上帝掌控氣候,所以你可以放鬆

我知道,他只是一個茶黨候選人,幾乎沒有當選的機會,但格雷格·布蘭農是共和黨提名的美國參議院席位的初選候選人...

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我知道,他只是一個茶黨候選人,幾乎沒有當選的機會,但是格雷格·布蘭農是共和黨提名的美國參議院席位的初選候選人(該席位目前由凱·哈根 holding),他在前幾天晚上的一次辯論中表示,上帝掌控氣候。

而一直以來你都以為是物理學。

歡迎回到北卡羅來納州(座右銘:“我們有豐富的瘋狂礦藏,永遠不會枯竭!”)。今年春天,該州的大部分科學新聞都與杜克能源公司煤灰洩漏事件中令人震驚的不作為有關。你還記得嗎:這個國家最大的能源公司將 39,000 噸有毒煤灰從多年來一直拒絕清理的煤灰坑中洩漏到丹河中。然後它等了兩個月才對此採取行動。然後州政府,自然而然地,站在杜克能源一邊,對法官的裁決提出上訴,該裁決認為杜克能源應該清理自己的爛攤子。北卡羅來納州認為,這個國家最大的電力公司不應該承擔我們對幼兒園小朋友要求的責任程度,當然,這與北卡羅來納州州長帕特·麥克羅裡曾在杜克能源公司工作 28 年,或者杜克能源公司向麥克羅裡及其支援組織捐贈了 110 萬美元的事實無關。我是說,拜託。


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順便說一句——很少有人懷疑這場災難性的有毒汙染物洩漏事故純粹是意外。儘管如此,有時杜克能源公司也會故意傾倒煤灰,就像在羅利西南約 30 英里的地方這樣做時——那是在洩漏發生幾周後。如果你想知道的話。

但我們甚至不打算談論那個!因為北卡羅來納州!比!那!更!瘋狂!

您可能知道,民主黨參議員凱·哈根相信自由主義的幻想,例如人為的氣候變化,她已經成為共和黨 700 萬美元的攻擊目標。您甚至可能知道,在急於與她對決的八位候選人中,最有可能的四位本週進行了一場辯論。我就開門見山了。當被問及氣候變化是否真即時,所有四位候選人都表示不真實——布蘭農補充說,上帝掌控氣候。

所以無需擔心汙染、海平面上升、溫度或任何其他問題。一切都掌握在上帝手中。

今天我就說這麼多。好吧,再說一件事:其中一位候選人是牧師——甚至不是布蘭農。他是一位醫生。另一位是護士。(特別免費建議:不要去看這些醫生!他們不安全!他們相信上帝掌控一切,相信我——你想要科學,而不是上帝,來檢查你的驗血結果!

來自北卡羅來納州的個人呼籲:救救我,歐比旺·克諾比。你是我唯一的希望。

 

Scott Huler was born in 1959 in Cleveland and raised in that city's eastern suburbs. He graduated from Washington University in 1981; he was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa because of the breadth of his studies, and that breadth has been a signature of his writing work. He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune. His award-winning radio work has been heard on "All Things Considered" and "Day to Day" on National Public Radio and on "Marketplace" and "Splendid Table" on American Public Media. He has been a staff writer for the Philadelphia Daily News and the Raleigh News & Observer and a staff reporter and producer for Nashville Public Radio. He was the founding and managing editor of the Nashville City Paper. He has taught at such colleges as Berry College and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

His books include Defining the Wind, about the Beaufort Scale of wind force, and No-Man's Lands, about retracing the journey of Odysseus.

His most recent book, On the Grid, was his sixth. His work has been included in such compilations as Appalachian Adventure and in such anthologies as Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, The Appalachian Trail Reader and Speed: Stories of Survival from Behind the Wheel.

For 2014-2015 Scott is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, which is funding his work on the Lawson Trek, an effort to retrace the journey of explorer John Lawson through the Carolinas in 1700-1701.

He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with his wife, the writer June Spence, and their two sons.

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