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Climate scientist: tRump budget is an all-out assault on Earth - ThinkProgress
Defunding NOAA’s satellites will also hurt weather forecasts, jeopardizing public safety, experts warn.
Donald tRump’s “see no evil” approach to climate change became dangerously real this week.
A four-page White House budget memo secured by The Washington Post reveals the tRump administration wants a 17 percent cut in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s overall budget — with the deepest cuts coming from earth observation. NOAA studies the atmosphere and oceans — often using satellites — to better understand climate and weather.
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“The truth is now laid bare,” said Dr. Michael Mann. “tRump and his cronies are serving as agents for fossil fuel interests like ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers in dismantling scientific programs that deal with the inconvenient science of human-caused climate change.”
“It’s an all-out assault on Earth,” the renowned climate scientist, who recently co-authored The Madhouse Effect with Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles, told ThinkProgress. It’s time for scientists “to stand up and be counted,” he said. - ThinkProgress
Donald tRump’s “see no evil” approach to climate change became dangerously real this week.
A four-page White House budget memo secured by The Washington Post reveals the tRump administration wants a 17 percent cut in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)’s overall budget — with the deepest cuts coming from earth observation. NOAA studies the atmosphere and oceans — often using satellites — to better understand climate and weather.
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“The truth is now laid bare,” said Dr. Michael Mann. “tRump and his cronies are serving as agents for fossil fuel interests like ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers in dismantling scientific programs that deal with the inconvenient science of human-caused climate change.”
“It’s an all-out assault on Earth,” the renowned climate scientist, who recently co-authored The Madhouse Effect with Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles, told ThinkProgress. It’s time for scientists “to stand up and be counted,” he said. - ThinkProgress
His neither a conservative nor a liberal, he's an anarchist who doesn't understand the chemical makeup of the planet and its intertwined environmental ecosystems.
Thanks red state voters. You screwed us and all future generations for short-term gain. Hope it was worth it. What am I talking about? You cannot comprehend your own stupidity!
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I found some more. Gonna have to dig into more of this wise man's life.
"All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports."
"Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
