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Trump will dismantle key US weather and science agency, climate experts fear
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Anything to fuck America and help putin. Republicans are traitors.
This isn't a Putin thing, this is an ideology and corporatism thing. They hate the NOAA because it dares to present the very apparent evidence that climate change is happening without doing much editorializing about it, but they also hate it because the National Weather Service is public and AccuWeather is private. They want AccuWeather to predict our nation's weather. Which is a huge problem.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AccuWeather#Criticisms
And they also hate it because it works to the great benefit of America.
Just like social security, the post office, medicaid/medicare, welfare, and every other public service the government provides that the Republicans are dismantling.
Yet they convinced the people who benefit from all of those things the most to vote for them.
Coincidentally, climate denial and more power to the private sector is exactly what Putin wants.
Maybe so, but their climate change denial pre-dates Putin's leadership by as long time and is entirely about corporatism.
Where do they think AccuWeather gets it's data from??
Trump already had the CEO head the government agency that covers weather. This is 100% about the grift, privatize everything, to hell with the consequences as long as "I get mine."
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1CH0AA/
If the world warms and the tundra thaws guess who’s the new breadbasket of the world?
Yeah it’s shortsighted but the motherfuckers invaded Ukraine and act like no one should care
This is old school Grover Norquist
bureaucratic abolitionism.
Please. This isn’t about small gummint, those fucking asshole traitors could fuck off out of our private lives and doctors’ offices. They’re perfectly happy to expand gummint reach when it serves to oppress Americans.
Norquist was an absolutist, and would have probably been very happy if every aspect of the state - from the Post Office to the Pentagon - was run by a corporate entity.
There are definitely different interpretations of his anti-government philosophy. But if you were going to name a Russian who has influenced the current state of affairs, I'd point to Ayn Rand long before I called out Vladimir.
This is a new one on me. Never seen people trying to tie Putin to climate change before. Might as well can him the boogeymonster at this point with the way everything bad is attributed to him online.
Is there any evidence Putin is pro-global climate change or is this one of those "it just makes sense" sort of things?
Are we presuming the heads of Exxon and the other big corporations that have been destroying the planet with actual leaked documents receipts to prove they've been behind the suppression of the science and lobbying the Republicans on this also on Russia's payroll?
Russia's main exports are oil and natural gas. If the world reduces its reliance on fossil fuels, and demand appreciably shrinks, Russia loses economic power.
So it's not so much that Putin is against climate change, as it is that Russia benefits directly if the effects of climate change is de-emphasized, and the world continues to burn fossil fuels.
So there's no evidence whatsoever then.
This conspiracy theory makes as much sense as claiming the reason Republicans are against global warming is Saudi Arabia.
People on this site lose their minds when the word Russia or Putin appears in a sentence. We don't need dehumanized foreign bad guys to explain away and play cover for the actual bad guys we have domestically in the United States. We have the receipts. It's Exxon and other big corps, not Russia.
While I agree that it's not right to tie this specific issue to Russia. It's perfectly reasonable to think Putin wants more climate change. They ALSO want more continuous shipping of their fossil fuels out of the North Sea, which climate change benefits. They also have expanded growing regions and seasons in a warmer world.