FTA: Kopp said that the legislative analysts at the Legislative Research Council added the questionable language. Kopp denied ever putting it in the bill. Kopp said the analysts put in the "technical jargon" to make the bill workable in the legal world.

Oh, my, I'm thinking, the state of South Dakota has hired political scientists and lawyers to review legislator's bills and codify the law with "technical jargon" like "astrological."

*facepalm*

Be Well.

Why would we want to consider the sun's ability to effect climate on our planet?

WTF is "thermological?"

Why the use of the suffix "logical" in the first place?

Reading the entire bill is a real treat. Fuck what a collective group of idiots.

Excerpts:

WHEREAS, the polar ice cap is subject to shifting warm water currents and the break-up of ice by high wind events. Many oceanographers believe this to be the major cause of melting polar ice, not atmospheric warming

Right. Warm waters happen by some other mechanism. Brilliant!

WHEREAS, carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but rather a highly beneficial ingredient for all plant life on earth. Many scientists refer to carbon dioxide as "the gas of life";

*headdesk*

Erik the Red settled Greenland where they farmed and raised dairy cattle. Today, ninety percent of Greenland is covered by massive ice sheets

Oh my.

WHEREAS, there is no evidence of atmospheric warming in the troposphere where the majority of warming would be taking place

Why would we want to consider the sun's ability to effect climate on our planet?

We do, the models do, there are scientists and researchers whose entire area of study is just that. I've cited their work many times. The deniers have cited their work so incompletely and disingenuously they leading researchers have posted statements on each of their websites condemning and refuting the blatant misstatements and mischaracterization of their findings.

Why would we want to consider the sun's ability to effect climate on our planet?

Absolutely.

But you wouldn't be using astrology and cosmology to do so.

When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars...

AGW -- hocus pocus

"AGW -- hocus pocus"

#7 | Posted by vernon at 2010-02-28 04:24 AM | Reply | Flag: thinks electronic calculators are magic, too

Not real bright, are you Vermin?

Vermin couldn't pass an entrance exam for a mental hospital.

Why not astrology? It is as scientific as the global warming hoax.