One of my favorite canards is that conservatives are the mouth reathing morons of the world, while the liberals are the intellectual titans of the political world. I love it because of times like this. Eve Ensler, the author of “The Vagina Monologues,” was on The Joy Behar Show and dropped this bit of wisdom on the world:
ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn’t believe in global warming is bizarre.
BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in it.
ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis.
BEHAR: Right.
Um, yeah.
How exactly does a “surplus” of carbon dioxide contribute to the movement of tectonic plates? Because, according to these folks in white coats, it doesn’t:
Earth scientists believe that most earthquakes are caused by slow movements inside the Earth that push against the Earth’s brittle, relatively thin outer layer, causing the rocks to break suddenly. This outer layer is fragmented into a number of pieces, called plates. Most earthquakes occur at the boundaries of these plates.
And tsunamis are caused by Godzilla. We all know that.
Actually, earthquakes below the ocean surface cause tidal waves. Cue the graphic, via How Stuff Works:
In her defense, this isn’t the first time the whole “climate change is causing earthquakes” thing has been vomited out of the mouth of the intellectual left. Marxist Danny Glover said the earthquake in Haiti was caused by global warming.
DANNY GLOVER, ACOTR/ACTIVIST: That means that other countries in the region — Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba and other countries have already accepted the point that this is a great moment for another type of internationalism, you know.
And I hope we seize this particular moment because the threat of what happens in Haiti is the threat that can happen anywhere in the Caribbean to these island nations, you know?
They’re all in peril because of global warming; they’re all in peril because of climate change. When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m saying?
But we have to act now.
And the Guardian also said it:
Melting glaciers will set off avalanches, floods and mud flows in the Alps and other mountain ranges; torrential rainfall in the UK is likely to cause widespread erosion; while disappearing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets threaten to let loose underwater landslides, triggering tsunamis that could even strike the seas around Britain.
At the same time the disappearance of ice caps will change the pressures acting on the Earth’s crust and set off volcanic eruptions across the globe. Life on Earth faces a warm future – and a fiery one.
But Bush was the scare monger, remember?
And the right are a bunch of anti-science rubes…
Hat Tip: Ed Driscoll
