We all still have to deal with the anti-science people or just the political deniers who are frightened of progress on anything.\u00a0 Now President Obama is getting involved in explaining the science of storms to the American people, and how more storms are the result of growing global warming, not less global warming.\u00a0 If he can do this, anyone can, mainly because the concept is\u00a0 quite simple and you don’t have to be a scientist to explain it.\u00a0 Communicating climate change and its effects\u00a0 should not be left up to the scientists. Here is Obama last week:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
He is also right to emphasize jobs and how the new energy revolution is going to be a huge money maker for people who get involved right away (like now). I guess Republicans deniers will lose out on the energy revolution, which is ironic since they have traditionally been so interested in making money from everything possible, even exotic financial “instruments” that exist only on paper. \u00a0 Why would they reject a huge money-making opportunity that is actually something real and useful? (We don’t know.\u00a0 It defies all logic.)<\/p>\n
I call the deniers the anti-science bunch because “group” seems too large. People who reject the concept of man-made climate change are actually only a tiny, noisy, mostly partisan minority of people. \u00a0 For this tiny minority, and the larger group of skeptics, it does help to emphasize that the clean energy revolution will create jobs –\u00a0 millions of them eventually, and that’s largely because we need to rely on a mix of new renewable types of energy, not just one thing.\u00a0 This is already a tech boom in parts of the U.S. (like Silicon Valley). If Republicans deniers want to miss out, well, that’s their decision.<\/p>\n
This is a nice summary of Obama’s recent efforts at educating the\u00a0 denier movement by Think Progress:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe anti-science crowd has been doing a killer job pushing the myth that the big recent snowstorms somehow undercut our understanding of human-caused global warming,\u201d writes ClimateProgress\u2019 Joe Romm. Indeed, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sean Hannity, and even Donald Trump have found great pleasure in mocking Al Gore over the snowy winter storms. Today in a Nevada town hall meeting, President Obama took on the global warming deniers, explaining in straightforward language how record snowstorms in the nation\u2019s capital are connected to manmade climate change. . . “<\/p>\n
Read more here and get to work!\u00a0 We all have to help educate the public.\u00a0\u00a0 And President Obama and others in our government have to do a much better job of doing this more too.\u00a0 I think that instead of telling people what we have to do, they should emphasize how this is in peoples’ best interests because it will create thousands of U.S. jobs and will make us less reliant on oil and gas and less reliant on other countries, and make some people very wealthy.\u00a0 There is a lot of money [...]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We all still have to deal with the anti-science people or just the political deniers who are frightened of progress on anything.\u00a0 Now President Obama is getting involved in explaining the science of storms to the American people, and how … Continue reading