UMNews: Tuning out

But families are also oblivious to much national and world news — news that is or may become relevant to their lives. Global warming shines as a prime example. "What global warming is predicting is a sea rise that will make parts of this country unlivable," Rosenblatt says.

"There'll be more flooding inland as well as the coasts, so if you're living on low land, you're in trouble. And it's striking to me that when we talk about global warming, it's kind of an abstract issue. As far as I know we don't have people moving in from the coasts, and we don't have a fire sale or a flood sale on coastal property."

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The ugly side of global warming: Romm knows how to spell hubris...

By way of closing, you'll note that Romm saves his bitterest bile for those of us who actually do believe global warming is real and should be addressed, not the real skeptics. That's because for idiots trapped in one old religious paradigm, dissenters are far worse than non-believers. He would have cheerfully been slaughtering Huguenots in medieval France had he been born then and there. Maybe we both wish he had been.