06-03-2019, 05:54 AM
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Trump War On Climate Science Will Cost American Lives
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There is no way to sugar coat this. Because of the policies of the Trump maladministration, Americans will have more health issues and die sooner. What is truly amazing is the number of people who are perfectly okay with killing their friends and family members — and themselves — with fossil fuel pollution if it means they gain political power.
You think humanity is going to pull together to deal effectively with the effects of a warming planet? Not gonna happen. We would rather die than cooperate with “those people.” The other is scarier than extinction, which is why soon we will all be extinct along with most of the other species that currently populate the Earth.
According to the New York Times, the federal government is preparing to roll back exhaust emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks this summer at the same time it pulls the plug on smokestack emissions from fossil fuel powered electrical generating plants.
That’s bad, but it’s not the worst of it. On orders from the White House, James Reilly, a former astronaut and petroleum geologist who now heads the US Geological Survey, has ordered that scientific assessments produced by his agency only use computer generated climate models that project the impact of climate change through 2040, rather than through the end of the century as had been done previously.
In an email to the New York Times, James Hewitt, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, defended the proposed changes. “The previous use of inaccurate modeling that focuses on worst-case emissions scenarios, that does not reflect real-world conditions, needs to be thoroughly re-examined and tested if such information is going to serve as the scientific foundation of nationwide decision-making now and in the future.”
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Read the whole fucked-up thing at https://cleantechnica.com/2019/06/02...c5PaufCDnugIMA |
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