Phil Fortunato thinks reducing greenhouse gas pollution will STARVE THE RAINFORESTS.
You have to laugh so you don't cry that people like this are in positions of power. #WAleg
You have to laugh so you don't cry that people like this are in positions of power. #WAleg
Now we have some more straight-up climate denial by Doug Ericksen. Regarding emissions reductions goals: "these numbers are not based on science." Let me introduce him to the IPCC... for example. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/
Mike Padden staying on topic by ... praising Trump's vaccine "efforts".
Learning that Republicans will not only call anything a tax (when it's not a tax) but they'll call anything a /gas tax/! Looking at John Braun on this one.
Relatedly, Republicans only seem to worry about so-called regressivity when they're trying to protect oil industry profits, data be damned!

Republicans on climate policy: Is it a gas tax? Or an income tax?
Ericksen is mad that Seattle doesn't have "windmills."
Curtis King is also mad that there are no "windmills" in /downtown/ Seattle. (Because yeah, that really works...)
This debate has turned into Republican wind power hate fest.
This debate has turned into Republican wind power hate fest.
I am just aghast at Phil Fortunato right now. I can't be witty about it.
Full out climate denial and some serious racism all in one go. "There is no disproportionate impact on communities of color. I asked my Vietnamese friend."
Full out climate denial and some serious racism all in one go. "There is no disproportionate impact on communities of color. I asked my Vietnamese friend."
Phil Fortunato thinks climate change is a hoax because we dropped a bunch of bombs during WWII and did not increase CO2.