Friday, March 30, 2018

New talking points from the EPA minimize human impact on climate change.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, I don't understand all of those sciencey words you keep using.
Courtesy of WaPo: 

Environmental Protection Agency staffers received a list of “talking points” this week instructing them to underscore the uncertainties about how human activity contributes to climate change. 

A career employee in the department’s Office of Public Affairs distributed the eight talking points to regional staffers. The list offered suggestions on ways to talk with local communities and Native American tribes about how to adapt to extreme weather, rising seas and other environmental challenges. 

Employees crafted the email, first disclosed Wednesday by HuffPost, on the basis of controversial — and scientifically unsound — statements that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has made about the current state of climate research.

“Human activity impacts our changing climate in some manner,” reads one of the talking points. “The ability to measure with precision the degree and extent of that impact, and what to do about it, are subject to continuing debate and dialogue.”

Another states that while there has been “extensive” research and numerous reports on climate change, “clear gaps remain including our understanding of the role of human activity and what we can do about it.”

In other words the Trump Administration is saying that since they do not understand, or really trust, science they are simply going to do nothing, and hope that the world does not burn to a cinder before Trump can run for reelection.

Personally I think that the EPA folks who start spewing this bullshit in front of the ALASKAN native community better have one hand on the doorknob of the conference room, because those folks know exactly who to blame for the changing weather patterns, and it ain't them.


8 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:33 AM

    Earth will be far better off when humans are gone for good.

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  2. Anonymous7:54 AM

    'because those folks know exactly who to blame for the changing weather patterns'

    China.

    https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html#.Wr5dW7jwqWg

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    1. Anonymous8:40 AM

      "The world’s countries emit vastly different amounts of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. The table below shows data compiled by the International Energy Agency, which estimates carbon dioxide emissions from the combustion of coal, natural gas, oil and other fuels, including industrial waste and non-renewable municipal waste.

      Here we list the 20 countries that emitted the most carbon dioxide in 2015 (the most recent available data). " China, USa, India, Ru$$ia, Japan<Top 5.

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  3. Anonymous8:30 AM

    This is the direct fault of having a "separate saving god", which means the human is impotent and doesn't need to see or do anything, as "god's got it".

    Fuck that. Ignorance, much of it intentionally willed.

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  4. Anonymous8:37 AM

    A lot of rich people don’t give a damn about climate change, because changing cuts their profits.

    Plus, a lot of them know they won’t live to see the significant effects. And for their children, money will help significantly to insulate them from the effects. Homes get destroyed? They can move inland. Food and other necessities priced higher? They can still afford it.

    Unbridled capitalism has screwed nearly all of us.

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  5. Anonymous10:07 AM

    Corrupt and science denying. Yup, another Trump pick.

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  6. Anonymous3:10 PM

    Maybe we can send him to AK and "introduce' him to a staving polar bear. At least the bear would have lunch.

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  7. Anonymous6:11 AM

    What's wrong with his fucking shirt cuffs? Or is are his fucking suit sleeves too short?

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