They Might Be Giants: The New Republican Climate Change Argument
April 18th, 2007 at 09:55pm Chase Martyn
Our friend Mark posted a little discussion of the work our state legislators are doing to combat global warming (and, in doing so, protect Iowa agriculture). Unfortunately, one Republican State Rep, Dwayne Alons of Hull, IA, has his own ideas about “growing” Iowa — literally! From Mark’s post (emphasis added):
Republicans have taken an extreme position on this particular bill. For example, during the committee meeting on the bill, Representative Duane Alons made a comparison between Iowa in 2007 and ancient Mayan cultures. He argued that global warming would be good for Iowa. He believes that ancient Mayans were giants - taller & stronger than modern men and women. He argues they were giants (and this is a good thing) because of warm temperatures. Ancient cyclical warming helped Mayans become giants!
Republicans are trotting out the same unscientific arguments against doing anything to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They argue that if we decrease CO2 emissions we will decrease crop yields in Iowa - ignoring the impact of insects, drought, and shifting rainfall patterns on crop yields. The scientific consensus is that CO2 induced warming will devastate agricultural production in Iowa - and around the world.
So let’s stop fighting global warming and start encouraging it! Maybe if we’re giants, it won’t matter that the earth is dying!
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6 Comments Add your own
1. desmoinesdem | April 18th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
I read that Alons quote out to my husband, who responded with a classic Simpsons quote: “I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, democracy does not work.”
Seriously, is that the best the Republicans can come up with these days? Warm temperatures will breed a superior race?
2. Cathy | April 19th, 2007 at 6:39 am
Does this make sense? In terms of respiration, wouldn’t bigger people need more oxygen and less carbon dioxide?
3. stogoe | April 19th, 2007 at 9:49 am
Oh, Cathy. You ask that as if they were actually interested in the science of the question.
If you doubt that [Mayan Giants] are possible, how is it there are PYGMIES + DWARFS?
4. John Deeth | April 19th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
Ancient Mayans may have been giants but they were smaller than:
Universe man, universe man
Size of the entire universe man
Usually kind to smaller man
Universe man
Hes got a watch with a minute hand,
Millenium hand and an eon hand
When they meet its a happy land
Powerful man, universe man
Sorry. You set it up, I just kicked it.
5. Iowa Progress » Air&hellip | January 24th, 2008 at 1:07 am
[…] Alons, Iowa’s resident climate change expert, pronounced today that global warming isn’t a problem because we have air conditioning. Alons […]
6. Iowa Progress » Int&hellip | March 3rd, 2008 at 8:59 pm
[…] Progress has commented numerous times on Alons’s frequent inane statements. These include claiming that the ancient Maya were a race of giants due to warmer temperatures and that the invention of […]
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