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No matter what your take on our current arguement, this statement is 100% true, and I think we should be directing our resources towards making it through the storm, not controlling it. Recent ice cores (2006) found evidence that at one point the planet dropped 22 degrees in 3 years, previously speeds in delta average temperature were not thought possible. That would be a far worse problem than increasing carbon and temperatures which require us to wear less clothes and farm a larger % of the planet ( I know the implications are bad, just exaggerating).
These climate glitches are real. Some are due to super volcanos. For example 70,000 years ago this happened in Indonesia (Toba super eruption). The Earth was plunged into something like Carl Sagan's nuclear winter and the result was humanity nearly died out. All of us alive today can be traced by our genetic code to a single female who survived this time of troubles. Maybe the Bible was right after all.
Another event was 9800 years ago called the Younger-Dryas event in which the ocean currents in the N Atlantic were disrupted by fresh melt water from the collapsing Laurentian ice sheet in N America. Temperatures and precipitation were disrupted in Europe and N America and a ice age returned to these areas for nealy a thousand years.
denial is not a river in egypt.
we have so much of it in land of the free and home of the brave.
global warming is only one item on the list,
debt AIDS, bad marriages, high & costly divorce, rotten kids, understated crime disfunctional schools
I know that this is off topic but your quotes bear some comment. Please identify a single "Repug" who uttered those words.
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"We got tons of hate mail and threats, calling our patriotism into question." Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and The Weekly Standard, among others, all stood ready to pounce on journalists who strayed, branding them liberals or traitors—labels that could permanently damage a career. Gradually, journalists began to muzzle themselves.
Isn't this kinda like the Repugs saying "you're a traitor if you don't support the iraq war." I can taste the irony.
Krugman is also very qualified to speak on anthropogenic global warming because of his extensive scientific background and qualifications.
The only thing he cares about is the tax revenue he thinks it'll bring in. He has a vested interest in not being dead wrong with all his predictions. At one point he was urging $5 trillion in Keynesian money laundering.
denial is not a river in egypt.
we have so much of it in land of the free and home of the brave.
global warming is only one item on the list,
debt AIDS, bad marriages, high & costly divorce, rotten kids, understated crime disfunctional schools
And what about his strawman protests that he didn't cause the housing bubble, much less the Enron scandal or Kennedy's assassination? The man is willfully missing the point. What is damning about these quotes is not that he necessarily caused anything. What is devastating about them is that they expose the intellectual bankruptcy of his economic principles. Those who look up to him like the second coming of Adam Smith should realize that the neo-Keynesian principles that lead him to advocate aggressive interest-rate cuts and mammoth public spending now, are the very same principles that led him to advocate inducing a housing bubble then. He would himself affirm that his economic principles haven't fundamentally changed since then. So the conclusions and policy prescriptions he infers from them are just as wildly wrong now as they were then.
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I know the implications are bad, just exaggerating).
