Republican legislators are scared enough of their crazy base that they are unwilling to refer to any rise in the sea level even in studies on how to prepare for a rising sea level. But, so far at least, the legislators aren’t crazy enough to refuse to make any preparations for a rise in the sea level.
State Del. Chris Stolle, R-Virginia Beach, who insisted on changing the “sea level rise” study in the General Assembly to one on “recurrent flooding,” said he wants to get political speech out of the mix altogether.
He said “sea level rise” is a “left-wing term” that conjures up animosities on the right. So why bring it into the equation?
“What people care about is the floodwater coming through their door,” Stolle said. “Let’s focus on that. Let’s study that. So that’s what I wanted us to call it.”
Some of these authentic climate deniers have already been elected. Pretty soon, they’ll start introducing legislation, not to raise road levels or fortify ports, but to fund the construction of a giant ark “three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high.”
And, also, drill, baby, drill!!
He said “sea level rise” is a “left-wing term” that conjures up animosities on the right. So why bring it into the equation?
Are these people on drugs? I know PBO and Arne Duncan want to privatize education(charter schools and the like) but charter schools won’t fix stupid like this. The problem is Cons think a good education is a liberal plot to rule the world.
It is – the well-educated tend to think for themselves, and that is anathema to the Cons’ con…
Can’t Virginia come up with thei own wacky ideas? They’re just copying North Carolina from last week.
I say let ’em drown.
“The takeaway is pretty clear: Obama is going to campaign on the threat of climate change, but he is also going to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline to Houston, because he doesn’t think it is a “make-or-break” project for the environment…James Hansen, NASA’s leading climate scientist, has said this about the Keystone pipeline: that if the pipeline goes through and we burn tar sands in Canada, it’s ‘game over’ for the planet.”
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13466
Except that the portion Obama has approved doesn’t extend to Canada, or carry oil from tar sands.
So far!!
So, it’s sort of like his scheme to take away everyone’s guns?
Hardly. There are many people that feel he’ll approve it(the part going to Canada) after the election. We’ll see if that’s the case or not.
There are many people that feel he’ll approve it(the part going to Canada) after the election.
Exactly, just like there are many people who feel he’ll start taking away everyone’s guns after the election.
Of course, Canada is also talking about building its own pipelines to BC and/or Thunder Bay. So even if XL’s Texas pipeline is stopped, it’s no guarantee the tar sands themselves will be stopped.
That’s up to the Canadians – and since the Alberta provincial government is always in the bag for Big Oil, it means either replacing Harper at the federal level or relying on obstruction by leftist provincial governments, most likely in BC or Saskatchewan. Provinces in Canada have a lot more autonomy than US states do.
and you know this how?
C’mon man, face it. The wingnuts are right. The sea level isn’t rising.
It’s the land that’s sinking. That’s why we just need to make things like the roads and the footers on houses much thicker and everything will be okay.
Silly libruhls…….
The terms global warming and climate change are fighting words to Republicans. It would be better to drop those terms and use words like toxins and pollution.
They can’t say they are for toxins.
Why do we have to drop a term just because the GOP tries to demonize it?
Because we’re too stupidly fractious to win the framing war.
I believe they are the pro-flooding, pro-tornado, pro-hurricance, pro-desertification, pro-island-eliminating party. Let’s have more floods. Drill, baby, drill. Burn, baby, burn. Pollute, baby, pollute.
And btw: