Wednesday, July 01, 2009

RealClearPolitics - HorseRaceBlog - Climate Bill Faces Long Odds in Senate
...while the bill passed the House, the way the vote was distributed in the lower chamber suggests that it will encounter significant challenges in the Senate.
Batman’s a Scientist - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online
Anyone with even a casual acquaintance with the global-warming industry knows that this crowd's first response to any challenge, of any sort, from any source, is to go ad hominem. When the climate facts are not helpful, ad hom is their way to change the subject. They know what they need to know — that climate legislation is the instrument at hand for long-desired "social change," and whatever means that are necessary will be employed. To these people, facts and logic are for losers —and often enough, ad hominem is used to conceal the ideologues' staggering ignorance on the issues (ignorance of the sort that President Obama revealed with his recent claim that carbon dioxide "contaminate[s] the water we drink and pollute[s] the air we breathe" — he said, opening a Perrier and exhaling a sigh).

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