re: #475 Blind Frog Belly White

And he would do it because denial of AGW is yet another article of faith for the GOP, not because there’s no evidence, not because there’s any question about the physics involved, but because Liberals accept it.

I have struggled to understand the Conservative mindset on energy usage and conservation, renewable energy, and climate change, and all I can come up with is that it’s essentially “I DON’T WANNA!!!!” Leave aside the fact that nobody’s saying we need to sit in the dark, in the cold, wrapped up in sweaters and wool caps, all driving little crap boxes that run on potato peels - it’s as if they see wasteful consumption of resources as not only their right as Americans, but as a positive patriotic duty.

Didn’t their god call on them to be good stewards of the Earth?

I think there was a Congressman not to long ago that tried to get an amendment to a spending bill that would have forced the military to stop preparing for climate change.