Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 14, 2009
December 13, 2009
December 15, 2009
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Voice: You're back with Fox & Friends, and we're still talking live with our man in Florida... Roland Hedley's been camped out at Tiger's estate for what - ten days now? Roland: Twelve, Brian! Voice: By the way, big guy, you're doing GREAT Tweet work! Roland: Thanks, Brian - as I tell journalism classes... Twitter is the first rough draft of gossip. Voice: Well, you're rockin' the platform, dude!
My friend, you and Mr. Gore are doing to science today what the Catholic Church did to it during Galileo’s time - you’re confusing wishful thinking based on consensus and cultish ideology with scientific facts. Unless you and Mr. Gore are climate scientists conducting your own research (he’s not), your opinions on the matter aren’t worth a pile of moose manure. Your knowledge of energy policy mirrors your knowledge of what I support - you make blanket statements that reflect your biased opinion, not our shared realities.
Here’s an article from today’s Times of London about your lying make-it-up-as-I-go-along hero, Al Gore.
“There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday.
The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the green movement after narrating the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, became entangled in a new climate change “spin” row.
Mr Gore, speaking at the Copenhagen climate change summit, stated the latest research showed that the Arctic could be completely ice-free in five years.”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece