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Red States Are Getting a New Shade of Redder-people who deny climate change most likely to suffer
Slate ^ | December 12, 2014 | Joshua Zaffos

Posted on 12/12/2014 1:28:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife

".....Yuma,Colorado, a farming town of 3,500 people near the Kansas border, celebrated last month as homegrown Republican Cory Gardner was elected to the U.S. Senate. Gardner, a high school football player and the son of a farm equipment dealer, defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Mark Udall to help the GOP gain control of the Senate in the second-most expensive congressional race of all time.

Gardner represented Colorado’s 4th Congressional District for four years, an expansive territory that covers the mostly flat and rural eastern third of the state. Farmers there mostly grow corn to feed cattle, and water comes from the quickly depleting Ogallala Aquifer.

Gardner ran for Senate as “a new kind of Republican.” That means he was bold enough to stand in front of a wind turbine and voice support for both renewable energy and natural gas. But Gardner, who leans toward the Tea Party, has also questioned whether people are causing climate change. His climate-skeptic position is ironic—and dangerous for his very constituents.

....That’s according to analysis from a forthcoming peer-reviewed study in the journal Ecosphere by Brady Allred of the University of Montana and colleagues. Allred’s study looked at political representation, agricultural and natural-resources land cover,and projected climate disruptions across the nation’s 435 U.S. House districts. The researchers discovered that the districts with the most agriculture and natural resources are predominantly represented by Republicans who, like Gardner,generally deny the science of global warming. Those districts also likely face the most severe climate changes.....

The disconnect isn’t just depressing news for climate-conscious voters in other parts of the country. The failure to act on climate issues could devastate the nation’s breadbasket. Climate change could harm corn, soy, wheat, and cattle production,affecting U.S. and global food supplies. In other words,the effects of political polarization and Republican aversion to climate action could harm everyone....

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Kansas; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: bradyallred; climatechange; climateliars; coal; colorado; conservatism; coreygardner; corygardner; deniermeme; dnctalkingpoints; epa; fakescience; farmers; fishing; gardner; globalwarming; globalwarmingscare; hysteria; joshuazaffos; junkscience; kansas; lumber; manbearpig; markudall; mining; montana; oil; pravdamedia; pseudoscience; science; slate; slatebias
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It's the economy stupid!

"Climate change/disruption/warming/cooling" is a progressive political tool used to dictate and grow government.

Oh! The horror! The "stupid" Tea Party is driving climate disruption disrespect; they've taken over the south and are on a march across the nation.

The Left will keep beating the Climate Disruption drum, warning the country that this is settled science and the consequences are so dire - ignorant Tea Party ideas so dangerous - that they should not be listened to or allowed to serve in political office. How long before the EPA and Obama EO take over the management of food producing regions currently under GOP control? Well, I guess they already have with onerous EPA regulations in the thousands - with more in the works.

The states must continue suing the Feds to combat this liberal lie and job/economy/national security killer. Texas is doing their part on that front, and is not letting up. Texas is front and center in many lawsuits: Texas leads coalition of states in lawsuit against Obama immigration actions

So the state media laughs and tells the nation that southerners are stupid, that Texans gets the gold star of stupidity for electing stupid Rick Perry as governor repeatedly since 2000 (be sure to avert your gaze from Texas' outstanding and growing economy!).

Stupid, stupid, stupid right-wing extremists continue to deny manipulated climate change computer models - that is, when we're not busy being racists, homophobes, Christians, anti-women, anti-science, anti-government, anti-education, pro-military, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-Israel....

1 posted on 12/12/2014 1:28:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The perilously liberal Slate desperately trys to hangs on to Liberal press “power”.


2 posted on 12/12/2014 1:31:05 AM PST by sr4402
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The perilously liberal Slate desperately tries to hang on to Liberal press “power”.


3 posted on 12/12/2014 1:31:38 AM PST by sr4402
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"Lysenkoism (Russian: Лысе́нковщина), or Lysenko-Michurinism was the centralized political control exercised over genetics and agriculture by Trofim Lysenko and his followers. Lysenko was the director of the Soviet Union's Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Lysenkoism began in the late 1920s and formally ended in 1964.

Lysenkoism was built on theories of the heritability of acquired characteristics that Lysenko named "Michurinism". These theories depart from accepted evolutionary theory and Mendelian inheritance.

Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives."..... Lysenkoism

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And millions starved to death (and denying scientists - "disrupting the democratic order of the people" - were imprisoned and killed).

4 posted on 12/12/2014 1:33:15 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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Celebrating 25 years: The Society of Environmental Journalists
5 posted on 12/12/2014 1:36:11 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
The coming ice age is non discriminatory.

Women, children, dims, GOPe'rs, Freepers, islamics, mormons, illegals and legals will all freeze.

6 posted on 12/12/2014 2:13:48 AM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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TEA Party Conservative Wins Senate Seat

Journalists & Academics Hardest Hit!!!

Read All About It!
7 posted on 12/12/2014 2:18:17 AM PST by smoothsailing
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
"Climate change/disruption/warming/cooling" is a progressive political tool used to dictate and grow government."

Climate "scientists" are Grubering the folks.

8 posted on 12/12/2014 2:27:10 AM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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To: spokeshave

And don’t forget, farmers.


9 posted on 12/12/2014 2:55:33 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

>>Those districts also likely face the most severe climate changes.....

“Climate” does affect individual districts differently. Climate Change, aka Fundamentalist Gaia Worship, is a stupid religion.


10 posted on 12/12/2014 2:59:56 AM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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“Red States Are Getting a New Shade of Redder-people who deny climate change most likely to suffer”

Off-topic here, but the first thing this headline made me think was that it could have been written as follows:

“Red States Are Getting a New Shade of Redder-people who want to be allowed to keep their guns and their magazines”

...and don’t think that’s not happening, because it is. It is getting VERY HARD for Blue-State companies to recruit from Red States now (at least I suspect as much, given my family’s preferences), while no problem the other way. Those Blue States are starting to pay a price for their draconian gun control.


11 posted on 12/12/2014 3:51:25 AM PST by BobL (I'm so old, I can remember when most hate crimes were committed by whites - Thomas Sowell, 2014)
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What do the liberal bigots at Slate have against “red” people?


12 posted on 12/12/2014 3:56:54 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Lysenkoism is used metaphorically to describe the manipulation or distortion of the scientific process as a way to reach a predetermined conclusion as dictated by an ideological bias, often related to social or political objectives.".....

That bears repeating.

13 posted on 12/12/2014 3:57:59 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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——His climate-skeptic position is ironic—and dangerous for his very constituents.——

Oh noes...dangerous....

In what way....crops will grow better with more CO2...?


14 posted on 12/12/2014 4:00:13 AM PST by Popman
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To: smoothsailing
TEA Party Conservative Wins Senate Seat

Journalists & Academics Hardest Hit!!!

So good!

15 posted on 12/12/2014 4:58:55 AM PST by Prov1322 (Enjoy my wife's incredible artwork at www.watercolorARTwork.com! (This space no longer for rent))
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A large serving of pap for breakfast. Yuck!

Guess I’ll fry up sausage and scrambled eggs for breakfast.


16 posted on 12/12/2014 5:46:11 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Climate Change? CO2 is plant food.


17 posted on 12/12/2014 6:14:45 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: smoothsailing

Slate: what a piece of rubbish


18 posted on 12/12/2014 6:18:51 AM PST by CPT Clay (Follow me on Twitter @Clay N TX)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Us “deniers” know how God will wind things up, and this ain’t it. In fact, God will cause environmental catastrophe after environmental catastrophe before He destroys everything completely.


19 posted on 12/12/2014 6:29:07 AM PST by afsnco
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Climate change could harm corn, soy, wheat, and cattle production,affecting U.S. and global food supplies. In other words,the effects of political polarization and Republican aversion to climate action could harm everyone...
Not the babies aborted by the Demagogic Party.
20 posted on 12/12/2014 6:29:08 AM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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