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Sunday, June 16, 2019

Playing a Chernobyl Game

This article published yesterday in the Daily Beast, by Clive Irving, is in MHO excellent and well-worth reading, especially if you watched the Chernobyl series on HBO, especially the last episode:


Irving is right. The outright denial by liars in the Administration, from the very top (POTUS) down, who lack any capacity to even begin to engage with the scientific argument. Trump himself is so clueless that he thinks this is only about traditional air pollution and traditional water pollution. I don't think he's lying about this -- he just doesn't have the foggiest idea what climate change is about, just like he does not know what trade deficits are about.

It is no longer believable that the next decade won't be 0.2°C (0.3°F) warmer than this decade just ended, which was by that amount warmer than the one before it, and that warmer than one earlier.
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2 comments:

  1. David in Cal8:55 AM

    Trump has lots of company. Other world leaders pay lip service to the threat of global warming, but they are not taking actions that will reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

    IMHO a better Russian analogy is Lysenko. The entire Russian scientific establishment was taken over by people with one specific belief.

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  2. Marco11:00 PM

    DiC - no, not the whole scientific establishment was not taken over: the government enforced Lysenko's ideas, and with thousands of scientists imprisoned, others decided to remain quiet. Immediately after Stalin died criticism of Lysenko surfaced from the Russian scientific community, showing they had not been taken over.

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