First stage win for science in US House of Representatives
Guest post by Russ Steele
There has been a lot of discussion of the election results in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas by the talking head on TV and talk show pundits on the radio, not not much information on the results in Oregon. Why am I interested in the results on Oregon? Glad you asked.
Art Robinson ran in the GOP Primary to represent the Oregon in 4th Congressional District. Wise Republican voters selected Dr. Art Robinson to represent them in the November 2010 Congressional race against Democrat Peter DeFazio.
I saw an online video by Art Robinson at the 4th International Climate Change Conference explaining why he is running. He wants to being some scientific rationality to the discussions on issues in Congress, especially climate change. “Let’s have at least one real scientist in Congress,” he said.
Dr Robertson is an expert on energy and founder of the Oregon Institute of Science & Medicine. He is widely known for his petition signed by more than 31,000 American scientists exposing human-caused global warming as a fraud.
He will be running against Democrat Peter DeFazio, a 12-term incumbent career politician who has alienated many voters by unpopular and controversial actions in favor of big government. Art Robinson has a good chance of bringing some rational science to the House of Representatives.
This will be an important race to watch in November. If you think we need more science in our law making process please send Art Robinson your support. His web site is here.
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Second paragraph should say “He want to bring…”
This is no ‘win for science’. Maybe for somebody’s political views.. Dr Robinson’ petition provides no evidence that “human-caused global warming is a fraud”,unless you classify wishful assertion as evidence. Come on now,I thought this was a ‘science blog’.
Your right, more representatives and senators with an actual knowledge of proper science is sorely needed in this new century, ASAP.
It’s about time we had a real scientist in Congress and not some of those who belong to the Union of Confused Scientists.
if a Democrat is in trouble in Oregon you know there is change happening in America. Oregon is a D state.
Barbara Boxer is in trouble in California too—a heavily D state.
Washington doesn’t need just real scientists, but real businessmen, real farmers, real clergy, real accountants, real lawyers—the best of all walks of life. Enough with the career politicians.
I love to see him in a debate with DeFazio!
LOL – yeah Nick the last thing we want are those pesky scientists getting involved in guberment….meanwhile
Re the Oregon Petition providing no evidence that “human-caused global warming is a fraud”: The same can be said of the petitions that support CAGW.
Thanks Nick. Always good to have respectful dissent.
I won’t be suprised to see former OSU professor Jane Lubchenco campainging for the 12 term incumbent career politician Democrat Peter DeFazio.
After all he is a loyal warmer and a certain vote for all things AGW movement.
Nick, you are right it proves there is no consensus.
FYI the petition did not reject AGW rather AGW alarm and the need for government intervention.
Amino Acids in Meteorites: May 19, 2010 at 11:04 pm
Washington doesn’t need just real scientists, but real businessmen, real farmers, real clergy, real accountants, real lawyers—the best of all walks of life.
In other words, a return to what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote it.
Wow — what a radical idea!
… 2.75 million years ago
You are absolutely wrong in thinking he has a chance of defeating DeFazio. If he gets 33% of the vote it will be a miracle. Peter is as close to unbeatable as any politician in Oregon. In the last 7 elections he has done almost no advertising and has never scored less than 60%. According to poles he has the highest favorable ratings in the state. I’m not sure where you heard of the ground surge of discontent, but I sure think they will be proved wrong. I think Art Robinson has a REALLY hard race.
Take a look at his website- sorry to read about the sudden deaths of his father and wife.
But with scientists like this, who needs ideologues?
Ayn Rand, eat your heart out.
Looks like he’s not so hot on evolution, either. He’s the read deal!
I certainly hope Dr. Robinson wins this November but, in all truth, it’s going to be a very tough race for him . From the web site whorunsgov.com:
http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Peter_A._DeFazio
Wow. In Oregon – land of the Spotted Owl!
It was massive political meddling which induced and then nurtured the AGW myth.
Why not a ‘scientific politician’ who through his expertise can shed some much needed light bring sanity and the reason of cold logic to an over hyped postulation.
Since it’s inception in the early 80’s, measured science has never really entered the equation, big government has heightened the threat and used dubious ‘science’ (channelled millions into university faculties, advertisements, research grants etc) to further the big lie and to over emphasise AGW hazards through using ridiculous what would happen if? scenarios – (Al Gore’s scurrilous docudrama ‘The inconvenient truth’, a perfect example) .
So yes even up the score, scientists in politics.
Better still, take politics out of science…….. and nobody would have heard of AGW.
I am not a member of the Colonies so your politics is relatively unfamiliar to me. BUT to my American friends, I suggest you tread with a modicum of caution. I applaud the sentiment of having more scientists involved in the political process, but Margaret Thatcher possessed a science degree, one of very few MPs who did. She was battling with the coal mining unions, & the Arabs over oil, & she rightly chose the nuclear path. She needed a device to put both out of kilter to reduce their domination of the energy scene ( previous COnservative government was brought down by striking miners in the early 1970s). That device was global warming & she set up the Tyndall Centre for starters, that was to manufacture evidence for AGW, regardless of whether anybody believed in it! Then the greeny nit wits got involved, Chenobyl blew up, & bang went the idea of nuclear powered Britain despite evidence pointing to poor safety processes, old inefficient design of reactor, (long live Soviet Russia) after all never let facts & reality enter a political debate! Be careful what you wish for, it might come true!
rob,
“You are absolutely wrong in thinking he has a chance of defeating DeFazio. If he gets 33% of the vote it will be a miracle. Peter is as close to unbeatable as any politician in Oregon. In the last 7 elections he has done almost no advertising and has never scored less than 60%. According to polls he has the highest favorable ratings in the state.” etc, etc, etc.
Isn’t that what the pundits were saying about the Massachusetts gubernatorial election? Supposed to have been a rock solid Democratic seat for 20 thousand years.
Alan the Brit has a good point I think. Beware anybody looking for power – especially if they claim to be doing it out of charity. The real question, as is always the case with politicians: is he the lesser of two evils?
Blogged with video here:
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/2010/05/scientist-in-congress.html
and here:
http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2010/05/a_scientist_in.html
You really need to put up one of the videos.
I like this one:
Much as I would like to see DeFazio go, I think its unlikely. Oregon politics is very similar to CA, with elections being determined essentially by one country, which is full of people who would vote for Attilla the Hun, Mao Tse Tung or Adolf Hitler so long as he had a ‘D’ after his name.
Oregon is NOT a blue state. Oregon is a bright RED state with a couple of concentrated blue counties packed with people from CA and NY.
@ur momisugly Just add water
Thanks for the link.