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speak on CNN ’s Crossfire last night , former House Speaker Newt Gingrich reason that a hot planet may be just o.k. — because dinosaur and aeonian Caribbean vacations .
describe himself as an “ amateur paleontologist , ” [ ahem ] Gingrich rhetorically asked Crossfire co - panellist Van Jones what the right temperature of the planet should be .
“ Assume for a minute that we have the capacity to in reality make up one’s mind the planet ’s temperature , ” he tell . “ What kind of hubris does it take to say , ‘ I fuck on the dot what this major planet ’s temperature ought to be and I ’m going to manage it to that effect ? ' ”
Jones responded by stating he would prefer to see the Earth ’s temperature remain within the average that it has been for the last 10,000 years of human civilization , adding that humanness should explore alternatives to the function of carbon copy - based fuels .
“ The problem is , if we put the foot on the accelerator with this experimentation we ’re doing — we ’re the only planet that we know — and we ’re wrong , and we end up misrepresent the planet , that ’s a regretful outcome you ca n’t recover from , ” Jones said . He also pointed out that humanity did not exist in that era .
To which Gingrich respond : “ The age of the dinosaurs was dramatically warmer than this is decent now and it did n’t wangle the planet , ” Gingrich respond . “ In fact , life was okay . ” He also said that Minnesotans escaping to the Caribbean during this current polar winter register that “ slightly warmer would n’t be a crisis . ”
So there you have it . bury about superstorms , mass experimental extinction , rising sea levels , and the spreading of tropical diseases . And let ’s handily ignore the fact that we ’re manage with anthropogenic ball-shaped thaw — an unprecedented globular phenomenon that could create completely irregular and ruinous results .
[ h / tRaw Story ]
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