An hysterical guy named Joe, writing over at Salon, states bluntly that
Anti-science conservatives must be stopped
Americans must not allow global warming deniers to block the policies needed to avert catastrophic climate change. Our future is at stake.
The way this guy foams at the mouth makes me glad that my rabies vaccination's up-to-date. This is the latest example of a demented religious fundamentalist, waving AlGore's bible "Earth In The Lurch" while beet-facedly exhorting the faithful to cast out the unbelievers, the heathen, those who have forsaken the Path.
And of course, he's completely wrong.
Conservatives in general are not anti-science; they are anti-masquerade. We're opposed to those who claim science as a mantle by which government expansion, restrictions to human freedom, and the systematic robbing of people of their resources - both financial and real - may somehow be justified.
We recognize that cycles of warmth and of cooling are systemic in the sense that all planets in our solar system are influenced by solar cycles of activity and quiescence, and we reject the unproven and increasingly untenable hypothesis that atmospheric carbon dioxide, generated by human activity, can exert any significant effect upon such natural cycles. We further reject the corrolary hypothesis that human activity is capable of modifying the effects of such natural cycles.
If anything, conservatives are far more interested in viewing the sciences from a dispassionate perspective, which is how sciences progress. It is not conservatives that one sees, shouting spittle-laden invective and demanding that the "unbelievers" be put to the torch.
Quite the contrary: the terror is uniformly derived from the Left. Intolerance is a uniquely Leftist phenomenon, which is all the more amusing because these same individuals self-identify as "progressive". If anything, they are incredibly regressive, as they demonstrate on a daily basis.
