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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump & GOP Will Never Let Anyone Save The Planet From Global Warming.
Global Warming IS the correct term when you look at record temps in some parts of the world that go unreported by our bullshit media. Climate change is confusing as far as I am concerned. Yes it does reflect wild and tumultuous weather patterns. Thee will be cold before the temps flip to hot with little or no cold.
So now that we moving higher in carbon content the GOP actually wants to make talking about or addressing climate warming or change illegal or verboten.
The trouble is what can we do about their obstruction. We are losing time and it may already be too late.
BigmanPigman
(51,590 posts)change, global warming, in fact science at all. They do not believe or admit to anything that may keep them from getting richer, no matter who it hurts. They would sell their own grandmother for an extra buck...they are disposable (to quote Guiliani).
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)and the current oval office. Sooner we will be able to get back to saving what is left of our damaged planet.
quartz007
(1,216 posts)which is pollute the air and cause all sorts of lung problems, including emphysema and lung cancer. This has happened in my own family to those who never smoked.
As for global warming caused by burning fossil fuels, what caused the droughts and dust bowls of the 1930's? There were few cars on the road then.
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/water_03.html
rusty quoin
(6,133 posts)We were so hopeful. It finally pushed the public to believe it was a great worry. Then after a time the public believed it less and less. And now look where we are.
I try not to give into despair, but we are really late in the game for corrections.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)have posters in the environment grouo like hatrack,NNnadir etc. keeping du informed
But elsewhere scientists are meeting for solutions without the US who is a climate solution foe now
https://www.denverpost.com/2017/12/14/boulder-climate-scientists-research-france/
How's that exceptionalism and rollin coal trucks going for ya trump idiots ???
Rolling Coal
Conservatives who show their annoyance with liberals, Obama, and the EPA by blowing black smoke from their trucks.
sandensea
(21,630 posts)Nonsense. We prefer Porsche Cayennes.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)Maybe the dinosaurs were doomed because their politicians were in denial bout their climate change/degradation, and they'd have struggled on had it not been for that asteroid. . . .
jimlup
(7,968 posts)... I do think we have to shift the tide in Washington before we can move hard on this one. We didn't have time for the Trump/Republican nightmare that we are currently experiencing but apparently that is the hand we've been dealt.
The arctic ice sheet is in serious trouble in case nobody noticed...
http://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/
We will likely set a low ice extent record this summer.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)very wrong to lie, very dangerous for America.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)Should have to spend 3 years in a subArctic or Arctic town/village. See what their "gimme, gimme, gimme, mine, mine, mine" mindset has helped bring about. For starters, live luxuriously in Barrow. See the cute polar bears ROAMING AROUND TOWN BECAUSE THE ICEBERGS
WHERE THEY USUALLY HANG OUT TO SNAG FOOD? Soooooo sorry. They melted.
I hate them almost as badly as I hate the FUCKWITS who elected (with a little assistance from Mother Russia) ANY Repuke currently in office who won't speak up and cowers under his/her desk in his/her CLIMATE CONTROLLED BUILDING.
I'll do as much as I can for as long as I can. But I'm old. And it'll be my beautiful grandchildren who pay the price for Melania's new
gold-lined peignoir and Ivanka's diamond studded tampons.
Wow. Sorry for the rant. It's HAPPY CINCO DE MAYO in my humble abode! You're ALL invited for pozole, fajitas, cerveza, Patron (have limes and salt, BYO lemons), and later on some camarones mazatlan prepared by the best Mexican chef in Fairbanks (Jorge, change time to 3:00 instead of 2:00, we got a late start this a.m.!) Oh, and anyone flying in? Please bring blenders, it's Margaritaville! Broom parking in back, singles or doubles; overflow in neighbordog's yard so bring a chew or Milk Bone. Neighbordog's name is Jimmy Page, and he loves music of the loud Zep variety.)