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I’m relieved, I suppose, that Trump officials didn’t actually suppress, censor, or doctor volume two of the Fourth National Climate Assessment. All they did was release it on the Friday after Thanksgiving, suggesting that somewhere deep in what passes for someone’s conscience in this putrid presidency, some residual shame might linger. One of the more innovative arguments of the report was even pitched to the bottom line: high projections expect to knock ten percent off U.S. GDP this century — more than two Great Recessions put together. And so the last teetering argument of the carbon polluters and their enablers — that preventing climate catastrophe will cost jobs and reduce growth — was proven void once again. Au contraire, it turns out. There have been more jobs in solar energy in the U.S. since 2015 than in oil or natural gas extraction. Maybe a decade ago, the expense of wind and solar was a major obstacle and expense for a non-carbon future. Not any more.
Except that opposition to AGW claims has nothing to do with right or left.
That gets to be less true as the New Left increasingly demands strict obedience to the dogma handed down from on high in order to be a member of the New Religion.
Fear not. Trump and the new right are fearlessly rolling us back to the good old days of acid rain, killer smog and burning rivers.
Is the current manifestation of the right capable of that emotion? I don't see much evidence of its being so.The Right’s Climate Change Shame
Is the current manifestation of the right capable of that emotion? I don't see much evidence of its being so.
The real shame is that some on the left lump all of the right together and do nothing but grow the hateful divide in our country by adding more and more hate.
Those that gain satisfaction by the hurt of others, have a clinical name for that satisfaction.
Except that opposition to AGW claims has nothing to do with right or left.
Yet the only serious opposition comes from the US Republican Party.
The real shame is that some on the left lump all of the right together and do nothing but grow the hateful divide in our country by adding more and more hate.
Those that gain satisfaction by the hurt of others, have a clinical name for that satisfaction.
But... it’s almost exclusively a right wing American phenomenon.
And it’s not really hate that’s the issue, it’s the potential impending destruction of civilization as we know it.
Guess reading the article was too hard for you.
But... it’s almost exclusively a right wing American phenomenon.
And it’s not really hate that’s the issue, it’s the potential impending destruction of civilization as we know it.
Guess reading the article was too hard for you.
The most important scientific opponents of AGW orthodoxy are neither American nor right wing.
We aren’t talking about your cosmic ray fantasy.
This is a thread about actual reality.
Perhaps you can link some facts behind your slander please?Fear not. Trump and the new right are fearlessly rolling us back to the good old days of acid rain, killer smog and burning rivers.
So since you obviously read the 196 pages of the report, care to tell us your perspective instead of what the Intelligencer wants us to believe?
You whine every time I post my perspective.
And now you want it again?
Didn’t get enough poutrage in your diet this week?
Fear not. Trump and the new right are fearlessly rolling us back to the good old days of acid rain, killer smog and burning rivers.
In what way(s)?
No kidding. I never heard him speak of rolling back to 70's regulations.
The consistent thread through almost all of the opposition to Trump is that it is based in misinformation, lies and anger.
In the USA and predominantly around the world outside of China, India and Russia, it "feels" like mankind has cleaned up his collective mess better than at any other earlier point.
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