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Scott Wagner Explains Climate Change: 'We're Moving Closer to the Sun'

posted by on Saturday April 01 2017, @05:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the sounds-logical dept.

mrpg writes:

Scott Wagner is an American businessman and state senator from the state of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Republican Party. What did he say?

"I haven't been in a science class in a long time, but the earth moves closer to the sun every year-you know the rotation of the earth," Wagner, a York County state senator, said, according to StateImpact Pennsylvania. "We're moving closer to the sun."

He added, according to StateImpact's Katie Meyer, that, "We have more people. You know, humans have warm bodies. So is heat coming off? Things are changing, but I think we are, as a society, doing the best we can."

I haven't been in a science class in a long time...

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Soylentbob on Saturday April 01 2017, @09:24AM

    by Soylentbob (6519) on Saturday April 01 2017, @09:24AM (#487542)

    I just looked for it, thinking this was a well-known enough meme to easily find a good selection of quotes. I think it is a key-phrase especially among the republicans. They

    * spill whatever nonsense fits their agenda
    * while keeping indemnified in case they are proven wrong
    * and also serving the sentiment against elitists having too much influence

    It is a cultural problem. People, be proud of your education! Not necessarily on your title (it is not always an accurate indicator of knowledge and expertise), but start to embrace knowledge, start paying respect to those having knowledge to encourage others building it up, and stop believing any phrase starting with "I'm not an expert, but".

    If someone has a nice collection of phrases fitting the meme, I'd be grateful to have it for future reference. I don't care if it references mainly liberals, republicans, Europeans, Russians or Americans.

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