Alaskan Senator Claims Worst is Already Over When it Comes to Global Warming
by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 09. 6.07
Alaskan Senator and noted climate "expert" Ted Stevens (he of the "series of tubes" speech) has confidently asserted that — with regards to the effects of global warming — it's all downhill from here. Over the course of a recent news broadcast focusing on the impact of climate change on Shishmaref, a small village in Alaska, Stevens predicted the end of the adverse weather patterns was nigh:
"We're at the end of a long, long term of warming. 700 to 900 years of increased temperature, a very slow increase. We think we're close to the end of that. If we're close to the end of that, that means that we'll starting getting cooler gradually, not very rapidly, but cooler once again and stability might come to this region for a period of another 900 years."
This came as news to Deborah Williams, the president of Alaska Conservation Solutions, who deemed the senator's theory a "new one" that contradicted all previous findings of scientists studying global warming. "I have not heard of any credible climatologist who believes that the earth is going to cool. That the Earth would warm over three to seven degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century," she explained.
But, to give credit where credit is due, this is still a sharp turnaround for a senator who once vocally argued against the notion that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions contributed to global warming. Just don't listen to his "deliberations" on the actual science of climate change.
Via ::KTUU: Shishmaref feels heat of global warming (news website), ::Talking Points Memo: Ted Stevens: Worst of Global Warming Over (blog)
See also: ::Fred Thompson, Soon-to-Be GOP Candidate, on Climate Change, ::Evangelical Christian Leaders Urge Proactive Climate Solution
OK, so if anyone is starting a list, this guy has got to be on it. Leave the goofball end consumers who build giant houses and fly in private jets alone for the moment. People like this guy are the ones who are truly causing the most damage. He gives solace to those end consumers to keep on...consuming.
Isn't this the same guy who is being federally investigated for being corrupted by oil money interests? At least that is whay I read in The Economist. Him and some other top national Republican representative of Alaska in Congress.
Dig this story
in which case if he is being investigated for corruption by oil interests it makes perfect sense that he would come out with a statement like this, adding i would say more credibility to the corruption charges.
Uncle Ted seems to be getting a bit of scrutiny these days.
He was never know for his high degree of intelligence and it looks like he might be even stupider than many thought....
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004083.php
Ted Stevens is an idiot. Why you give him press is beyond me.
It's not a truck!
He should have a good time explaining his nutball theories to his fellow inmates in prison.
idiot should be slapped around with a bat with rusty nails sticking out of it.
LMAO! Another political idiot. Tells us about the people we vote into office.