Just Don't Say 'Global Warming'!

Sen. Carey Baker shifted in his seat as soon as the scientist started talking. The Eustis Republican put his face in his hand, shook his head, raised his eyebrows and whispered to Sen. Ted Deutch, a Democrat, seated next to him. Baker couldn’t stand it any more, this talk of global warming:

"Before I jump out of my seat," he said, stopping UF professor Stephen Mulkey from talking to a committee assembled to hear a Century Commission report. "I think this is very controversial."

Never mind Gov. Crist last week called global climate change "one of the most important issues that we will face this century." Global warming, Baker said, is controversial. And Century's guidelines are to "think long-term...without getting caught up in today’s controversies," and to "make recommendations based on factual data."

"I think what (Mulkey) is presenting is by no way considered fact," Baker said. The scientist said he wasn't especially surprised. But Deutch couldn't help poke a little fun. "Call me later," he called out to Baker after the meeting. "I want to have a word with you about Darwin."

Comments

Hooray for Carey Baker. Standing up for common sense and reality should not be mocked. Way to go!

[The South Tampa Stepford Democrat]

Baker is an evil man who must be taking money from the oil companies and probably teaching a Sunday school class that they should stone women taken in adultery and gay people too. Global warming is settled fact and those who doubt that it is settled fact, and the greatest threat to humanity in all human history, are prima facie stupid and probably evil and never listen to NPR and would shrivel up and die if they had to watch An Inconvenient Truth, which should be mandatory for everybody.

[Zhombre]

Global warming!
Global warming!

Oh it's gonna raise the ocean
'Cause CO2's an evil potion
If we don't get into motion
And follow Al Gore's notion

Global warming!
Global warming!
At night when you're sleepin'
Global warming comes a-creepin'
All around-ound-ound-ound!

I think I warmed the globe Saturday after I had a Grilled Stuft Burrito and 3 beers

The South Tampa Stepford Democrat-

A little bitter, are we? I think I know what you need!!

Ahhh....my old friend, the Sunday School hater. Lacking any knowledge or facts to defend his blind obedience to Al Gore, he once again throws a temper tantrum about Sunday School.

P.S. The debate is certainly over. All of the facts show that cycles of warming and cooling are completely natural and not linked to humans in any way! It's been going on for millions of years. Yeah, the debate is over, your side was wrong. Get over it.

But it was rude not to listen to the scientist. It is also arrigant to assume a scientist has nothing to teach you. Boo on both counts.

could someone pull this guys head out from his butt? what an idiot. and let's see - he's an expert? he's a scientist? and all these folks who claim its not a real factor in our world - you are mighty ignorant and the most selfish people living, and its your kind who vote and think its okay for lobbyist to write bills and laws.

maybe you all should pull your head out from your butt too.

[Susan S]

Denying global warming at this point is akin to claiming the world is flat. You people are laughable. I hate to be-labor the point, but if you would stop listening to Rush Limbaugh and Fox News, you might not make such fools of yourselves.

Actually, claiming that global warming is man-made is akin to calling the world flat. If you studied history, you'd know that the flat earth was common knowledge and those who knew differently were lambasted. Sound familiar?

Senator Baker is simply looking forward to the day when his Eustis home is ocean front.

This whole Century Commission is a bunch of baloney. The commission members are bunch of political hacks. Everyone is going to say "Great Findings & Great Recommendations!" -- and then proceed to do as they damn well want to do anyway. As one of the legislators said at today's meeting - "This report provides good political cover."

Yawn, as soon as the hollywood elite take up another "cause" global warming will be so 1994

Exactly 10:25.

Global warming and carbon footprints will one day go the way of the little red ribbon on the lapel.

Anyone remember the Time Magazine Cover Story, Monday, June 24, 1974 entitled "Another Ice Age?"

Oh, what's that you say? You don't remember the global cooling craze of the 1970's?

Don't worry, no one will remeber the global warming craze of 2007 either.

If this is a "controversial issue", as Senator Baker says it is..that means there are two sides to the argument, which has been demonstrated on this thread. If it is POSSIBLE....shouldn't we at least consider the consequences if those who believe global warming is real are correct? That is essentially the position taken by the Governor...if this is real, and there is evidence that it is, shouldn't be plan for the adverse effects...and if it is not real...so what...at least we considered the possibility in a thoughtful and responsible way..

Was Greenland ever green?

what scientific credentials does a republican state senator have? the average person can't believe these politicians when they speak about the state issues, let alone anything about science. baker is as big an idiot as the imbeciles on this blog that cheer him on. stupid people always tend to bully the bright ones. same situation here.

Carey Baker sells guns and served in Iraq. He is eminently qualified to discuss global warming and climate change.

I'd say that a Republican Senator has at least as many credentials as an over-weight, delusional ex-politician who thinks he invented the internet.

[moderate]

So just because he's a Scientist means he's right?

I'm pretty sure you could have got a pretty strong consensus from scientists in the 1600s that leaching was the next best thing since sliced bread.

[Will]

12:02, Greenland was in fact mostly green between 1100 and 1300 AD, when the earth was NATURALLY 3 degrees fahrenheit warmer than today's global temperature.

Ssshhh, dont tell the liberals, they prefer the Al Gore Hockeystick global temp graph, as opposed to the real graph that shows that temps continuously go up and down over time.

I thought “Global Warming” was just another term for wearing underwear.

Iceland was also a farming area.

For a level-headed common-sense view of all this go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9005566792811497638&q=the+great+swindle

How arrogant are liberals to believe that man alone can control the climate.

They forget that nature has done a fine job of controlling things and compensating for changes or that the climate, and the netire earth for that matter, is constantly changing. We've had ice ages before, we will have them again...must be a crushing blow to the libs to know they don't have the power...

During the ice age, I hope that we apply the "global warming" strategies we're learning now...Unbelievable! How are humans also raising the temp on Mars? Global warming is a solar event not a human one...

10:52 - it's the Mars rover.

Man (i.e., Americans) are to blame for that. The slightest thing man (i.e., Americans) do affects everything around us. Haven't you heard?

When 8:24 ate his burrito and drank his three beers and warmed the earth with his flatulents, like the butterfly that flaps his wings and causes a typhoon, 8:24 caused a massive tidal wave killing hundreds in India.

His arrogance, along with yours and ours, will be our undoing. And now we're spreading it to other planets.

How stupid is it to know that we pump billions of tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere and think it has no effect on the climate?

Your greed may trump politics but it cannot trump science.

Why is CO2 now considered a pollutant when it was not in the 1970s?

[Maverick]

12:34

Dammit, don't bring common sense into this.

12:34,
Right on! And why is nicotine so bad for us now when it was OK in the 50's? Plus, why CAN'T we have cocaine in Coke anymore? Next thing them activist scientists will tell us is that leeches ain't a cure for gout. It's a liberal conspiracy, I tell ya.

Idiot.

[Paul D. Harvill]

"Before I jump out of my seat," he said, stopping UF professor Stephen Mulkey from talking to a committee assembled to hear a Century Commission report. "I think this is very controversial."

.......

In other words, education is still needed for some.

Baker is at least as smart as Goober on the Andy Griffith show. He is a Goober. Or was he as smart as Gomer. Shazaaaam! and Gollie!

10:32 He is a homely looking guy too. UGG!

[Maverick]

Yeah, and if Baker was carrying the "global warming is caused by man" flag, the lefties would be saying how courageous he was.

Just b/c someone doesn't buy the "global warming is caused by man" argument, the left wants to have a closed mind on the subject. The left wants open discussion on the things that they believe in, so long as you don't impugn their beliefs. Same is true for very far right. But the left want you to shut up and restrict your First Amendment rights if you disagree with them...not necessarily the case coming from the right.

It's a simple fact: humans do not (and could not, even if they wanted to) have ANY impact on the climate whatsoever.

I know fat Albert Gore invented the internet, flunked out of divinity school, raised hundreds of thousands from Budhist monks who take a vow of poverty, cites John 16:3 as his favorite Bible verse and burns more fossil fuels per year than I will in my lifetime. I understand how that makes him such a credible expert in the minds of you liberals, but good Lord, how do people buy this crap?

[FOX 13 doesnt necessarily think so...]

Yes, its intolerance from the party of tolerance. Bunch of hypocrites. Excuse me, I have to drive my oversized SUV to work now.

On Gore's website, there is a Carbon Calculator to estimate how many tons you emit per year. Unfortunately, it does not go high enough to even put in Mr. Gore's utility bill, so....

Anyway, I scored a 27.05 Tons (far above the supposed 7.5 ton average. My goal is to raise that to 30 tons by next year, just to tick off you libs.

[Will]

Holy crap man, that is huge. I just scored 7.65, and my wife scored a 7.85. So we are average, yet we conserve bigtime. I think the avg must include poor, homeless, and illegals who have 6 people living in one small house.

[Porch Cracker]

Question... If Al Gore is so worried about global warming.... why didn't he do anything about it while in the white house for 8 years?