Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, August 23, 2019

The Coming Crisis

It is somehow fitting that David koch died while the Amazon burned and Trump's ludicrous idea of buying a melting Greenland.  It wouldn't surprise me if some Koch funded study suggested that there's gold or oil or whatever under Greenland's ice, and once we are done melting it, we can have at it.

Climate change is real.  Interestingly, the places that have gotten warmer over the past 30 years in the US are almost all Blue States (the exception being the Great Basin). The South hasn't gotten extremely warmer.  More tornadoes and hurricanes, but weather is tough to link directly to climate.  Meanwhile, fatal heat waves bake Europe.

There is little doubt in my mind that climate is the biggest challenge we face as a species, which is why the absolute refusal of the GOP to do anything about it is maddening.

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