Racist billionaire teabagger says Global Warming is good because it will mean more land for farming

Proof positive there's no correlation between brains and net worth. :dunce:




from Grist:




In a recently published New York Magazine profile, pollution billionaire David Koch lies about his support for tea-party radicalism, cracks racist jokes, and denies the threat of global warming.

One of the wealthiest men in the world, Koch has used his billions for decades to promote the extremist, anti-regulatory, right-wing political groups like Americans for Prosperity that now organize under the Tea Party banner. “I’ve never been to a tea-party event,” Koch told reporter Andrew Goldman, even though he hosted AFP’s “Defending the American Dream” tea-party hoopla in Washington, D.C., last year.

Fueled by his fear that the greenhouse gas pollution generated by Koch Industries might be limited by government regulation, Koch promotes a fantasy about benefits of a changing climate:



Unfortunately, Koch’s pollution really is heating the planet, and the consequences are grave. With less than 1.8 degrees F of average warming, heat waves, extreme storms, droughts, sea levels, ocean acidity, wildfires, and flooding are already on the rise. In the unregulated world of global warming pollution envisioned by Koch, the planet’s average temperature will increase five to ten times more than existing warming, with a significant chance of a runaway greenhouse effect. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.grist.org/article/2010-07-27-billionaire-polluter-david-koch-global-warming-is-good-for-you/

they are both fools.

and as we have seen if you can "catapult the propaganda" you can convince enough people to vote against their own interests because they have been totally befuddled.

Clearly he hasn't thought this through.

The Midwest will lose its farms to permanent dustbowls and the land at the Arctic will not replace it.

Didn't think your plan all the way through, now did ya, Davey?

pests.

"The DDT is doing nothing!"

"Obviously, you're not spraying enough. We all know that evolution is a lie. Keep spraying it, or are you some kind of environmentalist nut?!"

them were no longer harmful to the pests yet the nit wits refused to stop using it, was the same with herbicides, weeds evolved chemicals stopped working framers decided that more was needed to the point where the ground could hold no more chemicals and it started running off every time it rained.

When you farm you're at the mercy of nature.

So warmer weather may help the crops (certain crops, anyway) grow faster, but three weeks of solid rain, followed by a two month drought, followed by another two weeks of rain sure isn't going to do them any favors. There's also the problem that most crops can burn if they get too much sun or too direct sun, can become harder to pollinate if it's too hot, and blights are more common when it's hotter.

Kind of obvious the man has never grown so much as a blade of grass.

Texas Tea Party...Poppy and Bab's daughter married one...Big Old Oil Rip Off Artistes...

When the North Pole melts, just think of how much land will be available for farming up there!!!



:dunce:

because they have thin soil, much of their original topsoil having been scraped off and brought south by glaciers.

Is this the same Koch who is married to George W. Bush's sister?

He was actually on her program one time and she did her best to shoot him down. Her biggest complaint about the guy (and like right wingers) is that they fund and support the so-called "grass roots" movements such as the tea party, but will not divulge to anyone who they support, or that they support them at all (though they obviously do). Super devious and underhanded scum is what he is and Rachel knows it.