WOO FREAQING HOO! Copying from another thread.
9 Nov: NYT: Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge of Assessing Climate Change
Michael Kuperberg was told he would no longer oversee the National Climate Assessment. The job is expected to go to a climate-change skeptic, according to people familiar with the changes.
By Christopher Flavelle, Lisa Friedman and Coral Davenport
Dr. Kuperberg’s departure comes amid a broader effort, in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s defeat last week by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., to remove officials who have fallen afoul of the White House. Also on Friday, Neil Chatterjee, head of the agency that regulates the nation’s utility markets, was demoted by the White House, after he publicly supported the use of renewable power...
A biased or diminished climate assessment would have wide-ranging implications.
It could be used in court to bolster the positions of fossil fuel companies being sued for climate damages...
And, ultimately, it could weaken what is known as the “endangerment finding,” a 2009 scientific finding by the Environmental Protection Agency that said carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to human health and therefore are subject to government regulation. Undercutting that finding could make it more difficult to fight climate change under the terms of the Clean Air Act...
Marc Morano, a prominent denier of established climate change science, cheered the departure of Mr. Kuperberg and said he expects Mr. Legates to be named. “The Trump administration is ‘listening to the science’ by clearing out the anti-science promoters of extreme climate scenarios. These moves are long, long overdue,” he said...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/climate/michael-kuperberg-climate-assessment.html
This is the 2nd NYT article today that has this (or something akin to it)
in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s defeat last week by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Mr. vs. “President-elect”
defeat last week
in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s defeat last week
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OMG(osh). I am truly possessed with laughter.
Bless their hearts.
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IS Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration based on science or fear?
The acronym describes the science.