No, no, no... if it's not caused by humans, then it's part of Gawd's Plan, and we cain't change it and can safely and smugly leave it to him to clean up. And in a few years, when the planet is heating, these will be trials sent by Gawd to test us. Because it's all part of Gawd's Plan so they don't have to change how they live or look gay bringing reusable bags to the grocery store or stop rolling coal to trigger the libs at all.
Scientist: Communicable diseases are caused by microscopic pathogens.Spano: I don't believe it!Scientist: Um, the so-called 'germ theory' was well established by no less than Louis Pasteur in the 1860's, and confirmed through many experiments and mountains of evidence since that time.Spano: But I can't see these so-called 'germs', so I don't believe it!Backup scientist: Look, the cause of communicable diseases has been shown in countless papers and research over 200 years. This is undisputed. Spano: Prove it!Entire science panel: Here, eat this baloney sandwich that's been sitting on the counter for the last three days, but let me pull a bit off and put it under the microscope first.Spano: No! That sandwich is filled with evil spirits! And this so-called microscope is the tool of the devil!Host: ....and that's all we have time for today. Stay tuned for the evening weather and hog report.
I'm up the road in Bellingham. It's been less worse here, which is to say, horrible. This summer seems to have brought more rain than the last 2, or maybe I'm just in denial. 2017 we were at the Mt Baker Blues festival first weekend in August when the sky smelled of smoke for the first time and the moon was red behind the haze. We're coming up now on the second weekend in August, (weekend of the awesome Subdued Stringband Jamboree, in case you're interested) and still no cataclysms. Fingers crossed!
Back in 2012 I needed to watch ("monitor" is the word we use in the TV biz) a Republican forum that hosted a guy who owns his own private weather forecasting company. He told them that he didn't believe in climate change because his uncle told him that it used to be hotter at their summer home in New Jersey back in the 1950s than it is today, so therefore climate change is a hoax.
To my surprise, more than a few of these attending Republicans got up and told him that they were scientists (a few admitted to being actual environmental scientists) and that his "proof" was ridiculous. His only defense was that he was the only weather-talkin' guy in the room, so his opinion was the only one that mattered. The forum pretty much dissolved into shouting at the guest from there, and was abruptly shut down.
So sometimes, even Republicans will refuse to accept chickenshit as chicken salad. But I do admit that this did happen seven years ago, before the complete and utter Trumpening of their party.
I've got a live one right now who doesn't even believe in the greenhouse effect--which has only been well established for about 170 years, but hey...
He also doesn't understand how the oceans cannot be losing heat to warm the atmosphere while at the same time gaining energy that is heating them (the oceans) up as well. I keep him going just so bystanders can see just how crazy denial makes you.
it’s already too late to do anything about climate change, and we will all be dead within ten years. so when he and his family are starving to death from global crop failures, maybe Spano will change his mind. Not that it will matter.
EDIT: if you are wondering why it is too late it is because of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf or ESAS
Well, sure, if you're going to look at actual published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and use full quotations, you're going to get a far more accurate picture of climate research. But it's so much easier to barber a quote and then have it be repeated and re-cited until it becomes commentary for a Las Vegas entertainer.
ok so let's just agree that climate change is a hoax, do we also have to believe these things too?air pollution is good for kids to breaththe mountains of appalachia look better without the tops on themthe toxic runoff in our rivers is good for kids to drinkthe more money we can take from our economy and send to saudi arabia and iran the betterif china is spending all this money on green energy, they sure are gonna be sorry they own all those patents 20 years from now, the future is in fossil fuel technologythe political influence of american oil companies in the 3rd world is only making them like us morebeing a coal miner or oil worker is a great job that's not at all dangerous, toxic and in danger of being completely automated.there's no danger in moving oil around like pipeline leaks or oil spillswe should really invest in fixing roads instead of mass transit because there's no way our cities will get any bigger and have more traffic in the future
once you swear that you believe all of those things, you can officially call yourself a republican
The warrior doesn't fight because they think they'll win; they fight because it's the right thing to do. If your house is on fire, do you try to escape regardless, or do you just sit there because you don't see how you can possibly save the house?
Are you a paleskin? If so, when you realize that you're getting sunburned, do you just stay out in the sun, or do you head for shade "even though it's too late to escape a sunburn"?
No, we can't escape the consequences of global warming. But we can have a say about how bad it will get, and how fast.
It's almost like doG is punishing us by having the universe behave according to discernable laws, which we choose to ignore. I would, but I think irony is funny, too.
"Swamp Restoration"
Bread and honey! OMG, did not know I had to did that. If'n I'd fed the fairies, I wouldn't have had to write this.
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No, no, no... if it's not caused by humans, then it's part of Gawd's Plan, and we cain't change it and can safely and smugly leave it to him to clean up. And in a few years, when the planet is heating, these will be trials sent by Gawd to test us. Because it's all part of Gawd's Plan so they don't have to change how they live or look gay bringing reusable bags to the grocery store or stop rolling coal to trigger the libs at all.
Don't we get one of those on Easter morning? Or am I missing something...?
Scientist: Communicable diseases are caused by microscopic pathogens.Spano: I don't believe it!Scientist: Um, the so-called 'germ theory' was well established by no less than Louis Pasteur in the 1860's, and confirmed through many experiments and mountains of evidence since that time.Spano: But I can't see these so-called 'germs', so I don't believe it!Backup scientist: Look, the cause of communicable diseases has been shown in countless papers and research over 200 years. This is undisputed. Spano: Prove it!Entire science panel: Here, eat this baloney sandwich that's been sitting on the counter for the last three days, but let me pull a bit off and put it under the microscope first.Spano: No! That sandwich is filled with evil spirits! And this so-called microscope is the tool of the devil!Host: ....and that's all we have time for today. Stay tuned for the evening weather and hog report.
I'm up the road in Bellingham. It's been less worse here, which is to say, horrible. This summer seems to have brought more rain than the last 2, or maybe I'm just in denial. 2017 we were at the Mt Baker Blues festival first weekend in August when the sky smelled of smoke for the first time and the moon was red behind the haze. We're coming up now on the second weekend in August, (weekend of the awesome Subdued Stringband Jamboree, in case you're interested) and still no cataclysms. Fingers crossed!
Back in 2012 I needed to watch ("monitor" is the word we use in the TV biz) a Republican forum that hosted a guy who owns his own private weather forecasting company. He told them that he didn't believe in climate change because his uncle told him that it used to be hotter at their summer home in New Jersey back in the 1950s than it is today, so therefore climate change is a hoax.
To my surprise, more than a few of these attending Republicans got up and told him that they were scientists (a few admitted to being actual environmental scientists) and that his "proof" was ridiculous. His only defense was that he was the only weather-talkin' guy in the room, so his opinion was the only one that mattered. The forum pretty much dissolved into shouting at the guest from there, and was abruptly shut down.
So sometimes, even Republicans will refuse to accept chickenshit as chicken salad. But I do admit that this did happen seven years ago, before the complete and utter Trumpening of their party.
I've got a live one right now who doesn't even believe in the greenhouse effect--which has only been well established for about 170 years, but hey...
He also doesn't understand how the oceans cannot be losing heat to warm the atmosphere while at the same time gaining energy that is heating them (the oceans) up as well. I keep him going just so bystanders can see just how crazy denial makes you.
it’s already too late to do anything about climate change, and we will all be dead within ten years. so when he and his family are starving to death from global crop failures, maybe Spano will change his mind. Not that it will matter.
EDIT: if you are wondering why it is too late it is because of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf or ESAS
As long as we keep sea level rise under 300 feet, I should be (relatively) okay. So we've got time to address this climate mess.
Well, sure, if you're going to look at actual published papers in peer-reviewed journals, and use full quotations, you're going to get a far more accurate picture of climate research. But it's so much easier to barber a quote and then have it be repeated and re-cited until it becomes commentary for a Las Vegas entertainer.
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ok so let's just agree that climate change is a hoax, do we also have to believe these things too?air pollution is good for kids to breaththe mountains of appalachia look better without the tops on themthe toxic runoff in our rivers is good for kids to drinkthe more money we can take from our economy and send to saudi arabia and iran the betterif china is spending all this money on green energy, they sure are gonna be sorry they own all those patents 20 years from now, the future is in fossil fuel technologythe political influence of american oil companies in the 3rd world is only making them like us morebeing a coal miner or oil worker is a great job that's not at all dangerous, toxic and in danger of being completely automated.there's no danger in moving oil around like pipeline leaks or oil spillswe should really invest in fixing roads instead of mass transit because there's no way our cities will get any bigger and have more traffic in the future
once you swear that you believe all of those things, you can officially call yourself a republican
The warrior doesn't fight because they think they'll win; they fight because it's the right thing to do. If your house is on fire, do you try to escape regardless, or do you just sit there because you don't see how you can possibly save the house?
Are you a paleskin? If so, when you realize that you're getting sunburned, do you just stay out in the sun, or do you head for shade "even though it's too late to escape a sunburn"?
No, we can't escape the consequences of global warming. But we can have a say about how bad it will get, and how fast.
He ignores libraries.
As a gardener, I've noticed that although cars get keyed, and houses get tagged, vandals ignore gardens. It's off their radar entirely.
It's almost like doG is punishing us by having the universe behave according to discernable laws, which we choose to ignore. I would, but I think irony is funny, too.