3…2…1….
Sure looks like a countdown, eh?
The Trump administration appointed a climate skeptic to a key climate program.
"David Legates, a controversial figure who joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in September, will move into a new slot as head of the U.S. Global Change Research Program as early as Thursday, according to two people familiar with the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly,” our colleagues Andrew Freedman, Jason Samenow and Brady Dennis report.
Legates has claimed that excess carbon is good for plants and that global warming is harmless. The meteorologist has long criticized existing climate models, despite studies showing that they have a good record of predicting temperature changes.
“The shift would put Legates in position at least to influence the authors chosen to craft the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report that periodically examines climate change damage and includes projections for the United States, down to regional and local levels,” they report.
Legates may not stay in for long. As a political appointee, he can be replaced by the next administration. Some environmentalists worry that he may skew the next assessment by recruiting authors who will play down climate change, while others expressed doubt that Legates would have much impact given the short window until the Biden administration is set to take over.
Staff from global consulting firm FTI masqueraded as grassroots activists to drive influence campaigns for big oil.
A number of initiatives that appeared to amplify local voices on energy issues were actually part of a larger corporate influence campaign designed and staffed by FTI consulting, the New York Times reports. A group called Texans for Natural Gas, an organization known as the Arctic Energy Center and the Main Street Investors Coalition all purported to represent local interests but were in fact directed in significant part by FTI.
“An examination of FTI’s work provides an anatomy of the oil industry’s efforts to influence public opinion in the face of increasing political pressure over climate change, an issue likely to grow in prominence, given President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s pledge to pursue bolder climate regulations. The campaigns often obscure the industry’s role, portraying pro-petroleum groups as grass-roots movements,” the New York Times reports.
Based on interviews with a dozen former FTI employees and a review of hundreds of internal documents, the New York Times determined that the organization was involved in at least 15 influence campaigns promoting fossil fuel interests. FTI monitored environmental activists online, and in one case, create a fake Facebook persona to track protesters.
FTI has also promoted messages contrary to the scientific consensus on the role of fossil fuels in global warming, downplaying for instance, the magnitude of methane emissions.
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bidan:
Just IMAGINE a woman having to bear a child of incest.
A child of incest.
(he fucking repeats the incest part….)
Speaking of hospital, that was Ukraine's target, a hospital:
"The first target of Ukrainian forces with their American HIMARS MLRS systems was a hospital that was being protected by a few Russian soldiers — they report it as a “Russian military base” presumably for morale purposes of their failing forces. Sick people were present during the strike. It is unclear how many died — classic Ukrops. First target is civilian 🤢 (this happened yesterday)"
https://t.me/asbmil/2372
And to think that in 2010 we has ISI (Islamic States in Iraq), the predecessor to ISIL/ISIS down to less than 30 faggots hiding out in a Dam on the Upper Euphrates River. (Think Legion of Doom Hideout)
Loved it when the fbi used anons edited image with a pic of that guy framed on the wall as evidence.
That shit was the best!
>NATO declares the Russian Federation as the "most significant and direct threat" to the bloc - nato.int
Perhaps a threat in the sense that NATO became irrelevant with the breakup of the Soviet Union which was NATO's original causa existere. What this NATO official is really saying is that Russia has become an existential threat to the globalist NWO and Klaus Schwab's "great reset". A panicked George Soros expressed the same sentiment when it became clear that Russia would overrun the Donbas.