While fundraising in the Seattle-area yesterday, President Obama claimed that the “wildfire that has burned nearly 400 square miles in the north-central part of Washington state, along with blazes in other Western areas, can be attributed to climate change.” Obama said of the wildfires,
“A lot of it has to do with drought, a lot of it has to do with changing precipitation patterns and a lot of that has to do with climate change.”
Meanwhile, at the 2014 Constitutional Convention of the Washington State Labor Council (WSLC), AFL-CIO in Wenatchee, union members were bombarded with another climate change message. According to The Stand, the “reoccurring” theme of the conference was that union members should embrace, rather than reject, extreme climate change policies. The Stand,
Unions should not consider efforts to address climate change as a threat to their jobs. Instead, they should recognize the dire necessity for solutions and have a seat at the table to shape policies in ways that protect existing jobs and create new ones in emerging clean-energy industries.
During his opening speech, WSLC President Jeff Johnson matched Obama’s message of the day and linked natural disasters to climate change. The Stand,
“We know how income inequality threatens our prosperity, but climate disruption is also a clear and present danger to our prosperity,” said WSLC President Jeff Johnson in his opening speech, adding that in 2011 and 2012 extreme weather disasters linked to climate change had inflicted more than $188 billion in damages in the United States alone. “And the fact is that those who have done the least to cause climate change, working people and our children and grandchildren, will suffer the most from its impacts.”
This isn’t the first and it won’t be the last time the left attributed natural disasters to climate change. Interestingly, from a liberal strategic point-of-view, the way Johnson linked natural disasters to climate change is far more effective than Obama’s assertion. The Breakthrough Institute, an environmental think-tank, writes,
“… liberals and conservatives respond to fear-based appeals about climate change differently. Efforts, for example, to link current natural disasters to climate change motivate liberals and environmentalists, but alienate moderates and conservatives.
On a positive note, many studies show that framing climate solutions around technological and economic progress and solutions increases belief in global warming.”
All this to say that we can expect to see more of Johnson’s method of pushing the natural disaster-climate change link, and less of Obama’s, in the future. But given how well Obama’s line works with wealthy liberal donors, like California billionaire Tom Steyer, expect the President to ignore science and exploit fear-mongering for the rest of his time raising money, err, in office.
A large part of wildfires are the result of poor, even non-existent management of State and Federal lands. If trees were trimmed and fire breaks built in critical areas we could see a large reduction in the size of these wildfires. Many times the BLM and other agencies are slow to respond because they can’t determine who’s responsible for what properties…it’s just another example of Big Government run by people that have no clue!
Wow! The Bureau of Land MANAGEMENT should actually MANAGE LAND? Stop that crazy talk!
4WD clubs and ATV’ers used to make fire breaks all over the state until the DNR (Department of Numbsculls and Retards) closed just about every place down to off road use. Now they collect next to nothing in permit fees and the entire state is a tinderbox. You are right Jim, they have no clue.
LMAO !
The 4WD clubs & ATVers played, MORON WOODHEAD !!!!!!
HAHHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA !
Want a furnace filter changer ?? Call cAndy Wood @ I-WILL-STALK YOU !
( “I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there”)
If you ever got your fat ass out of White Center, you might see all the good 4 wheelers used to do in those areas. But that’s OK Fat Pat, just sit around whining in your own pathetic, liberal world. Loser…
White Center ???
HHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA !
Another swing & a miss, Miss…..
WANNA BET !!!?? Oh right, no “business” betting !!
Another moronic post, from cAndy Azz Woodless, the furnace “business” killer, stalker mess….
HAHHAAHAHAHAHA !
Want a furnace filter changer ?? Call cAndy Wood @ I-WILL-STALK YOU !
( “I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there”)
Typical liberal, deny even when you are caught. Fat Pat Costello, you know you live in a run down shack in White Center, but whatever, I could really care less about you, your pathetic life, and your clogged arteries, lard ass.
If I beat you 7-0 or 11-1 it’s a skunk and WE start a new game.
HAHHAAHAHAHAHAH !
HAHHAAHAHAHAHA !
Want a furnace filter changer ?? Call cAndy Wood @ I-WILL-STALK YOU !
( “I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there”)
Wow, you’d better contact the King County Assessor’s office then, because their records show Fat Pat M. Cosello (you) lives on 2nd Ave S, which is the slum area of White Center. Nice try lard ass.
Home Run!
Nope….
Want a furnace filter changer ?? Call cAndy Wood @ I-WILL-STALK YOU !
( I don’t care who ya are, that’s funny right there….Even funnier, is a “man” following me….. Not interested in a date!!! )
Still STOOPID,huh stalker ???
You seem to have a stalker, trying making a love connection, do I need to get the hose?
Talking to yourself again Fat Pat? Ever heard of an IP address Captain Obvious?
Haha, yeah, SURE you do gramps. Haha…
Man & I use the term loosely, GET a GRIP! Looks like the only i-p here is Robin peeing on YOU!
I’ve offered to bet, I don’t own a 80’s Ford truck. Guess, when she lost his “business” she lost her mind, too.
Pretty amusing, reading the tripe she write, it just screams she’s a bitter loser…
HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHH !
Ok, so it’s a 90’s something piece of crap, turd-brown Ford Truck. Just as ugly….
Gee,
Another lie, by my brown nose, penis breath, stalker guy…
Imagine the childish hypocrisy/stupidity of cAndy No Wood “man”. Guess,
cons are not bound by ethics, morals, or any sort of code of conduct.
You are the most childish, vile person I have seen on these blogs. What a
loser…What’s actually funny is your room-temperature I.Q. It’s
obvious she spends a large amount of her time on here whining because of
a sad… little…..loser…. life.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH ! Just write you’re a MORON, save time…
Let me compliment you on your decision to get drunk and play with your computer, instead of getting in your car. You’ve made a fool of yourself and Republicans, but at least you didn’t kill anybody! For that, I salute you. (Middle FINGER, of course!)
A 59 year old calling someone penis breath. Like I said, I feel sorry for you.
Come and listen to a story about a man named cAndy Wood head
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed,
Then one day he was shootin at some food,
And up through the ground came a bubblin crude.
Crapola that is, brown gold, Twit teabagger, mountains of moron man, that FELL ON YOUR CAN !!!
Hey bagger, how is Lew’s penis ? HHAHHAAH AHAHAHA !
Just how much crack did your inbred mom smoke, while pregnant with you? I sure hope you find a hobby, I’m embarrassed at how badly I USE YOU !!!
In English- Wood head whiffed, again.
See what they “used to do”? What’s that translate to in -NOT MORON?
You’re calling BLM big government & blaming them for acts of God ?
WOW ~!??
Nanny staters UNITE !!!
GO ahead & trim trees yourself….
LLL
Nothing intelligent, again ?
Nothing intelligent….EVER?
You’re “ALMOST” as wrong, as you are “right”…Lew’s penis breath….
IF you WERE a man, I’d have already won the wager….
Since, you’re not & you’ve proven it, try writing about my penis.
Oh right…
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH !
And then he took his multi-vehicle motorcade, drove back to the airport, and climbed in his 747 for the trip home from the fundraisers…..