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TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:34 AM Feb 2018

Pruitt Questions Whether Climate Change 'Necessarily Is A Bad Thing'

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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Pruitt Questions Whether Climate Change 'Necessarily Is A Bad Thing' (Original Post) TomCADem Feb 2018 OP
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
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
5. 100,000,000,000,000,000 TIMES THIS ...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 12:53 AM
Feb 2018

So much fucking WRONG with this it's impossible to even know where to start.

The stupid is strong with this one.

We're rapidly heading towards a global average temp not seen in human history, even when there was 100,000 of us, let alone 6,000,000,000 of us, with a complex global industrial economy and trillions of $$$ invested in ports and low-lying properties.

You think we'll be 'THRIVING' with ZERO functioning ports (or even functioning PORT CITIES) because they're all underwater and abandoned?

And that is the tip of the proverbial iceberg, SCOTT you fucking moron. Do you have ANY IDEA how STRESSFUL change that is THIS SUDDEN, on a geological time scale, is going to be on the natural world, upon which billions of humans exist? The earth getting a lot warmer when there was 100K or 1M or even 100M humans on earth ... all living in primitive, highly localized conditions ... was one thing. But the world as it is NOW? Are you kidding me?

But hey, you're reasonable old at this point, probably won't be alive to see the worst of it, so why should YOU give a shit, right?

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
7. What a TOTAL f'cking idiot!
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 01:17 AM
Feb 2018

Just like every other f'ing idiot in this administration. You have to try real hard to come up with this many idiots in the WH.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
22. Actually, a lot of those people ARE fans. They want to get rid of us "useless eaters"
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:26 AM
Feb 2018

and they've tapped Mother Nature for the job.

BigmanPigman

(51,627 posts)
11. I wish I weren't an atheist so I could pray he would burn in Hell
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:18 AM
Feb 2018

equal to the heat on Earth (year 2090) ×1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,430 posts)
12. fucking idiot doesn't want a clue
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 02:46 AM
Feb 2018

Dumb shit probably thinks it just means Oklahoma will be the new Miami.

Science -- let's agree pi = 3.00 to make it easier for idiots.

Response to TomCADem (Original post)

 

FactyDude

(41 posts)
16. the "gist" of their argument is... Think of all that fertile new land North of the 55th Parallel...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 03:17 AM
Feb 2018

lol....

Hekate

(90,815 posts)
18. He should try living in California. My area just had the largest fire in CA history, followed by...
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 05:19 AM
Feb 2018

...a half an inch of rain a month later. That's it, half an inch. This is a hell of a drought. In my particular town the rain fell gently over about a 12 hour period, so while it didn't do much good it didn't do any harm either. Just up the freeway there was a freak "weather cell" that dumped the same amount over the burn area in five minutes, then I think it did it again. In any case the earth liquified and -- never mind.

If that moron had any curiosity he could google "Thomas Fire" and "Montecito Mudslide."

Scott Pruitt can go to Hell and take Trump and the rest of the Cabinet with him.

turbinetree

(24,720 posts)
23. For everyone that calls this asshole out as fucking idiot, well he's a corrupt fucking idiot
Thu Feb 8, 2018, 10:27 AM
Feb 2018

Hey Pruitt, go stick your head in a can of methane and breath it in, and see how long you survive, and oh, by the way, have you ever thought about your grand kids , have you ever thought about what the planet will look like for them because of your policies of fucking shit, and how your shit for brains is killing everything on the planet, that they are going to inherit-----------------don't think so, your your so embedded to fucking greed you could care less, you have never ever put yourself in someones else shoes, never, your just as fucked up and have the same embedded megalomaniac traits as the narcissistic sexual predator that you fucking bow down too..................so FUCK YOU

Heard your state had another fucking fracking earthquake----------------your state is just plain fucked.

And has an added bonus of how much of an corrupt idiot you are, have your ever thought about tree lines, well if you could get your head out of the oil and gas companies asses, take a look at how tree lines are going up mountain sides, have you ever wondered why there are not many trees in the desert and plains--------------------heat asshole





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