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Climate change is already affecting the American people. Certain types of weather events have become more frequent and/or intense, including heat waves, heavy downpours, and, in some regions, floods and droughts. Sea level is rising, oceans are becoming more acidic, and glaciers and arctic sea ice are melting. These changes are part of the pattern of global climate change, which is primarily driven by human activity.
And, you know, LOTS more.
Drought on the Mississippi. Image from here.
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From Atrios:
I know we all know this, but a final reminder that the people who demanded austerity are now fighting it, and that includes much of the press.
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Too much to read and relay. One for now, from Charlie Pierce.
Resist, then, the forces who tell you that the creation and maintenance of that commonwealth is too expensive or too complicated, or that it is an appeal to a time now lost to technology and modernity and the glories of free trade. Resist the frauds and mountebanks who seek to prosper from fragmentation and isolation, and who tell you that your “freedom” exists in a place outside of that creative process of self-government, and that, in fact, the institutions produced by that process are the enemies of that “freedom.” Resist, as strongly as you can, the people who seek to profit by isolating you in your homes, and in your anger, and in your wounded sense of aggrieved entitlement, and with all your guns.
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Only with gun violence do we respond to repeated tragedies by saying that mourning is acceptable but discussing how to prevent more tragedies is not. “Too soon,” howl supporters of loose gun laws. But as others have observed, talking about how to stop mass shootings in the aftermath of a string of mass shootings isn’t “too soon.” It’s much too late.
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Don’t let the revolving door hit you in the ass on the way out, Gomer.
And an interesting comment from the NYT article on DeMint’s decision:
I find it hard to believe that Mr. DeMint did not know about this job offer (and how he would respond to it) well before election day. But instead of leaving the choice of his replacement to all the people of his state, he decided to leave it the Republican governor alone. Pretty sad…but not surprising.
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Kevin Drum on how movement conservatives have never liked treaties.
“I do not want a president of the U.S. to conclude an executive agreement which will make it unlawful for me to kill a cat in the back alley of my lot at night, and I do not want the President of the U.S. to make a treaty with India which would preclude me from butchering a cow in my own pasture.”
– Senator Walter George on the Bricker Amendment, 1954
“Unelected bureaucratic bodies would implement the treaty and pass so-called recommendations that would be forced upon the United Nations and the U.S….This would especially affect those parents who home-school their children….The unelected foreign bureaucrats, not parents, would decide what is in the best interests of the disabled child, even in the home.”
– Senator Jim Inhofe on the U.N. Treaty On Rights For The Disabled, 2012
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