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Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by dogruck on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:45PM (#15543501)
This article is illogical. It simultaneously calls the report "non-partisan" while also pointing out that the current administration disagrees with it.

Furthermore, it gives the impression that the cost of every natural disaster is being associated with climate change.

Lastly, I do not see any mention of what it would cost to implement so-called climate change prevention strategies. For that, they would have to acknowledge that this is a global issue.

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:48PM (#15543551)
Non-partisan doesn't mean nobody disagrees with it.

If well established practices and fact are disputed by one party, that doesn't make it objective to abandon them. If non-partisan means splitting the difference between the major parties, then there would be an incentive for each party to tack as far away from center in order to sway the GAO.

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by dogruck on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:57PM (#15543654)
Nonpartisan means not associated with a political party.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisanism

If the entire Trump administration disagrees with it, I think it it's fair to say that his political party is not on board.

The article/report is leveraging one Republican (moderate Susan Collins) to label it as nonpartisan.

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by rndmize on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:01PM (#15544275)
Why would it matter whether his political party is on board? The GAO puts out a report regardless of whether it expects one party or the other to disagree with it.
Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:40PM (#15544088)
The GAO is not associated with a political party. It meets that definition. In particular:

> in most cases, nonpartisan refers specifically to political party connections rather than being the strict antonym of "partisan".

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by unethical_ban on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:24PM (#15543921)
If the Trump EPA says the sun appears blue to everyone, then is it a partisan issue to say they're incorrect?

Partisan means pushing a political agenda based on ideology or party. NOT that a particular party agrees or disagrees with them.

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by dogruck on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:29PM (#15543980)
You're using the straw man argument, which is vacuous. You are also ignoring the correct definition of nonpartisan, which I linked above.
Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:39PM (#15544071)
Not much of a straw man, since we are nearly certain about the fact that mean temperatures are rising as we are about the color of the sun.

Whether or not the changing climate is anthropogenic is somewhat less certain, (and more politically contentious), but we ought to be able to discuss the effects of these absent the cause without calling a report partisan.

Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by unethical_ban on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @03:54PM (#15544711)
It's called analogy, and I believe I am still correct. If a report aligns with a particular party, that does not make it partisan. The motivations and affiliations of an organization may make it "left leaning" or "right leaning", but the GAO is pretty well established as non-partisan.
Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by artpepper2 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:46PM (#15543520)
Somebody disagrees with 'x' does not make 'x' partisan.
Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by dogruck on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:48PM (#15543553)
Finding one (moderate) Republican congressperson and one Democratic congressperson who will sponsor a report also does not make it "non-partisan" which is a clear attempt to characterize it as "not political"
Re:GAO: Climate change already costing US billions in losses by aidenn0 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:42PM (#15544106)
The GAO is obviously political, but that doesn't make it partisan. A non-political GAO would be rather odd, since it exists specifically to inform congress as to the impact of policies.