Pois é esse o novo ministro da C&T, que tem outras ainda melhores, como a adição obrigatória da mandioca ao pão francês. Essa eu não sei se está em vigor, mas o dia do Saci, em substituição ao dia das bruxas parece que não pegou...
Uma parada o novo ministro...
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Brazil’s Former Sports Minister is Moved to Science Post Despite Rejection of Global Warming Science
By Andrew C. RevkinThe positivist scientism that you call natural science and contrast with my devotion to dialectical materialism is not magical enough to convert me to the article of faith that is the theory of global warming, which is incompatible with current knowledge.Science is not an oracle. In fact, there is no scientific proof of the projections of global warming, much less that it is occurring because of human action and not because of natural phenomena. It is a construct based on computer simulations.In fact, my tradition links me to a line of scientific thought that prioritizes doubt over certainty and does not silence a question at the first response. Parallel to the extraordinary advances and conquests that Science has bequeathed to the progress of Humanity, come innumerable errors, frauds or manipulations always spun in the service of countries that finance certain research projects or projections.I am curious to know whether those who today accept the theory of global warming and its alleged anthropogenic causes as unshakeable dogma, are the same ones who some years ago announced, with identical divine certainty, global cooling.
The new Minister of Agriculture, Katia Abreu, was the president of the National Confederation of Agriculture (the national association of large and middle-size landowners and ranchers). As senator, she led the Congress’s powerful anti-environmental, anti-indigenous “bancada ruralista”, or large landowners’, caucus and earned the title among environmentalists of “chainsaw queen.”
Denying climate change is not Rebelo’s only contribution to policy obscurantism. As a lawmaker in 1994, just as Brazil was beginning to modernize public service, he demanded that government forsake “labor-saving innovative technology,” such as computers and automatic elevators. The proposal was quietly shelved in committee, on fear that it would create, among other monstrosities, “a frightening bureaucracy.” He had more success in later stopping self-service fuel pumps at Brazilian filling stations, so sparing an underpaid army in overalls.Then, in 2001, he sought to prohibit the use of English-language terms from public parlance, so banishing “imperialist” terms like “drive-in” and “software.”Undaunted, Rebelo is back, exotic as ever, this time with a fancy job upgrade. How he fits Rousseff’s mission to make Brazil a modern and environmentally-sound nation is an open question. But she could start with cabinet change. [Read the rest.]
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