@hg47's Blog: The Tweet & The TakeAway - Posts Tagged "global-warming"

Disclaimer: I am a RINO. I'm a moderate Republican living in California who voted for Obama twice.

Recently I read an analysis of the Republican Party that placed the majority of its membership in the Southern states. The South. Closer to the equator.

Then it struck me: It is about where you live, not about your politics or your religious beliefs. Republicans aren't gun-carrying Christian fanatics out to shoot holes in the globe if it threatens to warm. No. Republicans are mostly the gals and guys in the South. "Hey, in the winter it's always cool, in the summer it's always Damn Hot, excuse my German. Global Warming? I don't see it."

In Canada everyone believes in Global Warming except the 2% of people there in mental institutions or on Twitter.

Close to the equator people don't see the effects of Global Warming.

But in Canada people who have lived in the same place for forty years know that the lake they used to ice-skate on every winter rarely even freezes over anymore. They used to need 6-layers of clothing to walk next door in the winter; now they sprint over in their long-johns (What? long-johns aren't appropriate attire for a coffee-klatch? Are you a Democrat???)

If you don't get my point by now, you never will: toward the poles there are changes happening that are obviously permanent and scary. We are talking: Common Sense.

By the way, I got those percentage stats for the picture/tweet from Harper's magazine.

SOURCES -
Canada: IPAC-CO2 Research (Regina, Sask.)
America: Yale Project on Climate Change Communication (New Haven, Conn.)
RINOs & "real" Republicans: Pew Research Center (Washington)

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