Oh sweet mercy. Is it possible that this dude has become a United States Senator?
After touring a seawall at Long Beach in Plymouth battered during the hurricane, Brown said, “I’ll leave that up to the scientists, as to where we stand” on the relationship between climate change and violent weather.
“But I believe in climate change,” said Brown, who had expressed uncertainty on the issue during his 2010 campaign. “I believe man and nature play a role. It’s a question of how do we step back and try to address it. I recycle all the time. . . .’’
I think it was the cartoonist David Rees who once wrote, “If I jump up and down in my office chair, does that make me a f@#$ing astronaut?”
We’re dealing with the aftermath of a climate-fueled crisis — one that will inevitably repeat itself on the shores of our state, costing big money, jobs, and lives.
And all our junior Senator can do is make sure he puts his Coors Lite empties in the right bucket.
Did you need further proof that this fine fellow is not exactly up to the job?
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Nothing like having your city threatened. Bloomberg endorses Obama. Why?
What about that other guy?
He says he believes in climate change, he does his part, and the linked article cites an example of him bucking his party. There’s still the issue of his leadership vote having the effect of putting Inhofe in the Environment Committee Chair, but all in all I would put this issue set in the reasonable column as opposed to extreme column for him.
the last two months. Also from the Globe:
Blocking the EPA from regulating greenhouse emissions and trying to cut the EPA budget by almost one-third. That’s our current definition of “reasonable” on environmental issues? Richard Nixon was for the EPA.
There are 100 US Senators, and they have a massive influence on how the United States will deal with man-caused climate change.
He connected climate change with recycling for God’s sake. Recycling is important to be sure, but *that’s* his link with climate change? Not heating buildings, not electricity generation, not transportation fuels. Not EPA regulations, not subsidizing green technology research, development, nor deployment. Not energy efficiency standards for appliances, CAFE standards, improved transmission lines. Not programs which weather seal and insulate homes, not increased building codes, not even natural gas instead of coal. Not nuclear power, not OPower, not mass transit, not bicycles and sidewalks.
Recycling? The dude clearly has no idea how this works, or just doesn’t care. Either way, it’s a problem.