Why is The Right (seemingly) so Anti-Climate Change?

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piasabird

Lifer
Feb 6, 2002
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It is kind of silly to say that conservatives are against climate change. Not accepting global warming is totally different from the concept of climate change. Being 52 years old and somewhat conservative, I would have to say I have noticed, in that time, that the climate of the US, especially the midwest, is constantyl changing in cycles. When I was in Grade-school I lived on a lake and we skated on the ice all winter long. It was liked we lived on the ice.

I have seen periods of droughts and snow storms that were very heavy. The Mississippi river has flooded severely at least twice and been so low is was as if it was a giant sandbar. So the weather is constantly changing in cycles. 10 years ago it was so humid in the mississippi valley that the sweat would just cling to you. The only constant thing in the midwest is the weather is constantly changing.

You cant really be against climate change, you just have to live with it.

What is naive, is the concept that Man can reverse climate trends. I think you have been watching too much star trek.
 

palehorse

Lifer
Dec 21, 2005
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I think I speak for most who are right of center -- even those those are only a little to the right, like me -- when I say this about MMGW and the proposals that supposedly address it:

BECAUSE WE DON'T LIKE WASTING HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF FUCKING DOLLARS ON SHIT THAT IS STILL BASED ON NOTHING MORE THAN THEORIES AND ENFORCED GUILT.

The fact that those theories are turning out to be completely fabricated and/or based on purposely falsified/manipulated data doesn't exactly help either.

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