Nickolai wrote:
I thought America was way behind the times on the science of climate change, given the positions of so many anti-science, anti-evidence Republicans who populate our House of Representatives. Our northern neighbor, Canada, is surprisingly anti-environmentalist, considering they are socially more progressive than the U.S. with their single payer healthcare. Canadian PM Harper, who is as committed to proliferating the production of dirty Alberta tar sands oil as Americas fossil fuel sweethearts Charles and David Koch, stands in unison with the ultra-conservative Australian PM, Tony Abbott.
Salon reported, President Obama has stayed far from these two other world leaders when it comes to climate policy. He is pursuing a number of avenues to reduce the United States emissions with his National Climate Plan, including the recent announcement of the Environmental Protection Agencys plans to substantially reduce emissions from power plants.
Abbott fiddles while Australia burns
I was both relieved and troubled to know Australia out-devolved the United States and completely abolished the carbon tax yesterday. The Australian media mogul, Rupert Murdoch, a big player in the denial of climate change, is a strong supporter of Heritage Foundation policies and Australias move to abolish all progress in the area of renewable energy.
Australia was once a leader on climate action. This cabal of the anti-conservationist movement, formed by the unlikely triumvirate of Murdoch, Grover Norquist and PM Abbott has dealt a lethal blow to the future prevention of climate change disasters.
This denial movement has shaped legislation on two continents, both very susceptible to the rising sea levels that are imminent with our current carbon emissions. Curiously, yesterday was also the day Mr. Murdoch publically offered to buy Time Warner Cable, which includes the very cash lucrative HBO, for $80 billion. Currently that bid has been rejected, but he is determined to find a price that will be acceptable for the massive merger.
With control of the media on two continents, unfettered pollution will only become a bigger problem with the media devoting little to no attention to the crisis of man-made climate change.
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Lets look at this from another side? It's your OPINION that you can guarentee us that we WON"T HAVE ANY BAD WEATHER, if we give you all of our money, We (only) quit eating, we (only) quit heating our homes, We (ONLY) eliminate all forms of energy and transportation! While YOU live the wasteful life of absurd consumption! YOU ask US to ignore all common sense and math, to believe that ONLY WE are causing bad weather! And if we have proof that YOU are lying, WE must be anti-science" According to YOU. WE are expected to believe ONLY YOU know the answers and are doing natures work, therefore YOU should be exempt from onerous taxes and confiscation? Guess What.....WE think YOU are liars and crooks! The old polynesians sacrificed virgins to appease the volcanos! That might be a good idea........we can sacrifice environmentalists to your great god gaia to get good weather?