Funny you should mention this. Not twelve months ago, during the great NSA freakout, those of us who suggested that -maybe, perhaps - we should all be concerned about private actors AS WELL AS THE GOVERNMENT invading our privacy were hounded off the internet as distrupter trolls and paid agents of the intelligence community.
Nice to see some other people showing up to the party, but it would have been nice to have had some support a year ago - or, hell, in 1994 when I first starting yakking about this kind of stuff -but better late than never one must suppose.
All the way back in 1965 a delegation of climate scientists reported to President Johnson that rising CO2 levels would increase the heat content in the atmosphere, leading to climate disruptions, with perhaps fifty years of lead time to deal with the problem. His politician's response was "get back to me in forty nine years."
We are now in year forty eight. As the consequence of a massively funded disinformation campaign, we still have to fight our way through hordes of denialists and "skeptics" who squeal that global warming is novel (if not an outright fraud) and that the science too unsettled for action.
Ironically the current evidence for climate disruption is strongest in those very states where the denialists have their strongholds. Cattlemen from Oklahoma vote to send goobers like Inhofe to the Senate, then wonder where all their water has gone.
Funny you should mention this. Not twelve months ago, during the great NSA freakout, those of us who suggested that -maybe, perhaps - we should all be concerned about private actors AS WELL AS THE GOVERNMENT invading our privacy were hounded off the internet as distrupter trolls and paid agents of the intelligence community.
Nice to see some other people showing up to the party, but it would have been nice to have had some support a year ago - or, hell, in 1994 when I first starting yakking about this kind of stuff -but better late than never one must suppose.
All the way back in 1965 a delegation of climate scientists reported to President Johnson that rising CO2 levels would increase the heat content in the atmosphere, leading to climate disruptions, with perhaps fifty years of lead time to deal with the problem. His politician's response was "get back to me in forty nine years."
We are now in year forty eight. As the consequence of a massively funded disinformation campaign, we still have to fight our way through hordes of denialists and "skeptics" who squeal that global warming is novel (if not an outright fraud) and that the science too unsettled for action.
Ironically the current evidence for climate disruption is strongest in those very states where the denialists have their strongholds. Cattlemen from Oklahoma vote to send goobers like Inhofe to the Senate, then wonder where all their water has gone.