Posted on 11/05/2014 2:01:51 PM PST by lbryce
In the green hills and gray hollows of Kentucky's well-mined mountains, the economy of extracting coal from the fuel-rich ground isn't what it once was.
Yet Mitch McConnell, a longtime senator poised to become majority leader of the U.S. Senate in a Congress that will be fully controlled by his Republican Party come January, has found political fortune in those hills. He successfully campaigned for reelection there with warnings about a "war on coal" he accuses Democratic President Barack Obama of waging. This helps explain what the United States won't be doing about global warming in the near future. (Read more about how the midterm election results may intensify the battle over clean energy.)
An alignment of the newly empowered McConnell and fellow Republican leaderswho either openly doubt scientists' findings that human industry has heated the planet, or contend that curbing carbon emissions into the Earth's atmosphere isn't worth the potential cost of lost jobsis likely to create the most hostile political environment ever for addressing climate change in Washington.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
My parents subscribed to it and through the ‘60s and ‘70s it was a great source of scientific articles.
I don’t think I have ever read a Smithsonian Magazine.
I cancelled my subscription when they gave Obama a "Most Influential in Science" award in 2009.
Yeah, that would tear it for me too. The least literate boob to ever sit in the 0val 0ffice couldn’t tell you how a baking soda submarine works.
An amazing pic, but she looks nothing like that now.
But I think she's in her late 40s.
They tracked her down, and she lives in some poor village.
She also had some good things to say about the Taliban.
What a shame.
For this to have any weight one must first accept the premise that any action whatsoever could impact the earth’s natural climactic fluctuations in even the slightest manner.
Yes!
I always thought that picture was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
Since this is a Global Warming thread see what Al Gore thinks global warming has done to her. copy and paste in this link;
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/9b/89/1b9b89daf602dad7e1c19a5820fada54.jpg
Exactly as described.
And I have a hunch that she's even more wizened and wrinkled.
That story was from 2002.
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