On Oct 25, 7:39 pm, Alastair <[email protected]> wrote:
> I dropped in yesterday for the first time in quite a while and saw my
> name mentioned so I can't resist responding :-) Moreover, how the
> sceptics would react when the shit hits the fan was something I had
> been curious about.
The answer is already in evidence.
The warmer temperatures in Helena Montana are wiping out the pines due
to mountain pine beetle, and it's mostly pines there. People are
shelling out $1000 per acre to address the resulting fire hazard. And
the area is a Republican stronghold, infested with deniers well before
the beetles started surviving the winters in droves.
Some deniers are trying to blame insufficient thinning or fire
suppression policies. But the most common denier response is to
accept climate change as the cause, but to continue to deny that
climate change is man-made. These Republicans will never admit that
Al Gore was right decades ago. They still hate what they view as
Democratic Party propaganda about man-made global warming.
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