White House withdraws controversial nominee to head Council on Environmental Quality - Polidicks

[quote]The White House has withdrawn its controversial nominee to head the Council on Environmental Quality, Kathleen Hartnett White, whose selection failed to gather momentum with some Senate Republicans raising questions about her expertise. The administration released a statement Sunday in which Hartnett White asked that her name be pulled from further consideration, effective immediately. President Trump had re-nominated Hartnett White for the job in January after the Senate failed to vote on her nomination during the last congressional session, due in part to fierce opposition from Democrats. Hartnett White, who once headed the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and now serves as a fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, has stirred controversy because of her statements on climate change. Testifying in the fall before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, she said that while humans probably contribute to current warming, “the extent to which, I think, is very uncertain.” Before being nominated, Hartnett White criticized the 2007 Supreme Court decision finding that the federal government had the legal authority to regulate carbon dioxide as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. “I take issue with that,” she told The Post in an interview in the fall of 2016. “Carbon dioxide has none of the characteristics of a pollutant that could harm human health.” In 2016, she described carbon dioxide — emissions of which rank as one of the primary ways human activity contributes to climate change — as a key asset to the planet. “Our flesh, blood and bones are built of carbon,” she wrote in 2016. “Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gas of life on this planet, an essential nutrient for plant growth on which human life depends.” She made similar arguments in a book she co-wrote in 2016, titled “Fueling Freedom: Exposing the Mad War on Energy,” as well as in numerous essays questioning climate change, including one last year in which she called President Barack Obama’s efforts to slow global warming by reducing carbon emissions “deluded and illegitimate.”[/quote] [url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2018/02/03/white-house-to-withdraw-controversial-nominee-to-head-council-on-environmental-quality/]Washington Post[/url]

[quote] “Carbon dioxide has none of the characteristics of a pollutant that could harm human health.”[/quote] Same old bullshit. We’re not worried about CO2 because of any direct effect on human health, we’re concerned because of its ability to trap UV radiation in the earth’s atmosphere aka the Greenhouse effect. We seriously cannot afford to let public officials continue to get away with such a staggering level of deliberate deception.

Good, now remove all the other shit heads Trump has picked to positions that they'll only be damaging in. Including himself.

[quote]In 2016, she described carbon dioxide — emissions of which rank as one of the primary ways human activity contributes to climate change — as a key asset to the planet. “Our flesh, blood and bones are built of carbon,” she wrote in 2016. “Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gas of life on this planet, an essential nutrient for plant growth on which human life depends.”[/quote] "Guys water is so great we need water which is why rising oceans is a good thing." :^) Terrifying.

[QUOTE=nox;53110249]"Guys water is so great we need water which is why rising oceans is a good thing." :^) Terrifying.[/QUOTE] There actually are people that say warmer temperatures are good because it makes winters less cold I don’t know their take on perpetual deadly temperatures in summer but I’d guess their opinion would be “nah nah nah can’t hear you”

[QUOTE=piddlezmcfuz;53110516]There actually are people that say warmer temperatures are good because it makes winters less cold I don’t know their take on perpetual deadly temperatures in summer but I’d guess their opinion would be “nah nah nah can’t hear you”[/QUOTE] I've heard people claim it'd be environmentally and economically beneficial for the ice caps to melt because it'd open more trade routes through the north pole and allow more plants to grow from the increase in C02, totally ignoring the concepts of widespread drought and famine that would result.

[QUOTE=The Duke;53110546]I've heard people claim it'd be environmentally and economically beneficial for the ice caps to melt because it'd open more trade routes through the north pole and allow more plants to grow from the increase in C02, totally ignoring the concepts of widespread drought and famine that would result.[/QUOTE] That's impressive, literally no part of that makes any goddamn sense.

[QUOTE=nox;53110249]"Guys water is so great we need water which is why rising oceans is a good thing." :^) Terrifying.[/QUOTE] It's like saying that ammonia and bleach are great cleaning agents, so mixing them can only make things better! She's such a moron.

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;53110607]It's like saying that ammonia and bleach are great cleaning agents, so mixing them can only make things better! She's such a moron.[/QUOTE] "Hey, they're also [I]liquids![/I] You know what else is liquid?! Water! That must mean it's good to drink too!"