Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) trolled Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) over her climate change doomsday deadline, writing in a tweet on Wednesday that we “absolutely must do something, over the next 500 million years.”
“No @AOC the world will not end in 12 years but we must, absolutely must do something, over the next 500 million years,” Paul wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning.
“Some say we should develop a space shield to protect us from the sun’s increased luminosity,” he continued. “I’m not against that but it will only be a temporary respite maybe a few million years.”
“I do think we should also begin genetically altering O2 producing organisms to send to Saturn’s Titan and possibly the closest planets outside of our solar system. What say you AOC?” he asked, providing a link to a Forbes article titled “Life On Earth To Hit Brick Wall In Another 500 Million Years”:
it will only be a temporary respite maybe a few million years. I do think we should also begin genetically altering O2 producing organisms to send to Saturn’s Titan and possibly the closest planets outside of our solar system. What say you AOC? https://t.co/7RSi3XL7Ki
— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) January 15, 2020
Ocasio-Cortez, a champion of the Green New Deal, made headlines early last year after proclaiming that millennials are worried that the world is “going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”
She said:
I think that the part of it that is generational is that millennials and Gen-Z and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, “The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” and your biggest issue is–your biggest issue is, “How are we going to pay for it?”
“And, like, this is the war; this is our World War II,” she added.
Ocasio-Cortez has since endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who has touted a similar doomsday deadline over the course of his presidential campaign.
However, he shortened the 12-year deadline to “eight or nine” years during the Democrat debate in November and made an even more urgent call for action during Tuesday’s debate in Des Moines, Iowa, calling for action “right now”:
Let’s be clear. If we as a nation do not transform our energy system away from fossil fuel, not by 2050, not by 2040, but unless we lead the world right now — not easy stuff — the planet we are leaving our kids will be uninhabitable and unhealthy.
Sanders, who has called climate change the “single greatest challenge facing our country” and proposed a $16 trillion Green New Deal plan, has admitted that he will commit a climate change faux pas and use a private jet to go back and forth between the Senate impeachment trial and early primary and caucus states to campaign.
Paul’s troll follows dozens of failed doomsday predictions from the left, as detailed by Breitbart News’s John Nolte. Those failed predictions include a new ice age, oil depletion, and killer bees.
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Keeping in context of current lifespans, instead of millions of years, I will make a factual statement that a Bernie Sanders or similar in the White House will make the United States uninabitable.
AOC is actually right, climate change will kill us off. The next major ice age will be here in about 15,000 years. The next mega-major ice age will be here in about 90,000 years. These are well explained phenomenon that repeat themselves in a pattern. Try surviving under or on top of ice 1 mile thick!
For the love of anything. This guy is a fool beyond beyond. No wonder we are doomed.
Really? The fool is AOC and anyone who buys her crap.
Monica, the “fool” you are referring to is Bernie Sanders, yes?
Supporting senator Paul’s timeline, at the end the first 50 million years of we’ll need to pass a resolution stating we’re beginning to consider supporting a reduction in unreduced factors contributing to the accumulation of………….