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Orrex

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4. On Thursday, I overheard a coworker...

Reply to TheMastersNemesis (Original post)

Sun Aug 27, 2017, 02:17 PM

Aug 2017

telling another worker that plants are the biggest sort of CO2 emissions, followed by volcanoes. Humans barely have any impact at all, he asserted.

The bottom line is this: regardless of the nigh-unanimous scientific consensus, Republican idiots will find any number of scapegoats, even as their own homes are flooding. They would rather face catastrophic loss "by God's will" than admit that evil liberal science is right.

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Is 50 Inches Of Rain Enough To Make People Listen? [View all] TheMastersNemesis Aug 2017 OP

They won't admit there is a connection to climate change BainsBane Aug 2017 #1

Trump and Co. will say it's a hundred year exception and shrug it off. fierywoman Aug 2017 #2

Yeah, it's just coincidence that Houston has had 100 years in 2009, '15, '16, & '17. politicat Aug 2017 #5

Some will see it as a punishment from God Generic Brad Aug 2017 #3

On Thursday, I overheard a coworker... Orrex Aug 2017 #4