- cross-posted to:
- climate
- cross-posted to:
- climate
“I’ve been [in] helicopters in the West, in the Southwest and Northwest, flown over more land burned to the ground, all the vegetation gone, than the entire state of Maryland,” Biden told his audience, partly referring to the wildfires now raging in Texas. “The idea there’s no such thing as climate change, I love that, man," the president added with evident sarcasm. "I love some of my Neanderthal friends who still think there’s no climate change.”
The root cause is well known - greenhouse gases, largely from extracting and burning fossil fuels:
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Holy shit, are we really at the point where people don’t know what simile and metaphor are?
We’re at the point where the Republicans pretend to not know in order to throw tantrums.
The author really took those old Geico commercials to heart, didn’t he.
Would Neanderthals have denied climate change? Who knows. Who cares. But this is a very stupid argument to be had. Anyone who wasted their time debating this rather than spending that time on solving the problem of climate change really must have both their priorities and intelligence questioned.
To even bring up this question is to distract from the problem by creating a false controversy, so anyone who would do so, must be suspected of sabotaging any efforts to move forward in dealing with a problem of climate change.
It’s the same type of argument you see with things like , “we can’t allow the gays to marry, because then dogs will fuck my baby!”
