sigmetnow picked up the latest lunacy from the USA EPA
Here it is & my reply. Also sent this stuff to The Guardian & the UK Extinction Rebellion Press Office
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Re: Oil and Gas Issues
From: Sigmetnow on Today at 02:19:07 AM
"There Is Not a Climate Crisis': Trump Administration Spouts Brazen Bullshit to Justify Arctic Drilling"
...attorneys with the Sierra Club stumbled upon this tidbit:
“The BLM does not agree that the proposed development is inconsistent with maintaining a livable planet (i.e., there is not a climate crisis). The planet was much warmer within the past 1,000 years, prior to the Little Ice Age, based on extensive archaeological evidence (such as farming in Greenland and vineyards in England). This warmth did not make the planet unlivable; rather, it was a time when societies prospered.”
This text was included five times in this section of the final environmental impact statement in response to public comments legal group Trustees for Alaska submitted. All the All group’s comments revolved around the role drilling in the Alaskan refuge could have in making climate change worse.
This is the first time that the Sierra Club and its partners have identified the use of such blatant climate-denying language in an official federal environmental analysis. Government officials, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler and even President Donald Trump, have said such things before, but an environmental impact statement is more than words. It’s the legal support for a project. ...
https://earther.gizmodo.com/there-is-not-a-climate-crisis-trump-administration-spo-1838444325/___________________________________________
gerontocratThat might be what is required for a court to set aside the Government's impact statement by accepting the fact of climate change and its impact. There is precedent for such a judgement.
The reality or not of climate change might end up in the US Supreme Court.
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to press (Extinction Rebellion)
If you don't want to believe that there is a war going on between the people and the powerful, don't read on...
...... " Listen To The Scientists"
This is the latest from Trump's Environment Protection Agency in their final Environmental Impact Statement justifying resuming drilling in The Arctic , and I quote...
“The BLM does not agree that the proposed development is inconsistent with maintaining a livable planet (i.e., there is not a climate crisis). The planet was much warmer within the past 1,000 years, prior to the Little Ice Age, based on extensive archaeological evidence (such as farming in Greenland and vineyards in England). This warmth did not make the planet unlivable; rather, it was a time when societies prospered.”
As the Sierra Club stated...
This is the first time that the Sierra Club and its partners have identified the use of such blatant climate-denying language in an official federal environmental analysis. Government officials, including Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler and even President Donald Trump, have said such things before, but an environmental impact statement is more than words. It’s the legal support for a project. ...
Sources:-
Arctic Sea Ice Forum...
https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,861.msg232459.html#msg232459https://earther.gizmodo.com/there-is-not-a-climate-crisis-trump-administration-spo-1838444325I think the Extinction Rebellion people need to know how really bad it really is.