Global Moron

By now there are very, very few people not only in this country but on this planet who don’t subscribe to the phenomenon that scientists across the globe continue to inform and caution us about on an almost daily basis: Global Warming.

While many of the hard-core scumbags in the Republican party still dismiss not only global warming, but science of all varieties, even some in Bush senior’s posse (which of course, is pretty much the same as W’s current posse) like James Baker have let the facts finally seep into their cold, polluted brains after several years.

Like with evolution, Bush really “duddn’t” think that there is a lot of significant evidence regarding global warming, and would like to wait until all the facts are in.

Excuse me, Mr. President? There is no debate anymore. It’s long, long over. The most important thing to realize here is that those who study this phenomenon for a living are not debating each other. The jury is not out anymore for the scientific community, and most of the entire population for that matter. You’re just about the only one left.

It’s not that Bush doesn’t believe something he can’t see or touch – after all the Prince of Peace himself, 2000 years after his death, is Bush’s closest advisor who continues to tell him to bomb the shit out of the Middle East.

I think he just doesn’t like science and factual evidence. That’s why he’ll continue to push abstinence only education, that’s why the jury’s still out on evolution, that’s why this country doesn’t fund enough stem cell research, and it’s why he’s never EVER prepared for a single event or national experience of any kind prior to the incident actually occurring. Ever.

And – as an added bonus – all of us can sit here in America and watch other nations leapfrog over us in the fields of science and health, all the while looking back at us from the future, and waving goodbye.

Take today for example. Sir John Lawton, chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution for Britain made the following statements:

"The increased intensity of these kinds of extreme (hurricanes) is very likely to be due to global warming….If this makes the climate loonies in the States realize we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation."

“If what looks like is going to be a horrible mess causes the extreme skeptics about climate change in the US to reconsider their opinion, that would be an extremely valuable outcome."

“Increasingly it looks like a smoking gun. It's a fair conclusion to draw that global warming, caused to a substantial extent by people, is driving increased sea surface temperatures and increasing the violence of hurricanes."

Why did Lawton make those statements? Well for starters, since 1990, category 4 and 5 hurricanes have nearly doubled to an average of about 18 a year. During the same period, sea surface temperatures, among the key drivers of hurricane intensity, have increased by an average of almost 1 degree Fahrenheit.

The predictions for hurricane season continue to show a pattern of stronger, more violent storms, and since most people (less the ring-wingers in the Bush administration) would agree that warm, moist air from the gulf and tropical Caribbean waters fuel these monsters, well, there might just in fact be yet another reason to blame the Katrina disaster on the ignorance and unpreparedness for the Bush administration.

Oh, and to all the Red states in “hurricane alley” - I suppose you get what you vote for, don’t you.