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  Conservatives aren't really interested in job

  creation outside of the fossil-fuel industry. What they're really interested in are profits for companies that extract fossil fuels.  This is just another case of "What's good for General Motors is good for the country (without the vice versa part).

  So much of the talk about satisfying America's energy needs comes from existing fossil-fuel energy corporations, which are spending a fortune on advertising to convince people that if we try to shift to sustainable energy we will end up without energy or jobs.

  If conservatives admit the truth, that the transition to a green economy will create jobs and strengthen the economy, the jig will be up for them.

  Another part of the problem is that rank and file right-wingers have bought the ideological argument that environmentalists hate technological civilization and want to go back to some Rousseauist pastoral idyll.  They see arguments that sustainable energy will strengthen the economy as a subterfuge by leftist environmentalists to enact policies that, in reality, will destroy it.

  Shifting to sustainable sources of energy will make the nation rich, but the traditional energy companies poorer.  They  don't want the public to understand that it's interests are not the same as those of Exxon, Peabody Energy, etc. (Have you see the "Do you own an oil company ad...?)

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  No, Jabailo you're mistaken

  Judging by your assertion, I'm pretty certain you're referring to the article in Nature: "Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector" not the IPCC.

  For clarification on what that article actually said, I recommend you read Joe Romm's piece at Climate Progress.

  Here's the link: Nature article on `cooling' confuses media, deniers: Next decade may see rapid warming

  [Check out Climaticide Chronicles>]On U.S. federal report details climate change's impact on weather extremes posted 1 year, 4 months ago 29 Responses