Quote After Quote From GQP Elected Officials: "It's Summer"; "Nobody Knows"; "Crazy Left Agenda"

[hatrack]

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“There is a very scientific word for this: It’s called summer,” Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told HuffPost when asked about the heat on Thursday. “It’s no hotter right now than it’s ever been. I’ve been in this heat all my life in July and August as a football coach. This world’s not heating up, come on.”

Tuberville coached college football before entering politics and has no apparent scientific background. Yet the lack of knowledge in the field doesn’t keep him from confidently pooh-poohing the work of thousands of scientists around the world. Last month, as much of the U.S. Northeast was blanketed in thick smoke from Canadian wildfires, Tuberville deployed a similar response: “We’ve had fires for all of our life, come on.”

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“Only in Washington will they try to find an excuse to take something that’s been going on for hundreds of years … to promote their crazy left agenda,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporter Pablo Manríquez in The New Republic this week when asked about the link between human-induced global warming and the crushing heat. “Southern Louisiana, it’s always hot,” Scalise added. “Thank God for air conditioning.”

Last month, Senate Republicans heard from a fossil fuel advocate at a weekly closed-door meeting who argued that the benefits of using fossil fuels outweigh the harms. GOP senators representing states reliant on oil and gas industries ate up his speech, carrying his signed book back to their offices. “It’s hot for sure, but we also know that weather cycles,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said. “What we do know about them is they’ve been going on for a long time. How much we can impact them — that’s the question. I doubt we can.” Asked if extreme heat is linked to climate change, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said: “I don’t think anybody knows.”

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/climate-change-heat-republicans_n_64c3c5bfe4b024f8ebc870f5

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick

[Hugh_Lebowski]

2. "How many deaths and disasters will it take?"

The answer is ... all of them.

There are 8B people, and the exact reason that earth can support 8B humans is because we're extracting the concentrated energy of something on the order of 10,000 years of accrued sunlight hitting the planet in the distant past EVERY DAY and burning it as an energy source (and turning it into fertilizer and pesticides and asphalt and concrete and dwellings and plastics and ...).

We are literally MADE of fossil fuels. Without leveraging them, we will die, in massive numbers. Absent an amazing technologic breakthrough like cold fusion, we cannot, and will not, escape the cold hard reality of the physics involved here.

To cut global fossil fuel production means lots of people dying in a very certain fashion.

Whereas ... continuing to burn them pushes this outcome down the road. Causes it to happen later, and if we're lucky, to OTHER people.

Ergo, we WILL collectively choose that option.

I really think it is that simple.

We are biologically incapable of making another choice. Especially because of the geopolitics involved ... we MIGHT have a chance of averting disaster via a one-world command and control government, but we don't have one, and very few of us want one.

We are not 'set up' as a World, nor is it our inclination as a species, to get ourselves out of this mess, and therefore will not do so. We'll keep burning the shit, as long as we have it, and the climate effects will kill us off in large numbers, but in lower number than if we stopped burning the shit.

Until it runs out, and then we're REALLY fucked.

[Think. Again.]

3. These responses....

...have been very carefully crafted by the psychologists that the CO2 industry pays so well.