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Former EPA head Gina McCarthy knows why climate change activists aren’t getting their message across
Boston Globe ^ | May 22, 2018 | by Neil Swidey

Posted on 05/22/2018 12:48:16 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Now at Harvard, the Obama administration alum admits it’s been hard to watch the Trump administration take aim at the work she’s proudest of. But she hasn’t lost hope.

GINA MCCARTHY STRIDES INTO the ocean-view ballroom at the Sea Crest Beach Hotel in Falmouth, plops down her green backpack, and glances out the window. The waves are angrily advancing on this last night in April, which feels as dreary as mid-January. “The water seems way closer than it was the last time I was here,” she says.

Maybe that’s because of climate change, the threat that McCarthy led the charge to confront as head of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Obama administration. Or maybe it’s just high tide.

She is surrounded by a couple of hundred researchers and advocates from the Union of Concerned Scientists, a national nonprofit based in Cambridge. It’s a gathering of serious specialists whose usual concern appears to have morphed into clinical depression. After all, they’ve spent the last year watching McCarthy’s successor at the EPA, Scott Pruitt, aggressively work to reverse each of the Obama administration’s environmental initiatives, as if crossing off every last item on a grocery list before reaching the checkout.

Following her introduction, as the crowd gives her a standing ovation, the 5-foot-2, white-haired McCarthy bounds to the podium in her New Balance sneakers. “The Union of Concerned Scientists,” she begins, drawing out the adjective for effect. “I’ve always wondered, compared to what? The Union of I-Don’t-Give-a-S*** Scientists?”

Channeling that old Saturday Night Live skit where William Shatner implored a convention of Trekkies to “get a life,” McCarthy tells the crowd she isn’t interested in moping. She invokes a different SNL skit, saying she has no use for “Debbie Downers.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fakescience; globalwarming; goebbelswarming; gorebullwarming; gostonblobe; hoax; propaganda; socialism
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To: SaxxonWoods; Iron Munro
I doubt she's aware of something called "erosion" that's been around long before mankind.

Heck, in MA, a number of lighthouses have been moved in the past few decades because of erosion.

21 posted on 05/22/2018 1:30:35 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Wuli

...and I can just about guarantee it isn’t “non-profit”, either.


22 posted on 05/22/2018 1:31:55 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Scott Pruitt, aggressively work to reverse each of the Obama administration’s environmental initiatives, as if crossing off every last item on a grocery list before reaching the checkout.

Scott Pruitt is Trump's greatest pick. If he spent every last penny of the EPA's budget on hookers, cocaine, and a fleet of coal-rollin' F350 Super Duty Powerstrokes, I'd love him even more.

23 posted on 05/22/2018 1:32:30 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If stupid was a “greenhouse gas” I might be convinced that this particular group of humans is significantly contributing to “global warming”.


24 posted on 05/22/2018 1:33:58 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
McCarthy bounds to the podium in her New Balance sneakers.

LOL! New Balance supported TRUMP!


25 posted on 05/22/2018 1:35:33 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SaxxonWoods

and going from that observation to ‘it might be global warming’ is exactly why she is no longer with that piece of crap organization called the EPA.

No one can be that stupid and still be allowed to walk around unattended.


26 posted on 05/22/2018 1:36:25 PM PDT by dirtymac
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To: Drew68

LOL


27 posted on 05/22/2018 1:36:57 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because #FakeScience has a limited shelf life.
You have to make the sale before people catch on to the scam.


28 posted on 05/22/2018 1:42:49 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: DugwayDuke

IF they believed their own BS, Al Gore wouldn’t own a massive seaside mansion. Leo Dicaprio wouldn’t fly around in private jets and ride in limos. James Cameron wouldn’t own a huge estate, fly in private jets, have a bunch of 4 wheel drive and off road vehicles etc etc etc.

Obviously they’re just virtue signalling hypocrites.


29 posted on 05/22/2018 1:51:41 PM PDT by FLT-bird (..)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Could it be because real science indicates that warming causes CO2 to boil out the ice and not CO2 being the cause of warming?

The carrot samples at Vostok do not lie. Lakes that ice over drive the absorbed condensing CO2 downward deep below.


30 posted on 05/22/2018 2:09:05 PM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security Whorocracy & hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Find the facts for the EPA opening up the old mine in Colorado.
Arrest the contractor, hold his feet to the fire until he talks.


31 posted on 05/22/2018 2:17:09 PM PDT by hadaclueonce ( This time I am Deplorable)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Trump’s fault!!
Glacier was there before he put in that skating rink!


32 posted on 05/22/2018 2:22:38 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement! First)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And the SUN and VOLCANOS have nothing to do with it. Even the Libtards don't believe their own BS.

33 posted on 05/22/2018 2:23:31 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: Trillian

And they wonder why they don’t sell papers anymore. Really? Are liberals all this stupid?


34 posted on 05/22/2018 2:25:25 PM PDT by mort56
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To: milagro
Trump’s fault!! Glacier was there before he put in that skating rink!

You're probably right...but did Trump really put in that rink? I would have thought that it was the City of New York that did.

35 posted on 05/22/2018 2:31:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: seawolf101
And the SUN and VOLCANOS have nothing to do with it.

IIRC it was just last year that NASA announced the discovery of at least one huge,active,volcano beneath the Antarctic ice shelf and that it was a major cause of the melting of the ice.

36 posted on 05/22/2018 2:34:13 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: beergarden

SEMPER FI


37 posted on 05/22/2018 2:37:30 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Iron Munro

Reminds me of the article in The Onion where a bunch of scientists claim the sea level is going to rise 20 feet this summer because of all the people swimming in the ocean. LOL.


38 posted on 05/22/2018 2:39:32 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The same EPA that under Obama use private emails to target political opponents and attack businesses illegally


39 posted on 05/22/2018 3:08:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

40 posted on 05/22/2018 3:49:50 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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