After Ben Carson this week dismissed those who believe in climate change and claimed that there is not significant evidence to back it up, California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) took it upon himself to provide Carson with some reading material on the science behind climate change.
Carson made the remarks on Tuesday in response to July comments made by Brown, in which the governor called climate change skeptics “troglodytes.”
“I know there are a lot of people who say ‘overwhelming science,’ but then when you ask them to show the overwhelming science, they never can show it,” Carson told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. “There is no overwhelming science that the things that are going on are man-caused and not naturally caused.”
“Gimme a break,” the presidential candidate added.
And so on Thursday, Brown took it upon himself to show Carson the “overwhelming science” behind climate change.
The governor sent Carson a flash drive with the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s report on the science along with a letter urging Carson to read it, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Brown notes in the letter that the UN report “assessed over 30,000 scientific papers and was written by more than 800 scientists” and concluded that human beings contribute to climate change.
“Please use your considerable intelligence to review this material,” Brown concluded in the letter. “Climate change is much bigger than partisan politics.”
Brown’s office confirmed to ThinkProgress that the governor sent Carson the flash drive as well as a link to the report via email.
Carson doesn’t need to read any such thing. Because he’s a doctor, you know. By virtue of having mastered a highly complex and academically difficult curriculum in a relatively narrow area of specialization and thereafter having had the lives of human beings in their hands, physicians are by definition experts on all things they choose to have an opinion about. Ask any doctor. They’ll tell you its true.
I LOVE this!!! (not that any of Carson’s followers would read or acknowledge this evidence)
There is a universe in which Dr. Carson would read the report in its entirety, consider the evidence, and then issue a statement to Gov. Brown saying, “I was wrong, and I owe you an apology. Please tell me what can I do to help combat this grave threat to the well-being of our planet.” We do not live in that universe.
unfortunately the mechanics of actually using the device escaped Dr Carson
Don’t need no stinkin’ UN report to tell me a sovereign nation cannot be free to ignore facts that the One Worlders want to shove down our throats just to save the world.