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Reactionary Progressives Nancy of the House digs in her high heels:BERLIN (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday she led a congressional delegation to Greenland, where lawmakers saw "firsthand evidence that climate change is a reality," and she hoped the Bush administration would consider a new path on the issue...It's not climate change, it's Climate Progress. We are informed by political pundits* that those who prefer stasis are "conservatives" and that those who work for change are "progressives," the assumption being, of course, that since to progress we must have change, ergo change is synonymous with progress**. And since progress is good, change is good, and those who stand against change by definition are in favor of yeast infections and lead-based paint and segregated lunch counters and putting leeches on people to control their high blood pressure. Or something. So why should the temperature be any different? Change is good! Change is Progress with a capital P! Yet here are all these "progressives" screaming because we are moving forward climatologically. Even while speaking the mantras of progress (e.g. a "new path" to "go forward") they do not mean it, but are working for stasis: they are trying to keep us from going forward. In doing so, they reveal themselves as ultra-conservative, even reactionary, trying to recapture some mythical Good Old Days of climate perfection. We cannot let Climate Progress be stopped by such short-sightedness! Chant it with me: We won't go back! UPDATE: On that same note, a really good article today by former Climate Reactionary David Evans, talking about the intersection of science and government money, and why such always results in bad science. * Of the port side mostly, but not uniquely. ** For example, this is exactly how the doctrinaire Communists who opposed the "progressive" Gorbachev were transformed into ultra-conservatives. Labels: moonbats |
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