Climate Change Weekly #385
In less than a month, three separate reports have been released repeating the same half-truth: the costs of natural disasters are rising, setting records in recent years, and human-caused climate change is to blame. I say half-truth because it is also a half-lie.
Each of the studies received copious amounts of prominent coverage by the mainstream media. I suspect the timing of the releases and the coordinated coverage were not by coincidence. They were intended to gin up a steady drumbeat of support for radical climate action by the incoming Biden administration, with these studies intended to provide the new president’s climate team with justification and cover for a “great reset” type of takeover of the economy to save the world from apocalyptic climate change.
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Why climate critics were sidelined in Trump’s final days Source: By Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter • Posted: Wednesday, January 13, 2021
Kelvin Droegemeier, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, removed two political appointees yesterday for trying to undermine climate science. Francis Chung/E&E News
A last-ditch effort by climate critics to cement their views in the public record fell apart yesterday after two of their own were summarily dismissed by White House officials.
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) removed climate denialist David Legates yesterday after it was revealed that he attempted to publish cherry-picked and incomplete claims about global warming.
Published on January 13th, 2021
In the wake of Trump’s deadly white supremacist insurrection last week, it seems that the revolving door between the energy industry and the Trump government may finally be closing. Ben Lefebvre and Zack Colman
reported yesterday for PoliticoPRO that even oil and gas companies are now cutting ties with members of the Trump administration, with one (anonymous) executive telling them that they “have discussed this explicitly… we’re not going to hire any Trump people. We’re just not going to do it.”
By Climate Denier Roundup
Another energy company executive said that the “administration didn’t even start out with the best of the best. They started out with the best of the rest. Now it’s the rest of the rest. It’s not the greatest talent pool.” For example, the story closes with a lobbyist saying that after a former EPA staffer wasn’t really able to say what they did at the agency, he asked them what they wanted t
Published: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
David Legates. Photo credit: The Heartland Institute/Youtube
David Legates, a political appointee at NOAA, attends a Heartland Institute conference in 2019. Legates is promoting researchers who reject climate science. Heartland Institute/YouTube
A climate denier working under the purview of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is attempting to publish cherry-picked and inaccurate research so that it can be permanently archived as a government record.
David Legates, who serves in a senior role at NOAA and is heading the U.S. Global Change Research Program, was brought to the Trump administration recently to challenge consensus climate science. A geologist from the University of Delaware and an affiliate of the Heartland Institute, he has said climate scientists make false claims for money and that humans need to burn more fossil fuels.