Right-wing blogger tells CNN: Americans will ‘have to get used to’ climate change
Appearing on CNN Wednesday evening, right-wing blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson insisted that humanity cannot do anything about climate change to the degree that people alive today would even notice an improvement, so we’ll all just “have to get used to” it.
Instead of talking to a scientists about climate change, CNN’s Erin Burnett asked Erickson to give his assessment of whether efforts to counteract climate change would be successful. His response: “What’s it matter?”
“It seems to me the biggest problem that global warming advocates have is that every time the conversation comes up there’s a snowstorm, and maybe if it were summer instead of the winter people would buy into it,” he said. “Really the biggest problem is, what does it matter?”
His logic followed that because China and India use fossil fuels and their emissions are growing, the U.S. should not bother trying to stifle climate change through government policies that favor renewable energy technology.
“We could shut down production of everything tomorrow that causes greenhouse gases and China and India aren’t,” Erickson said. “And even if everyone did, the effects wouldn’t take effect ’till a hundred years from now. So, it seems like it’s a problem we probably have to get used to as opposed to something we can cure.”
Burnett said he made an “interesting point,” but added that the U.S. still emits more greenhouse gases per person than China. Then she said that Erickson is “right,” although it’s not clear what scientific basis he had for claiming that climate change cannot be mitigated in the short term.
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is not an option.
