No, not the shill for the opioid industry. He withdrew.
I’m talking about Kathleen Hartnett White, former Texas environmental regulator who argues that carbon dioxide is a harmless gas. She also says that renewable energy is “unreliable and parasitic.” She will lead the Council on Environmental Quality.
This is about a week after Trump nominated Barry Lee Myers of AccuWeather, a private for-profit weather forecasting company, to lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
This is also a week after he nominated Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, to be deputy administrator of the EPA.
Where are the Republican Senators? Where is Toomey? Why doesn’t Senator Flake, who wrote Conscience of a Conservative, speak out? Why don’t we hear more about this on the evening news? I can’t stand it.
The information for this post is fromLisa Friedman, “Carbon Dioxide is Harmless, Says Trump Pick for Environmental Advisor, New York Times, (Oct. 14, 29017), p. A9.
By the way, if you still think global warming is a hoax, today I saw people making hay in Towamensing Township in mid-October. In mid-October! This is nuts. Get off your couch, turn off your computer and your I-Phone, and go outside. Global warming is staring you in the face.
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