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Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition (cbsnews.com)
Billly Gates writes: Trump's transition team is steamrolling ahead to transition the government. Trump chose Myron Ebell to oversee environmental policies. Myron Ebell is chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group of climate change denialists and alarmists. Scientific American provides some background information about Ebell in a report from earlier this year: "In a biography submitted when he testified before Congress, he listed among his recognitions that he had been featured in a Greenpeace 'Field Guide to Climate Criminals,' dubbed a 'misleader' on global warming by Rolling Stone and was the subject of a motion to censure in the British House of Commons after Ebell criticized the United Kingdom's chief scientific adviser for his views on global warming. More recently, Ebell has called the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan for greenhouse gases illegal and said that Obama joining the Paris climate treaty 'is clearly an unconstitutional usurpation of the Senate's authority.' He told Vanity Fair in 2007, 'There has been a little bit of warming ... but it's been very modest and well within the range for natural variability, and whether it's caused by human beings or not, it's nothing to worry about.' Ebell's views appear to square with Trump's when it comes to EPA's agenda. Trump has called global warming 'bullshit' and he has said he would 'cancel' the Paris global warming accord and roll back President Obama's executive actions on climate change."
I like the depth of your argument. You made a couple interesting points. I'm so glad you wasted electricity and increased global warming to let us all know your point of view... Which is exactly the whole point. IF global warming is anthropogenic - WE ARE FUCKED. Sticking a carbon tax is like putting a toll on a toilet at a bar and expecting that people will stop peeing.
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Teach them scientists with their fancy book-learnin' a less, once and for all. Who's with me?
If ignorance was good enough for my daddy and my grandaddy before me, then by gum, it's good enough for me. Godspeed you Mr President.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Yah, it is a good thing we killed all the buffaloes and prevented their methane farts from warming the planet, the way the dinosaurs did.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
So you get to decide which countries around the world have improper leaders, eh? What other countries should we invade on your suggestion?
Belgium. I vote for invading Belgium. I don't like their leader.
The article is so non-newsworthy
Apparently it is newsworthy because apparently a lot of voters had no clue what they were doing.
Someone had to do it.
Slashdot is getting popular! We're getting lots of poeple who know nothing about science showing up now, just like Facebook and Twitter!
Didn't you hear? He's going to cancel the elections in 2020 and declare himself CEO of America. Then it's off to the concentration camps for the minorities. What do you think all those Muslims burning in ovens is going to do to the environment? Nothing good, that's for sure. It's pretty much over, so fuck you for voting for Trump, you fucking baby boomer scumbag motherfucker. FUCK YOU!!!
Now that Tesla's fucked all Elon's got left is his Mars project.
If you'd asked me last week if I'd go to Mars I'd have said "no way".
Where do I sign up?
This is America. We don't do things at walking pace.
Make Climate Change Great Again.
Probably they are betting on the chance, climate change won't affect them.. :D
1. If climate change doesn't happen, they won.
2. If climate change happens, it will destroy the liberals living on the coasts
Win-win situation.
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