上帝掌控气候,所以你可以放松

我知道,他只是一个茶党候选人,几乎没有当选的机会,但格雷格·布兰农是共和党提名的美国参议院席位的初选候选人...

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我知道,他只是一个茶党候选人,几乎没有当选的机会,但是格雷格·布兰农是共和党提名的美国参议院席位的初选候选人(该席位目前由凯·哈根 holding),他在前几天晚上的一次辩论中表示,上帝掌控气候。

而一直以来你都以为是物理学。

欢迎回到北卡罗来纳州(座右铭:“我们有丰富的疯狂矿藏,永远不会枯竭!”)。今年春天,该州的大部分科学新闻都与杜克能源公司煤灰泄漏事件中令人震惊的不作为有关。你还记得吗:这个国家最大的能源公司将 39,000 吨有毒煤灰从多年来一直拒绝清理的煤灰坑中泄漏到丹河中。然后它等了两个月才对此采取行动。然后州政府,自然而然地,站在杜克能源一边,对法官的裁决提出上诉,该裁决认为杜克能源应该清理自己的烂摊子。北卡罗来纳州认为,这个国家最大的电力公司不应该承担我们对幼儿园小朋友要求的责任程度,当然,这与北卡罗来纳州州长帕特·麦克罗里曾在杜克能源公司工作 28 年,或者杜克能源公司向麦克罗里及其支持组织捐赠了 110 万美元的事实无关。我是说,拜托。


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顺便说一句——很少有人怀疑这场灾难性的有毒污染物泄漏事故纯粹是意外。尽管如此,有时杜克能源公司也会故意倾倒煤灰,就像在罗利西南约 30 英里的地方这样做时——那是在泄漏发生几周后。如果你想知道的话。

但我们甚至不打算谈论那个!因为北卡罗来纳州!比!那!更!疯狂!

您可能知道,民主党参议员凯·哈根相信自由主义的幻想,例如人为的气候变化,她已经成为共和党 700 万美元的攻击目标。您甚至可能知道,在急于与她对决的八位候选人中,最有可能的四位本周进行了一场辩论。我就开门见山了。当被问及气候变化是否真实时,所有四位候选人都表示不真实——布兰农补充说,上帝掌控气候。

所以无需担心污染、海平面上升、温度或任何其他问题。一切都掌握在上帝手中。

今天我就说这么多。好吧,再说一件事:其中一位候选人是牧师——甚至不是布兰农。他是一位医生。另一位是护士。(特别免费建议:不要去看这些医生!他们不安全!他们相信上帝掌控一切,相信我——你想要科学,而不是上帝,来检查你的验血结果!

来自北卡罗来纳州的个人呼吁:救救我,欧比旺·克诺比。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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