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By Arielle Duhaime-Ross Mar 7, 2019
Source: Vice News
WASHINGTON For the first time since he took office, President Trump has a science adviser. Kelvin Droegemeier is a meteorologist and, by all accounts, a thorough, well-respected scientist. But he doesn't appear to be the climate-change savior scientists hoped hed be.
Droegemeier, 60, became director of the White House Office of Science and Technology in January. And there was little on the record about his specific views on climate change. But given his stellar reputation, scientists might expect him to act as a corrective to a president who regularly uses winter storms to mock climate change and erroneously suggests that global warming isnt real.
So when the news came in late February that the White House was putting together a panel to see if climate change is really a threat, even though the Defense Department has already said it is, and that this panel would be run by renowned physicist William Happer who thinks carbon dioxide is a benefit to the world it felt like an opportunity to delve a little deeper.
But in an interview in his brand-new office next to the White House, Droegemeier evaded questions about his own views. He told VICE News he has no opinion on the presidents winter-storm tweets and has no plans to talk to him about them.
More at: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/zma8qe/trumps-new-science-adviser-says-its-not-his-job-to-correct-the-president-on-climate-change
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)and others are a bunch of "Yes" people and compliant and in agreement with IQ45 on most issues. No one is left who will argue the other side with trump. They let him do what he wants.
gibraltar72
(7,506 posts)advisers don't advise.
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)It's the most important job for any government science adviser at the moment, anywhere in the world, and when you have a president who deliberately lies about climate science and tries to use it as a political tool ("Chinese hoax" ), it's the only thing he should be considering.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't get it. The man is a criminal, a moron and probably the most hated person on the planet. Once his tenure ends, and I do hope it will end soon, he will have no influence or power in the world and any association with him will be looked upon as a drawback rather than an asset.
What do they hope to gain from their obsequiousness? Haven't they seen how Trump treats people who have been in his circle? If justice is served, the man will end up in prison and broke and there is not one thing they can gain from their fealty to this demented, former game show host. I really can't understand what motivates these people.