GOP Claims Trump Framed, While Rome Burns In Climate Catastrophe
Hey, Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Louie Gohmert Jr., Tom Cotton and Steve Scalise, you proud Republican congressional climate change deniers, I hope you have your AC working when the “extreme belt” sends temperatures soaring to above 125 degrees in your beloved home states of Missouri, Florida, Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
That is the finding of a heat model released Monday by researchers from the nonprofit group First Street Foundation.
“We need to be prepared for the inevitable, that a quarter of the country will soon fall inside the ‘Extreme Heat Belt’ with temperatures exceeding 125 degrees Fahrenheit and the results will be dire,” Matthew Eby, founder and CEO of First Street Foundation, said in a statement.
Such unbearably hot temperatures will wreak havoc with Hawley’s Vienna, Va., home, where “Friendly neighborhoods, beautiful scenery, highly ranked schools, awesome community events, a low crime rate, a vibrant downtown with independent businesses, and a rich cultural legacy all make Vienna one of the country’s best places to live.”
To Goehmert, known by some as the “dumbest guy in congress,” I am sorry but your lovely town of Tyler, Texas, may not receive another “Parks for Tree City USA Growth award” because all of your trees may burn down, a victim of climate change.
If killer heat doesn’t get your blood boiling, how about the latest predictions in a new study by Science Advances which shows that climate change has already doubled the chances of a disastrous flood in California in the next four decades, a catastrophe of such dimensions it would be unlike anything anyone alive today has ever experienced.
The study projects that the area with the most destruction would be the Central Valley of California, including Sacramento, Fresno and Bakersfield. The Central Valley, roughly the size of Vermont and Massachusetts combined, produces a quarter of the nation’s food supply, according to the US Geological Survey.
A flood with the size to fill the valley has the potential to be the most expensive geophysical disaster in history, costing upwards of $1 trillion in losses and devastating the state’s lowland areas, including Los Angeles and Orange counties, according to the study.
Think about that Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., you who said, “The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it”, and that the Book of Genesis disproves the scientific consensus on climate change, which he has called “bad science.”
You said that you “don’t buy the idea that man-made activity is responsible.” Well something or somebody will be to blame when your valuable California rice farms float away or rot from the flooding.
Doug Mastriano, the far, far right wing GOP candidate for governor of Pennsylvania, who wants a re-do on the 2020 presidential election, has called climate change “pop science” and falsely said that links between fossil fuels and warming are just “theory.”
For my money, I put my trust in scientists like Eby, not carnival barkers like Mastriano or any of the other trump lackeys and climate change deniers.
Climate change supercharges heavy rain events, making deadly flash floods more common, as has been seen this summer in eastern Kentucky, St. Louis, and even in California’s Death Valley National Park.
Not to worry because Republicans have other more immediate concerns, like trying their darndest to convince the world that trump is a victim of rogue FBI agents and the deep state and that the ex-leader did nothing wrong in having dozens of boxes of top secret documents shipped to his gaudy, Mar-a-Lago estate soon before he left office in disgrace.
The GOP laser focus on rogue FBI agents has kept public attention off their commitment to block dramatic action to slow or reverse climate change, if that is still possible. If the projections by most reputable scientists are accurate and if the world doesn’t act real quickly, it won’t matter if Adolf Hitler returns from the grave because there will no world left to abuse.
The Democrats are trying. They passed the Inflation Reduction Act, the first comprehensive climate legislation in U.S. history. The legislation allocates around $374 billion on decarbonization and climate resilience over the next 10 years, getting the country about two-thirds of the way to America’s Paris Agreement goals.,
Not one Republican in the House or the Senate voted for the bill. That’s not a typo. Not one Republican in the House or the Senate voted for the bill. And look out if the Republicans gain the majority in Congress after the November elections. Guaranteed, that they will scrap anti-climate change legislation in a heartbeat.
Those who deny the abundance of science about human causes for climate change are politely called “climate deniers” but I prefer calling them murderers who are mortgaging the future of our children and our grandchildren and the future of the earth itself for a few dollars in campaign funds from the petrochemical industry.
And there are more climate deniers than ever, even though the effects of monster flooding, killer heat and more are as clear as the noses on their hypocritical faces. An analysis from the Center for American Progress, determined that 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. These climate-denying lawmakers have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries, according to the center.
Climate denial has been a Republican mantra at least since the reign of President George H.W. Bush, whose administration considered climate policy a dire threat to the economy and any attempts to cut into the nation’s insatiable thirst for petrochemicals must be avoided at any cost. The same philosophy continued with his son, George W., who famously stole the 2000 presidential election from Democrat Al Gore, who went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for his work on obtaining and disseminating information about the climate challenge, notable in his award winning book, “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Then there was trump, who said the COVID-19 pandemic would suddenly just disappear, declared that global warming was “a hoax” fueled by the left and when he was elected, he quickly pulled the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement. Trump brought the climate change denier insanity to a whole, new level in claiming that fossil fuels, especially coal and oil, are the solution and not the problem and should be fully supported and not reduced.
More than 97 percent of scientists concur that human activity and emissions of carbons are to blame for the steady warming and without regulation to curb emissions, the Earth will face disastrous conditions. But its poppycock to some of the worst climate deniers who are running for state and federal offices in November. They include:
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, has become a strong supporter for fracking, despite studies that show the leakage of natural gas used in fracking is mostly methane, which has strong global warming impacts.
Barbara Kirkmeyer, a Republican Colorado state senator running for Congress, said “the Earth has been gradually warming since the Little Ice Age. To what extent any warming is a result of man-caused activity is unknown.” Sorry, Kirkmeyer, it is a scientific fact that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere warms the planet, causing climate change. Human activities have raised the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content by 50 percent in less than 200 years.
Blake Masters, the Arizona Republican nominee for Senate, has gotten $13 million in campaign cash from billionaire, techno-king, Peter Thiel. Masters wants to push back on the “radical left” and the “false flags” planted by the elites and their climate change agenda.
“We gotta figure out if the Earth is warming up, and why, and how much of it is caused by humans,” Masters said when asked about climate change. There is nothing to “figure out” because reputable scientists around the world have long concluded that humanity is speeding up global warming.
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., called climate science “bullshit.” Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., claimed that photosynthesis disproved climate science. Rep. Tim Wahlberg, R-Mich., said God would “take care of” climate change. And in Georgia, football legend and GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker, said the U.S.’s “good air decided to float over to China’s bad air so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move. So it moves over to our good air space. Now, we’ve got to clean that back up.”
And the wiftiest of them all, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said that space lasers were responsible for California wildfires.
These self-serving morons are creating the worst fear, a fear of bringing children into the world. They should be prosecuted for “ecocide” for having committed notorious offenses against the environment.
Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby said the nation needs to wait for more scientific evidence “before we take any actions that could seriously cripple many sectors of our economy.” How much evidence is enough, Mr. Shelby, and how long must we wait, maybe till hell freezes over, which could come soon.
Another ultra-right wing, Republican Alabama lawmaker, Rep. Robert Aderholt, a proponent for expanding oil and natural gas production, asked, “what knowledge we do have of a warming period in the Middle Ages cannot be explained by current models which are focused on greenhouse gas reductions.” Say what?
Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said that rocks are causing rising sea levels and not heat generated by carbon dioxide.
“Every time you have that soil or rock, whatever it is, that is deposited into the seas, that forces the sea levels to rise because now you’ve got less space in those oceans because the bottom is moving up,” said Brooks.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, set the record straight by informing us that “despite what many climate change alarmists want us to believe, there is no general consensus on pinpointing the sole cause of global temperature trends.” In a word, Sullivan was incredibly wrong. That would be two words.
And Sullivan’s late, esteemed colleague, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, blew the lid off what he called “the biggest scam since the Teapot Dome… Just be careful of the scam; Al Gore’s biggest money-making machine in the world.”
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., was clear when he said, “I do not believe climate change is occurring.”
Lest he be accused of equivocating, Biggs went on to say that he didn’t believe “that humans have a significant impact on climate. The federal government should stop regulating and stomping on our economy and freedoms in the name of a discredited theory.”
In a time when lawmakers spout about pedophile Democrats and lasers causing forest fires, the wild conspiratorial beliefs about climate change seem lame in comparison. The difference is that the wild lies about climate change may decide whether the earth and humanity survive, or not.