Dane County Executive Joe Parisi wants federal and state officials to acknowledge that climate change is responsible for recent, destructive flooding.
Good that he's trying to advance the discussion, but the real key is voting out climate change deniers and replacing them with science-based activists.
Because those current GOP-run administrations's rhetoric and deeds are hostile to climate change solutions, even preparations; Walker, as I pointed out just yesterday, toured more extensively flooded areas up north a few days ago persistently ignoring his own emergency management officials who have declared that climate change presents a continuing threat to the state.
For Walker, climate change is something to scrub off state websites rather than confront.
It gets worse.
On his official twitter feed, Governor Clueless posted several videos shot from a helicopter over the flood damage up north - - none from Dane County, for the record - - but the images came with a gee-whiz, look at all that water kind of commentary which you could understand from a tourist - - but not an informed public official who wanted to get to the bottom of things.
For the third year in a row.
In fact, Walker's lack of scientific and policy awareness was matched by a total lack of self-awareness, as he posted a view of the very river that would have been filled with toxic mine runoff right now had the open pit iron operation been opened which he pushed for several years ago, and from whose operators his campaign benefited from a secret $700,000 donation. (I cannot copy the image, but you can easily see it for yourself if you scroll past Walker's many self-promotional Foxconn and other campaign style tweets):
Good that he's trying to advance the discussion, but the real key is voting out climate change deniers and replacing them with science-based activists.
Because those current GOP-run administrations's rhetoric and deeds are hostile to climate change solutions, even preparations; Walker, as I pointed out just yesterday, toured more extensively flooded areas up north a few days ago persistently ignoring his own emergency management officials who have declared that climate change presents a continuing threat to the state.
For Walker, climate change is something to scrub off state websites rather than confront.
It gets worse.
On his official twitter feed, Governor Clueless posted several videos shot from a helicopter over the flood damage up north - - none from Dane County, for the record - - but the images came with a gee-whiz, look at all that water kind of commentary which you could understand from a tourist - - but not an informed public official who wanted to get to the bottom of things.
For the third year in a row.
In fact, Walker's lack of scientific and policy awareness was matched by a total lack of self-awareness, as he posted a view of the very river that would have been filled with toxic mine runoff right now had the open pit iron operation been opened which he pushed for several years ago, and from whose operators his campaign benefited from a secret $700,000 donation. (I cannot copy the image, but you can easily see it for yourself if you scroll past Walker's many self-promotional Foxconn and other campaign style tweets):
View of the Bad River flooding.
