The Night of the Long Knives

Trump Prepares to Punish the Protectors of Mother Earth

Fossil Fuel Oligarchs Ready to Cheat the People, Enrich Themselves

According to a Bloomberg report, Donald Trump’s transition team has asked the Department of Energy for a list of employees and contractors associated with initiatives inimical to the interests of the fossil fuel industry.  The lists include who attendees at United Nations climate meetings and developers of the Obama administration’s social cost of carbon metrics. 

They want lists of department scientists and their publications -- so that they can root out the serious researchers of climate change and alternative technologies.  

Another request was a list of clean energy and other innovative energy technology programs.

This is a sign that Trump intends to punish those who pursued scientific and administrative efforts to protect the environment, most especially those tainted with honest efforts to understand and counter global warming.  Trump denies climate change and is a crony of the billionaires of the fossil fuel industry.

Calling Out the Witch Hunt

As Bloomberg reported:  Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, sent a letter to Trump warning that punishment of agency workers “would be tantamount to an illegal modern-day political witch hunt, and would have a profoundly chilling impact on our dedicated federal workforce.”

The Night of the Long Knives

Who knows how far Trump’s vindictive purges will go?  Adolf Hitler executed thousands of cronies and supporters in 1934 to consolidate his own power over Germany.  Stalin executed hundreds of thousands in the Great Purge, to consolidate his power.  Millions were persecuted in Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.

Who knows how far Beast Trump’s purges will go? 

Trump is vindictive and thin-skinned.  It all depends on how mad he really is.

Trump, Ally of the Chinese

Is Trump an agent of the Chinese?  Because of its severe environmental problems, China is actively experimenting with new and innovative technologies for cleaner energy technologies.  If Trump cripples US programs, the Chinese will have a clear path to dominate future energy technology markets.  The US will be left in the dust.

Trump and his billionaire oil buddies will love that.  The people will suffer.

Trump the Laughing-Stock

The developed nations of the world are advancing their clean energy technologies, and will be ready with products for the future clean energy market.  They must be laughing their asses off at the ignorance of the United States and its chief laughing-stock, Donald Trump.

The Trump Terror Begins

Americans can wait for Trump’s Terror to descend, or they can act now, speak out, and demand action from their legislators.  

Protect the Earth, resist evil.

Trump Denies Global Warming, Spews His Evil over the World

On November 6, 2012, Donald Trump posted this preposterous tweet: "The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."  

These are the ravings of an unscientific propagandist for the fossil fuel industry.  China is a terrible environmental disaster, and the last nation on earth to want global warming to worsen.

Global warming is not a "concept", it is a fact.  What is it about  the measurement of greenhouse gases, including CO2, that the simpleton Trump does not understand?  Oh, of course -- he cares nothing for the future of humanity.  All he cares about is himself.  

And what is it about the physics of the greenhouse effect that Trump fails to understand?

Earth's climate has fluctuated many times over the course of millions of years, and each warming/cooling episode was due to specific geophysical, astrophysical, or biological processes.  These included processes that altered the composition of the atmosphere and warmed or cooled the earth.  Cause and effect.

It is the same today, except that this time it is humanity's activities that have altered the atmosphere, the seas, and the land surface of the earth to cause an episode of global warming.

The physical processes and their consequences for humanity are all understandable to any literate person.  The science is open to all, and anyone with data and analysis to contradict global warming is free to publish papers to that effect and try to convince others.

And so we see opportunists and the enemies of humanity resort to propaganda in a desperate attempt to convince the ignorant, the lazy, the jealous, the disaffected, and the desperate that there is no serious, anthropogenic climate change.

Donald Trump is the most dangerous of those opportunists and enemies of humanity.

Trying to stop scientific inquiry is sooooooooooo effective!

Ignorant Donald Trump to Scrap NASA’s “Politicized” Climate Change Research

Continued surveillance of the earth is the only way mankind can track climate change and its impact on the living systems that sustain our lives.  Now the astoundingly ignorant demagogue and President-elect, Donald Trump, wants to end NASA’s vital program of climate change research.

The threat to humanity

Robert Walker, a lobbyist appointed by Trump to lead the NASA transition for the new administration, has said there was no need for NASA to do missions that he previously called “politically correct environmental monitoring”.  Walker, who was the chair of aerospace research under George Bush, said the “interference” of politicians in climate change research was preventing scientists from discovering the “reality” about climate change.

Now the political hacks define “reality”

Walker is blatantly illogical and prejudicial.  This lobbying hack has decided a priori that he already knows the “reality” about climate change, meaning that he is trying to peddle preconceived notions.  How misleading and pernicious of him to accuse scientists of hiding “reality” when their data and methods are public knowledge.  Scientific data are public knowledge that anyone can review and interpret.  If someone wants to disagree about global warming, all he needs to do is publish a paper with the relevant data, analysis, and conclusions.  The reality is there for all to see.

Walker is an ignorant liar with no credibility

How can “monitoring” be “politically correct”?  Monitoring means observing and measuring.  Observing a system is the first step in understanding that system and what makes it tick.  It is a part of the scientific method, which Walker obviously does not understand.  He is shockingly ignorant and malicious.  Is this responsible governing?  Walker is a self-contradictory propagandist like his boss Trump.  This crawling creep places ideology over truth, and will drive America to climate hell.

Trump has fevered dreams of grandiosity

Trump wants manned exploration of space at the expense of understanding planet earth.  Such are the fevered dreams of an infantile, narcissistic demagogue.  Trump would substitute grandiose dreams of space exploration for the practical understanding of planet earth -- understanding that “enables us to live better lives and actually save lives.” "While deep space exploration enables us to have big dreams, understanding planet earth enables us to live better lives and actually save lives," Malte Meinshausen, director of the Climate & Energy College at Melbourne University, told the Sydney Morning Herald.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, believes that Trump won't be able to fulfill his promise to make such drastic cuts. The federal bureaucracy's size and complexity makes it impossible to change course so swiftly and radically, Schmidt argues. 

Trump sacrifices the safety and security of America

The same NASA systems that enable climate research also enable weather forecasting and detection of environmental hazards.  Trump cannot eliminate NASA climate research without also eliminating weather observation and environmental hazard detection.

Ongoing operations of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard depend on awareness of the immediate environment, and planning future forces and operations of the uniformed services requires an understanding of probable future climates and their impact on human activities.  The US military already incorporates anthropogenic climate change into its planning for the future.

His attack on NASA earth science is just another way Trump has shown that he does not care about the loyal Americans who serve in the military.  Narcissistic egotists are like that.  After all, Trump refuses to refer to American POWs as “heroes”.  He only likes winners.

Trump sacrifices the climate refugees of the future

Humanitarian relief and peace enforcement are two of the main missions of the US military, which is one of the first organizations called on to respond to humanitarian disasters around the world.  As cities sink beneath the waves, as deserts replace croplands, as millions of refugees surge across national borders – how prepared will we be?  And of course, the US is not immune to the human impact of continued anthropogenic climate change.

Trump is sacrificing the lives of the afflicted people who will need our help in the future, both here at home and around the world.

The world is laughing at us

Now that the American public has elected an anti-scientific demagogue as its next President, the world comprehends the United States as the land of superstition, hatemongering, and backwardness.  America’s influence has been annihilated by the fool Trump, and decades of strategy and diplomacy have now gone down the tubes. 

Ignorance is the hallmark of Trump’s Republican Fascists

The effects of anthropogenic climate change are already being experienced around the world in temperature anomalies, retreating ice cover, rising sea level, ocean acidification, and dislocations of human, animal, and plant populations.

Climate change isn’t going away just because an ignorant fool decided to ignore it. 

The people have chosen extinction for their children

Americans have spoken, and they have voted against the futures of their own children.  Simple-minded fantasies are so much easier to understand than the true complexities of our world. 

Trump defines itself

The Trump has now defined itself as the enemy of all mankind.  Humanity cannot sit by idly while Trump destroys our most precious gift, knowledge, and along with it, mankind’s chance of survival.

Trump Names Nuclear Energy Denier to Dismantle Strategic Deterrent

The security of the United States was dealt another blow today when President-elect Donald Trump named infamous nuclear-energy denier Myron Ebell to plan the Trump administration’s dismantlement of the strategic nuclear deterrent.

Ebell is not a scientist.  Despite his ignorance and shameless illogic, he has been a thorn in the side of physicists.  Ebell spreads propaganda questioning the overwhelming scientific consensus that nuclear fission and nuclear fusion are the basis for the technology of the A-bomb and the H-bomb.

“These are merely so-called nuclear weapons”, Ebell said in response to questions from the press.  “The scientific establishment has perpetrated a hoax on the American people that invisible things called nuclei are responsible for the big bangs made by our missiles and thingies.”

“We all know that coal, oil, and natural gas do a much better job of blowing things up.  We will build very big gas bombs and Melania will release them after a White House dinner.”   Ebell denied any ties to the coal, oil, and natural gas industries.

Ebell also scoffed at reporters’ references to the work of Einstein and Fermi.  “You’re talking about wetback foreigners”, he sneered.  “Einstein and Fermi will be among the first three million rounded up by the Deportation Police”.

“Besides, isn’t Einstein the dog in Back to the Future?”  Ebell seemed disoriented as he sneered “What kind of animal is a Furby, anyway?"  The interview ended when Ebell humiliated himself by peeing his pants and throwing a tantrum, screaming “You’re trying to confuse me with facts!”