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Republican Meteorologist Stands Up to Fight the War on Science
By: Peterr Saturday - FDL
March 31, 2012 9:00 am


Paul Douglas

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Paul Douglas, a nationally-respected meteorologist,put out a stunning blog post http://www.shawnotto.com/neorenaissance/blog20120329.html this week at neorenaissance, in which called on his GOP friends to give up the anti-science bluster, and face facts:

I’m going to tell you something that my Republican friends are loath to admit out loud: climate change is real. I am a moderate Republican, fiscally conservative; a fan of small government, accountability, self-empowerment, and sound science. I am not a climate scientist. I’m a meteorologist, and the weather maps I’m staring at are making me uncomfortable. No, you’re not imagining it: we’ve clicked into a new and almost foreign weather pattern. To complicate matters, I’m in a small, frustrated and endangered minority: a Republican deeply concerned about the environmental sacrifices some are asking us to make to keep our economy powered-up, long-term. It’s ironic. The root of the word conservative is “conserve.” A staunch Republican, Teddy Roosevelt, set aside vast swaths of America for our National Parks System, the envy of the world. Another Republican, Richard Nixon, launched the EPA. Now some in my party believe the EPA and all those silly “global warming alarmists” are going to get in the way of drilling and mining our way to prosperity. Well, we have good reason to be alarmed.

The whole thing is worth reading, and even more worth sending to your Republican friends.

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And he goes on. He talks about his Christian roots, and in essence calls out those who either don’t read their Bibles or use them to cloak their impulses to rape the planet. “Were we really put here to plunder the Earth, no questions asked? Isn’t that the definition of greed?”

And he goes on. He talks about economics and entrepreneurs, and notes that climate change is an opportunity for innovators to really make money. Don’t wave Solyndra around, he says, but face the facts of climate change. “We won’t drill our way out of this challenge; we’ll innovate our way into a new, lower-carbon energy paradigm. Something we’re pretty good at.”

And he goes on...

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Link: http://firedoglake.com/2012/03/31/republican-meteorologist-stands-up-to-fight-the-war-on-science/

Douglas's Blog Post, above and here: http://www.shawnotto.com/neorenaissance/blog20120329.html