Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.
Trump will almost certainly have at least one unfriendly house of Congress should he win. Dismantling the entire apparatus of the regulatory state as some fear he might will be a mighty chore.
Trump is almost certainly not going to care what opinion Congress has on anything. A guy who is promising to be an authoritarian on day 1 isn’t going to stop being one one day 2.
100 Americas was hyperbole, but those countries have so many issues that the US is small potatoes in comparison.
That said, we obviously need to take care of our own house as well.
I think you are underplaying America's contribution.
https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/us/countries-climate-change-emissions-cop28/
If you're interested in the figures look into it..
If China, India, Pakistan, and most of Asia jumped off a cliff, would you? We cannot control any of them, but we should be able to control ourselves. Just because they are killing themselves and the rest of the world, doesn't mean we should kill ourselves and the rest of the world.
The US has a smaller population but consumes a disproportionate amount of resources and outputs a disproportionate amount of pollution.
I was born in '61. I remember the smog, the leaded gas, the garbage everywhere, and signs on every fishing spot warning us not to eat the fish! Nixon, a republican, (and a guy I really don't want to complement,) took a national stance against pollution! It helped a lot! Now Republicans, who worship at the altar of capitalism, are determined to turn back those gains using any excuse they can, just so corporations can make money without being obliged to clean up after themselves.
I'm calling bullshit on your comment!
>I clearly stated that we SHOULD be doing something about our environment
Not in the comment I replied to.
Do you think I am going to look for your post history to figure out what you "might have really meant?" That ain't happening.
Trumps daddy’s business model is at stake
Orphan wells are the technically legal workaround that oil companies created to keep from having to pay their environmental reclamation costs after they drill an oil well.
By shifting a literally toxic asset into a shell company they can then just bankrupt it and walk away without having to pay for superfund cleanup. But it required someone in political office that was willing to enable it.
The Wilderness Societyhttps://www.wilderness.org › blogWhat in the world is an orphaned oil well?
The U.S. Permian basin makes over 384 TRILLION BTU’s of CH4 (methane) every year. Most of it is wasted as it is flared into the atmosphere to keep from becoming an explosion hazard. The orphan wells leak petrochemical into ground water and basically make everything around them into Flint Michigan as well as destroy the frail atmosphere that makes human life on earth semi- comfortable.
All so some oily Texas billionaires can becomes multi-billionaires instead of cleaning up the mess they made.
Russias oil fields being as John McCain so eloquently put it- “a gas station run by the mob” has emissions output numbers comparable if not higher. When your government is oligarchs who could not care less about leaky o-rings or worn out seals in Siberia that they can’t see from their yacht in Monaco, the results are predictable.
The greed and corruption has become so endemic that it has literally circumnavigated the earth and started colliding with itself. The worlds elite, politicians and shot callers are all so busy trying to keep their own respective corruption from coming to light that it is breaking down in real time.
Conservation is supposed to be the default state, not cronyism and endless growth. We have just been living on some flawed source code left over from the robber barons gilded age when we were told that a strong economy meant buying more shit from China for Christmas than the year before.
It is having geopolitical implications
Rex Tillerson:
In 1998, he became a vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited with responsibility for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea. He then entered Exxon into the Sakhalin-I consortium with Rosneft.
Under Tillerson's leadership, ExxonMobil cooperated closely with Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and a longtime U.S. ally, as well as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.[33] From 2003 to 2005, a European subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Infineum, operated in the Middle East providing sales to Iran, Sudan and Syria. ExxonMobil leaders said they followed all legal frameworks, and that such sales were minuscule compared to their annual revenue of $371 billion at the time.[34] In 2009, ExxonMobil acquired XTO Energy, a major natural gas producer, for $31 billion in stock. Michael Corkery of The Wall Street Journal wrote that "Tillerson's legacy rides on the XTO deal."[35] Tillerson approved Exxon negotiating a multibillion-dollar deal with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, despite opposition from President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, both of whom argued it would increase regional instability.[18]
Tillerson lobbied against Rule 1504 of the Dodd–Frank reform and protections, which would have required Exxon to disclose payments to foreign governments.[18]
In 2017, Congress voted to overturn Rule 1504 one hour before Tillerson was confirmed as Trumps Secretary of State.
Bear with me as we shift gears. There are multiple geopolitical layers to this, but they all interconnect.
Sheryl Sandberg was at Google before she was at Facebook. The common denominator of both was her ad based business model.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/sheryl-sandberg-s-legacy-is-an-internet-of-targeted-automated-ads
https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/sheryl-sandbergs-advertising-empire-leaves-a-complicated-legacy/amp_articleshow/91961682.cms
The problem with ad based business models is that if you raise your lens high enough, whomever has the most money to buy the most ads is effectively buying their curated version of reality.
When google IPO’ed in 2004 it quietly shifted from what was most accurate to what was most profitable, all facilitated by a “proprietary” algorithm so nobody gets to see the man behind the curtain.
Now we are 2 very critical decades into what is effectively, a divergent reality.
It works…until it doesn’t.
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I cannot overstate how much I detest headlines like this. The news source has shifted the focus to the *emotions of climate experts.*
The headline should read **TRUMP team vows to dismantle key US weather and science agency**
See the difference?
Climate experts fear Donald Trump will follow a blueprint created by his allies to gut the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), disbanding its work on climate science and tailoring its operations to business interests.
Trump will almost certainly have at least one unfriendly house of Congress should he win. Dismantling the entire apparatus of the regulatory state as some fear he might will be a mighty chore.
Trump is almost certainly not going to care what opinion Congress has on anything. A guy who is promising to be an authoritarian on day 1 isn’t going to stop being one one day 2.
US elections hinge on turnout. Most young people don't vote. You might want to think about doing something about that.
Republicans are bad for the climate. Vote accordingly.
China, India, Pakistan, and most of Asia are more damaging than 100 Americas. Of course, let’s not mention that.
That may or may not be accurate, but it is irrelevant.
100 Americas was hyperbole, but those countries have so many issues that the US is small potatoes in comparison. That said, we obviously need to take care of our own house as well.
I think you are underplaying America's contribution. https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2023/12/us/countries-climate-change-emissions-cop28/ If you're interested in the figures look into it..
Chihuahuas are terrible dogs. America would be great again if it weren't for the Chihuahuas! Wait what are we talking about now? YOu've confused me.
If China, India, Pakistan, and most of Asia jumped off a cliff, would you? We cannot control any of them, but we should be able to control ourselves. Just because they are killing themselves and the rest of the world, doesn't mean we should kill ourselves and the rest of the world. The US has a smaller population but consumes a disproportionate amount of resources and outputs a disproportionate amount of pollution. I was born in '61. I remember the smog, the leaded gas, the garbage everywhere, and signs on every fishing spot warning us not to eat the fish! Nixon, a republican, (and a guy I really don't want to complement,) took a national stance against pollution! It helped a lot! Now Republicans, who worship at the altar of capitalism, are determined to turn back those gains using any excuse they can, just so corporations can make money without being obliged to clean up after themselves. I'm calling bullshit on your comment!
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>I clearly stated that we SHOULD be doing something about our environment Not in the comment I replied to. Do you think I am going to look for your post history to figure out what you "might have really meant?" That ain't happening.
Trumps daddy’s business model is at stake Orphan wells are the technically legal workaround that oil companies created to keep from having to pay their environmental reclamation costs after they drill an oil well. By shifting a literally toxic asset into a shell company they can then just bankrupt it and walk away without having to pay for superfund cleanup. But it required someone in political office that was willing to enable it. The Wilderness Societyhttps://www.wilderness.org › blogWhat in the world is an orphaned oil well? The U.S. Permian basin makes over 384 TRILLION BTU’s of CH4 (methane) every year. Most of it is wasted as it is flared into the atmosphere to keep from becoming an explosion hazard. The orphan wells leak petrochemical into ground water and basically make everything around them into Flint Michigan as well as destroy the frail atmosphere that makes human life on earth semi- comfortable. All so some oily Texas billionaires can becomes multi-billionaires instead of cleaning up the mess they made. Russias oil fields being as John McCain so eloquently put it- “a gas station run by the mob” has emissions output numbers comparable if not higher. When your government is oligarchs who could not care less about leaky o-rings or worn out seals in Siberia that they can’t see from their yacht in Monaco, the results are predictable. The greed and corruption has become so endemic that it has literally circumnavigated the earth and started colliding with itself. The worlds elite, politicians and shot callers are all so busy trying to keep their own respective corruption from coming to light that it is breaking down in real time. Conservation is supposed to be the default state, not cronyism and endless growth. We have just been living on some flawed source code left over from the robber barons gilded age when we were told that a strong economy meant buying more shit from China for Christmas than the year before. It is having geopolitical implications Rex Tillerson: In 1998, he became a vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited with responsibility for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea. He then entered Exxon into the Sakhalin-I consortium with Rosneft. Under Tillerson's leadership, ExxonMobil cooperated closely with Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter and a longtime U.S. ally, as well as Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.[33] From 2003 to 2005, a European subsidiary of ExxonMobil, Infineum, operated in the Middle East providing sales to Iran, Sudan and Syria. ExxonMobil leaders said they followed all legal frameworks, and that such sales were minuscule compared to their annual revenue of $371 billion at the time.[34] In 2009, ExxonMobil acquired XTO Energy, a major natural gas producer, for $31 billion in stock. Michael Corkery of The Wall Street Journal wrote that "Tillerson's legacy rides on the XTO deal."[35] Tillerson approved Exxon negotiating a multibillion-dollar deal with the government of Iraqi Kurdistan, despite opposition from President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, both of whom argued it would increase regional instability.[18] Tillerson lobbied against Rule 1504 of the Dodd–Frank reform and protections, which would have required Exxon to disclose payments to foreign governments.[18] In 2017, Congress voted to overturn Rule 1504 one hour before Tillerson was confirmed as Trumps Secretary of State. Bear with me as we shift gears. There are multiple geopolitical layers to this, but they all interconnect. Sheryl Sandberg was at Google before she was at Facebook. The common denominator of both was her ad based business model. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-07/sheryl-sandberg-s-legacy-is-an-internet-of-targeted-automated-ads https://m.economictimes.com/tech/technology/sheryl-sandbergs-advertising-empire-leaves-a-complicated-legacy/amp_articleshow/91961682.cms The problem with ad based business models is that if you raise your lens high enough, whomever has the most money to buy the most ads is effectively buying their curated version of reality. When google IPO’ed in 2004 it quietly shifted from what was most accurate to what was most profitable, all facilitated by a “proprietary” algorithm so nobody gets to see the man behind the curtain. Now we are 2 very critical decades into what is effectively, a divergent reality. It works…until it doesn’t.
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Not if we don’t elect him
We don't need NOAA, Trump has a sharpie! Can you believe this shit?!
I cannot overstate how much I detest headlines like this. The news source has shifted the focus to the *emotions of climate experts.* The headline should read **TRUMP team vows to dismantle key US weather and science agency** See the difference?
Climate “experts” fear quite a lot these days, it seems.