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    High RoadBrendan O'Connor
    3/10/16 10:55pm

    Climate change is not man-caused, but China and India are to blame? How does that work?

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      DarthClem3High Road
      3/10/16 11:00pm

      I guess they don’t consider the Chinese and Indians (fully) human? It’s the only logical way to parse it.

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      Shablam Two Tokyo DriftHigh Road
      3/10/16 11:14pm

      No, no. Climate change is not man-caused, but even if it were, China and India are polluting anyway, so fuck it.

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    chickaboomBrendan O'Connor
    3/10/16 11:01pm

    marco rubio is just the wrong guy to stand against global warming. The guy always looks like he’s fucking dying to run for the nearest air conditioner. Ain’t nobody going to trust a guy standing there sweating buckets saying it’s not hot out.

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      KillBristolchickaboom
      3/10/16 11:23pm

      Thank you. I now know who he has been reminding me of for a long, long time.

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      Sid and Financychickaboom
      3/11/16 12:33am

      If we outfit the population of Miami with Rubio boots, that should buy them a decade.

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    am4Brendan O'Connor
    3/10/16 10:50pm

    Republicans like that “shoving down the throat” metaphor.

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      medrawtBrendan O'Connor
      3/11/16 12:42am

      What’s so incredible about this is that, from Miami’s perspective, global anthropogenic climate change is almost beside the point.

      I grew up near Cape Cod. Cape Cod is eroding; it has been since it was formed, the erosion has been observed and monitored since at least the arrival of the Pilgrims, and probably before then. With or without a global sea level rise, in something like 10,000 years Cape Cod will be gone. It’s just the way it is.

      Miami is in the same boat, except it’s happening NOW. The shitty porous excuse they have for “ground” down there is flooding from underneath, more and more frequently, NOW. (The Dutch have only been managing these kinds of problems forever; they’ve studied the issue and concluded “you guys have worthless dirt, and we don’t know how to help you.”) Yes, the question to Rubio was phrased in the context of the global phenomenon. Yes, we believe the global phenomenon will exacerbate existing trends (including, perhaps, radically increasing the rate at which Cape Cod disappears). But, at least in part because the question is understood in the context of global warming, there seems to be zero state-level political will to do ANYthing about what’s happening to Miami and Miami Beach TODAY. And people like Rubio just can’t acknowledge it.

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        Altwolfmedrawt
        3/11/16 1:39am

        Agree. Although I have to point out that it’s only shitty dirt from a human perspective. I’m sure the earth there is fine for the once happy things that evolved there.

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        Uncle Chigurhmedrawt
        3/11/16 2:03am

        The best part is that there are new nuclear reactors planned for Biscayne Bay. (On top of the ones they just revealed three days ago are leaking.)

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      reggieinatlBrendan O'Connor
      3/10/16 10:56pm

      Rising water? I’ll just a get a taller pair of my magic fancy boots.

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        Armando stillettoreggieinatl
        3/11/16 12:21pm

        Oh wow. Those are classic Cuban heels. At least the guy is true to his roots.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesBrendan O'Connor
      3/11/16 1:31am
      GIF
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        Monsterparty711Brendan O'Connor
        3/10/16 10:53pm

        Yeah, like Marco is concerned about something being rammed down his throat.

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          Johnny ChundersBrendan O'Connor
          3/10/16 10:50pm

          Single moms are gonna pay for clean energy!

          (wat)

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            BDHBrendan O'Connor
            3/10/16 11:23pm

            This gif is absolutely timeless.

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              Deadly the EternalBDH
              3/11/16 7:28am

              Maybe Bugs wasn’t trying to save us from Florida, but was trying to save it from flooding. Bugs 2016!

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              thlibosDeadly the Eternal
              3/11/16 5:20pm

              Personally, I’d rather he carved away Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina first.

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            SoapBoxcarWillieBrendan O'Connor
            3/11/16 11:35am

            It’s already causing problems in Miami Beach (a barrier island in Dade County that is not to be confused with the city Miami), where it’s common for the streets close to the water to flood at high-tide or after a rain.

            It’s astounding to me that belief in science is now optional—like, when did it become acceptable to believe in a flat earth again? Even if one doesn’t believe that climate change is man-made, isn’t it a good idea to err on the side of caution in case you’re wrong (and the 99.7% of climate scientists, who claim evidence instead of professed ignorance and lack of expertise in support of their beliefs, are right)? If you care at all about the world your children (and your children’s children) will inherit, how can you not do something?

            Perhaps I’ve become too cynical, but the only reasons I can think of for being a climate-change denier are:

            1. You don’t care about a world in which you do not exist.

            2. The corporate overlords that fund your campaign and can make or break you, don’t want to bother with all of this emissions reduction hooha, because profits.

            3. You actually want the sea levels to rise and swallow up the land, if that’s going to bring about Judgment Day/the Apocalypse/End of times.

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