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@_JGR The question for me is if industrial and fuel pollution cause climate change, what caused deserts to form thousands of years ago? 6:01 AM May 31st via web in reply to _JGR
@_JGR OK. I will. Just asking a question since some aspects of the climate change debate confuse me, especially the cause @sluggahjells 5:57 AM May 31st via web in reply to _JGR
@sluggahjells What kind of country is that where for two years non-stop, discussion is about who will be the next president? 5:48 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Common to both Republican and Democrat is an image of America as world leader indefinitely and arguments are over policy. 5:47 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@_JGR I'll ask, again, as a naive African: What causes climate change? What do scientists say? @sluggahjells 5:46 AM May 31st via web in reply to _JGR
@_JGR Yes but scientists have also proved as dishonest as the rest of us when evidence does not support their preconceptions. @sluggahjells 5:45 AM May 31st via web in reply to _JGR
@_JGR Yes. A question to you. Experience has taught me to be wary of how we fervently believe things we have little idea of. @sluggahjells 5:40 AM May 31st via web in reply to _JGR
@sluggahjells Yes, also "naive" talk show hosts on MSNBC. History is going past America but they still expect a glory day for manufacturing. 5:39 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Obama naively, like a Republican North Dakota farmer, imagined he could "democratise" the Middle East in the West's sense. 5:32 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells However be it Fox or MSNBC, many of us in the Third World note the naive view Americans have of themselves and their nation. 5:30 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells OK. Then perhaps I watch a different MSNBC channel. The one we receive is basically news-as-talk . 5:28 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Democrats can be just as silly as Republicans, each in their own way. 5:25 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells The climate is changing, but what causes it? 5:24 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@HBK112 Then the rest of MSNBC's programming is spent hen-pecking everything Republican, as Fox does Democrats. @sluggahjells @chucktodd 5:24 AM May 31st via web in reply to HBK112
@sluggahjells My problem with both MSNBC and Fox is their clearly one-sided reporting, most of the time. Hard to find objectivity. 5:22 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells I know. I actually watch "Morning Joe" here daily and know that Republican. But sometimes, like Fox, MSNBC goes overboard. 5:20 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells I have not yet seen Klein's book but will read it when I do, just as I read all other books of public interest. 5:19 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Yes. I don't buy this pretense at America posturing as an "open" society, but the Right is made to appear silly and backward. 5:18 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Not yet. The Right have their legitimate views, as do the Left. Both appeal to me in their own way, over various policies. 5:16 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells
@sluggahjells Fox is legitimate news just as MSNBC is. One is ideological hardcore right, the other left, but both are mainstream news. 5:14 AM May 31st via web in reply to sluggahjells