Why Does Ed Markey Lie to Children?
Written by Sam on July 13th, 2008A top Democrat told high school students gathered at the U.S. Capitol Thursday that climate change caused Hurricane Katrina and the conflict in Darfur, which led to the “black hawk down” battle between U.S. troops and Somali rebels.
Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of the House (Select) Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee, also equated the drive for global warming legislation with the drive for women’s suffrage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
But one global warming expert from the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) told Cybercast News Service that such a remark reveals Markey’s ignorance on the subject of global warming.
“In Somalia back in 1993, climate change, according to 11 three- and four-star generals, resulted in a drought which led to famine,” said Markey.
“That famine translated to international aid we sent in to Somalia, which then led to the U.S. having to send in forces to separate all the groups that were fighting over the aid, which led to Black Hawk Down. There was this scene where we have all of our American troops under fire because they have been put into the middle of this terrible situation,” he added.CNS News
I guess the climate change faithful have become so desperate in their quest to convince others of their beliefs, despite a rising resistance against this junk science, that they just pull stuff out of their asses now and don’t even bother trying to get a scientific opinion. What other reason could Ed Markey have for blatantly lying to a group of 25 high school students? Is he so lacking on actual accomplishments in Washington that he must resort to fear mongering to keep getting reelected?
But Myron Ebell, director of Energy and Global Warming Policy at CEI, told Cybercast News Service that Markey’s remarks reveal his ignorance about the science of global warming.
“Yes, that part of the world is subject to drought at times, but it has very little to do with global warming,” said Ebell. “It is subject to drought whether the global average temperature is going up, down, or staying the same. To say you know the conflict was caused by global warming is to show how really ignorant you are of the scientific issues involved.”
The students who testified at the event, most of whom had lived in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, described the difficulties they faced after the storm and blamed global warming for the disaster.
Of course they blamed global warming for it! Our children have been getting brainwashed into becoming believers for several years now. They are being taught in schools and by left wing politicians and presidential candidates that man made climate change is an indisputable fact and every single disaster that happens on the planet is a result. Schools around the nation show Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” as if it’s a legitimate scientific documentary.
As time has gone on the growing absurdity of claims have become comical, like those by Congressman Markey here. I believe it’s the result of rising skepticism due to reality not coinciding with their claims. 2008, for instance, was one of the coldest winters on record. This is visible in the believers’ slow shift from “global warming” to “climate change.”
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This is really infuriating for another reason. If any of you have read the actual book “Black Hawk Down”, there is a better, more detailed description of why those boys went down that day. The rangers requested tight air cover from AC-130 gunships, the kind that hang in the sky and rain down hell from close range. Bill Clinton thought that was “too big of a presence”, so he denied the coverage even though the generals wanted it. So, the rangers had to carry out the mission with almost no close air support, which would have eliminated most of the threats that were present that day. Another terrible anti-military decision that Clinton never got adequate credit for. And another example of liberal stupidity costing us lives.
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Stop being so proud Dave, we had chances to get Bin Laden and blew it.
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Yes, like in the spring of 1996 when President al-Bashir of Sudan offered the Clinton Administration bin Laden, but Clinton’s brain trusts kindly passed with the only demand that he be extradited out of Sudan? When the Saudis refused to take custody of bin Laden, he was on a plane for Afghanistan. Amazingly, the terrorist analysts in the Clinton Administration made a miscalculation on Saudi Arabia; they thought the House of Saud, who is the great benefactor of Wahhabist causes, would behead the bastard responsible for plotting and conducting terrorist acts within the Kingdom. Such an action, however, would destabilize the détente they have been conducting with these radical imams for over 250 years.
John Adams stated during his defense of the British soldiers during the trials following the Boston Massacre, “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” I hardly think Dave is “proud” that American lives have perished; he is simply pointing out the FACTS. The facts, whether illustrated by the “Black Hawk Down” fiasco, the bungled handling of Sudan’s offer to turn over UBL, or the responses to the terrorist attacks on our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and the USS Cole, clearly dictate that the Clinton Administration and other liberal policies concerning the conduct of our response to terrorism (i.e. prosecuting terrorists in US Courts) failed terribly at grasping and responding to the global terrorist threat. What seems to be more infuriating to the “pride” of many of us, the left and a potential Obama Administration want to revert back to this pre-9/11 thought and failed approach that directly resulted to nearly 3000 American deaths on 9/11.
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Thanks GPK. Liberals are slow learners.