California recently recorded record warm temperatures for March.
Tornadoes touched down in New Orleans. Donald Trump would like us to believe
this is "weather." A clever observation from a man whose previous
experience with science had him staring at a solar eclipse. Still, one might
imagine that this man was truly interested in ramping up for a rerun at the
White House in 2024, he might do well to temper his blather.
Nope.
“In my opinion, you have a thing called
weather. And you go up and you go down. If you look into the 1920s, they
were talking about global freezing. OK? In other words, the globe was going to
freeze. And then they go global warming, and then they couldn’t use that
because the temperatures were actually quite cool, and it’s many different
things. The climate’s always been changing.”
That
last little bit may stand as the only tacit confession that the former
game-show host and twice impeached "president" will ever make. As for
the "global freezing" in the 1920s, well it doesn't seem as though
there is any science to back that
up. Rather we have the opposite, but this should not deter those who follow
this disgrace. Instead, you can bet that somewhere in a concrete bunker there
are minorly skilled minions cranking out "The climate's always been
changing" T-shirts while social media flacks are using their limited
familiarity with technology to promote this weak train of thought.
Because
it makes those people feel better about this wreck of a planet that we are
handing over to our kids. My wife heard me grousing about the most recent
Marjorie Taylor Greene rant about vaccines, and she asked the obvious question:
Does she have any kids? A quick check let us know that she has invited three
children into her death-spiral of a world.
Which
seems unconscionable. This of course presupposes the existence of a conscience
in any of these folks, but it continues to mine the potential for the next
generation being our last. Which is not sad. It's tragic.
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