by Clinton shortly after he got into office is actually William Happer. And yes, he was fired for being scientifically objective, opposing Gore, and wanting, among other things, rigorous scientific proof that UV-B was really increasing at ground level (checking with ground-based measurements, etc. ) rather than relying only on satellite data and computer models.
He has been back at Princeton U since then and is doing first-rate cutting-edge research.
Meanwhile, Gore’s front organization, wecansolveit.org, is telling us that in 10 years ALL of the US electricity supply can come from wind, solar, and geothermal. Only an ignorant child or a liberal would believe such BS.

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By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:57:05 +0000

I lived through the global cooling scare of the 70’s…At that time, it wasn’t as big as this so-called; “global warming” issue is. That is because global cooling was predicted to hit a little ice age 10,000 years down the road. Where as this man-made global warming scare can happen in the next 25-50 years. There is such a thing as global warming as history bares this out, Greenland which was the name given it to by the Vikings who populated the land for a few hundred years as it was going through a warming period. Yes, no cars or factories, yet Greenland was warming. The climate changed, and began to get really cold, the last Viking left in 1401AD.

The computer models do not fully understand the weather because it’s programmed by man who doesn’t fully understand the complexity of the weather. It’s predictions are suspect on how 3 percent of the Earth’s pollution made by man has such a considerable amount of impact on the weather. It was a La Nina year, where it was one of the snowiest and coldest winters of recent memory…And normally in a La Nina year, there are many more storms on land. History bares all this out, there is a pattern. None of which is connected with man-made pollution.

I still think we should find a way to get off foreign oil and less intrusive means of generating power, but not because of a man-made global warming scare which really has no scientific basis.

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By: killerville

killerville — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:44:46 +0000

Jeez,

Excuse me for focusing on just one statement in your post, but, you listed social responsibility w/ the rest of your rhetorical question fragments.

Correct me if Im wrong, but Im taking that as you saying that social responsibility is NOT a valid reason for big oil to fund global energy research.

If that is, in fact, your intended meaning, than I have quite a littany of responses, but I would like to give you the chance to clarify or confirm.

By: jeeztheadmin

jeeztheadmin — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:27:56 +0000

Do you drive? Do you fly on airplanes, take buses, trains?

Why should oil companies fund research to potentially put themselves out of business? Because they make money? Because they are inherently evil? Because of some social responsibility? I question the existence of any valid, ethically consistent, objective reason for the sentiment which is shared by many. I believe it is simply an emotional reaction. The oil companies are the new Jews, the modern Money Changers, who people like you believe, have made their profit through deception and criminal behavior and must be punished.

The simple reason for the sentiment is jealousy, the more complex one Utopianism.

By: killerville

killerville — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:20:17 +0000

Obomination 08

Exxon maked corporate history by booking $11.7 billion in quarterly profit; It earned $1,300 a second in 2007.

Microsoft didn’t even come close.

By: killerville

killerville — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:04:00 +0000

Whoa!
Congressman Chicken Little has jumped to a conclusion and whipped all you animals into a frenzy of false security based on what is, at best, dubious claims. This unscrupulous man is using opposition to a terrifying truth to manipulate your fears of the coming apocalypse into an anti-environmentalist tirade.
Well, while you are all singing his praises, keep in mind that this huxter is the same man who heaped praise on the Taliban (going so far as to fight along side them during a “vacation” to Afghanistan) and defends Jack Abramoff with his every breath.
As an influence peddler of the highest order, he knows that we are scared of climitization, and offers a position that is comforting to those of you who are so hopelessly inured to the status-quo that the idea of change, even for the greater good, is more terrifying than the prospect of a Nevada coast-line or an eternal winter.
Oh, and by-the-bye, all of this MORON business is hurtful and counterproductive, and I know that deep down you’re all just posturing. Certainly you must realize that the same minds that created and improve(d) space exploration, earthquake architecture, Doppler radar technology, and Cellular communication aren’t suddenly morons when they tell you something that you would rather not hear.
Think of climate study in terms of volcanology. The geologist can’t tell you the exact date of an eruption, but he certainly knows when one’s a-comin…
Don’t be that guy standing in the streets of Pompeii asking everyone to remain calm despite the fact that its raining ashes.
End diatribe now.

By: samuel mallett

samuel mallett — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:41:25 +0000

All of the b.s. that the libs have been commenting about man causing global warming has not taken into consideration the amount of volcanic vents that are at the bottom of the ocean. The Discovery program stated in a program that there are 1,100 to 1,400 active vents at the bottom of the ocean. Do you think this just might be the source of our seas warming.

By: Crucible

Crucible — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:03:14 +0000

It seems clear to me that there are too many politicians out there that are power hungry and are trying to use and feed this to the gullible portion of our population and win the presidency or whatever they want. I find it totally pathetic and utterly despicable, but then again that seems to be the definition of the word politician these days. when they come to me with proof that is more than a couple hundred years old or a car that gets 100 miles to the gal then we’ll discuss the possibility of global warming.

By: stan the man

stan the man — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:28:06 +0000

the liberals dont want to hear the truth because they cant handle the truth..just look at the milankovitch cycles but they wont. they have an agenda its called socialism..they want to dictate what you do, where you go, what you eat, what you drink, what you do with your time, what you drive,how you heat your home, what doctor you see, most of all WHAT YA THINK…

By: DR

DR — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 04:20:34 +0000

Hey Responders…
Does anyone know of a good country to flee to?
Our polititians, our schools, our scientists, the press, and the sheople are all morons. Common Sense has fled our nation.
Maybe China or Russia?
Seems like our former enemies have a more clear vision of the future than the USA does…
Makes me long for the ‘good old days’ of the cold war…when the USA made sense…
I’m serious…any ideas?

By: kat

kat — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:08:22 +0000

Wow that was an amazing bill. Too bad it got rejected. Sadly, I do have to say that the world is filled with morons who believe whatever they are told by the media and the wonderous Al Gore.
I finally got some hope that not everyone is a gobal warming activist/believer.

By: lib

lib — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:12:47 +0000

i am a communist – i am ignorant – i am naive – i am dangerous – i hate america – i love goverment – i am a loser – i am a lib!!!1

By: lanceallott

lanceallott — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 12:15:10 +0000

I can see it now, a global carbon footprint tax. Soon, all of us will have to pay to breathe and fart!! thanks Al..

By: Jerry Nettles

Jerry Nettles — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 11:03:16 +0000

Thank God! There is at least one Republican left who has intelligence AND a backbone.

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