Posted on 06/23/2017 10:05:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This spring, political officials at the Environmental Protection Agency removed the agencys climate change website, one of the worlds top resources for information on the science and effects of climate change.
To me, a scientist who managed this website for more than five years, its removal signifies a declaration of war on climate science by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. There can be no other interpretation. I draw this conclusion as a meteorologist with a specialization in climate science and as an independent voter who strives to keep my political and scientific views separate. I concede that this specific issue is personal for me, given the countless hours I spent working on the site. But it should be obvious to anyone how this senseless action runs counter to principles of good governance and scientific integrity.
The sites overarching conclusion, informed by these scientific organizations and reports, was that recent warming is largely a result of human activities, specifically the burning of fossil fuels, which releases large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Pruitts order to delete the site feels purely spiteful, as if he simply couldnt abide knowing that the agency he leads was publishing information he doesnt believe. But science is not about belief its about evidence. And of all people, the head of the EPA should have the utmost respect for this evidence and its transparent communication. Pruitts choice to destroy carefully vetted scientific information rather than preserve it is a reckless and dangerous abdication of his responsibility.
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Self-immolation - Your only reasonable step forward.
Good! 'Bout damn time!
You ever heard of volcanoes?
Another democracy hater. When voters pick someone other than his choice, he considers it WAR, not DEMOCRACY.
He may want to read some history to see what it’s like when change can’t be voted on and actual war is required to change government.
After all the work I had done on the the official US Alchemy website, which was ised by Alchemists the world over...
OMG the tears are so sweet...
And Jason has earned a digital seal from America as well, one he earned for his efforts to foist the myth of man made climate change.
Or a Dildong ...
Fun to watch.
5.56mm
Oh, look. Another Climate Scientologist crop dusting us with his farts.
[”I worked on the EPA’s climate change website.”]
Give the guy a weather rock.
That kind of verbage from an insider illustrates why there is so much opposition to Trump, and so little to someone like O’s Repub predecessor. The Trump administration has made meaningful changes in policy direction, and this is simply unacceptable to the establishment.
Post of the Day!
You’ve went and ruint my ruse.
I’ll race you to the Copyright Office. LOL
I hope is an environmentally friendly war...?
What about an entrepreneur who tries, and fails, to start a business? Lotsa folks end up working for negative $100 an hour or more. Sometimes a lot more. And no pension. And no healthcare.
So where is this battle field that we can meet him on? Is it in the Cloud where his Digital seal of approval resides?-)
I draw this conclusion as a meteorologist with a specialization in climate science and as an independent voter who strives to keep my political and scientific views separate.
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But fails miserably.
So Mr. Climatologist, how does the big bright ball of fusion in the sky fit into all this? And why don't you brilliant people ever acknowledge the Earth has had climate change since it first developed an atmosphere? Wonder what caused the mini ice age in the Dark Ages? Too many huts burning wood? And what caused the North American ice sheet to melt creating the Great Lakes? Why was Greenland once green? You have the ice cores...how about explaining the variations in Earth's climates back before the industrial revolution? Oh right, it won't fit your computer models.
Also, why is the arctic sea still covered in ice when your guru Gore said it would be gone a couple years back? Pfft.
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