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An Enemy of the E.P.A. to Head It (NYT Negative Endorsement Résumé Enhancer)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/opinion/an-enemy-of-the-epa-to-head-it.html?_r=0 ^ | 12/7/2016 | The Editorial Board

Posted on 12/08/2016 11:04:01 AM PST by MountainWalker

Had Donald Trump spent an entire year scouring the country for someone to weaken clean air and clean water laws and repudiate America’s leadership role in the global battle against climate change, he could not have found a more suitable candidate than Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general, whom he picked on Wednesday to run the Environmental Protection Agency....

Mr. Pruitt has repeatedly suggested that the science of climate change is far from settled, when in fact it is, and says that scientists continue to disagree about whether there is a relationship between human activity and rising atmospheric temperatures, which they don’t. With each successive report, the thousands of scientists charged with monitoring global warming and its causes for the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have reaffirmed and indeed strengthened that connection....

Mr. Pruitt is the wrong person to lead an agency charged with custody of the nation’s environment. If the Senate cares about the public good, it needs to send his nomination to the dust bin.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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In case anyone thought this guy wasn't up to the job....
1 posted on 12/08/2016 11:04:01 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

Yikes, sorry I messed up the link


2 posted on 12/08/2016 11:04:47 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: MountainWalker

If the New York Times ever approves of something that Trump does, Trump had better re-think it.


3 posted on 12/08/2016 11:05:06 AM PST by LydiaLong
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To: MountainWalker

A ringing endorsement!!


4 posted on 12/08/2016 11:05:58 AM PST by 91B40
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To: MountainWalker

Problem is, extremists are trying to claim the CO2 is a “pollutant”.


5 posted on 12/08/2016 11:06:12 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: MountainWalker

He’ll bring fundamental change to EPA.


6 posted on 12/08/2016 11:09:32 AM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: MountainWalker

Never give in to calling their cult “climate change”. It’s global warming. They were forced to go back to the Goebbels playbook when the Earth wasn’t cooperating with their ‘warming’ alarms.


7 posted on 12/08/2016 11:10:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: MountainWalker
I would think if you were going to run for the most largest, powerful office in the world, you would pretty well know who you would want where even before you started...

I think it's called a ‘list’ of what your ideas are, and compare that to people who have the same ideas as you have...

Is common sense something that people threw out with the baby and the bath water nowdays???

8 posted on 12/08/2016 11:11:18 AM PST by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump/Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: MountainWalker

“Mr. Pruitt has repeatedly suggested that the science of climate change is far from settled” it is amazing how these leftists really believe that leadership on any front can only come from the like minded, that questioning the perceived status quo is somehow anti-social. That examining issues “from both sides now”(kudo’s to Joni Mitchell) is no longer a liberal value.


9 posted on 12/08/2016 11:11:56 AM PST by albertabound
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To: LydiaLong

Go read the comments at the link, if you dare!


10 posted on 12/08/2016 11:16:50 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: MountainWalker

No worries. The comments at the site are worth the effort. It’s a regular Snowflake Convention! Cue the Nelson “Ha ha!”


11 posted on 12/08/2016 11:18:13 AM PST by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: Zarro

My current favorite: Maybe we should call for a national strike. Shut the whole country down.


12 posted on 12/08/2016 11:19:43 AM PST by Zarro (Oh, we don't call them the "MSM" any longer; they are now the "Basket of Detestables")
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To: MountainWalker

13 posted on 12/08/2016 11:20:00 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Deniers/skeptics=nazis. Right? Panties in a bunch there nyt? 😹 🇺🇸
14 posted on 12/08/2016 11:21:02 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: MountainWalker

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P ersecution of

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15 posted on 12/08/2016 11:22:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne (jcon40, "Are we be coming into the age of Sanity?")
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To: BenLurkin

Problem is, extremists are trying to claim the CO2 is a “pollutant”.


Exactly


16 posted on 12/08/2016 11:23:21 AM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: MountainWalker

Sounds better every day...They don’t know what hit’em.


17 posted on 12/08/2016 11:24:05 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie
Who said it was settled science? A good scientist is always looking at data and how other. Hanged can alter a previous theorem.
18 posted on 12/08/2016 11:33:12 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

So Gore has failed yet again LOL.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 11:33:32 AM PST by phoneman08 (qwiyrqweopigradfdzcm,.dadfjl,dz)
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To: MountainWalker
Al Gore: "Mr. Trump, very glad to meet you."

Trump: "Thank you Mr. Gore. But it's President Elect Trump, to you."

Gore: "Yes, of course, Mr. President Elect, you are right. Now, let me introduce Leonardo DiCaprio."

DiCaprio: "Mr., . . . er President Elect Trump, good to meet you."

Trump: "Leo. Loved you in 'Pirates of the Caribbean.'" DiCaprio: "Er, no that wasn't . . . ."

Trump: "Now, boys, great talking with you but I have to go. Before I do, let me introduce the new EPA secretary Pruitt . . . ."

20 posted on 12/08/2016 11:38:46 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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