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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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Global Warming on Free Republic here, here and here
See #41.
At the very least they would have to give up their own houses, cars and electronics and live in an apartment near the entrance to the salt mine (salt would mined by hand). But since they are not, you are correct that they are not the least bit serious about reducing CO2. Control the masses, sure. Reduce CO2, not a chance.
Volcanoes OTOH are not really a factor. The current CO2 rise is manmade not CO2 (and not due to past warming). Volcanoes can really only cool and that hasn't happened since Pinatubo in 91-93.
This article pegged my bullshit meter!
One time I was sitting on the beach. So I noticed the water was a good bit closer to me than when I sat down. It was around 5:30 and I’d been there since before noon. I just slowly shook my head and wondered, “is the water level higher because of global warming?
The Union of Chronic Sighers!
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