re: #24 KerFuFFler

I went back and listened to the clip and his precise wording was

“…the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here and Mars doesn’t….”

He may have simply left out the word ‘changing’ after ‘Mars is’. He is not currently insisting that the temperatures are the same on the two planets so I think it is fair to call it a misstatement.

He is still a fool, but I like my side to fight fair———and again, it is more important to counter the argument he says he is making than to insist on only making fun of a glaring flub.

I’ll have to refer you to the video in Randall’s post at re: #3 Randall Gross and the fact that Sen. Smith is using Grist to double down on his Mars science:

But Smith seems to be really convinced by these photos of one spot melting on Mars. Here’s the response from Grist:

On Earth, we have poles melting, surface temperature rising, tropospheric temperatures rising, permafrost melting, glaciers worldwide melting, CO2 concentrations increasing, borehole analysis showing warming, sea ice receding, proxy reconstructions showing warming, sea level rising, sea surface temperatures rising, energy imbalance, ice sheets melting, and stratospheric cooling, all of which leads us to believe the earth is undergoing global warming driven by an enhanced greenhouse effect.

One Mars we have one spot melting, which leads us to believe that … one spot is melting.

Smith just CAN NOT admit that he is completely wrong.