The New York Times stopped attacking centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin long enough to recalibrate usual attacks on Republicans. Reporters Lisa Friedman and Jonathan Weisman front-page story Thursday coined a new pro-Democratic phrase in its online headline to portray the Republican Party as dangerously ignorant on climate change: “Delay as the New Denial: The Latest Republican Tactic to Block Climate Action.”
From Arizona to Boston, one hundred million Americans are in heat emergency alerts. West-wide drought is approaching Dust Bowl proportions. Britain declared a crisis of climate because temperatures reached 100 degrees F and regions in Europe are burning.
However, Republicans on Capitol Hill warned against taking rash actions in the face of the planet’s imminent destruction.
“I don’t want to be lectured about what we need to do to destroy our economy in the name of climate change,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina.
One Democrat, Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, last week blocked what could have been the country’s most far-reaching American response to climate change. Lost in all of the finger-pointing, recriminations, and finger-pointing was the opposite side: The Senate’s 50 Republicans have all been against any decisive response to planetary heating.
Few Republicans are now willing to admit that the dangerously warming Earth is a result of human activity, such as the burning oil, coal and gas.
Many people have replaced denial about the causes of global warming with the belief that replacing fossil fuels with renewable, nonpolluting energy will harm the economy.
That’s when the Times They have unleashed their anti-Republican catchphrase, which may be coming soon to the Volvo bumper sticker.
In other words, delay is the new negation.
The overwhelming majority of Republicans on Capitol Hill believe the United States should drill and burn more American oil, gasoline, and coal. They also think that market forces will somehow find solutions for the increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that traps heat and acts like a blanket over a hot Earth.
Friedman and Weisman fault conservatives for not signing on to the left’s apocalyptic climate view.
Many conservatives are not bothered that scientists have warned nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly or the risk of catastrophic global warming.
The TimesThe Republican argument was presented, but in an abrasive and hyperbolic manner.
So it has gone with the Republican Party, where warnings of a catastrophe are mocked as hyperbole, where technologies that do not exist on a viable scale, such as “carbon capture and storage” and “clean coal,” are hailed as saviors….
The paper’s condescension toward Republican legislators was acute.
But even Republicans who are trying to address the effects of climate change in their home states appear to find it difficult to recognize the root cause of the problem….
There’s no need to debate man-made “climate change” anymore — the Times is confident it’s a fact (pay no attention to the myriad hysterical media predictions of rising sea levels and various other environmental dystopian scenes that never came to pass, such as New York City underwater).
Republicans are still struggling with the unavoidable fact of climate change struggle with a philosophical aversion to intervening in energy markets — or, they would most likely say, in any markets at all….
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