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Regardless of your personal opinions, I was surprised.

Started by Kai, May 24, 2011, 05:25:09 PM

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Kai

Not by the content, but because I didn't know journalists could still DO perfect, cynical sarcasm.

QuoteBetter to join with the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted 240 to 184 this spring to defeat a resolution saying simply that "climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for public health and welfare." Propose your own physics; ignore physics altogether. Just don't start asking yourself whether there might be some relation among last year's failed grain harvest from the Russian heat wave, and Queensland's failed grain harvest from its record flood, and France's and Germany's current drought-related crop failures, and the death of the winter wheat crop in Texas, and the inability of Midwestern farmers to get corn planted in their sodden fields. Surely the record food prices are just freak outliers, not signs of anything systemic.

It's very important to stay calm. If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies. If worst ever did come to worst, it's reassuring to remember what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told the Environmental Protection Agency in a recent filing: that there's no need to worry because "populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological, and technological adaptations." I'm pretty sure that's what residents are telling themselves in Joplin today.

Has almost the same tone of the stuff we regularly write around here, doesn't it?
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Puzzling that a reporter would be so on point... But after looking at the byline, I was comforted to know that this wasn't a journalist so much as an op-ed by a professor and activist.  Status quo is maintained.

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Quote from: LMNO, PhD on May 24, 2011, 05:30:51 PM
Puzzling that a reporter would be so on point... But after looking at the byline, I was comforted to know that this wasn't a journalist so much as an op-ed by a professor and activist.  Status quo is maintained.

While that's true, it still somehow got published in the Post. I don't think I've ever seen writing like this in a newspaper, op-ed or not.
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