Donald Trump makes top Republican fear environmental future

BBC News ^ | Jan. 2, 2017 | Roger Harrabin

[Sooth2222]

Christine Todd Whitman is no more a "Top Republican" than I am a porn star.

[Paul R.]

Christie Whitman sounds a rallying cry that will be vital reading for the millions of moderate voters who are fed up with the extremism of both parties

Hey, Mrs. Whitman, how 'bout I scale your climate predictions the same as your book sales?

[Major Matt Mason]

I remember her coming on stage on a Segway when she appeared on the David Letterman show during the Bush II years. It was a completely lame attempt to look hip and down with the environmental struggle.

[Paul R.]

No kidding. Many bodies of water in the US now have more mercury in their fish from pollution drifting here from China, than from US sources.

Now, that said, it’s not so much the selling of fuel to these regimes as it is the fact that the manufacturing went there in the first place. They’d buy the fuels from someone, if not us.

[ctpsb]

“Top” republican

.......... LOL since when?

Since her last position in any governmental role of EPA admininstrator in 2003 or as NJ governor in 2001?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Whitman has also compared Trump to Adolf Hitler....“It is no longer a stretch to compare Donald Trump ... to some of the worst dictators in history,

Mighty big talk coming from a limousine Baby-Killer!

[Crucial]

Whitman must be getting GW kickbacks.

[Rashputin]

Ignoring one of their favorite cash cows is more like it.

[Baynative]

Richard Lindzen, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT and a member of the National Academy of Sciences who has long questioned climate change orthodoxy, is skeptical that a sunnier outlook is upon us.

“I actually doubt that,” he said. Even if some of the roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars currently spent on climate research across 13 different federal agencies now shifts to scientists less invested in the calamitous narrative, Lindzen believes groupthink has so corrupted the field that funding should be sharply curtailed rather than redirected.

“They should probably cut the funding by 80 to 90 percent until the field cleans up,” he said. “Climate science has been set back two generations, and they have destroyed its intellectual foundations.”

The field is cluttered with entrenched figures who must toe the established line, he said, pointing to a recent congressional report that found the Obama administration got a top Department of Energy scientist fired and generally intimidated the staff to conform with its politicized position on climate change.

“Remember this was a tiny field, a backwater, and then suddenly you increased the funding to billions and everyone got into it,” Lindzen said. “Even in 1990 no one at MIT called themselves a ‘climate scientist,’ and then all of a sudden everyone was. They only entered it because of the bucks; they realized it was a gravy train. You have to get it back to the people who only care about the science.”

[rockinqsranch]

“Republicans don’t parade around with 3 names.”

Yup, three names is a good reason to suspect their true leanings.

[editor-surveyor]

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Whitman is a total flake.
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[SuperLuminal]

Since whenever has this GOPe turdess been a “top” republicican...If only I knew the female-relevant expreassion the corresponds to “dick-head”...

[editor-surveyor]

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She’s lying of course.
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[editor-surveyor]

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You got one right!
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[DoughtyOne]

Trump is the top Republican right now.

She isn’t even in the hunt.

[Nifster]

She was terrible then and now

[El Cid]

LOL!
Christine Todd Whitman - don't these folks ever go away?
She shouldn't be scaring her grandkids with AGW fables. Someone should call Child Protection Services that olde granny has been drinking too much.

[leprechaun9]

Christie Whitless has surfaced from oblivion! Go Back!

[DEEP_e]

she’s a member of the trumpopleptic cult

[SaraJohnson]

Christine Todd Whitman, friends with William Weld are leftists. She harassed Reagan, too.