And in an unbelievable gaffe, he’s told a whole group of people exactly where they can go:
It is probably the most ugly statement I’ve ever seen from a politician regarding a group of people with ideas that disagree with the politician’s own view. If it were a race or class issue, he’d be vilified. He apparently has lost touch with what it means to be an American.
From The Hill’s Blog Briefing Room:
“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country,” Markey said in a statement.
And I thought we were past things like this.
AP, Boston Globe, and WBZ-TV confirm this story. Here’s the story on the calving I broke before any MSM where I said “watch the media” I should have said “watch the politicians”.
Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, co-authored the House version of the climate change bill that’s currently stalled in the Senate.
h/t to Luboš Motl
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I think we, as Americans, with rights to free speech, should all remind Congressman Markey of what that actually means, especially those in Massachusetts who voted this man into office. His email contact form is here.
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Shameful behaviour. The bigotry is settled.
I think there is enough room in the United States for us when we take back this country. Perhaps Markey can take his own advice.
The people in congress are completely out of touch and out of control. Sometimes I do think its time for secession talk again.
“An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan has broken off Greenland, creating plenty of room for global warming deniers to start their own country,” Markey said in a statement.
Dear Representative Markey,
We did that 234 years ago. It became a republic based on individual liberty and equal representation for a country of, by and for the people.
You can leave now.
The partial legislation stunt they wanted to push on us last week included a requirement that home building and remodels have a charger installed for electric cars. Do Amish know what that is? They double in population every 19 years.
Many people don’t have cars.
This is another example of a person totally out of touch with reality and humanity.
Electric cars require lithium for batteries. That leaves a shortage for bi polars that take it for medicine. Has anyone told Markey there are issues?
It would be great to live in a place was there wasn’t continual hand-wringing over minute changes in temperature. Unfortunately, I don’t think ‘Deniersberg’ will last more than a few years.
Might be interesting to have a sweepstake on how long recognizable remnants of it last.
It could be that the gentle congresscritter is recalling a bit of corny Gore-ite rhetoric from a few years back, according to which all the scientists who disagree with the “concensus” on AGW could fit inside a phone booth. If so, there may be some satisfaction in knowing the Markey recognizes the skeptical movement has grown quite a bit lately.
It could be too that Markey is hearing echoes of the old Phil Ochs song “Mississippi,” written in the early 60s to denounce rampant racial abuses. The song (paradoxically, 100 years after the Civil War was fought to keep the southern states in the Union) invites Mississippi to “find yourself another country to be part of.” This comes to mind because I think for Markey and many others the fight against global warming has moral dimensions similar to or greater than the fight for racial equality.
Whatever the case, I would not get too upset at these rantings. Political partisans of all stripes are constantly dredging for sound bites that will provide them and their fellow partisans with a bit of glee and also stick in the public mind.
Congress critters must run for election every 2 years so i called him up and left a message that says “I can see November from my HOUSE!”
these people who use this terminology (“denier”) are vile, despicable, hateful, control freaks.
So is this the new mind set with the liberal left…if you don’t agree with them on whatever issue (Global Warming, politics, etc) then we can go start our own country? What has happened to unbiased science, the truth, in this country?
Talking produces CO2 and warms the planet…lol.
But at least it keeps people from doing anything.
I think what is most astounding is that this dimwit, Markey, does not understand that this mass broke off because the glacier is growing.
Nor has anyone informed him that the arctic is in the midst of a cold spell.
And if anyone thinks the relationship between CO2 and global warming has been exaggerated, let them contemplate the relationship between taxation and global cooling.
In Australia, we have our share of low life in the political arena.
http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/climate-changes-sceptics-a-threat-to-national-security/
http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/leave_my_children_alone_hamilton/
Sorry Congressman, I can’t! I am busy standing on the other side of Guam to keep it from capsizing…
Canada may or may not be a model place to live but I have never been so glad to have moved here from Wisconsin, as I am now. My only question is who elects these people. And yes I remember Joe M., to young to vote in his day but now you know a good part of why I left the place.
I’m not surprised by the remark. I posted a comment on bostonglobe.com that commented on the Democrat’s historical penchant to take away freedoms and put people in concentration camps who are a threat, perceived or otherwise.
When we take this country back from these nitwits in November, we will be sure to remind this asshat of what he said. My contempt for these people has reached a new high. But frankly, I’m beginning to think these warmists have lost what little sense they had, and are ready to commit violence in support of their wacky theories. They have already proven that they will lie, cheat, commit fraud, falsify records, etc. It doesn’t take that much more before they get violent. I’m expecting it, and I’m ready to respond to it as well.
Time to play Kremlinologist. Why would Markey suddenly start spewing like an orc from Climate Progress now that there is no chance of passing climate legislation in congress?
pat said
“I think what is most astounding is that this dimwit, Markey, does not understand that this mass broke off because the glacier is growing.
Nor has anyone informed him that the arctic is in the midst of a cold spell.”
he wouldn’t believe either verifiable fact.
i’m re-reading Atlas Shrugged and i swear i feel like i’m trapped inside that story. up is down, hot is cold… we live in bizarre-world
Mr. Markey should recall what happened to the ruling class in Massachusetts 235 years ago.
/Research scientist NASA -Ret.
I saw this over on the Reference Frame, and had to chuckle at the spanking Lubos was handing out to Warming Trolls. 🙂
I’m sure he thought he was being funny. I’m also sure that his handlers will issue some kind of correction in a day or 2. But I’m really absolutely positive he is just an ignorant butthead.
It may be worthwhile to consider that Mr. Markeys’ next original thought will be his first. Like most Reps./Senators, he is spoon fed information by a boated staff of ambitious, self-important people grasping for a piece of cleverness to make their bones. The Union would be served best by an immediate 50% cut in congressional staffs/budgets—as a start.
I suggest Malarky, and all other Malarkyists, should go form a country on the Moon. After all, they are lunatics.
I worked in nuclear power for 20 years. I think the most delicious thing was listening to the head of the American Nuclear Society, at the time of Cherynoble being put on “Nightline” with Ted Kopple.
Marky, a strident anti-nuclear (leftist, out of touch nut..) made a variety of wild, and non-sequitor statements.
The head of the ANS, with an absolute “poker face”, when asked a question by Ted Kopple, responded by saying, “Before I answer those questions Ted, I’d like to address some of the points brought up by Congressman Malarky..”
I and my fellow engineers watching this (we happened to be at a house party that night) all looked at each other, and broke out in peals of laughter. We knew the head of the ANS knew EXACTLY what he had said and said it deliberately.
It’s what, 26 years later, and he’s still Congressman Marlarky!
Max
The ice will probably reattach during the winter, so we will all be able to celebrate New Year’s eve in Manhattan together.
This looks like one of those “collapsing ice shelf” stories which can be recycled by the press every couple of years.