CPAC and "Sound Science"
Last night, there was a beer tasting for the staff at Open City--yum! As the evening progressed there were more and more of those conservative conventioneers rushing Woodley Park for dinner options. There was a woman dressed as a polar bear in front of Murphy's--I'm uploading a pic now. Then she ended up in front of the OC and I wanted to know what she was doing there--protest, handing out free drinks, what was she doing?
Well, she's from CFACT: http://www.cfact.org/site/default.asp
Defenders of "real science." ("Obama is crippling energy development"). Seriously. They're upset that the UN ignores science--you know, the science that says global warming isn't caused by man and well, is really no big deal. OK.
The woman in a bear suit was really sad she had no literature for me to peruse, but she was happy to tell me about an experiment they did at the conference. I am not making this up. She said "We have a fish bowl with fish and ice cubes and measured the water level before and after the ice melted and there was no difference: ergo warming oceans do not rise." I was trying really hard to take the woman in a polar bear suit seriously and asked if she knew that Antarctica is a huge ice shelf on a huger mountain range and to compare the environment of the ocean to a gold fish bowl is utterly ridiculous and that I'm slightly offended by this. Then I asked her about eutrophication in the gulf of Mexico and the fish kills that low oxygen causes when the water temperature rise just one or two degrees. No, she hadn't heard of that. I was really digging in to this girl turned polar bear turned "scientist." And the lovingly crafted beer coursing through my veins kept me from shying away from this person. I asked her if there are two sciences--she said--I'm not making this up, my friends: "Science has more than one point of view." Can you believe that I didn't cut that bitch right then and there? My restraint is estimable.
And I said that the basis of science is peer reviewed articles and research. And that there is science and there is "not science" there are no "points of view." She goes on to say we can learn a lot from the environment from industry. I swear, she said this. Industry. Like how Industry taught us that mercury in the seeped into ground water from coal mining kills children. Or how if you fill the air with sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, then it rains acid. Thanks for the education, industry.
Then I noticed their sign--they had the damn nerve to put up a professional six foot tall sign inside the doors of the restaurant as though Open City endorsed her "real science" event. That's when I walked away and let the managers know about this bullshit that's being peddled--without endorsement--in our lovely restaurant.
We wrapped up the beer tasting just as Heather saw them out and away from the OC. After all, the sign was a fire hazard.
She should be dressed as a sith.
Well, she's from CFACT: http://www.cfact.org/site/default.asp
Defenders of "real science." ("Obama is crippling energy development"). Seriously. They're upset that the UN ignores science--you know, the science that says global warming isn't caused by man and well, is really no big deal. OK.
The woman in a bear suit was really sad she had no literature for me to peruse, but she was happy to tell me about an experiment they did at the conference. I am not making this up. She said "We have a fish bowl with fish and ice cubes and measured the water level before and after the ice melted and there was no difference: ergo warming oceans do not rise." I was trying really hard to take the woman in a polar bear suit seriously and asked if she knew that Antarctica is a huge ice shelf on a huger mountain range and to compare the environment of the ocean to a gold fish bowl is utterly ridiculous and that I'm slightly offended by this. Then I asked her about eutrophication in the gulf of Mexico and the fish kills that low oxygen causes when the water temperature rise just one or two degrees. No, she hadn't heard of that. I was really digging in to this girl turned polar bear turned "scientist." And the lovingly crafted beer coursing through my veins kept me from shying away from this person. I asked her if there are two sciences--she said--I'm not making this up, my friends: "Science has more than one point of view." Can you believe that I didn't cut that bitch right then and there? My restraint is estimable.
And I said that the basis of science is peer reviewed articles and research. And that there is science and there is "not science" there are no "points of view." She goes on to say we can learn a lot from the environment from industry. I swear, she said this. Industry. Like how Industry taught us that mercury in the seeped into ground water from coal mining kills children. Or how if you fill the air with sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, then it rains acid. Thanks for the education, industry.
Then I noticed their sign--they had the damn nerve to put up a professional six foot tall sign inside the doors of the restaurant as though Open City endorsed her "real science" event. That's when I walked away and let the managers know about this bullshit that's being peddled--without endorsement--in our lovely restaurant.
We wrapped up the beer tasting just as Heather saw them out and away from the OC. After all, the sign was a fire hazard.
She should be dressed as a sith.