#climatechangedeniers

(via Warned of ‘massive’ climate-led extinction, a US energy firm funded crisis denial ads | Environment | The Guardian)

• President Donald Trump on Tuesday sought to cast doubt on a UN report on climate change that had dire warnings about how little time we have to stop a global catastrophe.

• Trump suggested that the world’s climate might actually be “fabulous” and that he’d seen reports expressing that position.

• The UN report outlines the effects of global warming of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.

Andrew Wheeler is the current acting EPA Administrator. Wheeler is also the current Vice President of the Washington Coal Club and a former coal lobbyist for Murray Energy. We’ve got a real fox in the henhouse situation here, folks. Scott Priutt was bad, but at least he was sloppy enough to misappropriate funds for personal trips and expenses. Wheeler started his career in policy work with the EPA and won three organizational bronze medals between 1993 and 1994.

This dude learned the system and then went on to try and game it as legal staff for two senators for the next decade or so before coal lobbying. He holds a law degree and an undergraduate major in biology so he’s smart enough to reason the Truth of global warming. The only personal motivation this guy might have to continue to vehemently deny the effects of climate change is money. Cold hard cash is the main difference between policy work for environmental interests versus big oil and coal. And you can bet your bottom dollar that he’s getting kickbacks under the table or will leverage his position for the benefit of his investments or something shady.

Wheeler made headlines in March after an interview with CBS, in which he denied the imminence of climate change on modern life, claiming no big effect until 50 or even 75 years out. This statement directly opposed a 1,500 page climate assessment from the EPA itself, published in late April, that concludes that the effects of global warming are being felt now. The Sierra Club did not skip a beat, publishing another press briefing and filing an official, legally-binding request for documentation from the EPA regarding empirical support for Andrew Wheeler’s estimations. 

I saw an artist draw a wolf beneath the skin of a lamb this past week on the west sidewalk of Broadway between 110th and 111th. I’m reminded of Andrew Wheeler every time I walk by.

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2019/01/sierra-club-statement-wheeler-nothing-more-scott-pruitt-new-coat-lead-paint

https://web.archive.org/web/20171105173211/https://www.faegrebd.com/andrew-wheeler

https://www.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2019/04/sierra-club-demands-basis-for-wheeler-s-claim-most-climate-consequences-are

Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore sees the modern environmental movement as a conspiracy theory, calling global warming "the greatest scam in history" and denouncing the use of "fear and guilt" to push the message. "The climate catastrophe is strictly a fear campaign – well, fear and guilt," Moore told Breitbart radio host Rebecca Mansour. "You’re afraid you’re killing your children because you’re driving them in your SUV and emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and you feel guilty for doing that. There’s no stronger motivation than those two." This abomination that is occurring today in the climate issue is the biggest threat to the enlightenment that has occurred since Galileo. "Nothing else comes close," Moore insisted, likening the contemporary environmental movement to "a toxic mix of ideology, of politics and religion." "CO2 is the food for life! It’s not pollution," the would-be heretic declared, claiming that the use of fossil fuels had actually "saved life from an early demise" because CO2 had been declining since the last ice age, with barely enough for the earth’s plant life to sustain itself, until humanity stepped into the breach during the Industrial Revolution.

Vegetation is growing abundantly thanks to the excess of CO2 in the atmosphere.  Moore, who founded the pioneering environmental activist group almost 50 years ago to protest nuclear war, met with an outpouring of support from conservatives and weary Democrats alike, after tweeting a scathing rebuke earlier this week to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose quixotic Green New Deal has become the standard-bearer of the 21st-century environmental movement. He continued along those lines, criticizing the anti-climate-change movement for "co-opting and corrupting" politicians and allowing the environment to be treated as a political football without understanding the meaning behind the rhetoric. Democrats "might as well have signed a suicide pact," Moore said. "Not just for their political future, but for the future of the economy of the US, for all these people to be piling on the Green New Deal, which is a complete and utter ridiculous document."

Coral Reefs Bleaching due to excess CO2 dissolved in the Oceans, causing acidification  But Moore reserved his harshest words for the Sunrise Movement he believes is backing Ocasio-Cortez. They’re brainwashing these children into thinking the world is coming to an end in 10 years. There’s got to be billionaires behind this. I want to know who they are. I think we need to hunt them down.