Republican Pennsylvania State Senator Scott Wagner.
We open today’s can of stupid with Pennsylvania, and Sen. Scott Wagner. Wagner is all for opening up state forests to drilling for natural gas. Why, we don’t need forests, what are they good for? Just full of trees and animals and stuff, they aren’t important at all. Yesterday, we had the tin cap idiocy of Lord Monckton, and today the climate change theories of Wagner:
NPR reports that Pennsylvania State Senator Scott Wagner on Tuesday gave a talk in favor of conducting natural gas drilling in state forests — and he justified his position by using a scientifically incorrect analysis of climate change.
Specifically, Wagner said he wasn’t worried about carbon emissions leading to a warming planet because the change in the planet’s temperature was more likely caused by the Earth getting closer to the sun every year.
“I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year–you know the rotation of the earth,” Wagner said. “We’re moving closer to the sun.”
I don’t believe you. I don’t think you have ever been in a science class. That said, why are you relying on your own ignorance? There is a ton of information, clear, concise, evidence-backed, and easily understood, even by people like yourself, available. Information which would point out the idiocy of destroying state forests.
Wagner also suggested that climate change could be caused by the heat emitted from human bodies.
“We have more people,” he said. “You know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat coming off? Things are changing, but I think we are, as a society, doing the best we can.”
Oh ffs. Climate change is driven by humans, but not in that way. If this is how you did in school, I am absolutely amazed you graduated. Via Raw Story.
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Because ThePresident™ is a meathead all the rest of them feel free to say meathead stuff, too.
This is someone who watched The Wizard of Oz and thought “Yeah, I don’t need no book learnin’, I just need confidence!” Of course, who am I to argue with him? That attitude made him a wealthy, influential politician with great influence over millions of people’s lives.
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Definitely falls into the “not even wrong” category.
A person like this can’t even benefit from reading that clear, concise, easily-understood” information, since he doesn’t even seem to have a grasp of even the most basic concepts that those sources assume everybody understands.
“The Earth is moving closer to the Sun every year. You know, the rotation of the Earth?” How can a person utter such gobbledegook? What worms are eating through his grey matter to produce sounds like that?
That’s weird. Because a lot of people in Pennsylvania are making loads of money selling their own land for fracking (I used to get calls about once a week…) So he’s basically proposing to let the state compete with its citizens. How is that a good thing for a republican?
Oh, right, he’s not working on behalf of the state, he’s been paid under the table. (slaps forehead) silly me!
A person like this can’t even benefit from reading that clear, concise, easily-understood” information
He can read the denomination on the currency he’s getting from “big gas” -- that and the bible is all he needs!
Were I still teaching, I’d be tempted to pass him along just to not need to deal with him anymore. After all, there’s not much damage he can do as a politician, right? Right?
“I haven’t been in a science class in a long time, but…”
Don’t brag.