EUROPE THINKS AMERICAN CLIMATE CHANGES DENIERS ARE NUTS
…Senator James Inhofe: The climate
change denier brings a snowball to the Senate Floor
European students are way ahead of
American students regarding climate change.
Doesn’t it
drive you nuts when the conservative nut-cases say “Well, I’m not a scientist, so I can’t say whether climate change is for
real or not!” Well, I’m not a doctor
or an auto mechanic, but I do listen to my doctor and I do listen to my auto
mechanic and I also believe in the 97% of climate scientists that say that
climate change is happening and we humans have some liability in that change.
I have a
family member that is heavily involved in supporting climate change
legislation. I haven’t discussed this at
length with the family member, but I can just imagine the frustration there must
be. Especially when the latest world-wide YouGov
survey showed that 1/3rd of all Americans said that climate change
is not a serious problem or not even a problem at all!
What is so disturbing is that in Germany, and
most of Western Europe, just one in 10 citizens feel this way.
Unfortunately, it has become very obvious
why there is such disparity between the US and most of Europe regarding climate
change.
In the US,
with all the big money coming from Big Oil and Big Coal and those dependent on
the fossil fuel industry, is there any wonder that US schools have decided not to teach our school children that climate change is real? In most of Western Europe, the children have
been learning about climate change for years.
Even though we Americans are seeing that the polar ice caps are melting,
that most of the glaciers are disappearing at accelerated rates, that some
low-lying islands have already disappeared due to the rise in the ocean’s
level, the corporate and political “dumb-dumbs”
still refuse to admit to global climate change being real.
But what’s
worse is that even though 97% of the
climate change scientists say that our human induced pollution is contributing
to climate change, these deniers refuse to admit that humans have any
responsibility.
The major
papers in Europe were all aghast when the Oklahoma Senator, James Inhofe,
declared that climate change was all a global warming conspiracy. But this is not just the opinion of a US
Senator, this senator is the ranking member of the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and was its
chairman from 2003 to 2007. When the
Republicans took over the senate, he unfortunately regained that chairmanship last January.
It was
this senator that stated that "eggheads"
at "science laboratories"
are busy worrying about how the increase in heat-trapping gases in the
atmosphere leads to a long-term upward shift in temperatures that increases
atmospheric moisture.
However, on a
particular Winter day in Washington, Senator Inhofe had happened to notice that it was cold
outside. In fact, he thought it was
weirdly cold outside. So cold, in fact, that water falling from the sky had
frozen solid. So Inhofe brought some of
this frozen water into the Capitol and onto the Senate floor to show everyone,
but he made it clear that it was mostly to show the "eggheads" that global warming was a hoax.
Let’s just
ignore the fact that globally, the last 5 years were the warmest ever recorded globally.
And guess what, this senator is…..no, not yet….wait for it….yes this senator is NOT a scientist.
In all the years that this man has been a major player in the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, this senator obviously does not listen to the scientists. He listens to Big Oil.
So, where does Inhofe's global conspiracy theory come from?
It’s all in the back of this man’s head and it is supported by the giant contributions he and his cronies receive from the fossil fuel industries.
The students and people in Europe are all obviously confused as to why Americans are denying the seriousness of climate change.
Those in Europe continue to ask why haven’t Americans been made aware of the climate changes by our own extreme weather events, such as Hurricane Sandy or the California drought…? These are examples the scientists say are expected to proliferate if we do nothing to curb our carbon emissions?
“Why don’t you believe what the scientists tell us? It just seems unimaginable that you Americans ignore those that have spent years studying the causes of these devastating changes,” a German student had declared.
Due to the 1992 UN Treaty signed by the US, Germany and France on climate change, course work on sustainability and climate change have been part of most European schools.
But the US Congress, in all its scientific knowledge, decided to ignore that treaty. France is currently getting ready to host a major UN climate conference in December. The French education officials are also exploring whether to require every French school to conduct its own model-UN-style simulated negotiation in which students play-act international negotiations.
But the conservative American politicians running the US Congress are not interested in these UN proceedings, let alone in simulating them in US schools nationwide.
The French foreign minister recently made it clear that the climate conference talks will be hamstrung by the current toxicity of the issue in the United States. As in the YouGov survey, which was conducted in 15 countries across four continents, Americans were not only most likely to express indifference about climate change, the US public was also saying that our own government was already “doing too much for stopping climate change".
Yep, Americans think we are doing too much!
This just shows how well all that money from the Koch Brothers and the Big Oil industries has done for "pulling the wool over the eyes of the American public".
Yes, this is all not only "unimaginable", it’s also possibly suicidal in the long-term for this great nation.
Copyright G.Ater 2015
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