OK sir, but the thing about that is our data came from actual examination, while yours came straight out of your asshole, our data is correct, and yours is known to be insanely wrong by any 3rd grade science class.
Your ignorance of science and fact would be simply a personal failing, if only you weren't in a position of power, sadly you ARE a roll model with thousands of idiots emulating you. Move to Mars you moron, and please take your idiots with you before I hear one try to tell me how warm Mars is and I accidentally rip his head open to see if it's really empty.
Just wow, how do these people get elected?!? IQ just doesn't enter into it, does it?

"we in academia"???

WOW just WOW! Their own data and constituents? Who the hell is relating the temp on mars to the temp on earth?! It still amazes me that people like this get put into positions of authority over stuff that have no flippin clue about!

Does this not deserve a *fail?
(cue Sifty being a dick)

Invocations (fail) cannot be called by newtboy because newtboy is not privileged - sorry.

"There are two major reasons why the climate on Mars is hostile to life as we know it. Temperatures on Mars can dip down to -87 degrees C, and rarely get above 0 degrees C. But the biggest pressure is the lack of an atmosphere. The atmosphere of Mars is less than 1% the thickness of Earth’s atmosphere. Furthermore, it’s made up of 95% carbon dioxide – this is poisonous to breathe."

Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/22603/mars-compared-to-earth/

It deserves an epic *fail.

Adding video to channels (Fail) - requested by ChaosEngine.

I think the my favorite part is how is ignorance is really only matched by his arrogance... 'we in academia'.

If i don't laugh... i'm going to cry.

His source data: NASA Archives, 23488-32

America, by the retards for the retards...

ROTFLMFAS! Kudos sir.

You see in any other line of work this type of public humiliation and discrediting of your office and company would get you fired....
But nooooooo not for public representatives !

Primus inter pares yeah right... in stupidity ?

You must have submitted that comment in error.

The senator clearly said, "Nobody will dispute that," so either you're completely wrong or...


or he's an ignorant dipshit who has deluded himself into believing whole-heartedly in make-believe scientific facts he fabricated out of whole cloth.

Which is more likely? I'll let you decide.

Must be nice to have your own data and your own version of reality where everything's batshit crazy.

Is he trying to say that the temp on Mars has been raising at the same rate? I haven't seen such data, but it does deserve a little more context before everyone hops aboard the hate train.

I'm pretty sure he meant to say that the temperatures on Mars are *raising* exactly as they are here. That's an incredibly common argument against man made global warming. He left out one incredibly important word, but I can chalk that up to simply misspeaking rather than being completely oblivious about science.

He could still be wrong, of course, but let's not take things out of context and attack him for stumbling a bit over words (assuming that's what this is). If we do that, then only people who are excellent with words will ever be elected. I would like to see more scientists and engineers elected, and in my experience they stumble over words more often than most.

Maybe that is what he meant to say. Maybe it is a common argument against climate change. It is still incorrect. You could have easily determined this for yourself with a simple question on any search engine. Your eagerness to give this man the benefit of the doubt before researching the topic at hand suggests you have more interest in apologetics than the truth.

Even if that is what he meant, he's still just as wrong. It doesn't matter what he meant, he made up his 'data' and believes that because most Faux viewers will agree with him, his made up 'data' is therefore just as valid as actual data.
He claims to speak for 'academia', while he seems to have not taken a basic high school science class. He makes completely ridiculous statements, then falsely claims 'no one will disagree' as if that validates his insanity.
Jumping on the hate train and pushing the throttle to MAX. Idiots like this need ridiculing and lambasting, or apologists will confuse the issue and leave his insanely wrong statements as 'facts' in his constituents minds, massively contributing to the dumbing down of America and making actual discussion of facts impossible. Worse, he's on the committee for natural resources and the environment while exhibiting a complete lack of knowledge about either, and has a 'following' of constituents that will quote him, giving credence to his argument in their minds, then he'll quote them, further solidifying his position and pretending they 'corroborate' his insanity.

Hate-a-hate-a-hate-a-hate-a, hate-a-hate-a-hate-a-hate-a-, hate-a-hate-a-hate-a-hate-a-, HATE HATE!

Good luck humanity!