Florida Congressman Makes Silliest Climate Change Argument Yet

Congratulations this morning go out to Congressman Jeff Miller, R-Fla. who made the silliest argument to "prove" man made climate change doesn't exist.    

Florida Congressman Jeff Miller.  

In widely published comments, Miller noted the dinosaurs went extinct before we were all driving around in cars and otherwise burning fossil fuel, so therefore manmade climate change doesn't exist.

His point, I'm guessing, is there have been changes in the Earth's climate over the millenia (which is absolutely true).

So somehow, if there are natural changes in the climate, then there can't possibly be any changes caused by, or influenced by mankind.

Here's Miller's exact quote: "Then why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Were there men that were causing - were there cars running around at that point that were causing global warming? No." ......The climate has changed since Earth was created." 

Yeah, I don't get it either. The logic is kind of like, people didn't die in car accidents 500 years ago, so they can't die in car accidents today.

People have been yukking it up, saying how stupid Miller is for saying stuff like this but I dunno.

I honestly don't believe even he believes what he's saying. But Miller is probably under the thrall of the interests, like the Koch brothers, who don't want any restrictions on fossil fuels to offset climate change.

So he says ridiculous things like this, because there are at least a few dumb, or anti-intellectual voters out there who would fall for this sort of thing.