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The Bob Cesca Podcast: Airports

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus7/10/2019 2:58:14 am PDT

Imagine someone at McClatchy thinking this is a headline worth writing:

Can Lindsey Graham help improve the GOP’s image on the environment?

Now imagine this paragraph in the story:

The two parties have historically differed in their approaches to protecting the environment. Democrats have typically favored more government regulations on carbon emissions and use of natural resources, for instance, while Republicans worry about creating too many regulatory burdens for American businesses and prefer to create incentives for environmental innovation instead.

And it not being quotes (from Graham) but written by the McClatchy writer EMMA DUMAIN.

And then imagine the writer putting this down on electrons:

Democrats and Republicans also have found themselves at odds over the concept of climate change and whether human activities have contributed to the phenomenon of global warming. Democrats embrace the theory of climate change as a man-made problem, while many Republicans are either reluctant to acknowledge it or disagree with the science behind it.

The phrase “theory of climate change as a man-made problem” doesn’t even parse well as an English sentence, unless the writer means the (inappropriate worded) “theory” is the “problem”.