On Oct 29, 2:28 pm, Tom Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
Yes, I had already realised that the rednecks would never accept the
blame. I was critisied for using the term redneck which is of course
pejorative. "Reds" are of course communists, so perhaps I can define a
new term "brownecks" which are people with right wing views
(conservatives) which range from hill-billys to international
entrepeneurs such as the Australian Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox TV
and the British newspapers; the Sun and the Times. With these
newspapers steady drip, drip, drip of anti European news, he has
alienated the UK electorate from the European Union, and he is
applying the same techneiques in the US to persuade people that AGW is
a scam. Being a browneck, he believes he is working in the interests
of humanity. but he is ensuring its destruction.
And so to bed,
Cheers, Alastair.
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