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Climate deniers - stpioc - 04-15-2016 From Forbes: Sarah Palin Weirdly Attacks Bill Nye: 'As Much A Scientist As I Am' APRIL 15, 2016, 9:00 AM EDT The Republican star was promoting a new movie, ‘Climate Hustle.’ With just one week to go before some 130 countries sign a landmark agreement to tackle climate change at the United Nations, a group of roughly 150 naysayers gathered Thursday in Congress’s Rayburn Building. They were there to see and discuss “Climate Hustle,” a documentary that purports to bust the “myths and hype” and expose man-made global warming to be a hoax. But the bigger draw at the event may have been one of the panelists, Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who remains a star, albeit controversial one, in conservative circles. The overwhelmingly sympathetic crowd—this was invitation only—murmured in agreement and chuckled at her anecdotes about liberal “fearmongering.” Palin wasted no time, attacking “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” (Nye, a science educator, is the host of a popular children’s science show.) “Bill Nye is as much a scientist as I am,” Palin said. “He’s a kids’ show actor, he’s not a scientist.” (She made the remark after a brief clip was shown of Nye, win which he said, good-naturedly, that he hope climate change deniers will be rejected by the American people.) Palin bemoaned the fact that children are being taught to embrace the premise that humans are causing climate change. She said, adding, this is why “it’s so important for parents to be a greater influence than the schools.” Palin was joined in the panel discussion by David Legates, described as a “the former Delaware state climatologist,” and Marc Morano, who runs ClimateDepot.com, for the Committee For a Constructive Tomorrow (known as CFACT), co-producer and funder of the film. Critics contend CFACT is a shill for Big Oil, though Morano claims that 85 percent of CFACTS funding comes from “individual donors.” (Mother Jones has included it among “The Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial.”) The screening was held in the meeting room of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, whose chairman Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tx), endorses the film. The moderator, conservative activist Brent Bozell, lobbed softballs at Palin. Palin’s environmental stances have included calls for more drilling in the Arctic Ocean and, she noted at the event, keeping polar bears off the threatened species list. “I want life to be better for mankind,” Palin explained, “and that takes developing our natural resources.” The discussion was being filmed to accompany Climate Hustle when it’s screened for one day at some 400 cinemas around the country on May 2. The movie itself is a long 75 minutes, featuring various scientists who’ve either never believed in manmade global warming, or have gone rogue—disputing what is near consensus among scientists and therefore becoming virtual pariahs in their field. While the vast majority of scientists agree that climate change is largely caused by the estimated 2 billion tons of CO2 produced from burning fossil fuels and other human activities, Climate Hustle, which has an oddly jaunty tone, scoffs at such alarmism. Climate Hustle was cowritten and narrated by Morano, a former spokesman for the most best-known climate-change denier in the senate, Oklahoma Republican Jim Inhofe. At a reception after the screening, which Palin didn’t attend, Morano said he felt an urgency to produce this film, now that “President Obama has bypassed Congress” with environmental legislation, and “little rules are slipping in through the EPA.” The film is meant to be “a reality check,” he explained, adding that he’s already working on a sequel. Update: An earlier version incorrectly stated the number of theaters showing the film. The correct number is 400. This story also was updated to include mention of the clip of Bill Nye. RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 09-07-2016 Surprise surprise.. Quote:Companies like Pepsi, DuPont, and Google might say that they support climate action, but in reality, they are funding lawmakers opposed to President Obama’s climate agenda, according to a Reuters report released Tuesday morning.U.S. Companies Publicly Support Climate Action, Privately Fund Deniers RE: Climate deniers - Admin - 09-08-2016 Pay to play? How about this as pay to play.. Quote:Coal and electricity companies paid to meet with Republican state attorneys general just weeks before those top law enforcement officials joined in suing the federal government over the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, new documents show.Republican State AGs Met With Coal Companies Before Filing Against The EPA’s Carbon Rule RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 11-20-2016 Hardly surprising, this.. Quote:The Department of Defense has called climate change a “threat multiplier,” noting that it has the potential to exacerbate conflict and threaten national security. And in September, 25 military and national security experts — including former advisers to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush — issued a report warning that climate change poses a “significant risk to U.S. national security and international security.” Middle East experts have suggested that the Syrian civil war is a contemporary example of a climate-driven conflict, one where widespread drought and crop failures helped tip the scale.Donald Trump’s first staff picks all deny the threat of climate change RE: Climate deniers - Admin - 01-02-2017 Quote:The entrenchment of climate-science denial is one of the ways the United States appears to be exceptional relative to the rest of the world. A comparative 2015 study of nine conservative political parties in countries such as Canada, Germany, and Spain concluded that “the U.S. Republican Party is an anomaly in denying anthropogenic climate change.” Meanwhile, Americans were least likely to agree that climate change is largely the result of human activity in a 2014 survey of 20 countries, including China, India, Australia, and Great Britain.Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate Denial - The Atlantic RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 01-30-2017 Speaking about hyperbole.. Quote:The environmental movement is “the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world”, according to an adviser to the US president Donald Trump’s administration. Myron Ebell, who has denied the dangers of climate change for many years and led Trump’s transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) until the president’s recent inauguration, also said he fully expected Trump to keep his promise to withdraw the US from the global agreement to fight global warming.Green movement 'greatest threat to freedom', says Trump adviser | Environment | The Guardian Yes, experts can be dismissed out of hand, arguments, data, substantiation, proof, all of that doesn't matter.. For instance that China installs way more solar panels and windmills in their own home market, or that these alternative source can now compete with fossil fuels in electricity generation: Quote:Lazard’s LCOE analysis identifies how much each unit of electricity (measured in megawatt-hours) costs to generate over a power plant’s lifetime. LCOE represents every cost component -- capital and financing expenditures to build; operations and maintenance; and fuel costs -- spread out over the total lifetime megawatt-hours generated.Wind and Solar Are Our Cheapest Electricity Generation Sources. Now What Do We Do? | Greentech Media RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 03-15-2017 Meet the new head of the EPA.. Quote:But now that Pruitt’s all settled in at the EPA, he’s getting a little less shy. In a CNBC interview on Thursday morning, Pruitt explicitly said that carbon dioxide doesn’t cause global warming. “I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,” Pruitt said. “So no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”EPA chief Scott Pruitt just went full climate denier. | New Republic RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 03-27-2017 Quote:BBack in November 2009, as the Obama backlash was just gathering steam, Rush Limbaugh devoted a segment of his radio program to “Climategate.”Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology - Vox The rest of the article is a must read, about the causes and consequences of the epistemological closing of the rightwing media. 'Çlimategate' is just one example of that. RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 03-28-2017 Quote:Trump’s EPA transition leader just blasted Ivanka and Rex Tillerson over climate policy. Ever since Trump’s election, the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Myron Ebell has been leading the charge to permanently hobble the Environmental Protection Agency. He formed a transition team for the agency that included some of the nation’s most prominent climate science deniers, and created a policy document that recommends withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement, defunding international climate programs, withdrawing regulations on carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and somehow reversing the Supreme Court’s ruling saying carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act.Trump’s EPA transition leader just blasted Ivanka and Rex Tillerson over climate policy. | New Republic Quote:The head of the Environmental Protection Agency says President Donald Trump in the coming days will sign a new executive order that unravels his predecessor's sweeping plan to curb global warming. EPA chief Scott Pruitt says the executive order to be signed Tuesday will undo the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, an environmental regulation that restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. The 2015 rule has been on hold since last year while a federal appeals court considers a challenge by coal-friendly Republican-led states and more than 100 companies. Speaking on ABC's "This Week," Pruitt said Trump's intention is to bring back coal-mining jobs and reduce the cost of electricity. Supporters of former President Barack Obama's plan say it would spur thousands of clean-energy jobs.EPA Chief: Trump To Sign Order Undoing Obama Plan To Curb Global Warming RE: Climate deniers - stpioc - 07-01-2017 The climate denier at the helm of the EPA: Quote:EEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, a climate denier, is launching an initiative at the agency to challenge scientists’ near-universal consensus on climate science by having experts debate scientific studies, E&E News reported Friday.Pruitt Is Reportedly Starting An EPA Initiative To Challenge Climate Science – Talking Points Memo Quote:EEPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is undertaking a formal initiative to evaluate climate science, according to reporting from E&E News White House reporter Emily Holden. According to Holden, the program will feature a “red team, blue team” approach meant to provide “back-and-forth critique” of climate science.Scott Pruitt wants to hijack the peer-review process to push bad climate science |