TX GOP Moron (But I Repeat Myself) Has A Comprehensive Climate Solution - Crank The AC!!
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On Friday, CBS ran a story by Cara Korte that explored “how climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” It’s a nuanced story on an obviously charged topic, and Korte talked to multiple experts to explain how droughts and floods have caused economic and food stress, which the Taliban have exploited to bolster their recruitment.
Deniers, predictably, went wild with the idea that now the media is blaming climate change for terrorism. From Twitchy’s aggregation of lazy dunk-attempts from conservatives on Twitter, to lazy dunk-attempts on blogs and all the way to lazy dunk-attempters Tucker Carlson and Fox and Friends and a combo of all that from Fox’s “media reporter” Joseph Wulfsohn.
But at the same time deniers were trying to make the idea that terrorists exploit hardship and stress sound stupid, one of their own was delivering what may be the stupidest example of climate denial. Ever. It comes courtesy of one Wayne Christian, who you may know as one of the Texas Railroad Commissioners who got talking points from an industry propagandist and then rushed to blame renewables for the blackout in February to deflect blame from the gassy culprits.
Christian, who’s got a history of claims that are half-true, at best, told an energy conference on Friday that there’s a better solution to climate change than “$78 trillion in spending, shutting down the industries around the world, keeping third-world countries from having coal-generated electric power and all kinds of things.” What could this miracle solution be? “Turn the damn air conditioner up. It’s that simple.”
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/24/2047862/-Texas-Oil-Regulator-Suggests-Dumbest-Possible-Climate-Change-Adaptation-Plan#view-story
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