Texas Senator Dan Patrick's 'God-Awful' Speech On Climate (VIDEO)

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On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, Texas Senator Dan Patrick (R) gave a speech to his supporters about climate change, which turns out to be a real revelation. Wow! I didn’t realize that President Obama thinks he’s the smartest person in the country. I also didn't realize that his use of the Constitutionally prescribed Presidential Executive Order (read, so, so, so many of them) shows the President thinks “Congress isn’t even up to his level.” I hadn’t realized that Congress was up to anyone’s level lately.

During the speech, Senator Patrick suggests that there has been meaningful scientific debate on the issue of climate change. He states, “If you want a tie breaker, if Al Gore thinks it’s right, you know it’s wrong.”
I suppose this passes for a meaningful conclusion, based on “facts.” Since 96 percent of Scientists say that climate change is happening, while 4 percent do not, how is that 'A TIE'?

Senator Patrick goes on to tell a dipsy-doodle anecdote about Al Gore’s presidential race, when, while in Texas, he was asked what he thought about the extinction of the Texas Eagle.  Mr. Gore replied that the Texas eagle is a beautiful bird, and he was sad to hear of its eminent extinction. (The joke being that the Texas Eagle was an Amtrak train on a route being eliminated.  I find it to be a leading question, though a pretty good anecdote.)

  Patrick says:

“When it comes to global warming…you know why he (Gore) is really behind global warming and climate change? Because he’s made billions of dollars in it.”

How does one make billions of dollars “in” global warming, or “in” climate change, for that matter? Patrick says;

“It’s a cottage industry for him.”

Huh?

Apparently, Patrick thinks that committing money to help stem the destruction predicted by 96 percent of the world's scientists will kill jobs. Apparently, he also thinks that committing funds to address the eminent problem will destroy our economy. Now, I’m not certain, but I don’t think the plan is to use those dollar bills to plump up sandbags.

I think Senator Patrick ought to start rowing. In the future, he may need to row himself back to the smaller habitable regions where people are figuring out a way to go on with their lives. He can then turn his rowboat upside down, stand on top of it, and proclaim in his folksy way that President Obama (who thinks he is God) thinks he knows better than Texans about what’s going on with climate change. The fun will be in hearing exactly how that helps Texans in the long run.

Does it need to clarified that it's not really President Obama or Al Gore even, who researched, authored or developed the data on climate change? It's not really the president or former vice president who think they know more than Texans. It's the people who study this stuff, you know, the experts, we like to call them Scientists. The tea party generally refers to them as the 'educated, elite people' who will never be on their side. Why is that I wonder?

God, who Patrick thinks has handled our climate pretty well, may not find Patrick very amusing, since he clearly has failed to act as a responsible steward to our Earth. Which makes me wonder… how will God view our abject failure to care for what He gave us? And how might He view the naysayers who have scoffed and chortled at the idea that humans have contributed to the problem?

It sure would be nice if some of these so-called Christians would take a moment to look at the future through something other than their dollar-colored glasses.

* Nicole is undecided about God, but feels certain that SHE would disapprove of all this posturing by the right.

Here's the video of Senator Patrick's God awful climate change speech,  from Raw Story.