The Trump administration may be wishing to downplay climate-change; Mattis is following the tradition in the DOD of recognizing it as a present threat, with very real strategic implications:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ity-challenge/
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The Trump administration may be wishing to downplay climate-change; Mattis is following the tradition in the DOD of recognizing it as a present threat, with very real strategic implications:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...ity-challenge/
Ja-mata TosaInu
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The DoD is all about threat assessment. The motivations of a potential opponent can be completely fatuous -- and that would not, of itself, render the threat any less. Since notable global warming over the last century or so is documented fact, the strategic threat implications must be considered, pretty much regardless of one's personal position on the anthropomorphic character of that warming trend.Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny
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Blame Al Gore for giving the detractors so much ammunition.
Being better than the worst does not inherently make you good. But being better than the rest lets you brag.
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Alt-Science meets policy in the Trump White House:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-drive-policy/
The Twilight Zone in Washington!? Whodathunk?
Ja-mata TosaInu
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He's at home, a gigantic house at the coast with an astronomic electricity bill, 1 meter above sea-level.
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Gore's inconvenient truth was the introduction to climate change for the majoirty of the population, his over eagerness to present an end of the world scenario allowed false predictions to be put alongside actual fact and by association tainted the entire idea in many people's minds when his predictions didnt come true:
"Within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro."
"Whoops"
It is not exaggeration to say that Gore delivered kick to the nut's of climate change's credibility in the eyes of the public, a kick that is still hurting advocates to this day.
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I do find this site to be interesting.
https://climate.nasa.gov/images-of-change
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I dislike Scott Pruitt and coal.
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My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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Missing the point:
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