The Partisan Divide on Issues

[pbrower2a]

(02-22-2020, 05:44 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(02-22-2020, 01:15 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Oh, but you are in Minnesota and not Missouri, which makes a huge difference, right? Missouri weather is coming north.  Oh wait... the President says that global warming is a hoax, so it must not be happening. Well, I know what the weather is like here... and here in southern Michigan we have had a winter more typical of Kentucky this year. I saw the pattern eight years ago: we had a weak winter, the Great Lakes were not as chilled as usual, and we got a heat wave with 80 F temperatures in March. OK, 80 F in March isn't all bad -- but places that get that warm in March usually get unpleasantly hot. Dallas... Houston... Phoenix... Palm Springs?

When summer temperatures more typical of Kansas City and St. Louis become the norm where you live (and they will), you will need a prosperous community to be able to relieve them of the brutal summer heat. But if people are destitute because employers sweat them for starvation wages, people will simply die of heat-related ailments. Heat waves are the #1 climatic disaster in America from the standpoint of excess deaths -- more than hypothermia and even such storms as tornadoes and hurricanes. For the sake of the common man -- work for his prosperity and seek at the least a mitigation of climatic change.

Let's not forget something else about climate change -- food supplies. You are surely one of those city slickers who believes that food comes fully prepared, needing only a little preparation and cooking at your home. You ignore that most food grows on farms. Need I tell you that as is so in Battle Creek, Michigan (home of Kellogg's Corporation)... Battle Creek is about on the borderline between the corn belt and the wheat belt. Huge volumes of grain go into processing plants and become cereal. Minneapolis-St. Paul is a huge milling area, too... and much of your local economy depends upon it. What if the crops fail?

Global warming as it was being used and promoted was a hoax which is why it's referred to it as climate change today. Evidently I was right, it's more a natural occurrence than a man made occurrence and most of the man made damage. Well, we aren't going to stop climate change. So, I expect it will change back to environment. Yes. The Progressives know how to exploit people with the use of media. Dude, Gore walked away with a fortune.

Should simply eating cost a fortune as might happen when some of the world's most productive farmland will be inundated -- King Neptune will seize land more effectively than any Stalinist commissar -- life might be miserable at best, precarious for many, and at an end for people who starve. There is no technological fix for hunger.   

Economic chaos creates exploitation as little else can. 

Quote:Dude, who is better off? The typical Republican voter or the typical Democratic voter. The typical Republican voter isn't voting for more government assistance or massive changes to economic systems or constitutional systems or supporting the use of courts so they can become wealthier people or stay out of getting into trouble with the law/ So, who is the Bernie Bro? Are you a Bernie Bro? I'm familiar with the sister but who is the sisters bro? You should find one pretty quick so they can meet  they're real  adversary.

Incoherent and irrelevant. 

This is what the world looked like in the early part of the twentieth century:

 http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/pics/1901-1925.jpg


It didn't change much for 75 years or so. But here is a projection:




The world is definitely warmer, as shown by the expansion of the tropical zones into the lower-middle latitudes  and the pole-ward advance of hot deserts. Dry zones expand. To see it more clearly, maps dedicated to Europe and North America are available:



A place like Roswell, New Mexico or Midland, Texas goes from BSk (warm semi-desert) to BWh (hot desert), becoming much like Phoenix is now.  The High Plains become drier (or at least hotter without added rain) with semi-desert conditions expanding eastward to almost the western border of Minnesota. Genuine desert appears in eastern Colorado where it does not now exist.  r  I Europe you will note that the semi-desert expands significantly in Spain and Turkey... and appears in Romania and Hungary. Cities such as Prague,  Paris, Belin, and Warsaw start to have genuinely hot summers.

It's not worth the risk to your grandchildren. But with the warmer temperatures come food shortages, the spread of tropical diseases into places that they do not now exist (like Dallas and Pittsburgh -- or Milan and Budapest). If you have a pet dog in Cincinnati or Kansas City you might want to lock it up as alligators start appearing in the Ohio and Missouri river valleys. Alligators literally grab dogs off their current perch of the top of the food chain in much of America. 

But that is nothing compared to the wars, revolutions, and genocides that will happen when prime farmland is flooded and peasant farmers have nowhere to go.  I understand human nature far better than you do.

As for Democrats not having the means that Republicans have --  in 2008, income and Republican Voting had a negative correlation for the first time ever. Maybe that is because the Republican vote was heavily concentrated in the impoverished Mountain and Deep South . Thi said, Democrats have the advantage of more formal education.