I often think that nothing the liberals say could surprise me. Then they do or say something so idiotic that even I get surprised.
Last night, I unfortunately happened to be listening for a short time to Chris Matthews on MSNBC. I think of Matthews as a moronic machine gun who fires allegations at both high speeds and high decibel levels. The subject for the moment was "climate change". Matthews announced that after 800,000 years, the warmest year on record was last year, but Republicans don't see global warming. I am not kidding. Matthews actually said that.
Think about that claim. 800,000 years? Really? There is a scientific dispute if there were even human beings on the planet 800,000 years ago, but Matthews knows the temperature? Was it recorded by aliens? It's a joke.
Okay, so maybe Matthews was just engaged in hyperbole. Maybe he really meant 120 years instead of 800,000. After all, it is just 120 years or so during which time there have been widespread temperature records kept.
Matthews also said that carbon dioxide is much higher now than it used to be, and that is why the temperature is so high. Again, really? Scientists do know the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere of the last few hundred million years. They don't have records for particular years, but there are methods that give general levels of the gas during periods of a few millennia. Guess what? Carbon dioxide levels are lower now than they have been for nearly all of the last ten thousand years. That's right, there's less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there was for nearly the entire time that men have been on earth. In other words, the rise of carbon dioxide right now is a return to normal conditions, not some aberration that has to be stopped.
Last night, I unfortunately happened to be listening for a short time to Chris Matthews on MSNBC. I think of Matthews as a moronic machine gun who fires allegations at both high speeds and high decibel levels. The subject for the moment was "climate change". Matthews announced that after 800,000 years, the warmest year on record was last year, but Republicans don't see global warming. I am not kidding. Matthews actually said that.
Think about that claim. 800,000 years? Really? There is a scientific dispute if there were even human beings on the planet 800,000 years ago, but Matthews knows the temperature? Was it recorded by aliens? It's a joke.
Okay, so maybe Matthews was just engaged in hyperbole. Maybe he really meant 120 years instead of 800,000. After all, it is just 120 years or so during which time there have been widespread temperature records kept.
Matthews also said that carbon dioxide is much higher now than it used to be, and that is why the temperature is so high. Again, really? Scientists do know the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere of the last few hundred million years. They don't have records for particular years, but there are methods that give general levels of the gas during periods of a few millennia. Guess what? Carbon dioxide levels are lower now than they have been for nearly all of the last ten thousand years. That's right, there's less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere than there was for nearly the entire time that men have been on earth. In other words, the rise of carbon dioxide right now is a return to normal conditions, not some aberration that has to be stopped.
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