So I guess we should be grateful they didn’t hide it completely. What a sad commentary on this administration.
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Rubio’s already planning which color foundation to dab on when he’s eventually invited to talk about FL being underwater but not to worry.
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This is really the one issue that requires outside-the-box thinking, and I can’t say I think the Democrats have really shown they understand its seriousness, either. It isn’t a core issue of the traditional constituencies of either party.
Somewhat OT: after the midterms, I was thinking it would be cool to start a “Family Values” Party centered on addressing global warming and environmental conservation, fiscal conservatism, and social progress. Stuff that could be construed as “handing off a healthy world to our grandchildren.” I was thinking that the time was right to peel the old Republicans off in California and basically co-opt them into a less toxic version of the GOP. The state would then be a two-party state again, which is always good. Then, when the actual GOP is discredited in 2020, the FVP could go national and move the entire nation’s politics to the left.
Okay, a crazy Bond-villain type plot, but if I didn’t have two and a half jobs right now I’d explore it…
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Yeah, when I hear this trope my response is, “Those bridges you drove over to get here, how many fell down from underneath you? None? Obviously they were overengineered and cost too much.”
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Forgot that prophetic '08 ad in which Speaker Pelosi was such a strong leader that she even owned Newt?
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Serious question: What is it that the climate change deniers get out of denying climate change? What do they expect to happen for their benefit by doing so in the long run?
Oh, I understand the people who don’t want regulations getting in the way of their pursuit of the almighty dollar. But ignoring the long-term reality of the effects of climate change is just bad business. Even most oil and gas companies (at least privately) acknowledge that fact and are devoting significant resources to an eventual shift to renewables. Are the deniers incapable of seeing past the immediate short-term?
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Yes, and isn’t it interesting that we folks in IT were willing to ACT instead of demanding that the government change the dating system to 1999, 19100, 19101, etc??
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They may have dumped on Friday, but it’s out there. And not all stories die within 24 hours. This one will have legs. Indeed, it may help to turn this into a very black Friday for tRump and co.
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They don’t want to have to change anything . . . anything, except to punish the people they don’t like. And they see liberals/progressives as people who keep changing everything, and every change, from their point of view, takes something away from them. It is an irrational, rabid fear of losing a past that, in many ways, never really existed.
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Dear Ms. Riga - As a journalist, it is part of good practices to make the full report available with a link.
But I must decline to read it as I’m trying not to feel suicidal this weekend. Thanks anyway.
R.H.C.
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So you’re talking about a hurricane drone strike, right?
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Covergirl’s “Pallor of Consternation”
or “Nothing to See Here Nude”?
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Heh. Yes! Make it happen God!
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everybody has to support the God-Given right to have lots of children.
overpopulation is the third rail of climate change that no politician in any country will address
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Green Mountain Energy here in Texas and a few other states. 100% wind generated. I’ve had it for years.
The catch is that electricity is fungible and non-storable, so the actual power source that generates the electricity that serves you as an end-user is probably not renewable powered. But somewhere on the grid, that renewable-generated electricity is displacing hydrocarbon-generated electricity and serving other end-users.*
*Yeah, I handled several cases involving power investments in Central and South America. I can tell you more about power generation, grid operations, and power system regulation than you would ever want to know.
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Is that who owns that enormous wind farm up in the panhandle? God it’s huge -
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Damn Chinese anyway
s/n
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Hey I saw that you had your dream again. You might see it come true, darrtown. There’s some reason you keep having it.
I’ve got my fingers crossed for you.
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Eyes, fingers on both hands, toes, and I’m speaking to the dog to see what she can come up with.
RICO indictment and a tax fraud charge and nothing else for Christmas.
Praps I should take a nap now. After all since I’m retired whos gonna fire me?
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