Trump just fired a bunch of “scientists” (hacks) at the EPA. \u00a0Their whines will cheer your day:<\/p>\n

The Environmental Protection Agency has dismissed at least five members of a major scientific review board, the latest signal of what critics call a campaign by the Trump administration to shrink the agency’s regulatory reach by reducing the role of academic research. … Some who opposed the dismissals denounced them as part of a broader push by the E.P.A. to downgrade science and elevate business interests.<\/p>\n

”This is completely part of a multifaceted effort to get science out of the way of a deregulation agenda,” said Ken Kimmell, the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists. ”What seems to be premature removals of members of this Board of Science Counselors when the board has come out in favor of the E.P.A. strengthening its climate science, plus the severe cuts to research and development — you have to see all these things as interconnected.”<\/p>\n

The scientists dismissed from the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors received emails from an agency official informing them that their three-year terms had expired and would not be renewed. That was contrary, the scientists said, to what they had been told by officials at the agency in January, just before Mr. Trump’s inauguration.<\/p>\n

”Most of us on the council are academic people,” said Ponisseril Somasundaran, a chemist at Columbia University who focuses on managing hazardous waste. ”I think they want to bring in business and industry people.”<\/p>\n

Courtney Flint, a professor of natural resource sociology at Utah State University who has served on the board since 2014, said she was surprised by the dismissal.<\/p>\n

”I believe this is political,” said Dr. Flint, whose research focuses on how communities respond to major disruptions in the environment, such as exposure to toxic pollution, forest fires and climate change. ”It’s unexpected. It’s a red flag.”<\/p>\n

Another of the dismissed scientists made his grievances public. ”Today, I was Trumped,” Robert Richardson, an environmental economist at Michigan State University, wrote on Twitter. ”I have had the pleasure of serving on the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, and my appointment was terminated today.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now this advisory board is supposed to give objective reviews of the science used in EPA decisions. \u00a0Yes, you definitely want some industry scientists on the panel to bring a different point of view and to keep everyone honest. \u00a0Instead we have a rubber stamp committee that is entirely political. \u00a0These whiners just had their lucrative gig ended. \u00a0It’s wonderful.<\/p>\n

So how effective are they? \u00a0Here’s the “science”used to enact Climate Change regs. \u00a0Note the “A” line reflects current CO2 conditions, the “B” line is if we held steady, and the “C” line was the aggressive reduction case. \u00a0Unfortunately the graph is older, but the black line, the temperature, has held steady except for a blip up in 2016 due to El Nino.<\/p>\n

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You’ll note that this was a complete fail, and yet the “science” committee did not catch it resulting in Billions wasted in the USA alone on worthless Green Energy scams and costly regulations. \u00a0The Board failed and all of them need to lose their jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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