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Very untimely appointment of a scientist that is associated with the Heartland Institute which is a fossil fuel organization funded by Koch. This position doesn't require congressional approval since it is a deputy position. Bad timing with the west coast up in flames and another hurricane headed for the gulf.
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The Trump administration has tapped David Legates, an academic who has long questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing global warming, to help run the agency that produces much of the climate research funded by the U.S. government.
Legates, a University of Delaware professor who was forced out of his role as that state’s climatologist because of his controversial views, has taken a senior leadership role at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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Legates was formerly Delaware’s state climatologist, a position from which he he stepped down in 2011. He had come under pressure from then-Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D), because of his fossil fuel industry-funded research casting doubt on the science showing that burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels is the main factor behind heating the planet and would lead to dangerous effects such as sea level rise and extreme weather events.
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Legates is affiliated with the Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank funded in part by the fossil fuel industry that supports research arguing that human-caused climate change is not a serious threat.
Very untimely appointment of a scientist that is associated with the Heartland Institute which is a fossil fuel organization funded by Koch. This position doesn't require congressional approval since it is a deputy position. Bad timing with the west coast up in flames and another hurricane headed for the gulf.
Very untimely appointment of a scientist that is associated with the Heartland Institute which is a fossil fuel organization funded by Koch. This position doesn't require congressional approval since it is a deputy position. Bad timing with the west coast up in flames and another hurricane headed for the gulf.
Very untimely appointment of a scientist that is associated with the Heartland Institute which is a fossil fuel organization funded by Koch. This position doesn't require congressional approval since it is a deputy position. Bad timing with the west coast up in flames and another hurricane headed for the gulf.
Hurricanes hit the mid-Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico annually and have for thousands of years. The entire eastern coastline of the United States was drawn by hurricanes following the gulf stream. Not sure how a deputy appointment in a government department alters the natural world?
And the west coast is in flames for two very specific, non-MMGW reasons:
arsonists
environmental lobbies who have prevented proper forestry that could mitigate catastrophes with controlled, annual burns.
Again, not sure how a deputy appointment in a single bureaucracy alters that, but again...whatever.
Well they do appear to be right about their predictions of increased wildfires.
that's an easy prediction. you don't need a scientist to figure that one out.
The leftist environmentalists got the state to stop fire prevention activities. I grew up in a forest. the old people knew what the deal was. we burned regularly to keep the tender down. we used fire prevention methods that are tried and true. we never had the kind of fires we have now, and yes we had dry periods
California's wild fires aren't new and aren't unpredictable and aren't related to climate.
California's wild fires are a result of bad policy.
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