Trump’s New NOAA Hire Is Climate Science Denier Who Rails Against ‘Thug’ Mainstream | Talking Points Memo

Well that guy in the image with this article looks well fed I must say

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Well, you can kiss WI goodbye then for sure, because the only thing the WI Supreme Court is deciding right now is how obvious they want to be about it. And they’re setting up other battlegrounds states for the same, They have their federal judges all lines up, who they’re going to choose to go to, who can be relied upon…all the way to SCOTUS where Roberts can finally show everyone just how much he really doesn’t give a fuck about his “legacy” if he has the opportunity to handpick the grateful fascists who will be writing the history books and forcing your children to read them.

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The beginning doesn’t really seem to jibe with the rest of your post, somehow. :rofl:

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I’m having so much fun right now haha

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Well, that’s just it. It’s fun for you, like telling ghost stories. Makes it tolerable where from certain others it’s just exasperating.

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Start making FB friends in Belarus so you can pick up pointers?

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BOOGA BOOGA BOOOGA!!!

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Those people are incredibly brave. And Navalny is awake, talking, and eager to go back to Russia and do more oppo work. Some people have guts, I’ll tell you.

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NOAA appointee Legate looks like Captain Kangaroo to me. Get him a red jacket and a grandfather clock.

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Least surprising October surprise ever.

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“We’ve had trouble compiling the report because our computers keep spontaneously combusting as we make the edits requested by AG Barr.”

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Legates called himself “the only scientist ever to have his research characterized as “crap” in Science…a badge I wear with honor.”

So it’s true then. We have finally arrived at a time when Stupidity is a flaunted as a badge of honor.

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Lindsey Graham is demanding that his opponent Jaime Harrison release his tax returns and asks “What are you hiding?” It’s just hard to believe. :roll_eyes:

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Having hung around a lot of faculty meetings and listened to a wide range of views on all sorts of subjects it is my conclusion that a scientist … one who runs on factual evidence and real data … isn’t gonna deny that the earth is warming. The debate would be if it is human caused. Logic would say that burning fossil fuels over many decades and thereby dumping thousands of tons of carbon (as carbon dioxide) into the earth’s atmosphere over that time span would result in the warming we are seeing. To deny the data is to deny that carbon dioxide and methane in large amounts are not capable of changing the earth’s climate. No competent scientist would say that. Now trump can easily say what he does because he is ignorant of climate science. And his acolytes will believe whatever he says. No matter how stupid. He is not trained in science and so he rejects whatever could cause him to look like an idiot (he thinks). Appearance is critical to him. That’s the reason for the bronzer make up and the hair. He is appearance with zero substance.
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trump does not know that climate is not day to day weather. Or even seasonal weather. And that allows him to bullshit by saying “You watch…It’s gonna get cooler.” Of course it gets cooler in the fall. But that is not climate change!!!

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“That’s not even wrong!” - Wolfgang Pauli

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What could go wrong, he’ll have his sharpie ready. In 3, 2, 1, no one could see it coming, who’d have thought.

Another mediocre mind loaded with resentment and willing to do and say anything to be relevant because he resents that his levels up (white, male) didn’t get him the rewards he felt he was due.

That’s how far down the list they’re having to reach to find people willing to join this administration. And so more people with long careers monitoring science will leave because working with these venal liars is intolerable.

Hiring people like this is the equivalent of salting the fields.When Biden takes over, our capacity to do anything will be gutted.

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Firing them will be a good start.

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You’re being polite - he looks dumber than rocks.

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Trump is very much in a “if I can’t have it, nobody can” tantrum phase. I expect this lame-duck period to potentially be the most dangerous period of the Trump presidency.

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