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Offline Elderberry

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Seattle Times By Brady Dennis, Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman 11/11/2020

David Legates, a meteorologist who claims that excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for plants and that global warming is harmless, has been tapped to run the federal agency that oversees a major scientific report on how climate change is affecting the United States.

Legates, a controversial figure who joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in September, will move into a new slot as head of the U.S. Global Change Research Program as early as Thursday, according to two people familiar with the move who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it publicly.

Legates could not be reached for comment.

His views on climate run counter to the scientific consensus that human activities – primarily the burning of fossil fuels – have generated greenhouse gases that are causing global temperatures to rise, ice sheets to melt, sea levels to rise and other irreversible damage to the planet.

A NOAA spokesman declined to confirm Legates’s move.

The shift would put Legates in position at least to influence the authors chosen to craft the National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report that periodically examines climate change damage and includes projections for the United States, down to the local and regional level.

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Cheers! Trump administration chooses Climatologist Dr. David Legates — who questions ‘global warming’ — to run key climate program

Climate Depot

https://www.climatedepot.com/2020/11/13/cheers-trump-administration-chooses-climatologist-dr-david-legates-who-questions-global-warming-to-run-key-climate-program/

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Morano in Bloomberg News: ‘Trump should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists’ in Govt – ‘A scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices’

“The Trump administration should undertake a hiring bonanza of skeptical climate scientists to fill positions ,” said Marc Morano, a former Republican staffer for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee who runs the ClimateDepot.com website. “I expect to see the Trump administration partake in a scientific version of affirmative action hiring practices in the government for the next 10 weeks.”

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Also in Yahoo News here.

White House plans to put ‘denier’ in charge of climate program

Finally! Trump Admin is ‘listening to the science’ & seeks to rebut previous unscientific ‘extreme scenario’ National Climate Assessment

NYT: Marc Morano, a prominent denier of established climate change science, cheered the departure of Mr. Kuperberg and said he expects Mr. Legates to be named. “The Trump administration is ‘listening to the science’ by clearing out the anti-science promoters of extreme climate scenarios. These moves are long, long overdue,” he said.

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When the biden regime takes over, he'll be shown the door, in double-time.

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When the biden regime takes over, he'll be shown the door, in double-time.

At least Trump will force his hand on it.

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His views on climate run counter to the scientific consensus .  .  .

I call BS.  There is no such thing as a scientific consensus.  Polls of agreement do not constitute scientific evidence.  But this does:

Vostok Ice Core Data



The graph above shows that Temperature drives CO2 levels, not the other way around.  It also shows that warming/cooling trends are cyclical, repeated roughly every 100,000 years.

This is no secret.  The ice core data were actually published and distributed by the UN.  Liberals know this, yet they continue to lie about it.
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