EPA Administrator: Carbon Dioxide Not the Primary Driver of Climate Change
Yesterday we received confirmation of something we already suspected: the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, doesn’t believe that atmospheric CO2 causes climate change. Now, if we can get a Surgeon General who believes smoking cigarettes promotes good health and a Supreme Court justice who embraces lynching, we’ll be in good shape.
Craig
There are Main Stream Deplorables and wanna be street level both have a common trait. They are Deplorable and need to be dismissed as soon as possible.
The Main Street ones have sold out for monetary gain and the street level some how they believe that if they follow ignorant directions from the Main Street ones they some how will escape their state in life and some how will Rise Up above others . So they are victims of being manipulated .
Pruuitt is a dastard choice for EPE and he has no productive role to play in guiding a Society that wants to prosper .
In NM the Sec of the States Environment ( a former oil/ gas man and protege of Pruitts ) is now trumping out a false study that was done on the large methane cloud that hovers over the San Juan Basin and Four Corners area of the US.
Those deplorable s I totally get it and understand that Real info will not convert them.They will cling to their falsehoods till the cows come home. Many take pride in being as Stupid as possible its a badge of Honor! etc. They are polluted lemmings – sad testament to our dumbed down land ! Also they don’t care either. All that is their misguided right but they impact the greater good for the Majority of Society.
It will take a Great tipping Point event in our politics to dis credit the false Beliefs – the voices of the Good have much much work to do. It will not happen till they finally understand they have been duped. Till they get hurt real bad lose their benefits and get sick from the increased Pollution.
Even then they will concoct some sort of silly Liberal conspiracy.
The Mainstream Pruitts are in Power until the time that the corrupting influence of Dark Money is reduced from our body politic.
IN New Mexico
Good scientific studies by JPL labs and NOAA and other Governmental Agencies have determined that reckless flaring of gas and general emissions leaks in the well fields are concentrating in a large methane Cloud over the entire Four Corners Area where the 4 states meet.
There is also some contribution from aging coal mines in the area.
Well the State EPA administrator a protege of Pruitt and a former oil/gas industry player from Okl – he downplays the Findings of this Long running technical scientific study .
Saying that natural seeps in the land allow methane to escape from both gas and coal fields ??? Its All natural !
So all this gets believed as gospel by those ill mis informed deplorable s as they are Lemmings – and the puppet for oil/Gas money the SEC for the Environment along with their lady Gov puppet argue the same and they are Glaring examples of the negative consequences that americans Face now that their elected leaders are addicted and hooked on dark money.
Profits based on Lies rule over People.
So don’t be surprised at any or all of what comes next its only just Beginning.
BTW the lady Governor of NM whose economy despite a period of intense gas/oil production well her state is not doing well has serious revenue issues.
Well 3 or 4 years ago she decided to reward the Union Pacific Rail Road co in so NM Santa Theresa Rail depot that handles imported freight from Asia via cross country Mexican RR to the pacific coast. She says they dont need to pay sales tax on their diesel fuel they buy!
And now she screams about budget deficits – self imposed! but being the gomer master of deflection and distortion remains in office.
last month though she showed a Greenwashing Trait common to politicans and so many others – she jumpoed up and down at the Ground breaking Ceremony for the 30 megawatt dedicated soalr plant for Facebook or Google as being Great for NM even though the utility is going to do some cross subsidization when the accounting is done. Same utility says it still wants to build gas and coal as solar still costs too much !
But they mysteriously found a cheaper version of solar when the Facebook or Google co said they would build their own if the utility did not play ball. such are the Inconvenient Truths of our times!
So the lies and schemes are endless Craig too numerous to comment about.
Privatizing those profits while socializing the costs to Society. – The railroad needed this tax break like all of us need a hole in our heads !!!
So it goes in the Oligarchy once known as America. Pruitt is the Tip of the Iceberg More is coming be ready and strong!
We Americans collectively are all to Blame for deluding and pretending to ourselves in our own special Version of Aesop’s Fables – ala americana version same Fables and same results just a new tag line!
Our lack of Collective Civic Engagement brought all this on on both sides and it is much deeper than just a silly tv culture induced psychosis, we now have a new improved version its called Trump Reality TV version ….and its playing all over on too many channels. In fact it is Bundled now !!!! COL COL
Enjoy some Wine it is soothing given the times!
I found the most telling part of that revealing interview was his comment that “we need more discussion about climate change.” Not action, not even more evidence, just more talk. In this he seems to perhaps rightly making scientific evidence subservient to political decisions. But when we observe that the trend has also been to defund climate change evidence gathering and observe that this puts scientific evidence gathering at a disadvantage to opinion or corporate funding (as a basis for political decisions) it becomes a clear bias.
For many years there has been an effort to “make government more like business.” In prior times this appeared to suggest an effort to make government more efficient. But this loss of purpose more recently this appears to make government benefit primarily the government employees and those who contribute the funding with the most political impact. In other events responsibility to voters and even voting is increasingly becoming a fiction.
Breath yes it is all about the money trail and the Looting of the Commons in all these matters from my Vantage Point.
In Texas I am watching in complete disdain as many wealthy construction industry leaders are going against their hero Trumper and his anti immigrant stances and harsh remedies etc.
These people have made fortunes off the backs of these immigrants and under cut co that paid good wages and played by the rules like paying into the Social Security System.
Now that their new Hero the Trumper is going to close down their supply of illegal cheap labor they are up in Arms and saying that the Texas economy must be saved from a lack of workers .
At the same time they tell their GOP legislators not to ever pass a meaningful immigration bill and get things under control. They fear that the supply will tighten up and wages will have to go up.
They are also afraid of Union s getting in the way of their Gilded Age wanna be Lifestyles too!
But alas some of their Comrades from the Country Club are ponying up to the Bar and lobbying for rights to be given contracts to run private prisons to house the arrested immigrants. Profits over Reform is their gig. They made enough building things and now they have diversified into detention sector. First they held them in economic bondage with cheap wages etc; made their fortune and now they will hold them physical bondage and still get paid. Making it on the front end and the Back End – Perhaps they will employ Orwellian explanations and they will call it Recycling their Opportunity !!! Cradle to Grave Profits !!! there it is
so it is …
Trumper State Reps and Senators are crafting new rules that limit the authority of cities and counties to Regulate the Fracking Industry even if it is Scientifically proven that the risks factors to human health and water supplies may be at risk without some guidelines and /or sensible restrictions placed on it.
So much for local government knowing best and freedom at the lowest level being more important than some Federal or State law in the Republic s good. So much for protecting the rights of citizens who decide at local level how they want to run their affairs.
No No we can’t live up to these Illusions we must let money rule over everything including ourselves.
The Follies no matter how Cruel play on……
Just a few of the conflicting currents running high under the Lone Star Iconic Land of Divergent Contradictions,
one last one is the amount of money that changes hands to keep the Border patrol and ICE out of the oil fields where low level jobs like water vessels and supply , sand drivers are now handed out to workers without the proper status – dare I say it – non citizens to be PC lest I offend self righteous types caught up in their Americana bubble bias!
Needless to say the pay rates and hiring trends for formerly fine work for Americans is going down. Will the Trumpers Wall of Folly mitigate any of this is the question ????
But as Breath said the funding and political access trail tells the Tale !
I find immigration across our southern border a complex subject. For decadess US corporations have treated Latin America like a resource that belongs to them. It has been colonialism with a corporate face. Americans have benefited but not the masses living in Central and South America. The economies of those countries have remained marginal.
Those who come here seem to simply want work. The benefit of cheap and willing labor is not lost on Trump or any of those hiring undocumented nannies. Once again Americans have benefited, but this time it is a bit more of a quid pro quo. Workers have benefited from jobs, Employers have benefited from cheap labor and the rest of the US has benefited from cheaper goods and services.
There will certainly be a blow back from employers who are losing their labor force, and there may be a bit of hypocrisy involved, but I increasingly wonder if this policy is designed to promote a kickback from such employers to maintain the status quo, and by extension if there is nothing that this administration does that doesn’t have a price tag attached.
Reports tell me that there have been over 23000 deportations since the new Administration started. Those who do not have young US citizens in their families are wondering why they should stay in such an unwelcoming place and many more are leaving on their own. Everywhere I see signs in restaurants now looking for dishwashers, waiters, and people to buss tables, common winter jobs here for the undocumented.
Being so publicly unwelcoming is a blight on the US consciousness from which there will be repercussions. It is a wrong-headed attitude to stick our heads up our collective A and assume that we have somehow secured the high moral sovereign territory.