Oh, and yesterday was my birfday. It was nice. I had sushi.

``This report presents the findings of the Committee’s investigation. The evidence before the Committee leads to one inescapable conclusion: the Bush Administration has engaged in a systematic effort to manipulate climate change science and mislead policymakers and the public about the dangers of global warming.



In 1998, the American Petroleum Institute developed an internal “Communications Action Plan” that stated: “Victory will be achieved when … average citizens ‘understand’ uncertainties in climate science … [and] recognition of uncertainties becomes part of the ‘conventional wisdom.’” The Bush Administration has acted as if the oil industry’s communications plan were its mission statement. White House officials and political appointees in the agencies censored congressional testimony on the causes and impacts of global warming, controlled media access to government climate scientists, and edited federal scientific reports to inject unwarranted uncertainty into discussions of climate change and to minimize the threat to the environment and the economy.''



http://oversight.house.gov/story.asp?ID=1653



Notice that the report is from the Congressional Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, not some random Bush-bashing nutter.



Is he just insanely stupid, or deliberately trying to bring about the "Rapture"? I still can't tell.

http://www.lyrics007.com/print.php?id=TlRRd09EWTE

``The short history of thermodynamics, with focus on the essential stepping stones that inherently functioned to stimulate modern thermodynamics, began with the arguments of the 5th century Greek philosopher Parmenides.



In his only known work, a poem conventionally titled 'On Nature', Parmenides uses verbal reasoning to postulate that a void, essentially what is now known as a vacuum, in nature could not occur. 0 :. 1



This statement was disproved conclusively, approximately two-thousand years later, when Otto von Guericke built a vacuum pump, which was used to affix together his famous “Magdeburg Hemispheres” that he so proudly displayed around Europe in the mid 17th century. Soon thereafter, stimulated into conception by von Guericke’s vacuum pump design, the steam engine was built. The rest is thermodynamic history.'' 1 :. 1



Hmmm... suppose von Guericke was wrong and his vacuum was only partial...



Suppose a world where Parmenides' conjecture that nothingness (:. change) is only illusion is correct and yet the steam engine still functions...



Hmmm... 1 :. 0?

From now on I'm calling in with a case of the who gives a shit.