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Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Posted by $ AJAshinoff 8 years, 5 months ago to Science
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I have to admit, eyebrow raised. +1 DT.


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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
    Personally, I could care less about trying to battle something like climate changes which have occurred many times in the history of the earth. Particularly if its going to happen 50 years from how, when burning oil will be probably be obsolete anyway.
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  • Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 5 months ago
    Because he's a skeptic, doesn't mean he's not a scientist or a dummy. It just means he's not part of the money making cabal on global warming.
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  • Posted by $ Snezzy 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I'm trying to remember back to my college chemistry. Methods by which water will spontaneously degrade.

    Got it! 3-H undergoes beta decay to become 3-He, contaminating the water.

    Or were the EPA afraid some one of your lab rats might spit in it?
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  • Posted by edweaver 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    There is allot of info out there about the climate. Study it, apply logic and you will know the truth. I've done that and my conclusion is that climate change is real. It has been changing since the beginning of time and it will change until the end of time. But humans have so little impact on it, it is immeasurable. But don't take my word for it. Search and you will find all you need.

    The truth is, I bought into the global warming scare for a couple years but there were too many inconsistencies and holes in the theory. Below are 2 things that made me inquisitive about the subject.

    When I was in high school in the 70's, the big scare at the time was global cooling. In the 90's it switched to global warming and when catastrophic things didn't happen, the narrative became climate change. Now everything can be blamed on the weather. The other thing that didn't make sense, is every time there is a new record temperature, it is breaking a record from the late 1800's or early 1900 and that's still going on today. It was very warm at times prior to the use of automobiles and with a population that was significantly smaller than it is today. It just did not make sense.

    There are many more reasons why I don't buy what the climate changers are selling but simply don't have time to go into all the details. Here are a couple links to check out that may start you down the path of truth.

    https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
    http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferr...

    Also watching the documentary "An Inconsistent Truth" is helpful.
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  • Posted by KRUEG 8 years, 5 months ago
    I would like to know the truth on the climate.
    BUT the President Elect needs to start cutting some of these agencies within the Government. Get back to what the Constitution called for.
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  • Posted by MinorLiberator 8 years, 5 months ago
    Well, this is simply great. The first step in countering The Anti-Industrial Revolution. ObamaCare has to go too, but stopping the job crushing rules on industry is more Important.

    Great start, Mr. President!
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  • Posted by $ prof611 8 years, 5 months ago
    This is the first good news to be released. Let us hope, since there is a Republican majority in both legislative houses, that they band together to defeat all lame duck proposals put forth by the statists in the next two months.
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  • Posted by Blanco 8 years, 5 months ago
    Donald, I want you to eviscerate EVERYTHING that the dictator Hussein put into place! For the first time in 8 years, I feel a modicum of optimism for America's future.
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  • Posted by peterchunt 8 years, 5 months ago
    This is great news. The politics of climate change will be transformed by the scientific facts of a none believer.
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  • Posted by dbhalling 8 years, 5 months ago
    I would not call him a skeptic that would imply that the hypothesis of man-made global warming had substantial evidence to support it.
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  • Posted by ohiocrossroads 8 years, 5 months ago
    I guess the measure Trump's success will be the amount of caterwauling from the left. Despite the conciliatory utterances by Oblabla and Shrillary about peaceful transition of power, the looney left was on display in Filthadelphia, Washington, etc last night, as protesters took to the street to complain that their candidate didn't win. They burned the flag, burned Trump in effigy, and threatened blood in the streets. And they still want to strut around putting on airs like they're the good guys.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I agree--we must exit. Or else a future President will pull a trick no one will see coming.

    In the most recent regular TV show in the Star Trek franchise, you saw how Star Fleet became more than a strictly Earth-representative and predominantly human institution. Star Fleet aggressively recruited people away from the space navies of the handful of worlds that would form the permanent membership in the Federation Council. This predated the Federation.

    That would be equivalent to the United States Army, Navy and Air Force (and the Marine Corps) actively recruiting British, French, German, and Chinese troops and other personnel, and perhaps even reregistering British and Chinese ships as ships of the United States Navy. It would then be a simple matter of converting the United States Armed Services to the United Nations Armed Services.
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  • Posted by Ben_C 8 years, 5 months ago
    The article was published Sept 26th. A lot can change since then. I hope it remains current and a harbinger of changes to come. If/when Congress defunds the EPA it then goes bye -bye
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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 5 months ago
    These would be major boons to the power industry if they hold true and revoke many of Obama's ideological edicts. I am pleasantly surprised by this move. American energy production may yet survive.
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  • Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    The real signal would be a US exit. until that happens we are still providing 30% of the overall budget for that corrupt organization - and nearly 100% of the military enforcement.
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  • Posted by EdGoldstein 8 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These things were created by congress and he cannot eliminate them. What he can do is set their policies. Congress left the regulatory details to the executive and that means Trump now. For example to end Obamacare, set the IRS penalty at $1.00
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  • Posted by wiggys 8 years, 5 months ago
    sounds of a good start as far as I am concerned.
    when things definitely start getting better for the whole of the nation the looney's will still find fault.
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  • Posted by Temlakos 8 years, 5 months ago
    This is a first step in a comprehensive review of where the environment actually stands. It also is a signal to the UN: the gravy train is now wrecked.
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