God Help Kentucky

This level of ignorance takes real effort.  Two quotes from a TPM story by Caitlin Macneal below.  The first involves a claim from a state Republican lawmaker.

A Republican Kentucky state lawmaker and owner of a coal company last week used dubious claims about Mars to question the reality of climate change.

"I don't want get into the debate about climate change," state Sen. Brandon Smith said, according to Louisville NPR affiliate WFPL. "But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I'm aware of."

And lest you think that the crazy is confined to Republicans in Kentucky...

During the discussion, Democratic Rep. Kevin Sinnette assured everyone that the Earth will be fine since dinosaurs went extinct. 

"The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted. And to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there," he said, according to WFPL.

God help us all.

9 July 2014