One of my Camaro friends posted on Facebook yesterday that he "just can't wait until the hippies blame the Cali earthquakes on global warming". Several of his friends started commenting on how they just can't believe that humans have any effect on global warming and that it is all a conspiracy to take down big oil.
So, like a dumbass, I commented that they were stupid for ignoring thousands of peer-reviewed scientific studies because the media and politics behind it. I wanted to emphasize that they should look at the science, not the politics. That a measurement does not have a political affiliation. That a yard is still 3 feet even if Obama likes football. That if he took his car in to get a dyno test (because he is a huge Camaro freak), the dyno would not read differently because the tech was a Democrat.
They wanted me to post proof, so I posted a link to a UN study published by a pair of nobel prize winning scientists. Nope, doesn't count because the UN is a political joke, and the Nobel prize has been given to Al Gore and Obama, so those scientists are a joke too. Ok, fine. Here are links to NASA and NOAA webpages that have compiled thousands of these studies into a couple "easy to understand" break-downs. Nope, NOAA is government funded. NASA (and here is my biggest rant of all) doesnt count because Obama suggest they should have a Muslim Outreach program (link:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/07/07/nasas_muslim_outreach_106214.html).
I honestly felt dumber having read their responses.
At that point I realized that, as always, one cannot have a logical discussion with someone who does not value logic. The media and politicians have really turned the US public into a bunch of mis-trusting morons.
