A Republican Case for Climate Action?
Yeah, you got that right.
There is no longer any credible scientific debate about the basic facts: our world continues to warm, with the last decade the hottest in modern records, and the deep ocean warming faster than the earth’s atmosphere. Sea level is rising. Arctic Sea ice is melting years faster than projected.
No longer any credible scientific debate...hey, don't be so sure about that! Everything is credible in the bubble!
Now about those market based solutions...
Acid rain diminishes each year, thanks to a pioneering, market-based emissions-trading system adopted under the first President Bush in 1990. And despite critics’ warnings, our economy has continued to grow.
No, it hasn't! Liars!! Liars!!! Our economy has collapsed and has been constantly failing!!! Pollution is not an externality!!!!
As administrators of the E.P.A under Presidents Richard M. Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush, we held fast to common-sense conservative principles — protecting the health of the American people, working with the best technology available and trusting in the innovation of American business and in the market to find the best solutions for the least cost.
Bunch a fuckin' RINOS!!
The bubble is continuing its collapse...
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And look a celebrity that is a hypocrite!
What do you think M - did Matt really have no choice but to put his kids in private school?
I guess that means you "win," juris. Congratulations!
What is your childish obsession with "winning" and why do you project it onto me?
I thought you might enjoy an opportunity to rip into a celebrity hypocrite of the Micheal Jordan Generation. Or do you admire Matt's politics and acting and find his hypocrisy to be, somewhat, inconvenient?
Seriously? He had no choice? Isn't that a screaming fuck you to you and all public school teachers?
Juris, you don't get the point.
Bringing up Matt Damon choice of schools has nothing to do with Republican support for action on climate change. It's a total non-sequitur.
When Mark points out the fact that Republicans don't have to stick their heads in the sand and go along with whatever the Koch brothers dictate, your response is, "Nyah, nyah, Matt Damon!"
The EPA was signed into existence by Dick Nixon, a Republican. The National Park system was signed into existence by Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican.
The point is that the Republican Party has a long history of being conservative in the best sense of the word. Something that the current crop of self-styled conservatives have completely thrown out the window in their slavish devotion to satisfying every whim of the titans of industry.
Preventing drastic climate change and the savage economic consequences that droughts, floods and massive storm damage will cause is the conservative thing to do.
Dick Nixon, a Republican
I know it really matters to you being a Democrat, but why do you think: a) I'm a Republican and b) why I would give a mouse shit about Nixon?
You see the problems you run into when you put tribe first and foremost?
Then again, you appear to be into all kinds of mystic mumbo-jumbo worrying that man is going to destroy the planet.
Straw man....
Climate change due to carbon emissions will not destroy the planet. It already has presented significant challenges in terms of security and the world economy and will get worse. Rest assured, though, the planet is not going anywhere.
Climate change due to carbon emissions will not destroy the planet.
You don't need to tell me, you need to tell your pal.
He doesn't think so either. BTW, how nice it was of Nikto to engage in comments. If we only had 3-5 other liberal commenters to balance out the wingnut, things would so much nicer. Ah well, perhaps they all have better things to do...which would be just about anything!
Ah well, perhaps they all have better things to do...which would be just about anything!
Curious way of critiquing your own blog, but I tend to agree.
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