Sec. Chu Explains Plate Tectonics To Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX)

I like how Barton asks "our scientist" for his professional opinion before completely ignoring him and offering his own hypothesis.

The implication he's trying to make is obviously that the Earth was sometimes warmer than it is now. He's trying to say "Global Warming is no big deal because it happened before" but that ignores the CRUCIAL MATTER of the UNIQUENESS of the RATE of increase in the last 40 years.

Basically Barton is an idiot dressed as a moron dressed as a congressman.

I didn't notice any comments on here about the direct causation of increased warmth retention and increased solar flare activity. Gore's graph shows warmth PRECEDING carbon output while it is actually solar flares that precede warming.

Barton represents part of Dallas and in East Texas the major oil reserves were created in the Cretaceous Period (98 myo) when the North American plate was pretty much in the same position it is now.

His comment "it just drifted up there..." I think really only shows ignorance about Alaska specifically and not of general geology or petrology which he may actually understand because it's important here in Texas.

Anyone really think Pelosi or Reid would know anymore?

Barton didn't know that that the oil/gas in Alaska was created from deposits laid down when the Alaska plate was NOT in it's current position.

It's stupid to bash him for not knowing that SPECIFIC fact. I bet 99.99% of the population doesn't know that either.

Barton assumed the oil/gas deposits were created when (the plate of) Alaska was in it's CURRENT position.

Barton was trying to make the point that Alaska must have been warmer in the past and then got cooler.

Wow...I didn't know the Texas Congressman was that ignorant.

The Nobel prize is meaningless. It only means he's an establishment figure and he's part of the team that is destroying the country. I mean, Obama is getting a Nobel Prize for being black. LOL

Peak oil is a fraud, there's plenty of oil in the ground and it will never run out, at least not for a long time. And by that time, we'll have a new technology.

The Jews are behind it all. Get rid of them and you won't be so uptight. Unless you are a Jew, of course.

Never trust a man with the name Chu