Posted on 04/12/2017 1:50:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The past eight years have not been kind to people who dispute that the climate is changing. Leading scientists strengthened the case that the earth is warming and humans are at fault, while the Obama administration prioritized fighting its effects. As with so much else, the election of President Trump has ushered in a new day.
Since taking office, Trump has moved to gut Obama's signature climate change regulations, signed executive orders to aid the fossil fuel industry and installed a critic of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as its head. And yet to some of the strongest opponents of Obama's environmental policy, particularly those who deny the existence of global warming, Trump is not going far enough. Despite having called climate change a "hoax" before his election, these critics think Trump has been ducking bigger fights like withdrawing from the international Paris Agreement on climate change and undoing the scientific underpinning for the EPA's climate change rules.
Still, those who deny the science behind climate change are in a position to influence U.S. policy for years to come. Trump does not have a science advisor and his administration has turned to skeptics for guidance on energy and environmental policy issues. Lehr, who says the greenhouse effect plays a negligible role in the climate, delivered a presentation to administration officials designed to help Trump defend his claim that climate change is hoax.
"Every administration is a mixed bag," Ebell tells TIME. "I wouldn't say I'm disappointed. I would say I am anxious."
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I use to have Time subscription 20 years ago, and this was the crap that made me cancel. Using the term “denier” is extremely offensive.
How about "Climate Pragmatist"
#NoClimateHysteria.
Are you 110% positive?
This sentence is nonsense. The past eight years have not been kind to people who dispute that the climate is changing due to mankind. Nobody questions that our climate is changing. It has been changing since the beginning of time.
The issue is whether change is caused by man and carbon dioxide emissions. For that the science is FAR from settled.
The dominate factor in climate change is the Sun. While mankind can cause pollution locally with irresponsible environmental protection policies, there is zero impact on climate change by mankind.
Climate change takes place over hundreds or thousands of years.
Climate variability should not be confused with climate change.
There’s a reason Goldman accelerated Cohn’s massive payout in order to get him into the administration. The investment company stands to make a killing off of a carbon tax/cap and trade scheme.
However much it would fit Ivanka’s agenda, I still can’t see Trump going for it—but there have been multiple reports now of it being talked about in the WH.
The first sentence is untrue and serves as the faulty premise for all that follows. I hate Time.
After all these years, Time still spews laughable leftist fantasies as facts. Time “makes a difference” by lying.
bttt
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