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Finally, a way to make conservatives think about the profound societal impacts of global warming:
Continued climate change will drive Mexican farm workers to migrate to the United States in greater numbers, environmental experts predicted on Monday.
For every 10 percent of lost crop yields, 2 percent more Mexicans will leave and most will try to come to the United States, Michael Oppenheimer of Princeton University in New Jersey and colleagues predicted.
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Oppenheimer’s team looked at Mexican census data from 1995 to 2005, along with statistics on crop production and climate data. “We lined up the climate changes, the crop production changes … with the census data, which allowed us to infer the emigration rate,” he said.
“Climate change is expected to cause mass human migration, including immigration across international borders,” Oppenheimer and his team wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Conservatives may be willing to shrug off the possibility of rising sea levels, desertification and mass extinctions, but can they live with the risk of more Mexicans crossing the border to breathe their precious American air?
On the other hand, they might just be grateful for another excuse to turn the U.S.-Mexico border into a giant moat full of sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads.
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ELI!
SADLY!
It is, after all, Eli, so we should have seen this coming…
OTOH, you may have found a use for all those soon-to-be-extinct Polar Bears, ’cause they really do exist.
Eli!
Newt!
On the other hand…
Better than sharks with lasers – Sharktopus!!
Too slow.
Sincerely, we are still in the initial backlash of the AZ legislation.
I want this to show some real-world results in the labor markets there, and fast.
That’s nothing. What to see something REALLY scary?
Now THAT’S something in the water that is really dangerous.
True but I was being distracted… . I need a glass of wine.
I would definitely rather take my chances with Sharktopus.
VOMIT ALERT
Perhaps a remake is in order . . .
Let’s see . . . Replace “communist” with “Mexican” and voila!
Hello, Oscar!!
You are a bad, bad man.
Eli
A keeper!!!! Can’t wait for film at eleven… /s
The right will never accept the affects of climate change. With changes all around them, they will still just say it’s cyclical and not to worry. They will be comfortable. Most of us won’t.
That was MEAN!
Bathe long and suffer, you rascal!
Welcome to FireDogLake, nocompromises4me.
must go eat something chocolate
Certainly would kill Sharktopus!
What! No Tequila!
Yea but Eli, dontchyaknow it’s all just a librul conspiracy by a buncha pointyheaded scientists?
And it can all be refudiated by her royalness Queen Sarah ;-)
Ah, but are they as willing to risk being overrun by Mexicans as they are to risk turning the Earth into Waterworld? I mean, some things are just *too* scary.
Then we will really need Kevin Cosner to save us.
I find Sarah Palin’s adventures into Shakespearian languatarian gymnastics somehow noble.
–Kristol
They doth make me see yon rainbows and sparkles.
I’m sure they’ll go from denying global warming to blaming it on Bill Clinton without missing a beat.
10 Years without a Leader
Who knew there was a bright side to losing gulf beaches?
The right wing fanatics will not concede that global climate change is real even if their a$$es spontaneously combust.
“I’d hit it.”
/Kathryn Jean Lopez
Excellent points, all.
And welcome.
I actually had that one…
Pass the brain bleach, please.
They most certainly will, if they are convinced that Democrats are unable/unwilling to mount the offensive against them for flipping the script.
The Dems are not the party of civil rights, or Gay rights, or environmental protection (or whatever the heck stance they want to co-opt) because:
• We say so
• They don’t know how to fight our bullshit
• Our party loyalists will go along with whatever drivel we spoon to them and push it relentlessly until it becomes a truth
“Republicans: Driving America forward (’cause no one on the other side will assume the leadership mantle) since whenever.“
Teddy, here is stupid for you – He Was The Best Anti-Gay Expert We Could Find
shit… that reminds me — i was going to order more brain bleach…
Bill McCollum looks like a grown up Howdy Dowdy.
While you’re waiting for that delivery, I’ve got some sugar free vanilla pudding with strawberries and whipped cream. Just for diversion, while we’re waiting.
Howdy Dowdy had something between his ears, can’t say the same for Bill.
Howdy Dowdy was a puppet and so is Bill McCollum.
Did you know that reading the Bible surpresses your homosexual tendencies?
Temperatures here on earth have been dropping for the last 10 years.
Levels of CO2 have not change in 150 years.
The ozone layer in our Stratosphere has not changed … maybe move around a little, but not changed.
Global warming, being no longer politically correct, turns to “Climate Change” instead.
There is no climate change, only contamination.
http://www.tgdaily.com/sustainability-features/45250-atmospheric-co2-hasnt-increased-for-150-years
Hiya All!
Suzanne, I hope you are buying that brain bleach in gallon containers.
hey ce — lisa has late nite upstairs
Yes, I just watched that movie “Day After Tomorrow” and I am deathly afraid of the coming big freeze.
What bozo forgot to give that movie producer and director the inside skinny on the latest propaganda strategies?
Conservatives are never about carrots — they believe only in the stick.
As long as Obama is in the White House the RIGHT side will remain on the wrong side of important issues that will help the nation. It is a matter of pride for them at this point to see Obama fail. Bachmann has already said, the repugs won’t do anything but issue subpoenas if elected to the majority in either the house or the Senate. They would rather see children go hungry, families dispersed and broken, than to see Obama succeed at anything. Such abhorrent behavior is tolerated by the dems because they are afraid to ACT. The dems got their President, their 60 votes in the Senate and the House. Instead of choosing worthy leaders in Congress, they chose weak unproductive pliant marshmellows who melted in the wake of flames whether real or imagined,big or small. The dems are seen as failures. Even though Obama has a good record, everything they have accomplished is perceived as half-measure, flawed and always a disappointment. Obama is a lousey political leader and the dems have a weak DNC chair. I love Pelosi, Grayson, Franken, S.Brown, Markey and Boxer.
There is nothing that will make the Rightwing believe in global warming or clmate change, whatever you want to call it. It ain’t in the Bible and all that melting ice is not going to raise the sea levels either. And polar bears deserve to die if they can’t learn to get along without ice, and we’ll just get the NRA to put up some of those automatic machine guns along the border like they used to use behind the Iron Curtain to keep the Westies out and their citizens locked in.
After all, admitting to global warming would mean acknowledging that science is real and the talking snake thing is just another man-made myth. Can’t do that! And yeah, this may be the hottest year on record, ever, but we all know it is actually getting colder each year cuz Sarah says so and Newt agrees. And anyone who doesn’t agree with this is a socialist, nazi, commie fascist. And oh yeah, Obama is a racist and Democrats want to destroy this country, and rich people create jobs when you give them tax breaks, which is why this country was doing so good when Bush left office and so bad when Clinton’s term ended. Yeah. And oh yeah, this is a Christian nation cuz our Founding Fathers were so religious and that’s why we have a First Amendment right to Freedom of Religion — except for Muslims and other cultists. Right!
Hewwo?
For nearly a century, the birthrates of Galapagos turtles “predicted” American presidential elections. Can’t remember which, but when the birth rate went up – the Republicans won; down – the Democrats won. (Or vice versa) Of course, the correlation was purely coincidental.
One ought to look more closely at causal factors before jumping to any climate conclusions. If I had to toss out the leading candidate, it would be land loss. Traditional community milpas often lack legal paperwork showing land ownership. As corporate farming expands in Mexico, many of these milpas are being seized. Such was one of the major reasons for the Chiapas revolt.
Then there is continued rural population growth – growth that remains high and and cannot be accommodated in a framework where land-use at the subsistence level is already saturated.
It would help if these scientists would do a little cultural background reading before tossing out random theories.
The people using this site for their stupid little social crap need to go back to fuckfacebook or tweetle. This is a place for serious discussion about the issues raised by the content of the article.