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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham
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This "Green New Deal" proves once and for all that Democrats deny the science of climate change. They don't see it as a problem that needs to be solved through political compromise, but an opportunity to exploit to promote their politics, like union jobs.
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2/ Whether or not you believe "union jobs" is a good thing, you'll have to admit that nothing in the science demands they are necessary to fight man-made climate change. I've read a lot of scientific papers and consensus reports, and nowhere do they mention "union jobs".
3/ On the other hand, scientists do know what will mitigate manmade climate-change: stop burning fossil fuels. By far the most obvious thing you can do to cut down on burning fossil fuels is a carbon tax, which AOC rejects in her Green New Deal.
4/ That's "science denial": when you reject any science that goes against your ideology while embracing any science that appears to agree with your ideology.
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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham
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So Chris Wallace (host of @FoxNewsSunday) is probably the best of TV journalism, which you can tell by how much hate he gets from supporters of people he interviews.
For the record, he did treat the Obama administration the same way, with tough question:
I mention this because interpreting journalism is an art. You can tell which journalists do their homework and who care about the "truth", vs. those who don't do their homework and don't really care about exposing the truth, or have an ax to grind.
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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham
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Fake news. "HHS-SE" isn't a domain name.
Also fake: dot-matrix printers didn't have the ability to reproduce signatures that way
And somehow I missed the blue underlined addresses which are probably the most objectionable thing
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Robᵉʳᵗ Graham
@ErrataRob
1/ This is an example of how AOC's understanding of the science is less than that of Trump -- which is quite an achievement. Yes, man's burning of fossil fuels is warming the climate, but it's not causing these disasters, at least not yet.
2/ Trump's been tweeting nonsense that this winter's cold weather means there's no global warming. But at the same time, the AOC crowd points to every drought, wildfire, and flood claiming they are caused by global warming. It's the same argument: anecdotes instead of science.
3/ The smarter AOC crowd says that while THIS drought/wildfire/flood may not be caused by manmade warming, it still shows how they are becoming more common. But here's the thing: they aren't becoming more common, at least not yet.
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