Paul B. Farrell is a raving swivel-headed loon

Paul B. Farrell? He is the author of this article at the Wall Street Journal:

GOP science deniers threaten U.S. national defense
I’m mad as hell. The GOP used to be the party of national defense. No more. What happened? In 2003 Bush launched the Iraq War to “defend our freedom.” Flash forward: Last week 227 of 231 GOP members of the House voted to turn the Pentagon into climate-science deniers, a decision certain to weaken national security. That’s about as absurd as telling Silicon Valley they can’t use technology.

 Seriously, the Republicans just passed an amendment to the $607 billion National Defense Authorization Act funding the Pentagon in 2014. Yes, 227 members of the GOP-dominated House just voted to limit the Pentagon’s ability to defend America, by preventing military planners from using any strategic research the military’s been gathering for years about threats to national security. Listen:

“None of the funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available by this act may be used to implement the U.S. Global Change Research Program National Climate Assessment, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report, the United Nation’s Agenda 21 sustainable development plan, or the May 2013 Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Executive Order.”

Get it? The Republican Party is now officially on record as the party of climate-science denialism. These research programs, ongoing and widely used by the Pentagon in strategic national defense planning for many years, could, if the Senate agrees, become illegal to use.

This is not and has never been about climate-science denialism. This is about climate science and how it has been hijacked by a small group of ideologues. The ideologues never -- to a man -- willingly publish their data or research methods, their computer models always show the same outcome but they cannot forecast or hindcast and their models are at complete odds with observed conditions for the last 17 years. The Earth is cooling. Besides, if the science was as "settled" as everyone says, why are there so many different models floating around. If the science was settled, there would be one model. (set snark=on) and it would work (set snark=off) Developed nations are spending billions of dollars on this rat-hole, a few people are getting very rich off our tax dollars and there is nothing real being done. People of Paul B. Farrell's ilk should be tared, feathered and run out of town. He is an utter tool...