Discussion: Trump's EPA Nominee: Climate Change 'A Huge Issue' But Not 'Greatest Crisis'

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Oh, well. At least we were spared the unspeakable horror of a president who gave speeches to investment bankers and took the going rate for doing so.

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Well when you need it for political leverage. But the greatest crisis is always any sign of movement toward higher taxation of the rich. AOC they’re looking at you.

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Is that moron drooling in that picture?

I swear he’s drooling.

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That’s pretty damed far, aint it?

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''In totalitarian thinking, there is no objective truth and no objective reality; only those facts and objects exist which are allowed to exist by the ruling power." Baranczak.

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For perspective Ultima Thule was about 6 light-hours…

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Wheeler told lawmakers that he had yet to read a massive government climate-change report released late last year.

The fcking head of the fcking EPA. Words fail; that’s all I got.

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he;s right
the greatest crisis is the infestation in our White House.
everyday the stink gets worse

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We are pro-family by wanting white women to have lots of children. Because lots of them will die from lung diseases and water-borne contaminants. That’s Republican Family Values at their finest.
But the wall is the real problem-solver.

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maybe a wall will keep the polluted air away from wealthy people’s lungs?

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yes, not like Saint Reagan, before he got too vague…

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I would invite Mr Wheeler to spend an hour on my front porch this July 4th. Then tell me it isn’t hot outside. Then, after bringing him inside and making him chug a liter of water and stand in the shower under cold water just to lower his body temp, I would explain to him that it is this hot every day from mid April to mid October. Our hot time of year was a month shorter just a decade sgo. It is January. Rye grass is sprouting in my back yard. This normally happens in March. Climate change is real and it’s here… now. I wonder if Wheeler likes coffee. Does he know that in decades to come coffee may be extinct?
I guess I shouldn’t try to reason with stupidity.

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Wait until after this weekend.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
– Melania Trump

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Even Orwell never, ever envisioned a political party as corrupt, criminal, mendacious, cruel and greedy as our GOP. He’d think we were kidding if he rose from the dead and beheld the likes of Trump/McConnell/Cornyn/Graham et al.

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“I believe we are moving forward” on protections

Increasing the amount of mercury and other toxins in the air is moving forward? What would moving backwards look like? What exactly do you mean by “moving forward?”

“I would not call it the greatest crisis,”

The Antarctica has gone from losing 44 billion tons of ice each year in the 1980’s to losing 278 billion tons per year since 2009, and the loss is accelerating. In Antarctica the loss from 2016 to 2017 increased by 15%. By the end of the century at this rate sea levels will rise over 10 feet. That is within the lifetime of people now living. Six feet of rise wipes out all of the southern tip of Florida and every costal city in the world. In other words, from between 1979 to 1990 compared to 2009 to 2017, the amount of ice that flowed into the ocean per year increased by six times.

And that isn’t the worst of it. The acidification of not just the oceans but also fresh water lakes and rivers by increasing CO2 is destroying the aquatic ecosystems. Increased temperatures on land are altering weather patterns causing droughts and floods and making farming every more unpredictable. And all the damage like fires and floods and hurricanes is increasing because of the changes.

What crisis is worse than that?

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And the article says that Wheeler is the grandson of a coal miner. Know who else is the grandson of a coal miner? ExSen Frothy from PA. His grandfather left Italy ahead of the police because he was a communist and would have been jailed. If he had known what his grandson would turn out to be, he would have self-castrated.

This suggests that the studies showing methylation of DNA from environmental factors can affect future offspring may have something going for them.

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Melania must have gotten into her hubby’s drugs

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We’re the party making America Great, again. You let us be the judge.

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Andrew Wheeler: another Republican = another dumbass liar and parasite.