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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Fri Oct 13, 2017, 10:45 AM Oct 2017

Trump taps climate skeptic to lead White House environment office

The White House late Thursday announced that Trump picked Kathleen Hartnett White to serve as a member, and eventually chairwoman, of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

White is a fellow for energy and environment issues at the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and the former chairwoman of the state’s Commission on Environmental Quality.

But her views on climate change do not align with the scientific consensus, which says greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity is the driving factor behind a dangerous warming trend around the globe.

At the TPPF — which has received fossil fuel funding — White led a project to “explain the forgotten moral case for fossil fuels,” and she has written that carbon dioxide is the gas “that makes life possible on the earth and naturally fertilizes plant growth.”

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http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/355281-trump-taps-climate-skeptic-to-lead-white-house-environment-office

Oh boy, another nut for the nuthouse

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Trump taps climate skeptic to lead White House environment office (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2017 OP

About Kathleen Hartnett White: mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2017 #1

So nice to see the extensive DK504 Oct 2017 #2

Carbon dioxide is the beneficial gas, as fire is beneficial to California. procon Oct 2017 #3

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,446 posts)

1. About Kathleen Hartnett White:

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 10:56 AM

Oct 2017

https://www.desmogblog.com/kathleen-hartnett-white

Kathleen Hartnett-White

Credentials

M.A., Humanities & Religion, Stanford University. [1], [2], [3]
B.A. Humanities & Religion, Stanford University. [1], [2], [3]
Attended Doctoral Program in East Asian and comparative Religions. [1], [3]
Completed one year of law school at lowa Texas Tech University. [1], [3]

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DK504

(3,847 posts)

2. So nice to see the extensive

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:11 AM

Oct 2017

studies in science, climate, or enviromental studies.

We have to get this maniac out now!

procon

(15,805 posts)

3. Carbon dioxide is the beneficial gas, as fire is beneficial to California.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:13 AM

Oct 2017

Does this idiot really belief that stupid assertion, or is she just doing bad performance art and parroting the words she was paid to repeat to buff up the image of fossil fuel extractors?

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