Trump's EPA pick will make Obama regret his environmental overreach (A global warming and environmental thread) (Congress, generations)
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Here is an excellent article at 'The Hill' about Trump's agenda at the EPA and the wisdom of selecting Scott Pruitt for the purpose of executing that agenda. Just a brief quote below to wet your appetites, but the rest is just as good. If you are into this topic, I would encourage you to read it.
This article is written by Patrick J. Michaels, who is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels was formerly the president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was the program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. So it is written by a climate scientist with some pretty good credentials.
To quote from below: "Fasten your seat belts, for we may be about to witness the scientific-cat fight of our time."
There’s going to have to be a massive effort to pick apart failing climate models and questionably-adjusted data. They’re going to have to find people willing to expose the current regime’s blatant abuse of logic in generating inflated “costs” of global warming, while largely ignoring the co-benefits of fossil fuel power, like doubled life expectancy and undreamt-of wealth.
The academy is going to howl, and Washington’s science lobbies, like the American Association for the Advancement of Science (headed by Democratic ex-congressman Rush Holt) are going to go berserk. Fasten your seat belts, for we may be about to witness the scientific-cat fight of our time.
On one side will be a massive and entrenched establishment, defending models that we now know were (and this is truly shocking) often adjusted to give a predetermined result. On the other will be a dogged and far smaller clan, tearing apart the code of these models, much like the ENIGMA busters of Bletchley Park. This will get ugly.
In nominating Pruitt, the administration is signaling that it is clearly up to such a fight — and not just over climate change.
As the article points out, the climate temperature data and the models have been adjusted to achieve predetermined results, which is truly shocking. The government under Obama has aggressively funded a huge amount of research that supports their remarkably unscientific and partisan AGW agenda and has been funding the authorship of papers on this subject.
Donald Trump, somewhat to my surprise, appears committed to cleaning this mess up straightening out this outrageous situation. Scott Pruitt is an excellent choice to do that. Like the article says, expect the establishment AGW interests to go well and truly berserk, as the funding they get from this politically motivated boondoggle is truly massive.
I am surprised to see this piece published at 'The Hill'. While I would characterize the Hill as somewhat left leaning, in my opinion it clearly tries to be one of the more conscientious and responsible traditional media outlets on the internet these days. However, because of its left/establishment lean, an article like this which openly speaks about and recognizes the corruption of the AGW alarmism racket is unusual, to say the least.
In fact, if this was published by a right-leaning website, many on the left would characterize it as "Fake News" for daring to defy the left's politically correct stance on the subject of Man-Made Climate Change.
It is a good article. However, don't be surprised if 'The Hill' is bullied by the leftists into taking it down later.
Introducing one of the new senators who will inaugurated in a few weeks, Sen. Kamala Harris from California. Thankfully she's on the side of real, adult science as opposed to the faux-science deniers:
Introducing one of the new senators who will inaugurated in a few weeks, Sen. Kamala Harris from California. Thankfully she's on the side of real, adult science as opposed to the faux-science deniers:
Real, adult science is based on predictions that consistently fail? That must be why liberals love their policies which also fail. Basically, liberals embrace failure. That's also why Hillary Clinton is at the head of the Democrat Party, because she's a failure. That's also why their voters are all failures at life.
Introducing one of the new senators who will inaugurated in a few weeks, Sen. Kamala Harris from California. Thankfully she's on the side of real, adult science as opposed to the faux-science deniers:
Interesting article on the daughter of one of Trumps largest donors, Robert Mercer.
Rebekah Mercer sits on the board of the American Museum of Natural History in NYC which promtes science but she has come in conflict and is also at the same time a large donor to the Heartland Institute which is backed by the fossil fuel industry and rejects climate change.
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The American Museum of Natural History has long been on the front lines of the climate change discussion, as its scientists study the potential damage and its educators try to alert new generations to the dangers of global warming.
The depth of that mission is evident in the numerous exhibitions at this Manhattan museum, like the film “Wonders of the Arctic,” which is on view through March 2. “The polar bear has always been the symbol of the Arctic,” the narrator intones. “Now it’s become the face of climate change and the threat it poses.”
But one of the museum’s leaders, a trustee who is also an important donor to the institution, Rebekah Mercer, has been using her family’s millions to fund organizations that question climate change, a cornerstone of the conservative agenda she is advancing as an influential member of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team
I guess the North West Passage will freeze over again, once the oil & coal lobbyists get a free hand to refuse to acknowledge what's right in front of them.
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EPA over regulation is the number one reason companies move overseas!
And little/no regulation is the number one reason virtually everyone I've ever talked to who's been to China mentions atrocious air quality as one of their first comments about China.
Sure he will. Claims someone during the hottest year on record. Florida hasn't had anything close to a winter in years. Actually, Obama will be proven right. The climate deniers will look as foolish as the flat-earth society they are.
Here is an excellent article at 'The Hill' about Trump's agenda at the EPA and the wisdom of selecting Scott Pruitt for the purpose of executing that agenda. Just a brief quote below to wet your appetites, but the rest is just as good. If you are into this topic, I would encourage you to read it.
This article is written by Patrick J. Michaels, who is currently the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute. Michaels was formerly the president of the American Association of State Climatologists and was the program chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the American Meteorological Society. So it is written by a climate scientist with some pretty good credentials.
Michaels has no credibility, he has been mistaken on just about every front, he does have a degree in climatology and that's about it. He works at the Cato institute, I rest my case.
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On Ice Ages
Michaels Makes An "Easy Prediction" That By 2000 The "Vogue Environmental Calamity Will Be An Ice Age." Michaels wrote in a 1992 Washington Times op-ed:
About 15 years ago it was all the rage in the climate business to proclaim the coming ice age.
[...]
Here's an easy prediction: By the year 2000, plus or minus a few, the vogue environmental calamity will be an ice age. And this nouvelle apocalypse, revised version, will predict that global warming will cause sea level to fall, exposing Bangladesh to wrenching cultural changes, and therefore we should give more money to the Third World. [The Washington Times, 2/11/92, via Nexis]
His prediction wasn't based on science and we went on to have 16 straight years of record temperatures beginning in 2000.
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Claims someone during the hottest year on record. Florida hasn't had anything close to a winter in years. Actually, Obama will be proven right. The climate deniers will look as foolish as the flat-earth society they are.
