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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRed-State Cities Find Euphemisms To Prepare for Global Warming
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/red-state-cities-find-euphemisms-prepare-global-warming
"GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) With climate change still a political minefield across the nation despite the strong scientific consensus that it's happening, some community leaders have hit upon a way of preparing for the potentially severe local consequences without triggering explosions of partisan warfare: Just change the subject.
Big cities and small towns are shoring up dams and dikes, using roof gardens to absorb rainwater or upgrading sewage treatment plans to prevent overflows. Others are planting urban forests, providing more shady relief from extreme heat. Extension agents are helping farmers deal with an onslaught of newly arrived crop pests.
But in many places, especially strongholds of conservative politics, they're planning for the volatile weather linked to rising temperatures by speaking of "sustainability" or "resilience," while avoiding no-win arguments with skeptics over whether the planet is warming or that human activity is responsible.
The pattern illustrates a growing disconnect between the debate still raging in politics and the reality on the ground. In many city planning departments, it has become like Voldemort, the arch-villain of the Harry Potter stories: It's the issue that cannot be named."
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"Global Warming" or "Climate Change" are their Voldemort!
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Red-State Cities Find Euphemisms To Prepare for Global Warming (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Sep 2014
OP
Global Warming isn't causing the sea levels to rise, it's Jesus' tears over all "teh gay"
NightWatcher
Sep 2014
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NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)1. Global Warming isn't causing the sea levels to rise, it's Jesus' tears over all "teh gay"
I give some nutjob preacher in the sticks three years, TOPS, to open a Jesus Weeping Museum. Hey, it worked to explain the dinosaurs, right?
If anything, he's weeping over their willful ignorance and complete bastardization of his ideas and name.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)2. Sigh... why do we have to be the stupid country?