{"id":36612,"date":"2019-05-28T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=36612"},"modified":"2019-05-28T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T17:27:56","slug":"environmental-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/05\/28\/environmental-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Projection"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the favorite tactics that the Republican Party employs to deceive the American people is projection. They take what they are doing or plan to do and accuse innocent Democrats of doing it.  That way, when Democrats unearth Republican crimes, it appears retaliatory.  Now Republicans have a unique twist.  Republicans employ Nazi-like tactics against religious, ethnic, and LGBTQ minorities.  They are accusing Democrats of a holocaust against carbon.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Over the weekend, the head of Donald Trump\u2019s planned climate review panel had this to say about the climate crisis: \u201cThe demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler<\/strong>.\u201d It\u2019s the sort of remark that would instantly result in dismissal in more reasonable times. Under Trump \u2026 it\u2019s exactly where policy is going. <\/p>\n

William Happer and his comparison of Jews to a polluting gas are just one aspect of a policy that\u2019s focused not only on denying the climate crisis, but also on attacking science and scientific reasoning. As a physicist, Happer might be expected to have some deference toward his scientific colleagues, and some knowledge about the rigor and review that shape their work. But there are more important factors that shape Happer\u2019s reasoning. Millions of them. As in the millions that have come from the fossil-fuel billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer to fund Happer and his anti-science pogrom<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

According to The New York Times<\/a>, the Mercers funded both Happer\u2019s one-man \u201cadvocacy group\u201d and a super PAC controlled by John Bolton. Then, when Trump brought Bolton into the Cabinet, it was Bolton who pulled in Happer to head up efforts to destroy the planet\u2019s future. The Mercers have to be genuinely happy with their investments. <\/p>\n

As a first step in destroying the nation\u2019s faith in science and tamping down concerns about the already unfolding disasters brought on by global warming, the Trump regime has a simple answer: Don\u2019t look. To that end, the new head of the United States Geological Survey has forbidden any analysis that looks beyond 2040. And the EPA, which produces a new climate assessment every four years, will simply drop the best, most accurate models from the next assessment in favor of only looking at the most favorable possible outcomes<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

But closing their eyes and whistling a happy tune aren\u2019t enough to make the climate crisis go away… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Daily Kos<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Unless we defeat the Republican Reich thoroughly, you can kiss your earth goodbye.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the favorite tactics that the Republican Party employs to deceive the American people is projection. They take what they are doing or plan to do and accuse innocent Democrats of doing it.  That way, when Democrats unearth Republican crimes, it appears retaliatory.  Now Republicans have a unique twist.  Republicans employ Nazi-like tactics against […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}