As Michael Chewed Up FL, GOP Senators Lined Up To Lie About UN Report, Threats To Their Own States

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But on Wednesday, as Gulf Coast’s warmer-than-normal waters supercharged Michael into the most intense hurricane in U.S. history to make landfall in October, an array of GOP senators dismissed the report’s whole notion of aggressive climate action. “It’s totally unrealistic,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told the Huffington Post. “They must have parachuted in from another planet.”

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Barring the kind of policies proposed in the UN climate report — policies that Trump, Kennedy, and his colleagues uniformly oppose — New Orleans is all but certain to be slammed again and ultimately devastated by climate change. "They might as well be calling on me to sprout wings and fly to Canada for the summer,” Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) told HuffPost. Mississippi was also devastated by Katrina’s 20-foot storm surge.

“How is that new? They’ve said the same thing before,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Hours after Rubio made these remarks, Hurricane Michael leveled entire cities in his state.
Like a patient with worsening emphysema who smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, but keeps ignoring the doctors warnings, Rubio keeps dismissing the science.

During the 2016 campaign, Rubio was dismissive of the dangers that climate change pose to Florida, and he asserted that efforts to fight it are “just not good public policy.” Miami Beach mayor Philip Levine said candidate Rubio was “100% using the language of a climate change denier.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gop-mock-climate-science-as-u-s-slammed-by-strongest-october-hurricane-on-record-6b68a0f7aae4/

[Uncle Joe]

1. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread hatrack.

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

2. They don't care

They’re not pushing Mars exploration for the betterment of humanity. It’s so the hyper-rich have somewhere to flee, and leave the rest of us to burn, drown, and starve.

[irisblue]

3. This might be a good crosspost to GD, more eyes to see it