Eric Idle about the weather

[BootinUp]

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[OAITW r.2.0]

1. I think we've been talking about climate change for 20 years.

But the idiots in charge don't get it. What now?

[Tumbulu]

3. At least 40 years

I remember it being a big topic of discussion in the early ‘80’s. The late ‘70’s among many of us.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Jimmy Carter got it. He tried to lead.

But there was too much money to be made. Bush brokering cheap oil to the US market.

[LT Barclay]

11. Another tidbit I should have saved, I read about a physicist who hypothesized about global warming

around 1912.
Someone wrote about the dangers of coal in London in the 1850's.
Rachel Carson warned us about pesticides about 70 years ago (and the right is still trying to discredit her).

People only belive what they want to. It is nearly hopeless.

What now? I think the kids suing are the best hope. But with our current SCOTUS, I think their suit will finally die.

[calimary]

2. Stand by while my husband puts on his best falsetto voice

and wails - “WHO could have POSSIBLY KNOWN?????”

[czarjak]

4. Stop Global Whining

[Rhiannon12866]

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[certainot]

7. in europe they're way ahead but the US is a leader and environmentalists have completely failed to

recognize rw radio denying gw for 30 years. at $1000/hr 1200 radio stations x 15hrs/day are worth about $90M/week or $5B per yr!

all that's fucking FREE! paid for by advertisers often attracted by more than 87 universities supporting 260+ republican radio stations.... why? where the fuck are the environmental groups not complaining about it?

right now klobuchar and whitehouse on MSNBC talking about dark money giving us this supreme court. wake the fuck up democrats - it's the radio!

limbaugh spent 3 weeks calling christine blasey ford a paid dem operative for exposing kavenaugh. like he did to anita hill to get thomas on. that didn't cost shit. endorsed by 260+ limbaugh stations and paid for by advertisers that will continue to have no fucking clue until dems finally do something.

[BootinUp]

9. .

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread...” “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' ” - Isaac Asimov

Yes, there is a ton of money funding propaganda. But people make a choice to ignore the scientists.

[aggiesal]

8. I know right. Stupid scientists n/t

[betsuni]

10. Al Gore trying for decades to publicize the scientific evidence: years of jokes when it got cold.

I couldn't even talk about the weather if it got cold in winter with my nutty right-wing mother without a snarky Al Gore global warming comment. Then from other directions, he was a "coastal elite" "establishment" "neoliberal" both sides whatever.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

12. But Ralph Nader insisted their was no difference between him and Bush

[betsuni]

14. Idiot!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

13. We WERE warned; and don't call me "Shirley". nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. But I have seen a snowball!