Listen up, climate-denying rubes. Your friendly neighborhood smarter-than-you, woke AF expert on conservatism has got a bone to pick with you ignorant science-challenged hicks:
Why can’t conservatives admit the obvious threat of climate change as I have? They are captives of the fossil fuel industry and of their own rigid ideology. It is a tragedy for the entire planet that the GOP is impervious to science and reason. My latest: https://t.co/3sifRU60SS
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) November 26, 2018
If you’re looking for a quality elitist scolding from Max Boot, you won’t be disappointed:
I admit it. I used to be a climate-change skeptic. I was one of those conservatives who thought that the science was inconclusive, that fears of global warming were as overblown as fears of a new ice age in the 1970s, that climate change was natural and cyclical, and that there was no need to incur any economic costs to deal with this speculative threat. I no longer think any of that, because the scientific consensus is so clear and convincing.
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I’ve owned up to the danger. Why haven’t other conservatives? They are captives, first and foremost, of the fossil fuel industry, which outspent green groups by 10 to 1 in lobbying on climate change from 2000 to 2016. But they are also captives of their own rigid ideology. It is a tragedy for the entire planet that America’s governing party is impervious to science and reason.
First of all, what’s all this “other conservatives” business? Because Boot hasn’t been “conservative” for a while now. And second of all, who the hell does he think he is? Other than a spluttering fraud suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
What if Jennifer Rubin is the more conservative of The Washington Post's "conservative" columnists? https://t.co/3JfutAiF0g
— Jason Hart (@jasonahart) November 26, 2018
We didn’t think it was possible, but Max Boot is on the fast track to out-Jennifer-Rubining Jennifer Rubin.
Because you’re not a Conservative?
— Little Larry Sellers (@SpawnOfDanelaw) November 26, 2018
LOL. Nah.
— Billy Ray Valentine, Karate Man (@MetricButtload) November 26, 2018
Pace yourself, Max. In a couple of weeks you’ll have run out of doctrinaire progressive positions to adopt. https://t.co/cR1pKKNypA
— The H2 (@TheH2) November 26, 2018
We’ll take a hard pass on Boot’s not-so-expert opinion, thanks.
F*cking bingo pic.twitter.com/Xnm63zpmbf
— Anthony Abides (@AnthonyAbides) November 26, 2018
1) You’re not a conservative.
2) Climate change is real but how much is caused by humans is the question and it’s as yet unanswered.
3) So far all the solutions are much much worse than the problem.
4) The U.S. has worked to eliminate pollution. China, India, Russia have not. https://t.co/MkOFFCGipz— Some chick named Heather (@hboulware) November 26, 2018
I am more than willing to admit the risk of climate change. What I'm not willing to admit is that there's some magical government solution that will fix it or that a carbon tax is a viable way to approach it
— Jamie of House Popularvote (@jamiemoulthrop) November 26, 2018
"Why can’t conservatives admit the obvious threat of climate change as I have?" Possibly because the "threat" is unproven, exaggerated and overblown, and most of the "solutions" tend to be statist, socialist and totalitarian.
Much like your new friends!— Mike a.k.a. Proof ?? (@ProofBlog) November 26, 2018
Climate alarmism "science" is anti-science. It turns the scientific method on its head, starting with a conclusion and finding evidence to confirm it.
And reason in the scientific realm demands strict adherence to a skeptical mindset. I'm sorry this is too difficult for you.
— John Barry (@CardsFanTX) November 26, 2018
To be fair, intellectual honesty is hard.
Trees died for your garbage book, Captain Science.
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) November 26, 2018
You're as self-serving in ignorance as Bill Nye, but you need a lab coat. https://t.co/7HsKpV6Y5P
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) November 26, 2018
Accurate.
How many airline miles did you fly on your processed tree pulp tour? https://t.co/IEJ4NxQ3IS
— Nathan Wurtzel (slight return) (@NathanWurtzel) November 26, 2018
All I ask is people who profess a belief in impending climate disaster ACT LIKE IT.
— Nathan Wurtzel (slight return) (@NathanWurtzel) November 26, 2018
Own it, Max Boot and climate change alarmists. For once in your damn lives, own it.
I will believe in man made global warming when celebrities and journalists that push the theory live as if man made global warming is real…. https://t.co/NZdmmgbPoc
— EducatédHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) November 26, 2018
Meanwhile:
This reminds me, my Big Oil check is late this month. Anyone else? https://t.co/snc9AFlH0G
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 26, 2018
Come to think of it, we didn’t get ours, either.
He flipped on every one of his views, but everyone else is the problem.
— (((AG))) (@AG_Conservative) November 26, 2018