Idiot Republicans - Making Stupid Look Easy

A bunch of total dickheads Republicans have got together in South Dakota where they hold sway to pass a law decrying the politicisation of climate science and insisting on real science being used. Sounds ok, but here is the text of the declaration:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-fifth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the South Dakota Legislature urges that instruction in the public schools relating to global warming include the following:

(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;

(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect [sic] world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and

(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena;

Where do you start taking that part? You could not make it up!! I thought this might be a piss take, so I checked the official text - and no, it really is there. Let's dive in...

(1) That global warming is a scientific theory rather than a proven fact;

Fucking idiots don't understand what a theory is. A theory is an overarching framework that explains the existence of facts. They are not opposites; quite the opposite - facts and theories work together. How somebody who does not get Science 101 thinks they should lecture people on it is gobsmacking.

(2) That there are a variety of climatological, meteorological, astrological, thermological, cosmological, and ecological dynamics that can effect [sic] world weather phenomena and that the significance and interrelativity of these factors is largely speculative; and

Astrological???? I assume you mean Astronomical in trying to push the false meme that the sun is to blame? Or perhaps they really mean that only Virgo and Sagittarius are subject to climate change? Twats - but as if that was not enough; Thermological?? Thermology is the study of heat-based images of the human body for medical imaging. It has nothing to do with climate science. Fucking idiots.

(3) That the debate on global warming has subsumed political and philosophical viewpoints which have complicated and prejudiced the scientific investigation of global warming phenomena;

Yup - that will be what you lot are doing too; a bunch of politicians passing laws trying to frame science is the very definition of politicising the science. Fucking flipperty-flopperty twats.