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GOP scientists say their attempts to talk about climate dangers with their party's politicians and their aides have largely fallen on deaf ears.
GOP Not Listening to Its Own Scientists on Climate Change
Seeded on Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:27 PM EST
Article Source: insideclimatenews.org - by Katherine Bagley- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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"No GOP candidates or policymakers want to touch the issue, and those of us trying to educate them are left frustrated," Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a registered Republican, told InsideClimate News. "Climate change has become a third rail in politics."
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#1 - Wed Feb 22, 2012 3:27 PM ESTThey have used it as a propaganda tool for so long they can't change. If they were to start listening to scientists now, they would be seen for the hypocrites and paid toadies they are. It would be political suicide. So they choose genocide. Billions will die because of these changes in climate. Some by war in response to mass migration and changing precipitation patterns. Some from starvation and/or thirst. Others from disease from massing of refugees and the bodies littering the exit routes.
This is not an overreaction. It is basic biology. It happens in all populations that suddenly find their populations well above the carrying capacity of their ecosystem. We have avoided this for the last 10,000 because as humans we have been able to expand our ecosystem and counter most of the short term natural cycles. That isn't hard for us with a world population of 200 million or even 4 billion. But we are rapidly approaching 9 billion and accelerating climate change from 10 to 100 thousand years to 10 decades or less. This is unsustainable and will lead to a collapse. NOTHING can go up forever, we made that mistake with the housing market most recently. Lets not make it with the human population.
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#2 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:07 PM ESTImportant information. Thanks for seeding it. For the sake of their short-term political advantage the GOP candidates sell out our future. They're cowards and liars and a case can be made that they're perpetrating crimes against humanity and nature.
Even if it turns out they're merely idiots they've got to go!
- 2 votes
#4 - Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:52 PM ESTThis should not be surprising. The GOP ignores the polls of their members and economists, too. Conservative economists and rank and file GOP members support higher taxes on the top 1% and especially on the top 0.01%, elimination of tax loopholes, and infrastructure investments. Yet theose in office ignore this data.
Why would anyone expect them to pay attention to other areas of reality? It is time to elect them to the psychological institutions where they belong.
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