Ben Carson Not Convinced on Global Warming

[pangaia]

Source: BLOOMBERG

Ben Carson is a man of science. That doesn't necessarily mean that he believes in global warming.

"There's always going to be either cooling or warming going on," the potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate said in an interview this weekend in Des Moines, Iowa. "As far as I'm concerned, that's irrelevant. What is relevant is that we have an obligation and a responsibility to protect our environment."

Carson, a retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon, often talks about his medical background and science during his speeches. Pressed on the fact that the bulk of the scientific community believes the Earth is indeed warming, Carson pivoted. "You can ask it several different ways, but my answer is going to be the same," he said. "We may be warming. We may be cooling."

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-11-26/ben-carson-not-convinced-on-global-warming?cmpid=yhoo

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I think this guy--
1- needs some brain surgery himself.
2- Would be an excellent republican presidential candidate. He is nuts.

[shenmue]

1. Planet Earth not convinced about Ben Carson

[Fred Sanders]

2. "I may be sane, I may be insane, no way of telling, and it is irrelevant." And he is a candidate for

........what??

He is talking to the Fox crowd, these kind of fuckers need to be hit over the head with the reality of science at every opportunity.....look at the idiocy that ensues.

[Skittles]

3. big surprise

the man is a repuke tool

[BlueJazz]

4. Makes perfect sense. I've never believed in people of science But I DO...

...believe what a group of semi-illiterate goat headers supposedly wrote 2000 years ago.

[MrModerate]

5. I'm not convinced on . . .

. . . whether Carson is suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

I think the jury is still out and the science is uncertain.

[MrModerate]

6. I'm not convinced on . . .

. . . whether Carson is suffering from bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

The jury is still out and the science is uncertain.

[Turbineguy]

7. You can't run as a republican

unless you don't "believe" in global warming.

They are on the wrong side of Pascal's Wager.

[Jack Rabbit]

8. Note to Dr. Carson

Dear Dr. Carson:

Thank you for your interest in the position of President of the United States.

We are still looking a suitable match for the position, but we do not feel your views on climate science are compatible with the qualifications of the position that you seek.

Thanks again for you interest and good luck in the future.

/s/
Jack Rabbit
American Citizen

[dballance]

9. How on earth did this person advance to where he did professionally?

I don't understand how such a person could have hidden his views about creationism and other subjects such as global warming for his entire career.

He must really be one of the most talented surgeons in the OR to have gotten as far as he did while still holding such retrograde views.

[pangaia]

33. I don't think there is necessarily a correlation.

My dentist is about 60, member if the Rotary, and a died in the wool conservative. So is his son who also practices in the same office. With 3 dental hygienists, 3 assistants and 3 office help/He is NOT hurting for money, let's put it that way.

I will say, after removing a tooth he said I should have an implant. at... $3500 !!!. I told him I can't afford it. He said....I could put it on my credit card. Right, Dr. Ben. I can't afford something so just put it on my credit card... YUP ! He IS a very nice guy and I like him, but, as you can see. he just doesn't get it.

Problem is, he is very good.
Although I know a better dentist in Qingdao, China. :&gt )

[valerief]

10. I'm not convinced Carson isn't a cyborg and thus unable to have sound judgment.

But that's my opinion based on all the same scientific evidence Carson is using to discount climate change.

[Raul Hernandez]

11. Ben Carson needs to forget how to breathe....

Someone knock him unconscious and order that Dr. Carson perform a lobotomy while unconscious...

[ErikJ]

12. He's a Koch tool. His hypocrisy invalidates everything he says

He and his family were given every govt aid available. Medicare, food stamps, welfare, housing, affirmative action yet he is demonizing those "liberal entitlements that keep the black man down'...and that gave him a chance to become a neurosurgeon.

[groundloop]

13. Climate scientists don't pretend they know neurosurgery.....

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Why in hell does a neurosurgeon think he has a fucking clue about climate science? Somewhere around 95% of all meteorologists and climate scientists agree on the basic facts of climate change, that's an amazing degree of agreement among experts in their field. The two loudest opponents of climate change who claim to be "experts" are an economist and neurosurgeon, hardly anyone I'd expect to have a clue on the subject.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

17. And most the 5% have some financial interest in

saying GW doesn't exist, or it does exist, but not caused by humans.

[GeorgeGist]

14. Too many bad drugs.

[SoapBox]

15. Well, Mr. Puke, whatever it is...

Stop making it fucking worse!

And there may be historical heating and cooling (over an eyelash of time, that we have lived through) BUT can humans live through it now, since we would seem to be making it even more extreme.

My number one item of how man is making things worse...and no Puker will ever convince me of anything different...all those thousands of aircraft, flying in the high altitudes, 24/7, spewing out super heat (and exhaust)...that will never make things any better.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

16. To quote the endearing rascal, Bugs Bunny...

What a maroon!

[rpannier]

19. He's more than that

What a ta-rah-rah-goon dee-ay
What an ultra-maroon
What an em-be-zel

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

25. And a bunch of words not suitable for Saturday morning TV!

[rpannier]

18. I'm not convinced he's really Ben Carson

I've read and seen things that suggest he's really an imposter, possibly a clone

See... anyone can make-up stupid things and say/write them
Where's my check for a gazillion dollars

[blkmusclmachine]

20. I've already seen a Ben Carson 2016 bumpersticker in Ft. Worth, Texas.

[Ken Burch]

22. ...where they might elect him president...

...but they still wouldn't let him go out with their daughters...or use their bathroom.

[Ken Burch]

21. Ben Carson not convinced by reality. n/t.

[FiveGoodMen]

38. Reality is reportedly rethinking its position in order to accommodate Ben Carson

NOT

[Cha]

23. And, exposes himself as the pandering toolbag he is. Next?

[madville]

24. I thought we had discarded "global warming"

In favor of "climate change"? That way if it cools,warms, more weather, less weather, whichever way, it can all be attributed to man made climate change.

I don't know or care who Carson is, but evidence shows we are in the midst of a warming trend so technically there is "global warming". Is his debate that it is not man made? In a century or two could our descendants see significant cooling? Sure I guess.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

26. Some people prefer "climate change".

But only because the RW nutsacks kept saying: "it's 20 degrees outside and we just got dumped on by 3 feet of snow... WHAT global warming!???"

I always use GW just to hear their moran-ness. 😄

[Archae]

28. Enjoy your stay, Troll.

TS'ing in 3-2-1...

[Major Nikon]

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[Gothmog]

30. Ben Carson is an idiot

I am not impressed with this idiot

[JoePhilly]

31. He's probably not sure about "global roundness" either.

[Stellar]

32. Poor dear...

he's not convinced that he black either.

[pangaia]

34. What does black have to do with it?

[Stellar]

39. Oh, I should remember that mentioning color for any reason....

can p/o some people. Sorry, I was just being facetious.

[pangaia]

40. It did not P me O.

[Stellar]

41. If you say so...enough said.

[olddots]

35. he should play Dr.Strange in the upcoming film

[VA_Jill]

36. Dr. Ben Carson

is a pediatric neurosurgeon. That does not mean he knows ANYTHING whatsoever about ANY other branch of science!

[booley]

37. Honestly who cares?

His opinion has nothing to do with science. This isn't even his field of knowledge. And simply put the science doesn't care if one particular person believes or not.

When the hell did being an ignoramus qualify one to speak on a subject?