I Will Change My Mind About Climate Change « Just Another Pretty Farce

But I have decided I am prepared to make a complete change of view. It just takes one teeny tiny change.

I will believe every thing Al Gore has ever said about Climate Change if he stops making a profit off the concept.

Think Progress » Whitehouse: Climate deniers are taken seriously only at ExxonMobil and in the Senate.

In the first Senate hearing today on clean energy legislation supported by President Barack Obama, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) compared the Senate to the “ExxonMobil board room.” Whitehouse expressed his concern that the United States would be left behind in the clean energy race, saying, “I do not want to see American industries at the back of that parade with a broom.” Addressing the Obama Cabinet members before him — Ken Salazar, Stephen Chu, Tom Vilsack, and Lisa Jackson — Whitehouse apologized for the denial of man-made climate change by his fellow senators:

We know that this is probably — along with the ExxonMobil board room — the last place that sober people debate whether or not these problems are real, but we intend to work with you anyway, and we hope to give you strong legislative support if we can.

Climate Action is Vital to Health Care's Future | SolveClimate.com

But cheap prescription drugs won't do much good if our cities have filthy drinking water in coming years due to global warming. A "public option" on heath insurance? I'm all for it - but it will mean little if killer heat waves and mega-droughts parch the nation while Florida becomes a chain of malarial islands.