Murkowski: Warming "Directly Impacting" Alaska; World: No Shit, Lisa

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) on Tuesday said climate change is "directly impacting" her home state's way of life. “It’s impacting subsistence. It’s impacting food security. It’s certainly impacting our economy with our fisheries,” Murkowski, the chairwoman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said at the panel's first hearing this year devoted to climate change.

“Clearly the effort here is to get a bipartisan conversation going,” she added. “I think that the rhetoric surrounding the issue of climate and climate change can be so heated and so animated and so, often times, just a very toxic discussion that you can’t get to focusing on the solutions.”

The Senate panel heard from experts on how climate change was impacting the electricity sector. Murkowski and the panel's top Democrat, Sen. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), highlighted their energy-producing states in their remarks, though.

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Manchin said any efforts to address climate must not hurt states such as West Virginia, a major coal producer. “The path to a climate solution must offer states like West Virginia opportunities, not additional economic burdens,” Manchin said.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/432717-murkowski-warns-climate-change-directly-impacting-alaska

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Oh, so now she's 'woke' but will she do anything about it?

[Blues Heron]

2. so, often times, just a very toxic discussion"

"the rhetoric surrounding the issue of climate and climate change can be so heated and so animated and so, often times, just a very toxic discussion"

And whose fault is that Lisa? Your party's fault. Now it's too late and you want to get on board? Idiot. Go cash your oil check.

[exboyfil]

5. You can't talk solutions when your party leadership

denies that it is a problem.

[Blues Heron]

7. Exactly.

[watoos]

3. It's inconvenient to have to keep moving the dog sled races farther north.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Especially

if you have to put water wings on the dogs!

Again, another convert - after the damage is done. As another post said, the "hostile" discussions came from one side - the idiot deniers! Problem is, we all lose when the losers control the discussion and legislation (not to mention the cabinet positions!).

[exboyfil]

6. I am thinking about an SF story

where in 20 years an angry crowd drags Limbaugh and the rest out of their nursing homes and drown them in the encroaching ocean.

I may change the names of course.