I spent way more time than I should have on Twitter today, marveling at the collective freak-out over the President’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord. And thoroughly enjoying the rejoinders to the Chicken Littles from some of the folks I follow.
Leonardo DiCaprio was an obvious and easy target.
I’ll start caring what celebrities think about the Paris Accord when they start making the sacrifices they’re asking others to make. pic.twitter.com/VIazScmt0H
— Thomas C. (@Thomas_Conerty) June 1, 2017
Justin Trudeau got a good smack-down.
Just curious… would you like us to keep buying all your bitumen sands oil products? https://t.co/yyyG4HNXQ7
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) June 1, 2017
Yes, Mitt Romney wrung his hands over the decision, and Steve Kruiser made the obvious comment.
With Republicans like these… https://t.co/w4dOxJXErw
— SFK (@stephenkruiser) June 1, 2017
A tenured chair at Harvard spewed forth an interesting take on history that elicited countless reactions like David Burge’s.
Huh, and here I mistakenly thought it was pissed off anti-monarchy libertarians with guns. Thanks, Harvard U!https://t.co/oGXKRbT3ah
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) June 2, 2017
I could go on and on. There was “conservative” columnist Jennifer Rubin, who hated the Paris Accord until Trump dumped it; now she loves it and is dismayed. There was the ACLU denouncing it as “an assault on communities of color” because more blacks live near coal plants. Doubling down on that, some senile California attorney declared that Trump did it “just because it was signed by our first black POTUS – yes, he is that racist.!!!!”
There are a bunch more, including a funny rejoinder to Michael Moore, in my timeline. Both the Federalist and Ricochet have compilations of some of the most panicky, over-the-top reactions to the President’s decision. And Twitchy is just full of related stuff.
But one of the things that really struck me was this: many of the same people who insisted that withdrawing from the Paris Accord would flood coastal cities, kill children, destroy the planet, etc., also insisted that withdrawing was stupid because the accord didn’t obligate us to do anything. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?