Virginia Lawmaker: 'Sea Level Rise' Is 'Left-Wing Term'

[steve2470]

http://www.newser.com/story/147881/virginia-lawmaker-sea-level-rise-is-left-wing-term.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=goognews&utm_campaign=chan3_feed&google_editors_picks=true

(Newser) – Virginia lawmakers will study the dangers of sea level rise as long as one phrase is never uttered: "sea level rise." Republican state lawmakers agreed to commission a study on the phenomenon as long as "left-wing" terms like "sea level rise" and "climate change" were removed. Democrats, wanting the study approved, agreed on the non-partisan phrase "recurrent flooding," National Memo reports.

Virginia is prone to flooding, and scientists say the state's sea level will rise by 2 or 3 feet over the next century. "So, whatever we have to call it, I've got no problem with that," an oceanographer tells the Virginian-Pilot. "What's the alternative? Do nothing?" Republican Del. Chris Stolle says he prefers the "flooding" term because that's what concerns Virginia residents: "Let's study that. So that's what I wanted us to call it."

[Journeyman]

1. Ah yes, a rose by any other name will drown as quick. . .

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. Wow. These people are moronic.

If the facts don't agree with you, change the wording. What a fucking maroon.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Maybe the scientists should call it "flooding of biblical proportions"

to get the attention of the bat shit crazies...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. Ark levels?

[HooptieWagon]

8. Sure, why not? Any bible reference that gets the wingnuts attention

to the problem we're facing is a good thing.

[Swede]

4. These idiots have children and grandchildren that will live in this chaotic world we leave them.

Unless they have a space ark.

[Politicalboi]

5. In his world

If I say I'm rich, is it really true? I bet this asshole used to cheat at Monopoly all the time by changing the rules to suit himself.

[meanit]

6. These assholes

would drown the whole fucking world if they could gain from it politically.