Posted on 08/21/2018 12:56:30 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A particular challenge of the fight over climate change, if not a unique one, is that the shifts accrue subtly. The climate has changed stunningly quickly in global terms but slowly in human terms, allowing us to rationalize, wave away and downplay.
The issue of climate change rose to the national consciousness as polarization in U.S. politics spiked. Gallup polling shows that there’s a nearly 50-point gap between the parties in belief in the effects of a warming planet having already begun. More than 8 in 10 Democrats think global warming has been demonstrated; only a third of Republicans agree.
Nearly all scientists who study the issue agree with the Democratic and independent majorities, but scientists haven’t convinced Washington.
In fact, to the extent that action on addressing climate change is still a viable fight in the capital, on Tuesday we could declare a winner: Climate change is here, and the United States has accepted it. President Trump’s decision to roll back even measured efforts to curtail carbon-dioxide emissions and news about Arctic sea ice combine to paint a picture of a country that’s living through climate change and deciding not to do anything about it.
It’s just coincidence that the Trump plan on power plant emissions should be announced the same day as the news about Arctic ice is reported. Any number of other things could have combined in a similar way to make obvious the split between what’s happening in the world and what’s happening in Washington. Both of the developments Tuesday, though, are very significant and very telling.
The capital is a place where political effects are measured in the scale of days, if not minutes. The global climate shift is measured in years, if not decades. And, slowly, this is the point we’ve gotten to.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Failed VA wind turbine, which produced no electricity, to be torn down.
Link: http://wjon.com/failed-va-wind-turbine-to-be-torn-down-in-2019/
The fight was lost today? Sounds like the Good Guys won. A great day to be sure.
Yup, those journalism degree writers are really really smart.
Guess those of us with REAL degrees are just plain dumb.
Does that mean the bad guys have given up?
President Trump’s decision to roll back even measured efforts to curtail carbon-dioxide emissions and news about Arctic sea ice combine to paint a picture of a country that’s decided to go on living through climate change and deciding to stay
warm.
Drill it, Frack it, let the others freeze.
No, I’m not a global cooling denier!
I call BS. It they said that nearly all scientists who are paid agree with democrats agree with democrats, then I'd believe it.
“Nearly all scientists who study the issue agree with the Democratic and independent majorities..”
That’s because most of them are leftists sucking off the public teat, and need to keep the gray train rolling.
What a bunch of frontholes that they can’t stand the weather:-)
The world is in an interglacial and it’s about to go back into a deep-freeze, I’m not worried about “global warming.”
They are all Backholes...............
Well played sir!
The MSM is a part of the Global Warming scam , they change the name , Weather is now Extreme Weather and Forest Fire is now Wild Fire ,LOL
Now is the day to drive the wooden stake into the heart of ethanol.
I see what you did there. ;) I see we now have a new word in our vocabulary thanks to the LBGTxyz.
The weather religion won’t be defeated until the leftists don’t want to talk about it any more. Five years of cooling should do it.
Let’s not forget that, despite exiting from all those onerous (and pointless) climate treaties, the US has cut its “greenhouse gas” emissions far further than anyone else.
“news about Arctic ice is reported”
It usually melts in the summertime.
Even back in 1845 when some British sailors go themselves into trouble.
http://www.canadianmysteries.ca/sites/franklin/voyage/voyageCharacters_en.htm
And yet the cleanest nation in the world is the USA. We are a good role model but howabout the rest of the world do their part if there’s anything to “climate change” which of course is a PC phrase which could mean just about anything.
Steaming Pantload Alert.
These people are so mentally disturbed. I don’t really care if they are batshit crasy. I just wish they would shut their whiny pieholes. They give new meaning to OCD.
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