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Democrats use climate change as wedge issue on Republicans
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | June 21, 2014 | Carolyn Lochhead

Posted on 06/22/2014 6:20:53 PM PDT by artichokegrower

Washington -- When President Obama stood before students in Southern California a week ago ridiculing those who deny climate science, he wasn't just road testing a new political strategy to a friendly audience. He was trying to drive a wedge between younger voters and the Republican Party.

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OK younger voters the reason gasoline will hit $5 a gallon, electricity rates will double, food will be prohibitive, you will live in a stack em and pack em transit housing complex, and you won't have a job is because of the Democrats global warming crusade. Comprende?
1 posted on 06/22/2014 6:20:53 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

The only change I’ve seen is them going from calling it “global warming” to “climate change.”

I guess they got tired of looking foolish every winter.


2 posted on 06/22/2014 6:26:19 PM PDT by boycott
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To: artichokegrower
I think I CAN get that on a bumber sticker ..;. a little oversize, maybe ...

OK younger voters
the reason gasoline will hit $5 a gallon,
electricity rates will double,
food will be prohibitive,
you will live in stack em, pack em transit housing complex,
and you won't have a job
is because of
the Democrats global warming crusade.

Comprende?


OK ... maybe not a bumper sticker, but it'll print out on an 8X11 and tape to my rear window

3 posted on 06/22/2014 6:27:18 PM PDT by knarf (brooklyn bridge)
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"younger voters"

No information voters....
4 posted on 06/22/2014 6:47:48 PM PDT by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS.. We are DOOMED for several generations. . Who cares? Dem's did and voted!)
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To: JSteff

TWITS

#global hyperoble is not sustainable


5 posted on 06/22/2014 6:51:27 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
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To: artichokegrower

Seeing as how AGW is not on the radar of the overwhelming majority of American voters, this strategy is at best questionable, and at worst, asinine.

Anything to divert from the numerous detrimental policies that this administration champions along with their various scandals.

They’re playing to the ignorant, and the true problem is, from multiple angles, it’s the correct move for them, and the best they’ve got.

Civilization in this country is doomed. They keep pushing and pushing and although they likely know where it will lead, they have no other choice. They’ll take their chances. They will keep power or watch this country disintegrate and they only care about one thing, and that is to accumulate and hold power via the federal leviathan.


6 posted on 06/22/2014 7:03:20 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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Not very much of a ‘wedge’ since Republicans are united against environmental extremism, as well there are less and less of the general public that believe in radical ‘climate change’, but let’s let the Dems continue to think so, their self deluded lies only help our side.


7 posted on 06/22/2014 7:07:39 PM PDT by JSDude1
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“Not very much of a ‘wedge’ since Republicans are united against environmental extremism, as well there are less and less of the general public that believe in radical ‘climate change’, but let’s let the Dems continue to think so, their self deluded lies only help our side.”

Agreed. There are fewer and fewer people believing this nonsense. There is, unfortunately, some GOP movement under the radar to embrace the science of climate change (can’t understand why) but even GOPers that believe humans play a part in climate change don’t believe it is worth destroying our entire economy to “address” the problem.


8 posted on 06/22/2014 7:12:19 PM PDT by lquist1
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I think that College Democrat homos like to use this as a “Wedgie” issue more among themselves.


9 posted on 06/22/2014 7:13:46 PM PDT by bakeneko
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The Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation is flipping from warm mode, which is responsible for much if not most of the Arctic ice melting, to cold mode, when much or most of the ice will return. Then will there be wailing in millennial land, when they realized they've been duped out of their futures. So the regime must move quickly to do as much damage as possible before then.
10 posted on 06/22/2014 7:16:02 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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Send this to your Congressional Delegation...

The scandal of fiddled global warming data
The US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/10916086/The-scandal-of-fiddled-global-warming-data.html

A scene from ‘The Day After Tomorrow’: in reality, officially approved scientists fudge the data
By Christopher Booker 4:04PM BST 21 Jun 2014

When future generations try to understand how the world got carried away around the end of the 20th century by the panic over global warming, few things will amaze them more than the part played in stoking up the scare by the fiddling of official temperature data. There was already much evidence of this seven years ago, when I was writing my history of the scare, The Real Global Warming Disaster.

But now another damning example has been uncovered by Steven Goddard’s US blog Real Science, showing how shamelessly manipulated has been one of the world’s most influential climate records, the graph of US surface temperature records published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Goddard shows how, in recent years, NOAA’s US Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) has been “adjusting” its record by replacing real temperatures with data “fabricated” by computer models. The effect of this has been to downgrade earlier temperatures and to exaggerate those from recent decades, to give the impression that the Earth has been warming up much more than is justified by the actual data. In several posts headed “Data tampering at USHCN/GISS”, Goddard compares the currently published temperature graphs with those based only on temperatures measured at the time. These show that the US has actually been cooling since the Thirties, the hottest decade on record; whereas the latest graph, nearly half of it based on “fabricated” data, shows it to have been warming at a rate equivalent to more than 3 degrees centigrade per century.

When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous “hockey stick” graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.


11 posted on 06/22/2014 7:18:23 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: artichokegrower
Wow what a load .
I am surprised the far left SF Commie Chronicle is still open.
Comrade Carolyn must be smoking something real strong to peddle this nonsense.

The millennials are all under or unemployed thanks to the Sunni Muslim tyrant in the WH..

12 posted on 06/22/2014 7:26:03 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: lquist1

If the climate is being effected by humans (and I really don’t know for sure), I DO know that our nation is one of the best on environmental issues for a whole host of reasons. We aren’t the problem.

The left never wants to go after their ‘comrades’ in ChiCom, the new USSRussia, and others..


13 posted on 06/22/2014 8:25:02 PM PDT by JSDude1
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Most young people don’t care about global warming except for the few committed lefties among them. Most of them are concerned about a crappy job market that awaits all of them when they graduate from college with a mountain of debt to pay off.


14 posted on 06/22/2014 8:31:44 PM PDT by dowcaet
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I HOPE they do this. Fewer and fewer believe this crap each year. Some things are so ridiculous and obviously fraudulent you can’t even brainwash college tards to believe them. The global warming fantasy crap is one such thing.


15 posted on 06/22/2014 8:36:20 PM PDT by Viennacon
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I haven’t heard any young adults who give a crap about this, unfortunately the ones I talked to seem believe that gay marriage is a basic human right,


16 posted on 06/22/2014 8:40:14 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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“I think that College Democrat homos like to use this as a “Wedgie” issue more among themselves.”

I can think of some democrats who desperately need an Atomic Wedgie.


17 posted on 06/22/2014 10:50:21 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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