Questions unasked
New Scientist has an interesting article by Chelsea White that describes how the Texas Commission on Environmental Health has refused to publish a report on the Galveston Bay because the Commissioner (appointed by Rick Perry) “disagrees with information in the report.”
The unasked question: On what basis is his disagreement? What is the data on which he bases his conclusions?
The reason the question is unasked: Because the commissioner has no data and no information. He simply doesn’t like the conclusions, so he erases them (apparently in the hopes that this will alter events in the real world).
I do believe that it is stupidity that will destroy the human race.
UPDATE: Bryan W. Shaw, PhD, who is the Commissioner who rejected the findings of the climate scientists, is an agricultural engineer. He is not a climatologist and apparently is simply bending the needle out of the red zone thinking that this solves the problem.
