Discussion: Department Of Interior Scrubs 'Climate Change' Page

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Because if you ignore inconvenient facts they just go away, right donald?

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“The impacts of climate change have led the Department to focus on how
we manage our nation’s public lands and resources. The Department of the
Interior contributes sound scientific research to address this and
other environmental challenges.”
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(bolding is mine)
So am I to understand that prior to Mr Zinke’s arrival the Dept. of the Interior…that department charged with maintenance and management of our public lands and resources never focused on its core responsibilities?

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mr trump…You can defy the law for a day…maybe. Lets ask Flynn. But you can’t defy physics. Just try. Go ahead…try. Step outta that 7th story window and defy gravity…if you can.

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I am, um, assuming that this is your idea of a sick joke?

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I love the way Tom Toles does T’s hideous lips. Makes him look even more like the pig he is.

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At some point between Feb. 25 and April 26, the Department of the Interior scrubbed nearly any mention of climate change from its webpage on the topic.

Aha! The old “climate change” change.

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You may be right. She did applaud Trump’s bombing of Syria after all, since it was exactly what she had recommended during the campaign. But no, Clinton would not have done this. She would instead have offered enough half-measures to keep people comfortably asleep, which would have removed hope of survival entirely. At least this way we’ve got a more obvious neoliberal in power, one we can organize to oppose. Thank heavens for small favors.

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In 1976, Jimmy Carter based his campaign on the phrase, “I will never lie to you.” I was not an enthusiastic Carter supporter and didn’t believe him, but looking back, I think he did tell the truth more than other presidents. In 2020, the Democratic nominee should take up that strategy: “I will tell the truth.” He or she will be 400 electoral votes.

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And let’s delete this silly idea that the earth revolves around the sun.

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A more obvious neoliberal? What makes you think Trump has any unifying philosophy whatsoever? Other than dominance and his own self-interest.

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Easiest way to solve a problem is to simply deny its existence.

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I am guessing no. To Trump and a lot of these guys national parks are nothing but unimproved real estate and a tremendous opportunity for insider dealing and rampant greed. They are woefully incomplete human beings and spend their lives trying to assure themselves they are winners through the accumulation of fabulous wealth to the exclusion of any kind of emotional or spiritual growth.

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Okay.

Then substitute “environmental disaster”, “poison”, and “the Bible” in those written communications.

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Off topic but in the same vein, the assault on net neutrality has been renewed.

Since this is unpopular with both Dems and Repubs, it just serves once again to demonstrate who (or what) is really running the country.

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So true. Al Gore makes trips by airplane.

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My version of net neutrality: hating all the big ISPs with equal ferocity.

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Good point, but it’s Global Warming, not Climate Change. A strategist for Bush advised him to use the namby-pamby term “Climate Change” instead of “Global Warming” because “climate change” sounds less alarming. Bush took the advice and dems just went along with it like children following the Pied Piper.

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Not sure that’s neutrality - sounds more like equal opportunity abhorrence.

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She would instead have offered enough half-measures to keep people comfortably asleep, which would have removed hope of survival entirely.

Not only are you dim enough to have missed his snark entirely, but your mindless anti-Clinton screed confirms you’re a moron altogether. American women—like my own daughter—who are going to get screwed by Gorsuch’s future votes on reproductive freedom have a message for you and your blithe “heightens the contradictions” crap:

Go fuck yourself.

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Not gonna happen.

Now, when Mar a Lago goes underwater due to rising sea levels (or that golf course in Ireland or Scotland where they are already building floodwalls), Drumpfie might just jump on board. Of course, only when it affects his investments.

Up to then? Nah, screw the little guy.