On Bill Maher Show: Rick Santorum Misleads About Climate

[greenman3610]

the Maher interview is here

analysis here
http://climatecrocks.com/2015/08/31/rick-santorum-demonstrates-the-technique-of-fake-science/

[MyOwnPeace]

1. Hmmmmm........

Think Pennsylvanians still wishes they had him as their senator?

[Plucketeer]

7. The sad thing is....

that while a majority of Pennsylvanians might NOT want Rick back, you can bet there's a fair number that do. We've got SUCH a load of uneducated (or Bible "educated&quot bozos in our populace that it's really hard to roll things out of the spotlight of ridiculum and into the floodlamp of reason.
I mean, we're into the TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY A.D. for shit's sake! Makes me wonder if A.D. doesn't stand for Adamant Dumbness!

I think it's a waste of resources to send humans to Mars and try to set up camp there. But if this folly does persist, those brave souls better hope they can indeed be self-sufficient. I say that because there's a fair chance they won't have a habitable Earth to return to.

[Jim__]

2. Excellent post. The only problem is that Santorum's claim on Maher will get more coverage ...

... than the truth presented in this video.

[Perseus]

4. Agreed...If there was a way to have Maher

invite Santorum back as well as the scientist who produced the report, that would be one way to get the coverage that is needed.

[Plucketeer]

8. That would be great!

Ideally, once they got to arguing about the survey results, Bill would've called this professor out of the shadows as a TOTAL surprise to Sanatorium. That's what needs to happen with these lie-spewing "I'm not a scientist" asshats - they need to have 3 or 4 scientists stand up during a GOPoliticians public appearance and say : We ARE scientists. And we say that climate change is REAL and man-motivated.

[marym625]

3. I saw this when it aired.

I had to walk out and have a smoke after his interview. It was disgusting. He changed what the supposed stats were as he was talking. He couldn't even remember what the lie was supposed to be.

I love how he ignored the question about the pope too.

How does ANYONE buy into his crap!?!?

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

5. I watched it, expecting exactly that

A rule of thumb I try to go by is that when Santorum, et al, appears on any broadcast or at any speaking engagement, anything/everything they utter is intentionally complete and unadulterated horse manure.

Paid liars following a script by any definition. Every damn one of them.

[zebonaut]

6. Santorum forgot there is this little Fact Checking thingie called the Internet

So Apparently Rick gets his Science from "Anonymous Bloggers"
No wonder its so bad

[tclambert]

9. Santorum is right! The 97% figure is bullshit. (Should be 99.994%.)

The 97 Percent Scientific Consensus on Climate Change Is Wrong—It’s Even Higher

. . . according to James L. Powell, director of the National Physical Sciences Consortium, who reviewed more than 24,000 peer-reviewed scientific articles on climate change published between 2013 and 2014.

Powell identified 69,406 authors named in the articles, four of which rejected climate change as being caused by human emissions.

. . . “The 97 percent is wrong, period,” Powell said. “Look at it this way: If someone says that 97 percent of publishing climate scientists accept anthropogenic [human-caused] global warming, your natural inference is that 3 percent reject it. But I found only 0.006 percent who reject it. That is a difference of 500 times.”

http://news.yahoo.com/97-percent-scientific-consensus-climate-change-wrong-much-211621750.html;_ylt=AwrBT88Wq.RVvooARahXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTByMHZ0NG9yBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM3BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--