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"As Donald Trump assaults the legal foundation of America’s ability to regulate
global warming emissions, climate deniers have been privately celebrating what
they claim is the “silent” acquiescence of billionaires, Democrats, climate
activists and even reporters to the president’s aggressive pro-fossil-fuel
agenda.
“In my 26 years of being focused on climate, I’ve never seen anything like
this. Trump is gutting everything they ever stood for,” Marc Morano, a longtime
climate denier, said in January at the World Prosperity Forum, a five-day event
in Zurich, Switzerland, billed as a rightwing alternative to the World Economic
Forum in Davos.
The event’s sponsor was the Heartland Institute, a conservative thinktank that
has been at the forefront of spreading climate disinformation for decades, and
was also a contributor to Project 2025, the policy blueprint for Trump’s second
administration.
“Billionaires are silent. Democrats in Congress have been silent. Climate
activists. There has been no pushback on this,” Morano said – and he may have a
point, according to some experts who research the climate denial movement.
“The Trump administration just marched in and destroyed the crown jewel of
climate science in the United States,” Robert Brulle, a professor of
environment and society at Brown University, told me, referring to the Trump
administration’s dismantling of the country’s premier climate research center,
the National Center for Atmospheric Research, in December.
“And nothing happened. There wasn’t even a whimper. I never thought I’d ever
say this: Marc Morano is correct.”"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
