Climate Change: Calling Out the Other Side

Environment • April 2011 • Views: 1,227

I want to call out a left-leaning site today.

This article at ThinkProgress is obnoxious as hell. Basically it argues that the people who were killed by tornadoes in Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi had it coming because they didn’t believe in climate change.

Even if it’s “just snark” as some of the comments there have said, snark is not an appropriate way to respond to people suffering terribly from a natural disaster. Period. This is like a bully on the playground kicking a kid who’s down and saying “Yah, yah, toldja you’d get hurt if you didn’t do like I said.”

ThinkProgress should be ashamed for publishing this. The people who comment there should stand back and consider their own behavior.

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6 comments

RanchTooth Apr 29, 2011 11:36:57am

The congressional delegations of these states — Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia, and Kentucky — overwhelmingly voted to reject the science that polluting the climate is dangerous. They are deliberately ignoring the warnings from scientists.

Ok… So if their delegates did vote for climate change, would they have been able to, say, change the climate and prevent this from happening? If so, AWESOME. Otherwise, this seems incredibly irrelevant and disrespectful.

Interesting Times Apr 29, 2011 1:38:38pm

I do hate playing Magical Balance Fairy/Tu Quoque games, but here’s why I just can’t get too upset about this issue:

littlegreenfootballs.com

No matter what stupidity may occasionally come from the Left, the Right utterly eclipses it, in spades and spades and spades.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Apr 29, 2011 1:44:52pm

Then there is the issue that this really is a predicted product of climate change.

Of course, I don’t want to see people get hurt. Why do you think I have been screaming about this issue for years? I want to prevent that. The best way to prevent that is to let people not forget the root causes here.

The millions homeless in Pakistan last month or the food riots in the M.E. sparked by the failed crops in other nations didn’t penetrate that this issue was real. Perhaps this will cause even people in the reddest states to see they are working very hard politically for the destruction of all of us.

Mad Prophet Ludwig Apr 29, 2011 1:46:55pm

PIMF

The millions homeless in Pakistan last year or the food riots in the M.E. sparked by the failed crops in other nations didn’t penetrate that this issue was real.

John Vreeland Apr 29, 2011 3:25:25pm

It is not clear to me that this crop failure had anything to do with climate change. At best all you can say is that such occurrences may change in frequency, and not even in which direction the change will be without careful analysis.

Worldwide temperature change is relatively easy to predict compared to local effects…especially precipitation. Generally we can expect rainfall to increase as temperature rises. But some places may see less.