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number 56 for 9-19-05
Not Again!
Ah, Drudge, you fuckhead.
My hate/hate relationship with this dude continues.
If you'll note, above, he has a picture of another hurricane, with the words, "NOT AGAIN!". This would, one might assume, show that he does not want another hurricane to occur, another devastating act of nature on man.
Or is it man on nature?
Consider Kyoto
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Bush backed us out of Kyoto, a treaty designed to stop this:
That's from the BBC. You know what it shows? Melting glaciers.
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And you know what? Melting glacier on Earth plus a shitload of greenhouse emissions equals:
Anyone?
That's right. More fucking hurricanes.
And what does the Republican party, which Drudge shills for, say about global warming?
Well, we need to study it more.
Go on, head on down to New Orleans and have a look, buttheads.
Bush's answer is to give businesses incentives instead of laws to cut down their pollution. NNNNT! Didn't work.
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Throwing money at things to fix them only works when you're going to Harvard. Or Yale. Or sneaking out of Vietnam.
Drudge even went so far as to mock a global warming summit, because Al Gore attended. Of course, Al Gore used a shitload of fuel to get there, becoming a hypocrite (which Drudge pointed out in another article), but that I agree with. What I don't like is that the man who pokes fun at Gore for having a global warming summit on a cold day, who mocks the criticism of Bush's inaction on global warming, has the nerve to bitch when the environment goes wonky.
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As early as last year in August, the Republican line was still, "More specific research is needed before regulating industry." This after Bush spends MILLIONS on said research and then ignores it.
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Research indicates that though hurricanes are declining, severe hurricanes have doubled.
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The Republican response to Katrina, however, is not, "Is there any way we could possibly avoid this?" but rather:
How can we use this as an argument for the repeal of the estate tax?
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I shit you not.
Personally, on a GUT level I can tell the weather is getting hotter by the year. Just in my personal observation, without data.
But if you want data, that's fine. Observe:
And Republicans will undoubtedly ignore this problem until it bites us in the ass again, being reactionary as opposed to proactive in everything except war.
My response to that?