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TomCADem

(17,718 posts)
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 11:34 PM Feb 2018

Pruitt Questions Whether Climate Change 'Necessarily Is A Bad Thing' [View all]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, wondered aloud Tuesday whether climate change might actually be good for humans in the long run — a proposition unsupported by the conclusions of climate science.

“We know that humans have most flourished during times of what? Warming trends,” Pruitt told KSNV’s Gerard Ramalho in an interview flagged by the Guardian. “So I think there’s assumptions made that because the climate is warming that that necessarily is a bad thing.”

“Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018?” Pruitt went on. “That’s fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100.”

Pruitt is not the only member of the Trump administration to question whether climate change might actually be a good thing. On a particularly cold day last year, Trump tweeted, “Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming.”

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pruitt-questions-whether-climate-change-necessarily-is-a-bad-thing/ar-BBIPwPQ



Yup, having large parts of the U.S. feel like Death Valley might be a bad thing:

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what a fucking idiot. olddad56 Feb 2018 #1
100,000,000,000,000,000 TIMES THIS ... mr_lebowski Feb 2018 #5
Just like his boss. joshdawg Feb 2018 #19
what a fucking idiot. pangaia Feb 2018 #2
What a fucking idiot trixie2 Feb 2018 #3
what a fucking idiot. truthisfreedom Feb 2018 #4
What a fucking idiot. dewsgirl Feb 2018 #6
What a TOTAL f'cking idiot! democratisphere Feb 2018 #7
Head of the environmental PROTECTION agency - what a fucking idiot elias7 Feb 2018 #8
I guess he's a big fan of drought and famine. nt Binkie The Clown Feb 2018 #9
Actually, a lot of those people ARE fans. They want to get rid of us "useless eaters" Nay Feb 2018 #22
Fucking evil idiot. dalton99a Feb 2018 #10
I wish I weren't an atheist so I could pray he would burn in Hell BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #11
fucking idiot doesn't want a clue Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2018 #12
Consider kchamberlin25 Feb 2018 #13
What a "fairly arrogant" fucking idiot. nt yonder Feb 2018 #14
This message was self-deleted by its author C Moon Feb 2018 #15
the "gist" of their argument is... Think of all that fertile new land North of the 55th Parallel... FactyDude Feb 2018 #16
Captain Smith questions whether montana_hazeleyes Feb 2018 #17
He should try living in California. My area just had the largest fire in CA history, followed by... Hekate Feb 2018 #18
Eat tarballs, drink frackwater, and die Scottie! muntrv Feb 2018 #20
Very well put...I agree. (n/t) Moostache Feb 2018 #21
For everyone that calls this asshole out as fucking idiot, well he's a corrupt fucking idiot turbinetree Feb 2018 #23
I always think of this from Aaron Sorkin's Newsroom: Saviolo Feb 2018 #24
Thanks, hadn't seen that. n/t scipan Feb 2018 #30
All the big game will go extinct Marthe48 Feb 2018 #25
"wouldn't you like to own ocean-front property? perhaps you already do! just wait a few years!" unblock Feb 2018 #26
Make it stop. Solly Mack Feb 2018 #27
I donno, maybe... Pluvious Feb 2018 #28
we had so much. scipan Feb 2018 #29
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