“though Ernst hedged that “the climate is always changing””
I hope their grandchildren will someday forgive them for the economic and environmental devastation that will be caused by these ignorant and greedy senators.
Silly, she meant political climate.
Even if that was the case, her statement is tempting me to again watch Dinosaurs series finale.
What did we expect? They’re Republicans. If something doesn’t affect the end of quarter profits, it’s no biggie.
Focusing exclusively on the economy in the context of climate change is like obsessing over a television while your house burns around you.
But even in that context, they’re still wrong! According to the report -published by, you know, actual scientists - the effects of climate change are already here and will have, and are already having, a devastating impact on our economy. And it will get exponentially worse if we bury our heads and do nothing. Shameful.
And when we have massive crop failures in Iowa or Nebraska?
What will be the response then?
“Why didn’t they (it is always “they)” tell us?”
"Sasse criticized “alarmism” on the side of those advocating for federal efforts to address climate change"
All these sorry fuckers will be long dead before shit gets real so they have no fucks to give.
It’s pretty simple.
Right to Life my ass.
2018 was about saving the Republic. 2020 is about saving the planet.
You’ve got to love Sasse. He’s obviously sat down for weeks and months on end and put in 12-hour days working out reasonable-sounding “conservative” responses to everything liberals say about real-life problems in way calculated to least alienate liberals. He’s clever AF at it—who among us proudly raises the banner of alarmism? But tell us, Ben, what’s constructive then? What could possibly be constructive besides the green economy stuff liberals have always proposed? What has your side ever offered as a constructive alternative? Don’t mumble, fella, speak right up. Nothing? Thought so. Punk.
Sasse: “…you don’t hear a lot of them offering constructive, innovative solutions for the future.”
That’s right. It is the environmentalists who have failed by not putting “forward constructive, innovative solutions for the future”,
And what solutions have you or your party put forward, Senator?
“Republican senators did the equivalent of a rhetorical shrug in response.”
Why do the same people who reject Global Warming, decades of empirical data, and 99% of all scientists…
Unquestionably believe in the virgin birth of a guy who walked on water and rose from the dead?
(PS: TPM, please stop using the term “Climate Change”; it’s – literally – a Frank Luntz euphemism.)
“Clean Coal” is their number one response.
They will not. The GOP (Party of Gropers) may be able to argue that the economic crisis or loss of American prestige and world position is not their fault, but the climate and environmental issues, will be something that will turn off permanently those who are under 40. The partisan differences are so stark.
This will be - along with the entirely correct perception that the GOP is the party of Christian Racism - will cause the GOP to go extinct in the next 20 years.
Hey, he turned water into wine, so not all bad.
Their response will be that that is why we have the Farm Bill. Grow to much? Grow to little? Don’t worry Uncle Sam is here to tie your rugged individualist boot strapes.
In my adult life:
First: “Climate change is not real”.
Then: “It’s real, but we can’t predict its effects”
Now: “It’s a hoax”
Or:The latest: “Climate has always been changing. Ya gotta problem with that? Grow up”.
When I was in jr high school many decades ago, we studied the “greenhouse effect” first recognized in the 1890s.
We’ll see some new kind of rationalization/denial before it’s all over. The consequences of climate change are so dire people by and large will look for excuses to deny it. Pick one.
Back in the 1970s the, fossil fuel industry hired academics to set up phony think takes to publish papers questioning climate change to give it all the appearance of legitimate scientific debate.
I say again, we’re doomed.