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New Republican US House Speaker Champions Fossil Fuels and Denies Climate Concerns
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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The average temperature in New Orleans was 71 degrees in 1820. It is 78 degrees now. Change is impossible to ignore
https://earth.org/data_visualization/louisiana-shrinking-coastline/
Most of what you think of as the sole of the boot of Louisiana is a lie. It's largely been reclaimed by the sea, and just some wispy bits of land remain. But we don't update the political map because... well, politics.
The familiar boot shape of Louisiana would look very different if maps depicted only its solid land, highlighting how much of the state is in a precarious position between watery ground and open ocean (below) (ref. 4).
Maybe we should all go coal rolling so the entire state is just ocean? Louisiana can't be a state if nobody lives there.
I am joking, for the record.
I disagree, the GOP seems to be doing a wonderful job at ignoring it.
There is a reason all the republicans rallied behind this guy so quickly.
Once you look at all his bill history, If Fox news took the form of a human being. This guy would be the primetime special.
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At this point I can’t even tell if people like these are complete assholes or if they are genuinely this dumb
As someone with a lot of relatives like this, both.