Senator Ron Johnson argues with a real climatologist, claiming that global warming is a good thing and should be welcomed.
April 26, 2023

Wisconsin's dumb senator, Ron Johnson is not only a master virologist, but also reminds us that he is an expert climatologist. He gets into an argument with Dr. Michael Greenstone, a real life climatologist, trying to use Greenstone's own report to argue that climate change is actually a good thing because global warming reduces death rates in the northern global realms.

Dr. Greenstone, to his credit, took on the futile effort of trying to argue with RoJo's crazy mind, by calmingly repeating the facts that he had laid out in the report that RoJo was waving around.

Unfortunately for Dr. Greenstone and anyone watching this exchange, RoJo has a long history of playing the fool on this topic, going back over a decade. In 2010, he originally blamed global warming on sunspots. Just a couple of years ago, he fantasized that Greenland was called that because it used to be green and had only recently frozen over. And who could forget when a candid RoJo was caught on video stating that climate change was just bullshit?

But don't let RoJo's obfuscation of the facts goad you into missing the most alarming part of RoJo's argument. It's when he put the emphasis on the supposed good it would do to Wisconsin while dismissing the damage done to most of the continent of Africa. What he is arguing is actually that he puts a much higher value of about 3,300 mostly white Wisconsinites over millions of Black people living in Africa.

That is simply unconscionable.

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