Chip Cravaack Follows Out Of Date Climate Narrative
Republican politician Chip Cravaack is running to force James Oberstar out of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2010 congressional election. Unfortunately, the information that Cravaack uses to base his campaign agenda seems stuck back in 2009.
An example of Cravaack’s reliance on out of date information is found in his policy against taking action on climate change. Cravaack is still using a Republican criticism of climate science that was developed last year, as if nothing had changed. Cravaack says,
“Congressman Oberstar has voted in favor of the Cap and Trade bill. This bill, at the insistence of special interest groups, is based upon scientifically corrupt data and upon computer modeling of climate trends that have failed to accurately match observations, let alone predict future environments. On October 20th, 2009, the scandal now known as Climategate broke into international scrutiny. Essentially, the scandal marked a milestone in the decline of Anthropogenic Global Warming theology. Science long suspected of being loosely tethered to reality is now known to have been corrupt as well.”
“Climategate” was based upon a few stolen emails, which were then slectively edited, which indicated that a couple of scientists at a minor institution in one small corner of global warming weren’t conducting a proper analysis. It was a small ripple of unprofessionalism in a huge lake of research.
Nonetheless, climate researchers wanted to make sure that their models were accurate, so they conducted reviews of previously done research to determine whether the idea of anthropogenic (human-caused) global warming still held water. Both an American review by the National Academy of Sciences and an international review published by the American Meteorological Society found that evidence that global warming is mostly caused by human behavior has never been stronger.
Yet, Chip Cravaack insists that evidence for the human cause of global warming is in decline. He cites no research to support this position. Cravaack merely asserts his ideas without evidence.
Cravaack also suggests that the models of climate research don’t match reality. That’s true. Computer models of global warming, and other markers of climate change, have been too optimistic, underestimating the progress of change.
On climate science, Chip Cravaack has demonstrated himself to be out of touch and willfully ignorant. That’s not the kind of personality that the citizens of the 8th congressional district in Minnesota need to represent them in Congress.
as a life long democrat, steelworker, conserative, i can no longer support a radical left democratic party. I I didnt serve this country, to to promote abortion, gay marriage, illegal immagration.
Well, Paul, that comment is completely off-topic to this article, but I’ll bite.
Can you find me a Democratic candidate for Congress who is supporting “illegal immagration”? I can’t find a single one, myself.
As for the issues of abortion rights and expanding marriage in order to fit with the Constitiution’s demand for equality under the law, I think you’ll find almost all public opinion polls show that very large numbers of Americans support the left’s positions. They’re not radical left. They’re mainstream.
Other people’s constitutional rights have nothing to do with the decisions you have made about your individual career. Why did you bring them up? Do you think that steelworkers and ex-soldiers have more of a right to a political opinion than other Americans? That’s not how our country is supposed to work, Paul.
Besides that, did you know that there are gay steelworkers and soldiers?
We’re all on to that “I am a lifelong Democrat” crap/ You were never a democrat. And learn how to spell while you’re at it.
Immagration? Really. Countless studies show democrats are far more intellegent than republicans so there is my proof
The democrats continue to tell the lie as loud and as long as they can…thinking some idiots are going to believe it (53% of the American public did). They get so confused..”we are the party of the little guy”..”we are the party of the minorities”..”we are the party of the hard working union guy”…Then they try to pump this “we are smarter than you” bunk…when in fact the democrats, led by His Majesty Barack Obama, and all his media, academic, and entertainmnet enablers are the new “ruling class”..and have the same contempt for the “country class” as the European nobles did. They…Kerry, Dupont, Clinton, Obama, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, and many others are all millionaires…a couple are billionaires, yet we “the peasants” are supposed to watch our energy use, count our pennies…be “patriotic” and pay our taxes…no one believes these hypocrites anymore…no one..except all the gullible “demo”crites. If Republicans are supposed to be so “dumb” as the previous comment alleges, how is it that Demo-crites are so fearful and suspicious of them…why do they think the republicans are the “elite” when millions of Americans are waking to the fact that it is the Liberal elite that set the course while in power now? Are demo-crites so “smart” that they can’t pass legislation even with all three branches of power in their control? With a complicate media, and fawning entertainment class to act as propoganda and cheerleaders for the Administration?
So, Mr. Eyre..if you are so f*cking smart, Einstein…is “spelling” your only attribute? I know lots of people that can spell that are political neophytes…just look in the mirror…that should tell you all you need to know about “neophytes” ….I will be thinking just how smart you are this Novemebr when you hypocritical Dems have your political as*es handed to you because of your arrogant, un-American, sycophatic, bigoted, slanderous attitude toward Americans just because they don’t agree to your view of the world. Then, when your “Hope and Change” agent is run out of office in 2012 since his poll numbers are dropping like a set of car keys out a car window as even Dems learn to know what this clown is all about…I’ll remember just how “smart” you really are.
Oh yeah…as the author of this article clearly implies…if you don’t believe in Global Warming/Climate change…well…in addition to just being “wrong”..you are not “with it”…”hip”..”enlightened” ergo..you are “not as intelligent” as us (Dems)…the author sites the “evidence” is even more damaging..really? How about you site your sources. Within the scientific community, there is NO unified front on the question of alleged man made climate change. Back in the 70s, they (the “scientific priesthood”) was claiming we were on the verge of an Ice Age..well..what happened with that?
Al Gore…the High Priest of “Climate change” has been discredited every way to Thursday…yet he is awarded Noble Prizes..and Academy Awards. Mr. Cravaack, who, albeit, needs to site his sources, is now targeted by the author because he dares to go against the “elitist” grain..those same “elitists” who claim you must watch your “carbon” footprint all the while they jet around in Private planes, stay at 5 star hotels in Stockholm all in celebration of the Climate gurus..what a crock of sh*t!
Mr. Cravaack can do a google search to back his claim…unfortunately, the author can’t “google” away the increasing pessemism and skeptic nature of true scientific methodolgy by just saying “Cravaack” is wrong. He is right! Now he just needs illustrate it.
Hamlet, do you have any actual scientific studies to back up your assertions about climate change? You say Cravaak could do a Google search to find these studies. Could you find me just one peer reviewed scientific study?
It is, as you might know, difficult to prove a negative. (i.e…prove that man is not causing Global Warming)
The onus is on those who advocate that any climate change has been proven as “man-made”..there is lots of empirical data that shows “change”, but nothing supports the proof that it is Man that is causing it.. There is increased carbon emissions…there is a whole in the ozone layer…there is a population explosion, and a depletion of resources mounting…this is evidence of man’s impact…but does not unequivicolly mean “man causes climate change” anymore than billions of bovines and their gas emissions over 1000s of years is the cause….
I, and millions of other civilized, conscientious people do not beleive or are willing to alter the fundamental economic, political, and social fabric of the most prosperous nation in the world because there are people out there that “believe” with a religious fervor that “man” causes “climate change” It may be convenient for those on the left to tag the woes of the world regarding polution, climate change and economic free market progress on “man”, thus it fits a political agenda to “change”, but it is the pesky fact that NO proof exists that man is the cause…none!
http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
I wish folks don’t continue to beleive in that Global warning crap…Hamlet is right…and Cravaack is too.
These guys are running scared of Cravaak. Someone speaks a little common sense and they need to fall back on climate this and climate that. The fact is we air quality, water quality and how we use and re-use our resources has never been better than any time since the industrial revolution. I do not think you could find a single Democrat or Republican that would support a policy that would blatantly have a negative change on our earth. These guys want you look to the government to tell you how to tie your shoes in the morning when they are ones are not capable tightening their Velcro sneakers. Less policy is good policy.
Touche to Responsible. A ray of hope even. It seems that governmental paternalism has gained enough momentum to almost completely sterilize our society. Not that long ago kids grew up in small towns without fear even though there were no cell phones, no GPS monitoring, no ankle bracelets on bad guys, not even a registry of known sex offenders. We drank out of the hose, shared a can of pop, slept in the back window of a sedan without even knowing if there were seat belts. I even brought a gun to school and showed it to my principal. I sold it to a friend who lived out of town and because transportation was an issue, we did the transaction at school in front of the principal. He asked that the shotgun remain cased and put away for the entire day. Now, a student was expelled from a central MN high school for leaving a box cutter (razor blade utility cutter) on the seat of his car that was parked on school grounds. He explained that he worked at a grocery store cutting boxes and simply forgot about the school’s “no weapon” policy as he was running late and was scheduled to work right after school. He was an Honor student with no criminal record and was suspended for two weeks. When did this “sterilization” happen? When did a box cutter become operationally defined as a “weapon”? Isn’t a pencil or a compass (geometry class) just as dangerous? How about a baseball bat? I would rather be up against a box cutter myself. Worse….when did it become law that I have to wear a seatbelt in my SUV even though it has an airbag to promote my own personal safety, but the same laws don’t require children on school buses to wear seatbelts? I have a motorcycle endorsement, does that mean I’m exempt from the seatbelt law because I have a bike? The SUV without a seatbelt has got to be 1000 times safer than the bike. By law I don’t even have to wear a helmet on the bike. In fact, I don’t have to wear a shirt either. Back to the topic at hand…Policy. Mr. Cravaack, by the Gods, please give us back some levity. At the very least, be reasonable, consistent, and parsimmonous in making policy.
my wife & I will be voting for Chip! I believe in climate change! spring, summer, fall, winter. are humans responsible for Al Gore’s version NO, while I don’t believe we are, I also believe we should be monitoring what we do. Cap & Trade is just another rich people/corperate scam to many people have bought into it & allowed the scam to perpetuate
This is a list of 25 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, each of which establishes the properties of CO2 as a greenhouse gas: http://agwobserver.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/papers-on-laboratory-measurements-of-co2-absorption-properties/