Climate change so serious Democrats mention it once in over 80 speeches over two days
Though the 2012 Democratic Party platform declares that the “national security threat from climate change is real, urgent, and severe,” it is apparently not urgent and severe enough to merit mention by speakers at the Democratic National Convention during the past two days.
The Daily Caller reviewed the speech transcripts of the over 80 speakers who took the stage at the Time Warner Cable Arena here in Charlotte on Tuesday and Wednesday, and only one mentioned climate change — and even he only mentioned it in passing.
“Thanks to President Obama, America is laying the foundation for the way we power tomorrow,” said Tom Steyer, co-founder of the Advanced Energy Economy trade association, in one of the early and therefore likely least watched speeches to the convention Wednesday.
“So here’s my question for you: Should we go back to the boom-and-bust, ‘drill-baby-drill,’ polluting energy policies of yesterday, or should we embrace an advanced energy economy that meets opportunity with innovation? Should we settle for an economy built on shifting and uncertain sands, or should we keep building an economy made to last?”
“Gov. Romney’s road to the future will lead to dirty air and increasing climate volatility, uncertainty over energy prices, and less security, not more,” Steyer continued. “President Obama’s road to the future will lead us to energy independence, energy security, a safer and cleaner environment, and countless new jobs that can never be outsourced.”
That reference to “increasing climate volatility” was the only explicit reference to climate change in two days of speakers. TheDC searched every speech for the words “global warming” and “climate,” and only Steyer’s speech produced a result.
While even a three-day long convention can’t mention every issue, climate change is an issue that the Democratic Party platform speaks of in apocalyptic terms.
“The change wrought by a warming planet will lead to new conflicts over refugees and resources; new suffering from drought and famine; catastrophic natural disasters; and the degradation of vital ecosystems across the globe,” the platform declares.
“We know that global climate change is one of the biggest threats of this generation — an economic, environmental, and national security catastrophe in the making,” it states in another section.
Indeed, the words “climate change” appear in the document 18 times.
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the democrat to lie
also to be less than
common intelligence
this is why they are
democrats
the democrat party relies
on this for their base
this is why the liberal
dumbing down of education
is going on
this why they have created
and maintained an
urban proletariat in our cities
IT'S CALLED WELFARE
it's at the taxpayers expense
is entirely parasitic
and counterproductive
but it provides democrats
with a voter base who rely
on democrats for their
subsistence
( which is slavery )
remember the democrats are
the only party in the usa
that never opposed slavery
the totally disproven
climate change nonsense ?
another ploy by the democrats
to enslave all mankind
with the promise of
redeeming and saving them from
the savage job providers
and wage givers
And as for their true 'religion', they ban Gore et al because they believe they can take greenies for granted, just as they had previously taken Christians and Jews.
They have no moral base or compass and look like complete frauds, because they are.