Environmentalist Bill Mckibben has an op-ed out in the New York Times titled, “Obama’s Catastrophic Climate-Change Denial,” where he goes after President Obama’s recent decision to allow limited oil and natural gas drilling in the Arctic.
Careful, Bill … this might be considered racist:
Obama’s catastrophic climate-change denial http://t.co/I34v0U2J0F via @nytopinion pic.twitter.com/HipRgVcT1d
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 13, 2015
And his conclusion:
This is not climate denial of the Republican sort, where people simply pretend the science isn’t real. This is climate denial of the status quo sort, where people accept the science, and indeed make long speeches about the immorality of passing on a ruined world to our children. They just deny the meaning of the science, which is that we must keep carbon in the ground.
This is exactly the sort of move by Democrats that Hugh Hewitt is talking about when he says, “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.” Obama says global warming is a crisis, but then he goes and does this. What are we to believe?
The political reality is that there’s no way the U.S. will “keep carbon in the ground,” but it is amusing to watch libs lose their cookies over the president’s actions:
very disappointing. http://t.co/CrI7j8Kv2J #climatechange
— Shannon O'Shea (@soshea) May 13, 2015
https://twitter.com/TheXclass/status/598442537158840320
I'm all for energy efficiency, but I agree with @billmckibben: "you can’t deal with climate on the demand side alone" http://t.co/lGvt865Jin
— Brian Bowen (@BrianRBowen) May 13, 2015
Drilling in the Arctic is exactly why we'll never deal effectively with climate change http://t.co/Tf8BOfv4Jp #feelingpessimistic
— Holly Cave (@HollyACave) May 13, 2015
"It’s as if tobacco companies were applying for permission to put cigarette machines in cancer wards.” @billmckibben http://t.co/rwOhD7VgQo
— Joel Makower (@makower) May 12, 2015
Obama gives great speeches about immorality of climate change and then this http://t.co/sOnDqDfsuD by @billmckibben pic.twitter.com/2pYfrxQ6Pz
— Energiewende Germany (@EnergiewendeGER) May 12, 2015
It’s almost as if somebody warned that giving “great speeches” doesn’t necessarily make one a good president…
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