Posted on 02/09/2015 3:11:32 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Alfredo Padilla grew up in Texas as a migrant farmworker who followed the harvest with his parents to pick sugar beets in Minnesota each summer. He has not forgotten the aches of labor or how much the weather — too little rain, or too much — affected the family livelihood.
Now an insurance lawyer in Carrizo Springs, Tex., he said he was concerned about global warming.
“It’s obviously happening, the flooding, the record droughts,” said Mr. Padilla, who agrees with the science that human activities are the leading cause of climate change. “And all this affects poor people harder. The jobs are more based on weather. And when there are hurricanes, when there is flooding, who gets hit the worst? The people on the poor side of town.”
Mr. Padilla’s concern is echoed by other Hispanics across the country, according to a poll conducted last month by The New York Times, Stanford University and the nonpartisan environmental research group Resources for the Future. The survey, in which Mr. Padilla was a respondent, found that Hispanics are far more likely than whites to view global warming as a problem that affects them personally. It also found that they are far more likely to support policies, such as taxes and regulations on greenhouse gas pollution, aimed at curbing it.
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No hable anthropogenic global warming scenarios.
Well as long as Mr. Padilla agrees, who am I to question it???
Hispanics also love UFO’s
He’s an INSURANCE ATTORNEY.....ie....SHARK....so he’s gotta scare money up somehow!
Maybe they all should go home and then they won’t have to worry about “climate change”. They can siesta all day long without a care in the world.
Heating the Earth and melting the polar ice caps that American suns won’t heat.
If we have a dry season and poor people can't find a job picking produce, they lose a few thousand and instead get welfare. Meanwhile the farmer loses his crop for the year and maybe his farm worth millions.
Foghorn Leghorn sez: BULLsh (I say) BULL$hit
Cold in the winter, hot in the summer. It’s unbearable!!! Floods when it rains, drought when it doesn’t rain. We won’t even go into the historic snow flurries. Listen to the shyster lawyer! It’s unbearable!!! Hrumpf! Hrumpf!
Yep, former migrant farmworkers are known for nothing if not their scientific prowess.
Hawking, Einstein, Curie, Lavoisier, Galileo, Newton, DaVinci - each of them has credited their years of toiling in the hot fields for their greatness.
And I'm sure that our Atzlan compadres would like to deal with these climate excursions as did their ancestors. Ripping the hearts out of 100,000 living human sacrifices and offering them up to their snake god (which the city of San Jose, California was happy to set up an idol statue honoring this barbaric pagan god) should be good for starters...
Oh, yeah, totally impartial poll.
So, illegal Jose, with all of his myriad of problems, is worried about global warming? The low information morons in the US would agree. Geez.....
I didn't know that Obama was part Hispanic too.
Of course. Because Hispanics (as a group) are natural Democrat drones, like Blacks. That is why Jeb, McCain, Rove, Ryan, Norquist and the rest of the amnesty pimps are 100% wrong. Mass amnesty will end the GOP.
Is the Times going Spanish?
Looks like they’re trying to influence some Republicans to start yammering about ‘climate change’ so most other Republicans won’t vote for them.
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