So let me get this straight.
You apparently agree on some basic facts:
- scientists note that the average temperature of the Earth is rising. This is projected to eventually cause massive ecological disaster, including increasing the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, concentrated areas of drought and floods, superstorms, and other not-good things for life on Earth in general, and human society specifically.
- scientists talk about global warming, trying to warn the population while there is still time to change course. A shift away from the fossil fuels and similar measures are needed to stop the increased concentration of greenhouse gasses and keep the climate relatively unchanged. This was noticed many decades before it would be too late.
- "global warming" enters the common popular vernacular. However, because the dramatic effects at this point were still in the future, and because of strong economic incentive to downplay it or pretend it didnt exist, people tended to disregard it.
- Conservatives, mostly led by the petrochemical companies that stand to lose profit as the world reduces reliance on fossil fuels, engage in full-throated denial which continues today.
- As time went on, scientists noted that "global warming" was not the best term, even though it's accurate at a global scale. It implies a uniform warming of the planet, which is not what actually happens. A shift to the term "climate change" begins.
- Now in late 2022, we are experiencing more frequent and more extreme weather events, as predicted by climate change.
You are now asserting that somehow Democrats are to blame for inaction on climate change, because they said it was going to get
warmer and the Midwest is currently facing a very cold extreme weather event, as predicted all along? Because of the "global warming" term?
Do I have that right? The Democrats, for all their many flaws, who have been at least
talking about climate change and moving away from fossil fuels, the things that would actually help mitigate these extreme weather events, are the ones responsible for a Midwest blizzard? Not the Republicans?
The Democrats are at fault for trying to turn off the doomsday device because the public was too stupid to listen past the two-word
name they used for it, and the Republicans who were shooing away every attempt to disarm the doomsday device bear no mention?
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