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2019-03-24 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Donald Trump is using Stalinist tactics to discredit climate science

[Guardian] Americans should not be fooled by the Stalinist tactics being used by the White House to try to discredit the findings of mainstream climate science.

The Trump administration has already purged information about climate change from government websites, gagged federal experts and attempted to end funding for climate change programmes.

Now a group of hardcore climate change deniers and contrarians linked to the administration is organising a petition in support of a new panel being set up by the National Security Council to promote an alternative official explanation for climate change.

The panel will consist of scientists who do not accept the overwhelming scientific evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are behind climate change and its impacts.

The petition is being circulated for signature by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a lobby group for "free market" fanatics which has become infamous for championing climate change denial. It does not disclose its sources of funding, but is known to have received money from ExxonMobil and conservative billionaires such as the Koch brothers.

Mr Ebell, who has no expertise whatsoever in climate science ‐ or any kind of science for that matter ‐ was a member of Donald Trump’s presidential transition team and diverted the focus of the Environmental Protection Agency towards weakening and removing policies that limit pollution by companies, including President Obama’s Clean Power Plan.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-24 06:16|| || Front Page|| [19 views ] Top

#1 ...Whenever I hear folks on the Left Hand Side of the Aisle use the term 'Stalinist', I can be pretty sure that they're wishing for, strongly considering, or actually planning truly Stalinist tactics.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2019-03-24 07:11|| 2019-03-24 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 I read the title in the index and bet 100-1 that the article was either from the Guardian or the NY Times. I was right in the first instance.

Posted by Chereting Pelosi1889 2019-03-24 07:39|| 2019-03-24 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 That's why all the Deep Staters caught 'adjusting' old data to meet the narrative is plain Lysenkoism. It's the Left, trying to substitute itself for god by using fraudulent science as its power. Seems they're exposing the playbook rather openly. It's Left's play of "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the lord your god, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate me"

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-03-24 07:40|| 2019-03-24 07:40|| Front Page Top

#4 ...the overwhelming scientific evidence that rising levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are behind climate

First off - there is no 'overwhelming scientific evidence' other than a small but extremely vocal climate science people like Michael Mann, James Hansen and others who are making these claims, aided and abetted by a more than willing and compliant media acting as their amplifier, and who have also refused to share data on more than one occasion so that their 'findings' can be replicated.

Second - it wasn't that long ago that the second part of the above quoted sentence fragment (carbon dioxide, etc.) was used to describe... global warming? Is carbon dioxide so powerful that it can singlehandedly cause both 'global warming' as well as 'climate change' in the span of a mere decade?

There are only so many times a rational person can listen to such contradictions before coming to the conclusion that they're all full of shit.

Posted by Raj 2019-03-24 09:06|| 2019-03-24 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, popcorn for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There are many varieties of popcorn. How sweet it is.

Dems following "Projection 101" in calling others Stalinists. They must be about out of ammo.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-24 09:54|| 2019-03-24 09:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like Q!

Posted by DooDahMan 2019-03-24 09:55|| 2019-03-24 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Now if they would just stop discrediting reports of Alien Abductions.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-24 10:40|| 2019-03-24 10:40|| Front Page Top

#8 The climate clowns have painted themselves into a corner. Once you declare the 'science is settled' then any doubts, no matter how small, undermine you.

Posted by Iblis 2019-03-24 11:35|| 2019-03-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 Even Joe Stalin understood the need for fossil fuel.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-24 14:29|| 2019-03-24 14:29|| Front Page Top

#10 You have to follow Marx to ignore real pollution and fixate on falsehood.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-03-24 16:25|| 2019-03-24 16:25|| Front Page Top

#11 I've been gaining weight because of all of the popcorn...

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-03-24 23:54|| 2019-03-24 23:54|| Front Page Top

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