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Obama Uses Correspondents' Dinner to Finally Blast Climate Deniers

posted by mrcoolbp on Tuesday April 28 2015, @08:09AM   
from the very-cool-when-he's-hot-under-the-collar dept.

"gewg_" writes:

The Center for American Progress reports:

Obama is famously low key. That's why on the hit Comedy Central show "Key & Peele", Keegan-Michael Key plays "Luther, President Obama's anger translator". The [annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner], however, is a rare place where the President can cut loose--as long as he uses humor.

In a hilarious admission that he has been too low key to convey the moral outrage justified by humanity's myopic march toward self-destruction--and by the brazen denial of climate science by many conservatives--Obama brought out "Luther" to express that outrage. And then, in an ingenious twist, Obama became so outraged that he didn't need Luther and in fact Luther himself couldn't take the genuinely angry Obama, who says of denial, "What kind of stupid, shortsighted, irresponsible, bull-"

Here's a video of the event.

• Re:It won't work.(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Tuesday April 28 2015, @02:21PM

  by TheRaven (270) on Tuesday April 28 2015, @02:21PM (#176068) Journal

  The economics is quite interesting, because there's a big incentive to buy more efficient ships (even a 1% saving on fuel is a big amount of money), but ships also last a very long time. New ship designs are starting to emerge with solar and wind generators and a diesel-electric drivetrain to the propellers, because the weight of the panels and wind turbines is more than offset by their generated power. If they can save a few percent of fuel overall (and, don't forget that fuel that you carry for weeks adds to your weight), then that lowers your operating costs and makes it worth buying a more efficient ship, but the costs of refitting a ship are such that it generally isn't worth adding these features to existing vessels.

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