About par for the course that the new administration would select a do-nothing goober in the fashion of Scott Pruitt for head of the EPA.
Seems dude did f*ck all as Oklahoma AG but contest various supreme court rulings on abortion that didn't appeal to him and run interference for his friends in the coal industry and Hobby Lobby.
Definitely one of the biggest crony chodes there ever was. He looks like he should be hawking end-times food buckets to stupos on late-night evangelical TV like Jim Bakker, too. Praise tha lawd.
It's not that Al Gore or Leonardo Dicaprio known all that much about climat e science - though what they do know is pretty much correct, as opposed to the ideas that you get from the Murdoch press - but they have had enough pu blic exposure for Donald Trump to know who they are.
Primary experts, with scientific reputations, would be nobodies to Donald T rump - he knows nothing about science and cares less.
This does have the charm that if the EPA was dismantled, krw would be in line to become the victim of some processing plant that didn't want to spend money on dealing with toxic waste properly.
The problem with climate change is that the toxic waste involved - CO2 - isn't all that toxic, in the short term.
We've had a couple of cyclones that were probably more intense than they would have been if there were less CO2 in the atmosphere, and sea-level rise is still pretty slow.
What krw doesn't appreciate - nor any of the Tea Party - is that when the ice sheets decided to slide off into the sea at the end of the last ice age, they did it fast, and in big chunks.
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says there were two episodes where sea level went up by 2.5 metres in a century.
Life could get exciting for people who live in coastal areas when the Greenland ice sheet and the West Antarctic ice sheets start moving fast.
Of course, when that happens there won't be anything that anybody can do about it, and it may already be too late to prevent it.
I'm pretty sure krw has implied at one point or another that the East and West coast cities being emptied out or drowned or something "for their crimes" would actually be a net positive.
They're all apocalypse-chasing Rapture bunnies, dude, they definitely couldn't care less how many thousands of square miles get flooded or how many millions of people die or are displaced. It'll just make Jesus come back faster.
One persuasive theory is that the Biblical (and Babylonian amongsts others) flood legends records the flooding of the Black Sea in in 5600 BC, when the Mediterranean finally broke through the Bosphorus sill
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God could quite reasonably promise not to do that again, but sea level rise is something very different. You'd have to be as dumb as Jamie to confuse the two phenomena, but fundamentalists aren't very bright.
It's amusing as hell when people who don't give a shit about those issues, and live their existence every day in willful ignorance of the warnings that many other intelligent people seem perfectly capable of noticing, want to call someone out on some kind of supposed cognitive dissonance.
As if you have a leg to stand on in passing judgment or enforcing any form of standard of behavior. You're getting an "F" in every class and wringing your hands over someone else's "C+".
Donald Trump is in his 70s now, so he's probably become a bit more relaxed about admitting what areas of human knowledge he doesn't have omniscient insight into. I'd say there are probably at least a dozen or two areas of public policy he would freely admit he isn't entirely up to speed on.
Unfortunately, in the meantime his areas of true expertise have likely expanded to encompass 300 other disciplines outside of real estate hustling. I wonder if he could recommend the perfect vodka?
But calling him up to educate him on anything is probably just as much a waste of time as it was 40 years ago, I'm sure that hasn't changed.
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