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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Madness, Part II (Global Warming)


Most intelligent, rational people (meaning those whose sources of information go beyond Fox News) accept global warming as an unhappy fact, and acknowledge that we humans are responsible for it.

There are those who do not accept it, or our role in it. These folks are known as the oil, gas, and coal industries. To maximize their profits, they produce and burn gigatons of hydrocarbons, and pretend it doesn't matter.

The attack dog of these industries is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which in the past couple years has become a purely political factory of lies and propaganda. The truth is goddam inconvenient, so the Chamber avoids it.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is now a professional global-warming-denial activist. They insist that, despite all evidence, climate change is simply not occuring. But just in case they happen to be wrong about that, they recently filed a brief with the EPA urging them not to regulate carbon emissions, in which they claimed:

"Populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, technological and physiological adaptations."

That's right, folks. When this world really starts to cook, don't sweat it -- just change your physiology. Sprout a fucking heat shield. Darwin would be proud.

If that's not insane, I don't know what is.

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