It's not like 'we' are going to accept his glass of water, if it exists, (it doesn't) having just gotten an ample HALF inch of rain this past weekend and we're GOOD TO GO for at least three, maybe three and a half days, here. Woo-hoo!
Here it is:
Last week’s USA Today interview with Charles Koch noted his shifting opinion on what he calls climate change “hysteria:”
For the record, Koch says this of climate change: “You can plausibly say that CO2 has contributed” to the planet’s warming, but he sees “no evidence” to support “this theory that it’s going to be catastrophic.”
Well
fuck! His glass of water is half full! Read more hope and excitement below the
only cloud left in California:
First, let me say, I'm not a big Koch-fan even when it involved a hundred dollar bill or rum but, for a guy like Charles Koch to actually 'believe in something he's denied all his life'... I went: wow, where did those Pixies in my pants come from?
So having lots in common with Chuck, namely an evil brother and no taste in art or women, I decided to call him up. You can disregard this if you like, but he and bro already have ownership of one half of the next president. So you may as well indulge.
Chuck wasn't ready to refute GMOs as being 'man-made' and still asserts GMOs will solve world hunger and boost his portfolio, although only one of those has arguably gone down (according to my source, Bono after his Stuttgart concert.) But he IS maintaining that he owns enough scientists to have had 'consensus' and 'change' explained to him while he was obtaining coinage to operate the coke vending apparatus at Smithsonian. ('Ever try to break a ONE Million dollar bill?'- he 'let the board keep the change' for a board seat and three ice cubes extracted from a penguin exhibit)
I am not permitted by copyright law to quote Chuck but suffice that he did drop a few other bomb clusters, including these:
He didn't believe in 'smog' either and last time he flew over LA on a trip to see politicians friendly to the reality of NOT climate change (Austrailia) he didn't see any smog... So there! He was right.
In trying to explain how LA actually accomplished the reduction in smog through vehicle emission standards, strict air-standard controls, transfer to lower emission charcoal (a chief cause of smog in the LA basin) he huffed and insisted clean coal is the future of America and the BEST way to make cow parts medium rare!
Not caring for cattle products myself and sensing insinuation he could cancel my phone service at any time via a mere stock purchase, I moved on.
Addressing the drought situation, I informed him that some of his very own scientists, including those recently acquired, had concluded last month
"That a pacific ocean current had been determined to be the cause of the 'climate hiatus' and it was now again accelerating the warming trend, having absorbed a trillion atomic bombs of energy."
He grunted and I continued,
"They project the drought will be accelerated for 5-8 years (becoming epic) with average temperatures ranging 100 to 112 degrees in the summer months."
Not surprisingly, Chuck asserted he'd have that forecast revised, but in any event droughts are good for electricity generation businesses, coal powered plants, and oil refineries since people will want to stay inside with the A/C or get in their cars to travel someplace cooler like Vegas or Phoenix.
Seeing this conversation was going no place, I asked him his favorite team and he said, he reveled in last-night's outcome where the Climate Dodgers kicked butt. Being a Giant's fan I hung up.
He called me right back. He asked if I wanted a glass of water sent here because of the drought, laughed, then told me to fuck-off and hung up.
The good news is that while the drought will get worse, thanks to Koch industries (literally), at least we'll have coal to power our air conditioning, gasoline to power our vehicles, and places to go like Sheldon Adelson's playground in Vegas or Sheriff Araipo's tent city in Phoenix where water is available to inmates for three hours labor.
And lastly, for Climate-Dodger fans everywhere, they have the mojo, moxie and money to power into the pennant race, even if it takes getting democrats to stay home so republicans like Hucksterbe can Cruz to victory and Paul one out of the Bushes (again) if the 2016 election is close, just like the Koch Bros are betting $889 million on.