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Opinion: Surrender on climate change bakes catastrophe in the planet’s cake
The Seattle Times ^ | July 22, 2022 | By Jon Talton

Posted on 07/22/2022 7:33:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Historians of the future will look back on 2022 as the year America gave up addressing human-caused climate change.

And given the United States’ critical role in international leadership, this will be remembered as the year the world gave up, too.

President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda contained much of the Green New Deal, aiming for a 100% clean energy economy by 2050; making big investments in clean-energy technology, climate research and innovation; becoming the world’s leading exporter of clean-energy technology, and standing up to big polluters and greenhouse-gas emitters.

But even watered down, it couldn’t make it through Congress.

Republicans appear likely to win one or both chambers in the fall, and the GOP is stalwartly opposed even to believing climate change is real and human-caused, much less to addressing it. The most modest progress, such as investing in Amtrak, which moves more people with less emissions than most other modes, may be at risk.

And don’t forget that former President Donald Trump and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell packed a right-wing supermajority on the Supreme Court. This past month the court voted 6-3 to limit the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to curb power-plant emissions.

But reality doesn’t care what Republicans “believe.”

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: echochamber; frcancelculture; globalwarming; groupthink; hoax; jontalton; propaganda; socialism
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To: mountainlion

OMG it’s 90 degrees in July. The word be ending LOL


21 posted on 07/22/2022 7:48:02 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: mountainlion

Only Almighty God can change and control the climate. Man cannot.


22 posted on 07/22/2022 7:48:12 AM PDT by sport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no such thing as man made global warming. Another scam by scum!


23 posted on 07/22/2022 7:48:59 AM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Tell It Right
A few hundred years from now when we enter yet another cooling phase, historians will look back to now and laugh at the people who thought the Modern Warm Period was somehow different and eternal because they couldn't learn from history and all the prior warming and cooling periods.

Climate change loonies will be looked at in the future the same way as we look at the alchemists today.

24 posted on 07/22/2022 7:49:53 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (11/3-11/4/2020 - The USA became a banana republic.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

In the summer it’s hot. Wow. When did that start happening? We’d better do something about it!


25 posted on 07/22/2022 7:50:21 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: enumerated
Do you believe this rubbish that you are peddling? If not, why not say so, or at least add a barf alert?

I don't think he believes this stuff. In his numerous past postings about the climate hoax, Oldeconomybuyer would always start the thread with a photo of Goebbels, the noted Nazi propagandist/liar from the 3rd Reich.

I don't know why he has stopped giving us the photo because it did show exactly what he thought of this climate garbage.

Bring back Goebbels!

26 posted on 07/22/2022 7:50:51 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s stipulate that the Earth has an appropriate temperature, and that you can measure it (yes, I know that’s false).

What’s the climate null hypothesis? Is it that the temperature does not change absent human activity?


27 posted on 07/22/2022 7:50:55 AM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: nobody in particular
>> . The most modest progress, such as investing in Amtrak,

We already waste billions in that dark money pit called Amtrak, and this joker wants to spend more?

28 posted on 07/22/2022 7:51:11 AM PDT by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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To: bigbob

Have they named a school after AOC yet?

I think there was a Caliph Baraq Elementary by his second year as POTUS.


29 posted on 07/22/2022 7:52:04 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Reality and the Red Chinese don't care what Jon Talton and the Seattle Times believe either. They and most of the rest of the world are going to keep burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil no matter what the United States and the limited part of the developed world does because the reality is that renewal sources of energy are nowhere nearly developed enough to replace the current, much less the future needs.

Nobody much believes the climate change cult even believes much of their own preaching either because, among other examples, they are buying prime coastal properties in Florida or along the Rivera rather than buying wheat fields (or potential wheat fields) in Alberta or Siberia.

30 posted on 07/22/2022 7:53:48 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Deo volente
In the summer it’s hot. Wow. When did that start happening? We’d better do something about it!

What we should be doing is preparing for Winter, because then it gets cold. And with energy prices people are going to freeze to death. We need to drill and refine and do it now.

31 posted on 07/22/2022 7:54:00 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: bigfootbob; enumerated

I like seeing the Seattle Times in despair, I think posting this is fine.


32 posted on 07/22/2022 7:54:49 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: Vigilanteman

Kind of funny that Caliph Baraq bought one ocean front mansion in Massachusetts and is building another one in Hawaii.


33 posted on 07/22/2022 7:54:56 AM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: bigfootbob

‘Why post it here?’

looks like you and a few others here could use a tune up of your sarcasm meters...


34 posted on 07/22/2022 7:55:15 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The cliamte alarmists may think they have tons of calculations about the climate on their side - so they think - but they have next to zero calculations on the negative economic and human impacts on their artificial deadlines for achieving all their mandates.

Their “green” mandates are to the economy what Pol Pot was to Cambodia - mass destruction for a “true believer’s” agenda.


35 posted on 07/22/2022 7:57:47 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: SaxxonWoods

James Gregory on climate change. Comedy gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6EQHNz9Yho


36 posted on 07/22/2022 7:58:29 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: sport

‘Only Almighty God can change and control the climate.’

actually, the sun controls climate temperatures...


37 posted on 07/22/2022 7:59:35 AM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The athor of this opinion piece is a novelist. (look him up).

My guess is this latest piece he wrote is another novel.


38 posted on 07/22/2022 7:59:52 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: SGCOS; All
>> . The most modest progress, such as investing in Amtrak,

We already waste billions in that dark money pit called Amtrak, and this joker wants to spend more?

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To the Deep Green Climate Alarmist, the subsidizing of Amtrak is wonderful, because it moves money from the general population to his favored population, as well as centralizing government control over transportation.

Win-win for him!

Remember, to him, most people in flyover country are dangerous hicks who are superstitious and ignorant, with guns.

They (us) need to be disarmed, moved in to dense public housing for better control, and the children properly indoctrinated in public schools to teach them civilized manners and attitudes, especially to move them away from dangerous, obsolete religions.

The public schools have the added benefit of grooming more kids for the sexual pleasure of the urban populations...

39 posted on 07/22/2022 7:59:54 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What hyperbole!!

They’re getting desperate that none of their scare tactics are working.

It started with global warming, when that didn’t materialize they switched to “climate change”, when that didn’t do the trick, they went to “climate crisis” and then “climate emergency” and now they’re gleefully promising “WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE”.


40 posted on 07/22/2022 8:00:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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