This latest heat wave comes on the heels of the hottest June on record for the United States. A new study published Wednesday shows the Pacific Northwest heat wave from June 27 to June 29 was made at least 150 times more likely by human-caused climate change and, even in today’s heated climate, is a rare 1-in-1,000-year event. The study, by a collaboration of 27 climate scientists, warned that if we keep warming the climate, extreme heat waves like that will happen once every 5 to 10 years by mid-century.
Although the Pacific Northwest will be hot in the coming days, the core of this latest heat dome is centered further south, over the Desert Southwest and Southern California. ”
Never let them forget their ridiculous assault on science and facts to score cheap political points and fire up their base. We could have done more, but we didn’t. It is now looking more and more like the world will look like one of those apocalyptic end of day movies in the not too distant future.
They are doing it again with COVID-19. They are refusing to get vaccinated even with all the science out there telling them that if they don’t get vaccinated they could die.
The folks in the red states are refusing to get the COVOD-19 shots because they want to stick it to the libs, and own Joe Biden. (Ask Herman Cain how that worked out for him. Oh wait…you can’t because he is dead.)
The irony is, of course, that their dear leader himself scurried to get vaccinated after almost going to down to the meet his pals like Rush Limbaugh on a permanent vacation where it’s always very hot.
I am not sure where the hatred of facts and science comes from with the right. Now they are refusing to teach the real history of America in schools because it is too offensive to their sensibilities. God forbid that we teach the children what actually happened in this country before they try to totally rewrite the nation’s history and pretend that it never happened.
They are now using the critical race theory bogeyman to continue their culture war (cause that’s all they have) and punish truth- tellers who dare to want to teach our children the truth. Some states are now passing laws that make teaching critical race theory illegal. This, in spite of the fact that most of those legislatures who voted to ban it don’t’ even know what critical race theory is.
Finally, speaking of laws and laws being applied unequally.
“A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty to casting a vote in the name of his deceased mother in an effort to reelect then-President Donald Trump, according to court records and Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer’s office.
“She’s absolutely buoyed,” attorney Alison Grinter told NBC News on Wednesday. “Her family is just over the moon today that she literally lives to fight another day.”
She said the appeal is Mason’s last chance at staying out of prison; she is currently out on an appeal bond.
Mason was on supervised release from prison in 2016 when she went to the polls. She wasn’t on the voter rolls, and instead cast a provisional ballot with the help of a poll worker. Local officials determined she was ineligible due to her 2011 tax fraud conviction, and her ballot was not counted. Prosecutors later charged her with knowingly voting illegally.” [Source]
Five years in prison.
You get one guess to tell me the difference between the two perpetrators.