This is what happens when you put a politician with ZERO scientific education (beyond high school) in charge of a scientific agency: guaranteed disaster.
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
The hot air emanating from his mouth is a major contributor to global warming.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure this is primarily about a lack of knowledge or education; it's probably more about his deep ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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washingtonpost.com - Thousands of emails detail EPA head’s close ties to fossil fuel industry
Even most high school science students know better.
ReplyDeleteHe knows better but is a hitman...
ReplyDeleteHad a break through idea the other day. Instead of climate change we should switch the topic to life on Earth change. It's easy to discount the effects of weather but what we're really talking about are changes to quality of life and welfare on Earth.
ReplyDeleteMy post-high school science education was largely Astronomy. Not sure it's 'lack of education' as 'willful ignorance'.
ReplyDeleteJim Douglas Exactly so.
ReplyDeleteHow can people be appointed to positions like this without experience? Like one of my class mates who supported Ben Carson a trained medical doctor as US president. My argument was who is most qualified to create and interpret law? Well wouldn't that be a lawyer like Obama and Hillary Clinton? These politicians are the real people taking jobs from hard working educated Americans. There should be an examination or written test they have to pass. You wouldn't pass an exam with wrong answers. How can these people dictate their agenda without universally acquired knowledge? BTW Oklahoma is the US hub of fracking and natural gas production in the United States. It is also home to Picher, Oklahoma
ReplyDeleteFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Picher, Oklahoma Ghost town
Population (June 9, 2015) Total =0
Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, United States. This was a major national center of lead and zinc mining at the heart of the Tri-State Mining District. More than a century of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal-contaminated mine tailings (known as chat) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of the cave-in risks, groundwater contamination, and health effects associated with the chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1980 in the Tar Creek Superfund Site by the US Environmental Protection Agency. The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 1996 study found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects, which could result in lifelong neurological problems.
Leslie Sox These appointments aren't merely uninformed on the areas they've been appointed to oversee. By design, they're openly hostile to the agencies they're now responsible for, and their mandate is to dismantle them as much as they can manage. Bannon has been pretty clear that his overall goal is to dismantle the federal government.
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This plus the horrid, draconian laws they are passing simply means republican leadership, BannoTrump have chosen to go down as the most despicable, hated, scumbag party in all history just to increase the very rich!!!
ReplyDeleteYes. He was put in there deliberately. Our illustrious Governor here in Florida has forbidden state employee's to speak about climate change ( including the Florida EPA) don't be surprised if this joker does the same thing at the Federal EPA.
ReplyDeleteNever underestimate the motivation of the $30+ trillion Fossil Carbon Energy Industrial Complex to get paid to extract the last unit of coal, oil and gas from the planet and oxidize it into the atmosphere.
ReplyDeleteRight, SOP for the GOP. Now wholly owned and controlled by BigOil. And the GOP, not just inept Trump, put a scumbag oil lobby cheerleader in charge of the EPA. And so ensues the usual, & idiotic, GOP spiel of "See? GOV doesn't work! We should get rid of that useless agency! And the hateful, zombie horde cheers on rabidly, against their own interests, yet again. It would be funny, if it weren't destroying the biosphere for all life - right before everyone's eyes.
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