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GOP: See even “expert scientists” admit that global warming is “fiction”.
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Yeah… When the history of this period is written (assuming something like functioning humans are still here to write it), it will tell of how one of the two major parties in the most powerful country in the world went insane, and – abetted by a “mainstream media” that decades of browbeating and corporate ownership turned into a “balanced” travesty of journalism – essentially forced the destruction of modern civilization.
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And the vast majority of the American people don’t really give a fuck. Oh, a good percentage say they do, but would completely balk at paying more in taxes to transition to a green energy economy.
Then again, a good percentage of people in America are completely brainwashed, deluded, or insane. See: Trump voters.
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Events like this should wake the public up to what is coming, but I doubt it will. The media is consumed with Trump’s latest kerfuffle, and the future of the world isn’t important compared to that. The El Nino effect also means that next year will most likely be cooler compared to this year, so we’ll hear all the old BS about “global warming not being real” once again. It’s depressing to watch the way this is treated, especially when a lot of people get it and still can’t do anything about it.
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Pole flip! Hold on to something!
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And the vast majority of the American people don’t really give a fuck. Oh, a good percentage say they do, but would completely balk at paying more in taxes to transition to a green energy economy.
Agreed, my neighbors here in East TN got upset when I installed a solar field in front of my home. The field is only visible if you happen to trespass onto my 60 acres as it is hidden by a low hill from the highway. Still had neighbors complain to town and wanted the planning board to disallow. It was the first time I every had heard that a variance was required to add solar to a home.
The following months they freaked even more when I put a potable rain harvesting system in place. That one brought demands that the county health department condemn the installation.
Both installations had been designed and engineered when I found out it would cost well of $50K just to run power lines onto the property. Those systems along with a grey/black water system that actually returns a better quality water to a stream on the property than naturally exists cost just a little over 1/2 of the bill just for power. Add the other systems total cost was less that 1/4 the cost of the “traditional” systems.
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Like religion, facts that don’t support their beliefs will be ignored. A warmer year next year still wouldn’t matter to those who religiously believe in their own reality.
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The US has been heading in an anti-science direction for quite awhile and it shows in the lack of interest in the catastrophe that is happening to our planet. A primitive “feel-good” type of Christianity is being pushed by conservatives with presidential candidates who want to turn this country into a “Christian nation.” Apparently they believe they can pray their way out of the looming disasters that climate change will bring.
PS Are the TPM techs ever going to get this commenting system straightened out?
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Two Jesus freaks from Oklahoma talking to each other on their smart phones.
Speaker A: I heard that some scientists say the climate is getting warmer and the weather is changing. Can that be true?
Speaker B: Well, I never… There’s nothing in the Bible about any such thing. The only truth is in the Bible.
Speaker A: Well they showed figures and charts and all. Maybe there’s sumthin to it.
Speaker B: (Screaming into his smart phone) Well Senator Inhofe says it’s all a big hoax. A heathin lie. Why, y’all don’t believe in science do ya!
Speaker A: uh duh, well I guess not. It ain’t be true if it ain’t in the Bible, that’s for sure. Marco Rubio just said all the answers are in the Bible and you gotta believe a good upstandin God fearin believer like him. We all knows that.
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Well, I believe that in the Bible God promised after the flood that there would never be a flood again, the next time she would destroy the world by fire. For a time, that sounded like nuclear war, but global warming fits, too.
And well, maybe there will be some flooding in low-lying coastal areas – like half of Florida.