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WHAT? Climate Change Denier Set to Lead Trump Advisory Panel to Study Climate Change Impacts
While the national conversation about climate change action likely has never been stronger, Republicans and Trump are as ignorant and evil as ever.
The White House is working to assemble a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat.... a conclusion that federal intelligence agencies have affirmed several times since Trump took office.
The initiative represents the Trump administration’s most recent attempt to question the findings of federal scientists and experts on climate change and comes less than three weeks after Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats delivered a worldwide threat assessment that identified it as a significant security risk.
Francesco Femia, chief executive of the Council on Strategic Risks and co-founder of the Center for Climate and Security, said in an interview that the plan appeared to be an effort to undermine the consensus within the national intelligence community that climate change needs to be addressed to avert serious consequences.
Yes, even more insane that debating climate change's existance and impacts is the person doing this bogus, ridiculous climate panel at the White House compared the “demonization” of carbon to treatment of the Jews by Hitler.
The proposed Presidential Committee on Climate Security, which would be established by executive order, is being spearheaded by William Happer.... who worked at the Energy Department under George H.W. Bush and joined the White House in September to work on “emerging technologies,” is not formally trained as a climate scientist.
He has sat on the boards of two advocacy groups that have questioned whether global warming poses a serious risk.... Last March, when asked whether he had received money from the fossil fuel industry, Happer said he had been given somewhere between $10,000 and $15,000 from Peabody Coal....
Happer...has said that carbon emissions linked to climate change should be viewed as an asset rather than a pollutant.
In 2014, Happer....compared criticism of carbon dioxide, the increase of which scientists say has raised global temperatures, to the treatment of Jews under Hitler. "The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler," Happer said on CNBC. "Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world....
Absoutely incredible. What is the world is going on? WHERE DO THEY FIND THESE PEOPLE? The absolute worst of the world.
The Pentagon and intelligence agencies have reached the conclusion.... that climate change does pose a significant risk to the nation’s defense capabilities,
The assessment Coats submitted on Jan. 29 to the Senate Intelligence Committee, for example, states, “Global environmental and ecological degradation, as well as climate change, are likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress, and social discontent through 2019 and beyond.
The Defense Department said in a report submitted to Congress in mid-January that several dozen military installations around the nation already are experiencing climate impacts. The assessment, which called climate change “a national security issue,” said rising seas, wildfires and other such disasters are likely to create more severe problems for the military in the coming years.
If you're haven't closed your browser yet screaming, here's more very recent examples of Republican stupidity:
In late November, Trump dismissed a government report finding that global warming is intensifying and poses a major threat the U.S. economy, saying, “I don’t see it.”
Last month, his nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, acting administrator Andrew Wheeler, testified that he did not see climate change as one of the world’s pressing challenges.
Last month, in a tweet that was largely seen as mocking global warming, Trump commented on extremely cold temperatures in the Midwest, writing, "What the hell is going on with Global Warming? Please come back fast, we need you!"
Sources:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/20/politics/white-house-climate-panel-william-happer/index.html