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Who's that good-lookin' guy in the commercial?
Republicans for Environmental Protection have sponsored a TV ad on climate change to run in Austin this week. The goal is to drum up support for the several bills on climate change currently before the Texas Legislature.
Here it is:
There's also an article about the ad in the Austin-American Statesman here.
Andrew Dessler is an associate professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University; his research focuses on the physics of climate change, climate feedbacks in particular.
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David Roberts Posted 10:24 am
14 May 2007
So dashing! So scientific!
This bit from the Statesman story, from the bill's sponsor, is amusing:
Guess REP doesn't have a big profile in Texas ...grist.org
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Biodiversivist Posted 11:45 am
14 May 2007
George Clooney must have been booked ...
It is perplexing why Republican environmentalists have continued to vote Republican for the last eight years.
In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world
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cieldumort Posted 3:56 pm
14 May 2007
huba huba
Just throw in some cheesy 1970s porno theme accompaniment, and you're set! ;)
"How many Green Republicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?" lol
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caniscandida Posted 4:26 pm
14 May 2007
how many Republicans ...
... does it take to change a light bulb, more or less greenly?
Four: one, to contact Karl Rove, to find out if incandescent or CFL is the politically expedient solution for the present need; one, to place the order with the Halliburton agent; one, with authority to carry a weapon, to make sure that the worker sent over to do the installation has his papers in order; and one, to manage the press availability.
Chickens are our cousins! So are other sensitive animals! Enough is enough! No more factory farms!
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Robert Delfs Posted 9:23 pm
14 May 2007
That's not enough
We would also need another Republican to use inside information about the bulb purchase to make money speculating in CFL lamp shares; a former WSJ oped idologue-turned-spokesperson for the Dept of Energy to blame the fact that the old bulb burned out on the lax moral standards of the Clinton administration.
Robert Delfs
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Jason Peterson Posted 9:55 am
15 May 2007
Wait a durn minute.....
Do they actually hire Greens in Bryant/College Station?
Whoa, my reality is bending....
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mihan Posted 8:40 am
16 May 2007
Ummm... Jason?
Does it need to be pointed out that not everyone in Texas is a charismatic-megafauna-hating oilman, just like everyone in Vermont is not a tree-hugging hippie? If so, maybe your reality needs some more serious flexibility training.
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Jason Peterson Posted 8:08 am
21 May 2007
Ooops, misspell
(That should have been Bryan, extra 't' in the above post.)
That was supposed to be sarcasm, in response to the idea that Republicans are incapable of being concerned about the environment... (Compare and contrast to "College Station has no Greens", or "Austin has no conservatives".)
But everyone in Vermont is a tree-hugging hippie btw. :)
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