Apparently, the Republicans are having bear-baiting competitions all over Nevada tonight. (I'm hoping somebody has a camera at a caucus in, say, Laughlin, in which the forces of He, Trump feel that they're being hosed. A new venue for the latest UFC production!) This is probably a smart play. All of the candidates on that side of the field have pronounced themselves not fooled by the Great Climate Change Hoax and, if things keep going the way they are, Nevada will have substantial beachfront property to sell one day.
Though these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of standing saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing lawns and trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm drains, polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland. Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests. "I think we need a new way to think about most coastal flooding," said Benjamin H. Strauss, the primary author of one of two related studies released on Monday. "It's not the tide. It's not the wind. It's us. That's true for most of the coastal floods we now experience."
The fact that one-half of our political system is pledged to the absolute denial of an existential threat to life on the planet is an altogether remarkable thing that is commented on not nearly enough in our national dialogue. Here's your Republican frontrunner.
Most recently, on Dec. 30, 2015, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Hilton Head, S.C., "Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, OK? It's a hoax, a lot of it." That's three times using "hoax" in one sentence. Trump has also used the word on Twitter since that 2012 tweet. On Jan. 25, 2014, Trump tweeted, "NBC News just called it the great freeze—coldest weather in years.

And here's one of his primary rivals.
CRUZ: There is a fundamental difference, which is in the name of global warming, you have politicians trying to impose trillions of dollars of cost on the world. In the I-95 Corridor, among the Washington elite, global warming is very popular because it makes you feel good about caring for the world. But I'll tell you, you know who I'm concerned about? I'm concerned about the single mom waiting tables right now, who for seven years of the Obama economy has been trapped in stagnation. Her wages have been stagnating. It's harder and harder to make ends meet. And what the Washington elites are trying to do is double her energy bill.
The "moderate" Republican position is to admit that, yes, the climate is changing but, no, we don't really know why, and also there's nothing we can do about it short of pauperizing the country.
Young Marco Rubio, whose home state is headed for a future as an elaborately festooned coral reef, is particularly fond of this line of argument. Maybe it's unreasonable for us to expect to act as a species because we decline so strongly the opportunity to confront the climate as a nation. The ocean doesn't care. It declines to participate in earnest debates about federalism and the role of government. It just keeps on eating bits of Florida
Though these types of floods often produce only a foot or two of standing saltwater, they are straining life in many towns by killing lawns and trees, blocking neighborhood streets and clogging storm drains, polluting supplies of freshwater and sometimes stranding entire island communities for hours by overtopping the roads that tie them to the mainland. Such events are just an early harbinger of the coming damage, the new research suggests. "I think we need a new way to think about most coastal flooding," said Benjamin H. Strauss, the primary author of one of two related studies released on Monday. "It's not the tide. It's not the wind. It's us. That's true for most of the coastal floods we now experience."
The fact that one-half of our political system is pledged to the absolute denial of an existential threat to life on the planet is an altogether remarkable thing that is commented on not nearly enough in our national dialogue. Here's your Republican frontrunner.
Most recently, on Dec. 30, 2015, Trump told the crowd at a rally in Hilton Head, S.C., "Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and … a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, OK? It's a hoax, a lot of it." That's three times using "hoax" in one sentence. Trump has also used the word on Twitter since that 2012 tweet. On Jan. 25, 2014, Trump tweeted, "NBC News just called it the great freeze—coldest weather in years.

And here's one of his primary rivals.
CRUZ: There is a fundamental difference, which is in the name of global warming, you have politicians trying to impose trillions of dollars of cost on the world. In the I-95 Corridor, among the Washington elite, global warming is very popular because it makes you feel good about caring for the world. But I'll tell you, you know who I'm concerned about? I'm concerned about the single mom waiting tables right now, who for seven years of the Obama economy has been trapped in stagnation. Her wages have been stagnating. It's harder and harder to make ends meet. And what the Washington elites are trying to do is double her energy bill.
The "moderate" Republican position is to admit that, yes, the climate is changing but, no, we don't really know why, and also there's nothing we can do about it short of pauperizing the country.
Young Marco Rubio, whose home state is headed for a future as an elaborately festooned coral reef, is particularly fond of this line of argument. Maybe it's unreasonable for us to expect to act as a species because we decline so strongly the opportunity to confront the climate as a nation. The ocean doesn't care. It declines to participate in earnest debates about federalism and the role of government. It just keeps on eating bits of Florida
