Sandy & Global Warming Not A Laughing Matter, No Matter What Romney & 'Top' Republicans Think

 
Mitt Romney made a big joke during the Republican national convention about Obama’s efforts to address climate change, and the crowd loved it. He then made the note that he was going to “help you and your family” — very contradictory statements there. As is evident with this freak storm Sandy, addressing global warming will help you and your families. Storms like Sandy will be the norm in a few decades, or a relief compared to the bigger storms likely to come, if we don’t address global warming. How is that a laughing matter?

Here’s Bill Clinton talking about this simple but underacknowledged point in the wake of Sandy:

http://youtu.be/C7T-Wy17U6M

And here’s Romney’s initial joke at the Republican national convention:

http://youtu.be/VgSIw3OBOx0

And, via Climate Progress, here’s the transcript from the Clinton video above:

“I was actually listening closely to what the candidates said in these debates. In the first debate, the triumph of the moderate Mitt Romney. You remember what he did? He ridiculed the president. Ridiculed the president for his efforts to fight global warming in economically beneficial ways. He said, ‘Oh, you’re going to turn back the seas.’ In my part of America, we would like it if someone could’ve done that yesterday. All up and down the East Coast, there are mayors, many of them Republicans, who are being told, ‘You’ve got to move these houses back away from the ocean. You’ve got to lift them up. Climate change is going to raise the water levels on a permanent basis. If you want your town insured, you have to do this.’ In the real world, Barack Obama’s policies work better.”

(And let’s not even get into the fact here that Romney wants to do away with federal disaster relief.)

9 thoughts on “Sandy & Global Warming Not A Laughing Matter, No Matter What Romney & 'Top' Republicans Think”

  1. Hannahandthegentlemen

    Indeed not a laughing matter. Hello from England, whilst not a laughing matter by chance we have been working on a song for a few months and we just happened to finish it 3 days ago. It’s called ‘Global Warming’ and it’s here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFTPq7SWww if you’d like to check it out. Hope you see where we are coming from and it brings a smile, even a wry one. Good luck to us All.

  2. Hannahandthegentlemen

    Indeed not a laughing matter. Hello from England, whilst not a laughing matter by chance we have been working on a song for a few months and we just happened to finish it 3 days ago. It’s called ‘Global Warming’ and it’s here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CFTPq7SWww if you’d like to check it out. Hope you see where we are coming from and it brings a smile, even a wry one. Good luck to us All.

  3. Thanks, Zach: 

    Romney & his ilk are un-evolved humanoids.  Trying to not limit my involvement to name-calling.

    Almost fell off my recycled chair earlier, when Sen.Chuck  Schumer (NY), then mayor Bloomberg actually referenced, in however brief references, Climate Change..OK, they fell short of actually addressing human remedy attempts,  but I had fallen short of keeping hope alive that any public officials would even mouth the term, regardless of  on how superficial a level…

    Thanks again for keeping this ‘out there’-  in doing so, you encourage  folks like me, who haven’t tended to be that practically involved– to pass it along and reach out to orgs like 350..

    Sherrie

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