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Post by SSHoya on Aug 21, 2018 5:39:39 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2018 11:32:14 GMT -5
The Trump administrations new coal pollution rules will Lead to more deaths, the Environmental Protection Agency's own analysis shows
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Post by tashoya on Aug 21, 2018 17:21:46 GMT -5
We still have an EPA that does stuff related to the environment? Nevada will be very happy to hear it.
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Post by tashoya on Aug 21, 2018 17:32:34 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Aug 21, 2018 19:06:09 GMT -5
The Trump administrations new coal pollution rules will Lead to more deaths, the Environmental Protection Agency's own analysis shows The Administration can trumpet that all lives matter equally to them - i.e., not at all.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 23, 2018 16:35:21 GMT -5
This is a very dangerous Senator: Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), who once brought a snowball to the Senate floor to prove climate change is false and whose former staffers populate EPA headquarters, said in a statement that “the best course of action remains to completely overturn" the scientific underpinning to the EPA's authority.
Where do they get these Neanderthals?
I actually emailed this bozo and asked him how his snowball was doing (during this very hot summer with fires all over).
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Post by SSHoya on Aug 23, 2018 16:41:07 GMT -5
This is a very dangerous Senator: Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), who once brought a snowball to the Senate floor to prove climate change is false and whose former staffers populate EPA headquarters, said in a statement that “the best course of action remains to completely overturn" the scientific underpinning to the EPA's authority. Where do they get these Neanderthals? I actually emailed this bozo and asked him how his snowball was doing (during this very hot summer with fires all over). Emailed AFTER you retired, right??? Ha ha.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2018 7:33:44 GMT -5
As a reporter working at a newspaper like The NYT--where our editors really let us dig into important topics that impact nation--we were left wondering. What really happened here? Why would Pruitt reject health-based recommendation of his own staff? Here was a hint. EPIDEMIOLOGY
We got this email as a result of a freedom of information request. It shows that the DAY AFTER Pruitt rejected the recommendation of EPA staff that wanted him to ban chlorpyrifos, his top aides began a broader discussion re epidemiology. But was not a coincidence.
CropLife America is Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, etc & the other top global manufacturers of pesticides. Shortly after Trump was elected, CropLife petitioned EPA to STOP relying on epidemiology to make pesticide decisions. Secret science effort starts.
So the pesticide industry is telling the EPA to stop using/or curb its use of human studies that examine possible links between exposures to pesticides and serious harm, like lower IQs among children, Parkinson's disease, cancer, etc. LIKE THIS
This is very serious stuff. This is not just Dems and GOP fighting in DC or Trump calling news reporters fake news. This is food we all eat in the United States. And the thousands of farm workers who grow it. So @dannyhakim and I decided we needed to Salinas Calif to investigate.
Just as this review of organophosphates is ramping up, Pruitt rolls out his SECRET SCIENCE plan, that would prohibit the EPA from relying on science that is not pubic and data is not shared with EPA. EPI data is very sensitive. Involves real people. Pruitt's plan is rolled out. But we noticed something startling as I began to dig into documents from the tobacco industry, now remember. these are tobacco industry documents using same argument.
It Appears like pesticide industry teamed up with folks EPA to use an argument invented by tobacco industry to try to block the use of EPI studies so that the EPA does not ban pesticides they sell. Here is some recent testimony by former OSHA head
Profits >>> The health of a child.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Aug 27, 2018 10:06:33 GMT -5
When I was at the EPA, I helped develop methods for detecting organophosphates. We even received a science and technology award for this work. Now it seems "never mind." Parkinson's, lymphoma are potential outcomes from this class of pesticides.
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Post by TC on Sept 28, 2018 8:57:03 GMT -5
Trump administration : global warming is real, it's going to destroy the world, so let's keep making 18 mpg F-150's because who cares
Stop calling any of these people conservatives, they don't want to conserve anything - they are nihilists.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Oct 5, 2018 11:15:45 GMT -5
From WaPo: But the courts, including the one on which Kavanaugh sits, haven't always allowed the Democratic administration to implement regulations aimed at mitigating global warming. As recently as last year, for example, Kavanaugh ruled against an Obama-era effort at the EPA to rein in emissions of some of the most potent climate-warming gases, called hydrofluorocarbons. At the time of my retirement, I was working on the global warming potential of hydrofluorocarbons. Carbon dioxide has a GWP of 1, by definition. Some of the fluorocarbons have GWPs of hundreds or even thousands. Sulfur hexafluoride, for example has a GWP of 6500. We were trying to get industry to switch their hydrofluorocarbon use from those with higher GWPs to those with lower GWPs. But of course scientists at the EPA couldn't work on climate change work anymore.
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Post by TC on Oct 7, 2018 20:57:18 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 2, 2018 19:51:59 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Nov 2, 2018 20:13:37 GMT -5
The Supreme Court Friday night refused to halt a novel lawsuit filed by young Americans that attempts to force the federal government to take action on climate change, turning down a request from the Trump administration to stop it before trial. The suit, filed in 2015 by 21 young people who argue that the failure of government leaders to combat climate change violates their constitutional right to a clean environment, is before a federal judge in Oregon. It had been delayed while the Supreme Court considered the emergency request from the government. Arguing the public trust doctrine is a legislative function, not a judicial one.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 23, 2018 16:23:39 GMT -5
Anxiously awaiting Don the Moron's response to this. Trump supporters are simply ignorant like their malignant narcissistic pathological-lying draftdodging "leader": The federal government on Friday released a long-awaited report with an unmistakable message: The effects of climate change, including deadly wildfires, increasingly debilitating hurricanes and heat waves, are already battering the United States, and the danger of more such catastrophes is worsening. The report’s authors, who represent numerous federal agencies, say they are more certain than ever that climate change poses a severe threat to Americans' health and pocketbooks, as well as to the country’s infrastructure and natural resources. And while it avoids policy recommendations, the report’s sense of urgency and alarm stand in stark contrast to the lack of any apparent plan from President Trump to tackle the problems, which, according to the government he runs, are increasingly dire. www.washingtonpost.com/energy-environment/2018/11/23/major-trump-administration-climate-report-says-damages-are-intensifying-across-country/?utm_term=.1ee0ce047fd6
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2018 9:40:11 GMT -5
The Derp State...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2018 12:35:13 GMT -5
That's false...
Scientist: I'm not a billionaire donor so you won't listen to me anyways...
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Post by EtomicB on Nov 25, 2018 17:17:17 GMT -5
That's false... Scientist: I'm not a billionaire donor so you won't listen to me anyways... Not surprising at all, smh...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2018 21:44:39 GMT -5
The Derp State..
Smh...
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 28, 2018 6:50:46 GMT -5
A government run by a moron and staffed by morons, aka "the best people." “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump said during a freewheeling 20-minute Oval Office interview with The Washington Post in which he was asked why he was skeptical of the dire National Climate Assessment his administration released Friday. “We think that this is the most extreme version and it’s not based on facts,” Sanders said of the National Climate Assessment. “It’s not data-driven. We’d like to see something that is more data-driven. It’s based on modeling, which is extremely hard to do when you’re talking about the climate. Again, our focus is on making sure we have the safest, cleanest air and water.” (Taxpayer-paid liar Sanders doesn't seem to understand that modeling is based upon data but I assume that "stable genius" Trump has no science adviser in the WH but what reputable scientist would accept the position). www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-on-climate-change-people-like-myself-we-have-very-high-levels-of-intelligence-but-were-not-necessarily-such-believers/2018/11/27/722f0184-f27e-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html?utm_term=.2ed700f6fbb8Building a 3-D map of the Earth's climate system. The basic building blocks of climate models are 3-D "grid cells" that contain climate-related physical information about a particular location. Within each grid cell, key physical, chemical, geological, and biological climate processes are represented by mathematical equations, many of which are based on physical laws, including the conservation of momentum, mass, and energy. Processes that cannot be depicted by physical or chemical laws are represented by equations derived by observing how things behave in the real world (empirically derived). nas-sites.org/climate-change/climatemodeling/page_3_1.php
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