This nonsense is going to continue.

There are too many vested interests for the noise to not settle down. What truly shocks and appalls me though is that some years ago, both parties had the good sense to keep politics separate from science.

There was a period after the second world war where the science was the science and scientists advised Washington. The scientists might not have always been listened to, but the congress critters and presidents never had the nerve to try to tell the scientific community what science was.

After the war, it was understood that the side with the best scientists won. With the space race and the cold war this was even more strongly reinforced. It took the GOP alliance with the religious right to bring that down.

The GOP is largely to blame for bringing back the notion that science is up to a vote by politicians.

No science can ever be decided by what is popular. It tells us all sorts of things that we sometimes do not want to hear.

The real problem is that now, science is something that the average jackass on the street feels he can expound upon whether or not he has looked inot it or even knows the most basic parts of it. OK that is fine, perhaps there were always fools like that, but the political parties once had the sense to be above that and not pander to it.

Not so anymore. The thinking really is that they can make the science go away. But, I have to wonder what the heads of the GOP are really thinking. They can’t all be that stupid. Surely they have to realize that the science community is not lying, while the special interest groups in the energy industry are clearly biased. Surely the heads of the GOP have to realize that the science really will not just go away and that the warnings are dire.

So how can they possibly go on and deny the science so vociferously?

The only possible explanation is that the GOP really is that craven and that evil that they really don’t care. Perhaps they think that they need to just win now and when the problems come, the scientists will fix things magically. But we keep telling them that we won’t be able to, that once the ball starts rolling enough, there is nothing we can do.

No. Arrogance, foolishness and stupidity. The GOP deserves to be castigated utterly.

The Dems a little less, because they acknowledge the science, yet still can’t seem to find the courage to take real action. In the long run, the Dems will be cast as they always are - a bit better ont eh science, but too weak and divided and lacking focus to do their jobs. The GOP will be seen as the obstructionist and opportunist party of fools who made it impossible for America to act in time.

And a curse on both of them.