Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Great time for the U.S. to become an official petrochemical state, eh? I don’t recall the CEO of Exxon being on Hillary’s short list for Secretary of State, or the ringleader of State Attorney Generals’ opposition to the EPA being a likely Clinton nominee to that Agency.
General elections become binary choices in the end. Voters are poorly served when they view themselves as consumers of politics. We should discourage them from believing this is the frame which best serves their self-interests. “Sending a message” is an extremely flawed method to determine our binary voting choices.
Mitigate? We’re going to be shooting at boats like they’re doing in Australia and Europe when shit starts to hit the fan. Especially with the nativists in charge of the GOP and the Dems who want them back.
Well, since you mentioned in your Wednesday post, Boo, that you don’t have a lot of fammilial contact with the right wing world during the Holidays, I’ll just do you a favor and advise you that in their world, this doesn’t concern THEM at all.
There’s a problem here, besides the obvious one of massive climate change. The problem is that the warming is undeniable but the deniers are completely happy to ignore it because it’s not part of their agenda. Even as Florida goes underwater they will continue to say that human activity did not cause it and that it’s part of a cycle. It doesn’t occur to them to try and stop it. It doesn’t matter.
What should trip them up is that they think the Earth is only seven thousand years old and other episodes of warming happened longer ago than that. Or whatever! Their particular type of logic escapes me.
It’s just another example of Oppositeville. No matter what everyone, every scientist, every climate specialist knows to be true, the Deniers will rail against simply on principle. If it’s not part of the Rabid Republican agenda, they’ll fight it tooth and nail.
now that the republican have total control, I’m sure a solution will be right along.
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Great time for the U.S. to become an official petrochemical state, eh? I don’t recall the CEO of Exxon being on Hillary’s short list for Secretary of State, or the ringleader of State Attorney Generals’ opposition to the EPA being a likely Clinton nominee to that Agency.
General elections become binary choices in the end. Voters are poorly served when they view themselves as consumers of politics. We should discourage them from believing this is the frame which best serves their self-interests. “Sending a message” is an extremely flawed method to determine our binary voting choices.
I strongly recommend this episode of Vice.
We are truly screwed, and they is not much we can do about it. It’s too late to fix it, only mitigate it.
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Mitigate? We’re going to be shooting at boats like they’re doing in Australia and Europe when shit starts to hit the fan. Especially with the nativists in charge of the GOP and the Dems who want them back.
We’ll get right on this. As soon as 70% of the frogs in the pot can feel the heat. ETA when the water temp hits 75 degrees Celsius.
You’re not alone.
Well, since you mentioned in your Wednesday post, Boo, that you don’t have a lot of fammilial contact with the right wing world during the Holidays, I’ll just do you a favor and advise you that in their world, this doesn’t concern THEM at all.
Because, HAR!!!HAR!!!HAR!!!…It snowed in Hawaii.
So take that, all you liberal treehuggers!!! You and your “global warming”.
There’s a problem here, besides the obvious one of massive climate change. The problem is that the warming is undeniable but the deniers are completely happy to ignore it because it’s not part of their agenda. Even as Florida goes underwater they will continue to say that human activity did not cause it and that it’s part of a cycle. It doesn’t occur to them to try and stop it. It doesn’t matter.
What should trip them up is that they think the Earth is only seven thousand years old and other episodes of warming happened longer ago than that. Or whatever! Their particular type of logic escapes me.
It’s just another example of Oppositeville. No matter what everyone, every scientist, every climate specialist knows to be true, the Deniers will rail against simply on principle. If it’s not part of the Rabid Republican agenda, they’ll fight it tooth and nail.