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(14,177 posts)Republicans are proof he is wrong on both counts. They are an infinite source of hot wind.
Rex
(65,616 posts)with three brain cells desperately clinging to life.
Bagsgroove
(231 posts)"I don't know which is more disturbing, the statement or the fact that people actually voted for this idiot."
(If Neil deGrasse Tyson didn't actually say this, he should have.)
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)bulloney
(4,113 posts)Barton was the goof who apologized to the BP chief at a Senate hearing on the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster created by BP.
I agree with an earlier post in that I don't know if the statement is more disturbing, or the fact that millions of people actually voted for this cretin.
eridani
(51,907 posts)quaker bill
(8,224 posts)so he can understand how small we are.
A typical hurricane releases the equivalent energy of Hiroshima size nuke every minute for more than a week. Even then it represents only a tiny fraction of the total wind energy on the planet.
Now when we get technology that can snuff a hurricane out and put the energy into the grid, I might begin to be concerned.