Comments on: Clay Higgins: McCarthyism

By: The Inconceivably Bogus Republican Science Committee Hearings – Greg Laden's Blog

Wed, 05 Apr 2017 16:11:01 +0000

[…] of the more disturbing moments during the hearing was when Republican representative Clay Higgins asked Mike Mann if he was a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists. At first, I was surprised to hear the answer: “No.” Then, I realized, that if you are […]

By: SteveP

SteveP — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:37:55 +0000

Saw the video at the house Science and Technology Committee website. What a bunch of specimens. Judith Curry looks like she was on drugs or something. Is there something physically wrong with her? Right side of the face was a not totally in sync with the left it looked like. Representative Higgins was a complete thug. Freaking neanderthal. Rep. Rohrbacher got in Mann’s face for not giving the chairman, Lamar Snuffy Smith, enough respect. I was thinking maybe Dana was gonna have a stroke or something, he was really worked up, all because Michael Mann had the temerity to introduce an article from Science that pointed out something unflattering about Snuffy and his relationship with what I call the Heartworm Institute. One of the Republican dim wits, maybe Snuffy, said that Science and the Science writer who wrote the article were not reputable or something. Science is not a reputable “magazine”? Gee, that is the first I heard about that… coming from the party that prides itself in being led by total fucking liars, that is rich.. Total inquisition. Total farce.

On the good and hopeful side, Representative Bill Foster, with his PhD in physics, was brilliant. So was Elizabeth Esty who made that point that everyone on the panel agrees that humans affect the climate to some extent, and that we don’t need to have lost a house to a house fire to still want to buy home owners insurance, therefore, we need to heed the warnings of scientists about future risks that will result from not doing anything about climate change..

The Republicans should market themselves as appetite suppressants. Largely a bunch of unprincipled dimwits, owned by the fucking oil companies and special interest groups. They are an embarrassment to the nation..

Interestingly, Higgins did not get a great deal of money from the oil industry, but his largest identified source of money was ideological groups. He was elected by people who like a gorilla to represent them. Sad. Maybe he is actually representing the northern most province of Rinkydinkeraugua. Total effing thug.

By: dave s

dave s — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 08:50:34 +0000

Having watched the video of the event, Higgins was trying to build up to accusing Mann of hypocrisy by alleging that UCS supported use of RICO against fossil fuel companies supporting climate change denial– that claim seems to have come from denial blogs, the story in E&E reports a UCS statement that “Deception/disinformation isn’t itself a basis for criminal prosecution under RICO”: http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060037292

By: dean

dean — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:07:25 +0000

I didn’t mean to imply I doubted you – I meant to say I didn’t know what was in the video on that website since I didn’t watch the video.

This also seems relevant:

http://www.nationalmemo.com/5-deranged-conspiracy-theories/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:39:31 +0000

Dean, it was about both. I saw it with my own eyes, heard it with my own ears.

Since I don’t know much about CAI and I know something about UCS (and the latter is well known) that is the one I picked to mention. So, whatever longroom is, it is telling some sort of lie or half truth or something.

By: Wow

Wow — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:39:19 +0000

Mishear him.

“Oh, I thought you said CONCERNED sciencists”.

Or try “I can neither confirm nor deny”.

How about, to be topical “I could have just snuck into their meeting house and nobody would have seen me enter, but I didn’t”.

By: dean

dean — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:52:27 +0000

Added: according to the longroom site, the questioning was about “The Climate Accountability Institute?” and not the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Since I didn’t watch the video they posted (per my first post) I don’t know whether they are telling the truth.

By: Obstreperous Applesauce

Obstreperous Applesauce — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:51:58 +0000

Trump: Roy Cohn: McCarthyism
(among other disturbing things)

Possible title for another blog post:
Why Republicans Killed America.

By: dean

dean — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:48:52 +0000

A colleague from school sent me a link to what seems to be a website run by very despicable people (so I’m sure mikeN and rickA are familiar with it) called (typed so it won’t link)

longroom-dot-com

They seem to have video relating to this, titled

Warmist Michael Mann tells whopper at congressional science hearing?

so I’m pretty sure there is (or soon will be) video of the incident available from reputable sources before long.

(Not linking because these types of sites typically try to put all sorts of junk on your computer when you visit. Go to the site at your own risk. Just make sure you haven’t eaten right before you read their crap.)