But There's No Global Warming, Comrade!

By Carl

 

Item: Deadly Moscow summer kills 700 daily

 

Item: Greenland glacier calves island 4 times the size of Manhattan, UD scientist reports

 

Still, the clown car brigade refuses to face up to reality. Seven hundred people dying of heat daily. An iceberg four times the size of Manhattan island breaks off from Greenland's main glacier after sliding down a few hundred yards of meltwater, but hey, global warming is just a myth. Or it can't be responsible for this destruction.

 

There's your new meme from the asshats of Alaska et al. "Nobody could have forseen..." will now become extended from Condi Rice's mumbled excuse for the 9/11 attacks to encapsulate the single most reported upon, most documented, environmental disaster ever.

 

No one could have foreseen only if no one took their heads out of their asses.

 

Oh, the Moscow thing? Well, first off, Muscovites have never really needed air conditioning. Average summer highs are around 75. Temperatures this summer have regularly hit 100. This, coupled with weeks without the usual rainfall, has triggered massive wildfires in dry brush. Those have created a thick blanket of smog, and no wind to carry it off.

 

But no one could have foreseen this. Fourteen thousand Frenchmen can't be right.

 

The shortsightedness of the right wing has reached crippling lows. They're wrong about global warming, they're wrong about drilling for oil, they're wrong about budget deficits and healthcare and any number of issues that confront us and that must be tended to now.

 

They're just plain wrong.

 

(crossposted to Simply Left Behind)