Yes, the IPCC report is the smoking gun that will bring the naysayers on-board
6%
No, nothing can overcome the influence and power of Big Oil
94%

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LibbyMN 12 years 43 weeks ago

Republicans only do what their constituents want, unfortunately their constituents are not citizens, but oil barons.

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UNC Tarheels 12 years 43 weeks ago

No as long as Roger Ailes is in charge of propoganda and the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adleson bribe the teapublican'ts to insure their silent obidient consent nothing will change! Now if Thomas, Scalia and Alito are impeached from SCOTUS then maybe the new justices will vote to overturn Citizens United v FCC!

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arky12 12 years 42 weeks ago

I agree with LibbyMN and I hadn't thought of that aspect before. When they talk about their constituents, even if that's who they are talking about, I have wondered how many actually sided with them and how many opposed them? If only 1 out of 40 sided with them, they'd still say they listened to them, but will neglect to mention that they only listened to the ones that agreed with their point of view. I've learned to "listen between the lines" when the GOP talks and discern the real meaning.

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Craig Bush 12 years 42 weeks ago

We buried a car on campus in Ann Arbor in the early 70's. We knew then, if we didn't bury these petrol-chemical autos they will bury us. Jimmy Carter knew it too. He instituted a plan using solar for energy independence. Reagan and Bush and the oil people took the solar panels down when they came to power. Big oil won. They extort 30 billion a year from us in subsidies with paid off politicians. These subsidies pays for the fines we give them for polluting and fouling our environment. The are buying the dismantlement of our EPA. This is our law enforcement agency that protects our health, environment, our future. People that would destroy our planet for greed and self interest are the most dangerous criminals to ever walk this earth. They are destroying our future. We must usher in the new green economy and make the petrol-chemical economy go the way of the dinosaur.

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