Conservative #SCOTUS Spurns Personal/Private Responsibility, Encourages Nanny State

The next time a climate denier moans and groans and bellyaches over the "nanny state" forcing the burden of climate change mitigation onto the average taxpayer, remind him or her of Kivalina, AK.

The citizens of this sinking village tried to hold the private parties responsible, rather than their fellow taxpayers, but the SCOTUS and other courts dismissed the case. Tell me again, my precious little right-wing denier friends, how interested you are in personal responsibility, and how averse you are to the big, bad, nanny-state government moving in to offer up its oh so "scary" help (thanks for that, Ronnie), if the way your fellow Americans are being mistreated here doesn't burn your bacon. I just can't get enough of your completely transparent horsepuckey.

How many times are we gonna fall for industry lying in order to push the real costs of their huge profits onto us? No, seriously, how many times?

So keep truckin', America. Keep doing your abysmally confused, misinformed best in those voting booths.

Bang up job last November in the voting booths, America. Cruz to oversee NASA, and Rubio NOAA. Both climate deniers. http://t.co/2O2DxjBMni

— Planet Evans (@ExoplanetEvans) January 14, 2015

That is, of course, if you can at all be bothered to get up off yer lazy arse and show up at them.

Way to Go, America

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Yeah, that post title was sarcasm, in case you didn't realize. Why? This is why.

A new report from Ipsos MORI includes data on public opinion about the causes of climate change from twenty nations — and the United States led the world in the rate of climate change denial, as assessed by answers to two questions.

The United States and India were tied, at 52%, for agreement with "The climate change we are currently seeing is a natural phenomenon that happens from time to time," with China closely following at 51%. Only 34% of Swedes, 26% of South Koreans, and 22% of Japanese agreed.

The United States was first, at 32%, for disagreement with "The climate change we are currently seeing is largely the result of human activity," with Australia second at 25% and Russia and Great Britain tied for third at 24%. Only 12% of Spaniards, 9% of Argentinians, and 5% of Chinese disagreed.

Here are the detailed results of the two questions from the poll:





If you are gonna be this bloody stupid, my fellow countrymen and women, do those of us who at least try to be informed citizens a favor and DON'T ANSWER QUESTIONS, so you can't embarrass the nation to such a face-palming degree. When you're told you should lead the world, that doesn't mean straight into the gutter, you nitwits. Wake up, would ya?