Saturday, October 19, 2013 8:17:14 PM
Steve Stockman’s Resentment of Knowledge: Earth Day Edition
Monday, April 22, 2013 Comments(22)
Houston-area Congressman and exemplar of know-nothing conservatism Steve Stockman has done virtually nothing for his district. On the upside for Stockman, though, he has made a great deal of headway in drawing attention to himself.
So what’s Stockman up to on a busy Earth Day?
Well, he’s not doing anything for the people of the 36th Congressional District, that’s for sure. Instead, Stockman and Donny Ferguson (his blogger/Twitterer) are trying to draw attention to themselves by being flippant and dismissive of the challenges facing the country and the world because of global climate change:
Not a big surprise. Stockman denies .. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/steve-stockman-james-hansen_n_3015463.html .. that global, man-made climate change is real. Referring to the Earth, Stockman once said that its best feature is that “if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out.” In 2009, Stockman called global warming a “new fad thing.”
As you might expect of someone who says such colossally stupid things, Stockman is not a scientist. Not being an expert and having views so entirely at variance with — literally — 97% of the world’s experts on the subject .. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus , you might expect Stockman to be a little less strident in his anti-environmental views.
But you’d only expect that if he was interested in being a legislator and having the nation’s best interests (rather than his own) at heart. That’s not Stockman’s style. He’s more interested in being a right wing circus monkey who views his two year term in Congress as an extended audition for a regular gig with Fox.
But since for now he’s still a public servant on the taxpayers’ payroll and all, maybe a reporter will find the time to ask Stockman what he knows that 97% of the world’s climate scientists don’t. After all, if Stockman or his blogger friend have information which has somehow escaped 97% of the world’s climate scientists, they’re in line for a Nobel Prize. They should probably spit it out and head over to Oslo.
Not that it could possibly be true, but maybe some reporter could also ask whether the tens of thousands of dollars Stockman gets from the oil and gas industry .. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005918 .. has done anything to influence his views or whether he just naturally resents people who know more than he does. If it’s the latter, he must be a very preoccupied guy.
http://blog.chron.com/partisangridlock/2013/04/steve-stockmans-resentment-of-knowledge-earth-day-edition/
Monday, April 22, 2013 Comments(22)
Houston-area Congressman and exemplar of know-nothing conservatism Steve Stockman has done virtually nothing for his district. On the upside for Stockman, though, he has made a great deal of headway in drawing attention to himself.
So what’s Stockman up to on a busy Earth Day?
Well, he’s not doing anything for the people of the 36th Congressional District, that’s for sure. Instead, Stockman and Donny Ferguson (his blogger/Twitterer) are trying to draw attention to themselves by being flippant and dismissive of the challenges facing the country and the world because of global climate change:
Not a big surprise. Stockman denies .. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/04/steve-stockman-james-hansen_n_3015463.html .. that global, man-made climate change is real. Referring to the Earth, Stockman once said that its best feature is that “if you poke holes in it oil and gas come out.” In 2009, Stockman called global warming a “new fad thing.”
As you might expect of someone who says such colossally stupid things, Stockman is not a scientist. Not being an expert and having views so entirely at variance with — literally — 97% of the world’s experts on the subject .. http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus , you might expect Stockman to be a little less strident in his anti-environmental views.
But you’d only expect that if he was interested in being a legislator and having the nation’s best interests (rather than his own) at heart. That’s not Stockman’s style. He’s more interested in being a right wing circus monkey who views his two year term in Congress as an extended audition for a regular gig with Fox.
But since for now he’s still a public servant on the taxpayers’ payroll and all, maybe a reporter will find the time to ask Stockman what he knows that 97% of the world’s climate scientists don’t. After all, if Stockman or his blogger friend have information which has somehow escaped 97% of the world’s climate scientists, they’re in line for a Nobel Prize. They should probably spit it out and head over to Oslo.
Not that it could possibly be true, but maybe some reporter could also ask whether the tens of thousands of dollars Stockman gets from the oil and gas industry .. http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00005918 .. has done anything to influence his views or whether he just naturally resents people who know more than he does. If it’s the latter, he must be a very preoccupied guy.
http://blog.chron.com/partisangridlock/2013/04/steve-stockmans-resentment-of-knowledge-earth-day-edition/
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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