Republican Candidate For Congress: Climate Change Can Be Disproved With A Simple Thermometer
A Louisiana State Representative, who hopes to win her district’s U.S. House seat, posted a campaign video on YouTube calling climate change “the greatest deception in the history of mankind,” and asserts that it can be disproved using a simple thermometer. So, all of the scientists who have weighed in need to sit down and be quiet because this lady knows stuff about thermometers.
In the video, Lenar Whitney, deems former Al Gore’ film The [sic] Inconvenient Truth) to be “propaganda”. Whitney goes on to say that she’s been attacked by liberals in the mainstream media.
Sarah Palin, is that you?
She says, “Any ten-year-old can invalidate their thesis with one of the simplest scientific devices known to man. A thermometer.”
“The Earth has done nothing but get colder each year since the films release,” Whitney notes. “God certainly has a wonderful sense of irony.”
Before touting the work of our country’s oil companies, she says, “The conspiracy of global warming has had a devastating effect on the American Dream.”
“It was the burning of oil that energized the foundation of a real middle class in the twentieth century. Giving them luxuries like electric lights, refrigeration, and automobiles, ” Whitney says. “But now, both capitalism and our energy industry are under attack and the hopes of global warming is the dagger.”
“It was the burning of oil that energized the foundation of a real middle class in the twentieth century. Giving them luxuries like electric lights, refrigeration, and automobiles, ” Whitney says. “But now, both capitalism and our energy industry are under attack and the hopes of global warming is the dagger.”
She further claims that Global Warming is a strategy designed to give more power to the executive branch.
She said all of that with a straight face.
Watch:
Well she sure told us!
H/T: Raw Story.
Carla Akins June 30th, 2014 at 8:45 am
Laughing, laughing, laughing – reading those quotes, looking at the sincere look on her face – it just never gets old.
Anomaly 100 June 30th, 2014 at 8:54 am
She seems really nice and not just trying to get in Big Oil’s pockets.
Carla Akins June 30th, 2014 at 9:04 am
I fear for her children.
Anomaly 100 June 30th, 2014 at 9:13 am
Think of the CHILDREN!
Judgeforyourself37 June 30th, 2014 at 8:26 pm
HA HA HA, yes, and at nearly 80 I look just like Julia Roberts, so, believe me and I will believe you.
Anomaly 100 June 30th, 2014 at 9:09 pm
That’s odd. I look like Julie Roberts, too. I’m 56.
DaddyO_969 June 30th, 2014 at 8:54 am
OMG. I suppose if you used the ‘simple scientific tool’ and took her temp (anally, of course) you’d find she’s got the temp of a cooling corpse.
Maxx44 June 30th, 2014 at 8:54 am
If stupidity were in and of itself fatal, this poor woman would be long gone.
Suzanne McFly June 30th, 2014 at 6:17 pm
She would have a lot of people with her, unfortunately I am related to a few.
mea_mark June 30th, 2014 at 9:02 am
Republican strategy, say what the people want to hear, not what they need to hear.
Rusty Shackleford June 30th, 2014 at 9:11 am
Is she forgetting that An Inconvenient Truth came out in 2006, when the executive branch was held by Al Gore’s opponent?
Stan Ubeki June 30th, 2014 at 9:17 am
My dad used to use the term “chicken neck” to denegrate people. I know what that means now.
William June 30th, 2014 at 9:42 am
She further claims that Global Warming is a strategy designed to give more power to the executive branch.
Sigh…
Pilotshark June 30th, 2014 at 9:45 am
LOL
is that the same picture but smaller version to her lower right.
Abby Normal June 30th, 2014 at 10:36 am
Nature abhors a vacuum. Her head could implode at any moment.
Jake June 30th, 2014 at 10:47 am
Nice to see Anne Coulter finally had her Adam’s Apple removed.
Teddy Simon June 30th, 2014 at 11:01 am
Proof that most repugs don’t really care about their kids
fahvel June 30th, 2014 at 1:08 pm
hopefully she will use a really rough edged rectal thermometer to test if she is actually alive. I’ve read that with ideas like hers, her temperature should be somewhere in the low teens.
Bunya June 30th, 2014 at 1:35 pm
I really hope the people of Louisiana aren’t supid enough to vote this imbecile into office.
Judgeforyourself37 June 30th, 2014 at 8:22 pm
Think….Louisiana….think..the entire south, and yes, they may well vote this, ill equip to govern, lady into office. Think Nikki Haley, Think…that fellow who “marched along the Appalachian Trail, but instead was chasing Argentinian Tail…yes, the south where there are pockets of clear thinking, very intelligent individuals, but far too many who are constantly tuned into “Rushbo,” and Faux Noise Channel.
Weeble1150 June 30th, 2014 at 3:43 pm
I don’t see one single comment on here which presents facts which counter the facts and the generally-accepted truths which she presents. Name-calling does not bring a nonbeliever over to your side. Facts and reasoned arguments might do so.
mea_mark June 30th, 2014 at 3:53 pm
{the generally-accepted truths which she presents} — I would not call what she says generally-accepted truths. You may believe it and maybe some other right-wingers might believe it but they are certainly not generally-accepted truths.
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 10:20 pm
See my reply to Sko Hayes.
Hogandda June 30th, 2014 at 4:00 pm
Sorry but “Facts and reasoned arguments” have never brought a RW nonbeliever over. If a person doesn’t want to believe anything other than what they believe, then all the facts in the world will not change their mind.
Suzanne McFly June 30th, 2014 at 6:15 pm
You are asking us for facts? Look out your window, how many facts do you need? I am now living in the North East and we had a hurricane up here last year, I was used to that when I lived in Florida, but not up here. Last month was the warmest May we had on record (which has been since 1880). These are nothing I have even needed to research, they are simply facts cause I go outside and see things and am living through occurrences that are far out of the norm. If you can’t see the changes, you simply don’t want to.
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 10:19 pm
You are confusing “weather” with “climate”.
Suzanne McFly July 2nd, 2014 at 9:06 am
Hardly Weeble, the current climate we are in has caused us to have abnormal weather. This climate has been caused by human activity and our need to produce unclean energy sources.
Anomaly 100 June 30th, 2014 at 7:37 pm
She offered no ‘facts.’
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 10:22 pm
See above — my reply to Sko Hayes.
Anomaly 100 July 1st, 2014 at 10:35 pm
Nope. I’m busy.
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 11:08 pm
🙂
Sko Hayes June 30th, 2014 at 9:09 pm
What kind of facts do you need?
That the earth has not been cooling the last ten years?
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/why-the-globe-hasnt-warmed-much-for-the-past-decade-15788
How about her claiming it was because of oil that we grew a strong middle class in the mid 20th century? We’ve had oil around for the last 150 years here in the US, why did it take so long? Would the good economy have more to do with the development of industry and people having good jobs?The end of the war?
She’s not bringing up facts, she is spouting outright falsehoods, easily proven with a google search or a basic knowledge of history.
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 10:18 pm
But didn’t oil have a role in our growing economy and the growth of the middle class? How were people able to get to their good jobs in industry? Maybe via auto? Train? Plane? All use petroleum-based products for their propulsion.
Why has farm production increased so much? Has the use of fertilizers helped? Pesticides? Herbicides? How are crops planted and harvested? What runs the machines that perform those functions? How do food products get from farm to market?
Does anyone use heating oil to heat their homes?
Oil is a feedstock for many, many products we use in our everyday lives — solvents, medicines, dyes, plastics.
….and which of the following is an outright falsehood?
1. Pres. Obama blamed the recent weather for disappointing first quarter economic numbers.
2. There has been a recent increase in Antarctic ice cover.
3. There has been a recent increase in the polar bear population.
4. Energy from oil contributed to the industrial revolution.
5. Free market capitalism creates wealth.
6. Our energy industry (particularly coal) is under attack.
7. Progressives want to regulate our lives.
Sko Hayes July 2nd, 2014 at 7:20 am
There has been a recent increase in the Antarctic ice cover, because it’s winter in the southern hemisphere. There are also huge sheets of ice breaking off of Antarctica. The melting is going on underneath the ice sheet.
There has been no increase in the polar bear population.
Oil contributed to the industrial revolution but is not the cause of it, as that idiot claims. The drilling for oil has also caused 2 of the biggest environmental disasters in our history.
Free market capitalism is a buzz phrase used by right wingers that means nothing. We don’t have a “free market”- markets are created by governments, regulated and manipulated by governments and private entities. The lack of regulation caused the Great Recession and 40% of the wealth of the US went down in flames because of it.
Our fossil fuels industry is given subsidies to pollute our air, our ground and our water, but Republicans want to deny subsidies to clean and renewable energy simply because it’s not oil or coal (and probably because the newly emerging companies don’t have millions to give to politicians).
Read any bill passed by the current House on the Keystone pipeline, and you’ll find hundreds of pages of nothing but regulations, so please don’t claim that only progressives want to regulate our lives.
jasperjava July 1st, 2014 at 8:08 pm
Here’s a fact: you’re just another gullible uneducated right-winger who thinks that Koch-funded propaganda are “generally-accepted truths”.
Not “name-calling”, it’s a fact.
Weeble1150 July 1st, 2014 at 10:04 pm
I guess my B.S., my Ph.D., and my 41 years of university teaching make me uneducated? 🙂
jasperjava July 1st, 2014 at 11:43 pm
Your B.S. certainly does.
mmaynard119 June 30th, 2014 at 4:14 pm
There are other things that can be proven by a well-placed thermometer, too.
NMAXXS June 30th, 2014 at 8:57 pm
ET go home.
Jones July 2nd, 2014 at 12:43 am
It makes perfect sense that the only scientific tool she could use is the simplest of its kind that a 10 year old could easily use. And I did not know that there was over population in and Attica??????