I’m very glad that Al Gore is campaigning with Hillary. I’m a huge fan of his and never understood why people were talking trash about his personality. I think he’s got a great personality. It totally reminds me of me.
It’s especially good that Al Gore has high praise for Hillary’s climate plan. I’m not equipped to understand or judge her plan but I trust Gore on this subject. If he approves of the plan, it must be good.
Overall, I find it beyond incredible how absent climate has been from this election. At least, it’s making somewhat of an appearance at this late date.
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We’ve been so entrenched in the climate of the campaign itself — the nasty gaseousness from Trump — that no one has had time to remember there’s a world worth saving.
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It’s clear from the comment that you are a writer. ☺ Beautiful comment!
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LOL. Why, thank you!
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Because nobody of any political importance takes the doomsday scenarios of climate armageddon seriously. If politicians really believed that life as we know it was coming to an end in the foreseeable future, they’d be panicked enough to take genuinely meaningful action on it.
Instead all they do is pontificate about climate change, like they talk so urgently about other ” extremely important” issues — like “social justice” and “income inequality” — that no one actually plans to do anything about.
Call me cynical if you want — but this is observably true.
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. . . Said he as the ocean engulfed him.
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Yes, it’s already up to my ankles here in the Arizona desert — but it’s boiling away faster than it can rise. 🙂
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It’s your conscience boiling, asking you to vote for Hillary. You know you want to! 😃
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…if the ocean engulfs him in Arizona we are all living on Waterworld style rafts in the new large mega ocean.
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And he’ll still say that there is no global warming. 🤗
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You’ve never heard me say that “global warming” — or whatever you want to label the slow but inexorable damage to this planet caused by its dominant species — doesn’t exist.
But it’s a byproduct of the spread of civilization. So it’s irreversible, and probably can’t even be slowed down to an appreciable degree, unless the whole world, and not just the mushy liberals in the United States, are willing to go back to living under 18th century conditions.
That’s not going to happen, even if Hillary puts all the coal miners on welfare and forces me to trade in my Cadillac for a Telsa, while Al Gore has to quit buying mileage in private jets with “carbon credits.”
Most of the world is too damn cold, anyway. That’s why I live in Arizona.
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“In the last 6 years we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack. As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine, but I assure you: we will not let the glaciers win.”
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Yes, there is a huge glacier right in my backyard. I had to turn on the AC to battle this huge problem. Those nasty glaciers are everywhere!
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“Because nobody of any political importance takes the doomsday scenarios of climate armageddon seriously. ”
As always, you’d be wrong. One party, composed of uneducated anti-science morons who think climate change is a liberal conspiracy, does all it can to prevent any meaningful change from happening. And then you come along, doing your ‘both-sides’ routine. Jesus, have you not learned anything about your party in this election?
Fortunately we have states like California, leading the charge.
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Climate-change-law-has-reshaped-California-in-10-9277756.php
“More than 27 percent of California’s demand for electricity at this moment is being met by renewable sources — primarily the sun, the wind and the Earth’s own heat.
Just a few short years ago, that would have been considered astonishing. Now it happens on a regular basis. Next summer, the percentage will be even higher. State law requires that California get 33 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2020 and 50 percent 10 years later.
“It’s remarkable what we can do,” says Eric Schmitt, vice president of operations for the California Independent System Operator, as engineers immersed in the control room’s data screens monitor grid conditions. “Think about it — we’re sitting here right now, and there’s 7,000-plus megawatts of solar on our system. That’s eight nuclear reactors’ worth of electricity on our system — just from solar.””
This is real change.
Your comment on climate change would be exhibit A if one wanted to stereotype boomers as the most greedy and selfish generation in American history.
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This is a great thing happening in California. The state has already been badly hit by the global warming.
Here in Illinois farmers are literally at their wits’ end because the climate is too crazy for them to do their work. Even the most recalcitrant folks are starting to recognize that something is off.
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Have you heard about ‘rolling coal’? People install special devices in their trucks so they pollute more. Like, it may give their children lung cancer, but then it also pisses liberals off, so fair trade I guess.
That’s GOP ‘policy’ in a nutshell. It’s unreal to me that climate change is a political issue in the country. We should be talking about how to tackle it, but all the oxygen in the room is taken up by arguments about whether it fucking exists. Christ almighty, have some shame, you assholes.
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“Your comment on climate change would be exhibit A if one wanted to stereotype boomers as the most greedy and selfish generation in American history.”
Average age of politicians: 60+. You won’t live to see the consequences of your decisions and actions*. No wonder you and your cohort don’t care about it.
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I’m not a boomer, Stringer Brat. You know my age, you can’t read a calendar?
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You’re older? So your generation will die sooner, hence you care about it even less. Great point!
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Seventy-one, to be exact. Most of my relatives have lived into their nineties, so I might even come visit you in the San Bernardino Old Folks’ Home some day — assuming that the great liberals of your generation have kept the earth inhabitable that long. 🙂
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“…if the ocean engulfs him in Arizona we are all living on Waterworld style rafts in the new large mega ocean.”
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