From last night’s Democratic debate:
OBAMA: I will end the notion of Yucca Mountain because it has not been based on the sort of sound science that can assure the people in Nevada that they're going to be safe. And that, I think, was a mistake.Stupid scientists!
Now, you hate to see billions of dollars having already been spent on a mistake, but what I don't want to do is spend additional billions of dollars and potentially create a situation that is not safe for the people of Nevada. So I've already -- I've been clear from the start that Yucca, I think, was a misconceived project. We are going to have to figure out how are we storing nuclear waste.
And what I want to do is to get the best experts around the table and make a determination: What are our options based on the best science available? And I think there's a solution that can be had that's good for the country but also good for the people of Nevada.Save us, scientists!
CLINTON: Well, I voted against Yucca Mountain in 2001. I have been consistently against Yucca Mountain. I held a hearing in the Environment Committee, the first that we've had in some time, looking at all the reasons why Yucca Mountain is not workable. The science does not support it. We do have to figure out what to do with nuclear waste.Stupid scientists!
But you know, this [energy policy] is going to take a massive effort. This should be our Apollo moon shot.Save us, scientists!
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The funny thing is that most nuclear waste from reactors could be recycled and reused as new reactor fuel (like every other country on the face of the plant does) so they are right, but for the wrong reasons.
Most scientists agree that global warming is proven fact.
Stupid scientists!
But over here, we've found a few hundred who disagree.
Yayyyy, scientists!
"Most scientists agree that global warming is proven fact"
Citation?
The National Academy of Sciences. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The American Meteorological Society. The American Geophysical Union. The American Association for the Advancement of Science. The World Meteorological Organization. The Institute for Scientific Information. You know, crackpots.
No, no, when I mean "citation" I mean like this:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html
Global Warming: The Origin and Nature of the Alleged Scientific Consensus
Richard S. Lindzen
Richard S. Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Now, I'll concede that Dr. Lindzen was never Vice President and never hosted "Saturday Night Live." Give the guy a break.
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