Interesting segment on today's PBS News Hour
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/wi...urvive-or-sink
Tangier Island is disappearing due to climate change. Yet:
Quote:
James “Ooker” Eskridge:
And we can see the effects of erosion daily, weekly for sure. But the sea level rise, things just look the same to me as they did when I was a boy.
I have been working the bay for 50 years, and pretty much day in, day out. And I just don't see any difference in the sea level.
John Yang:
The debate has drawn national attention, largely because 87 percent of the island's voters went for President Trump, a climate change skeptic.
That prompted CNN to visit last summer.
James “Ooker” Eskridge:
I love Trump as much as any family member I got.
John Yang:
After the broadcast, the president called Eskridge and told him the island would be around for hundreds of years more.
Earl Swift:
There's a great distrust of expertise, of scientific expertise.
|
Moron president* is telling these poor, ignorant folks that the climate change that is, without a shadow of a doubt, destroying their island, is "fake". And they believe the ass, despite the obvious.
Sigh. How is it possible, in the 21st century, in this great country, that anti science fools are so prevalent? It boggles the mind.