"Trump's EPA Head Said Climate Change Is Not a Top Threat It's 50 to 75 Years Out"

[Darth Omar]

You are putting words in his mouth.

He said we need to be working on reducing greenhouse emissions NOW because humans are contributing to climate change.

He did not say we should wait for decades to do anything.
His position is that since the most severe of the impacts won't be felt for decades, it should not be our number one environmental priority in the year 2019.

I don't agree with all that, but this is at least showing me that Climate Denial is untenable at this point. Climate Denial is laughable, unsupportable, and fringe. And anyone promoting climate denial is a laughing stock.

Climate Deniers spent the last three decades denying global warming was happening, guessing that is was all due to natural causes, and/or claiming that a global conspiracy of scientists were faking the data.

Climate deniers, over and over again, have been wrong on every single count. Every single one. Even the EPA administrator appointed by your orange tinted hero fully admits that humans are contributing to climate change and we need to be working now to reduce human emissions of heat-trapping GHGs.

How far will you go, personally, to avert the climate catastrophe?

[cancel2 2022]

All he is really saying, which many scientists are saying as well, is that the IPCC scenario termed RCP 8.5 is impossible and RCP 6.0 is exceedingly unlikely. With the advent of fourth generation nuclear power, neither scenario is worth serious consideration. However the Climate Industrial Complex needs to scare the great unwashed regularly to sustain their power and influence.

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2019/03/15...mpression=true

[dukkha]

How far will you go, personally, to avert the climate catastrophe?

i'm a lot more worried about the plastics in the oceans instead of the carbon in the atmosphere.

Soon there will be more plastic then fish in the sea

[dukkha]

All he is really saying, which many scientists are saying as well, is that the IPCC scenario termed RCP 8.5 is impossible and RCP 6.0 is exceedingly unlikely. With the advent of fourth generation nuclear power, neither scenario is worth serious consideration. However the Climate Industrial Complex needs to scare the great unwashed regularly to sustain their power and influence.

https://fabiusmaximus.com/2019/03/15...mpression=true

America has been bombarded for a decade with terrifying articles, many using projections based on RCP8.5
(others misrepresent different aspects of climate science). Few of those mention RCP8.5’s implausible assumptions.
That would ruin the narrative.

[Centerleftfl]

"Wheeler was nominated by President Donald Trump and was confirmed last month. He acknowledges human behavior “certainly contributes to” climate change, and says the U.S. is working to reduce carbon dioxide emissions."

"Andrew Wheeler told CBS News in an interview airing Wednesday that climate change is “an important issue,” but most of the threats it poses are “50 to 75 years out” and it’s “unreasonable” for the 2020 Democratic candidates to focus so much on it."

http://time.com/5554996/epa-chief-cl...22%3a%22%22%7d

So, what that means is Trump's appointee is afraid to take action on what he acknowledges as a real threat because of repercussion from the White House, he remembers Sessions, or, he just don't give a damn given he and Trump will most likely have passed in that time and it doesn't effect the world they live in now.

Yet, probably the real truth, he just ain't all that bright, typical Trump appointee.

What do you think, scared, self centered, or just plain dumb?

Is this the guy who was head of or lobbyist for a big COAL company?

[Darth Omar]

i'm a lot more worried about the plastics in the oceans instead of the carbon in the atmosphere.

Soon there will be more plastic then fish in the sea

I agree totally.

And the problem isn’t theoretical. But we’re just ignorant Trump supporters, so yeah.