[MCN] Trump on global heating : "Nothing’s a hoax about that. It’s a very serious subject." .....But, ....

[Lance Olsen]

Trump Admits Climate Change Is 'Not a Hoax' After Proposing Rollback of Environmental Law <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEI9IY4EL57vX1Y9VaDP8kAkqFggEKg0IACoGCAow7s8BMNBIMLXUiQY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
The president said that global warming is “a very serious subject” after announcing a plan to overhaul a 50-year-old environmental policy act.
The Daily Beast <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMO7PATDQSA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Yesterday

This is perhaps Trump’s most cynical comment about the environment yet <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEFJh1j6K8yoeuB8rwtcw5dAqGAgEKg8IACoHCAowjtSUCjC30XQwzqe5AQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
During an event at the White House on Thursday, President Trump was asked by a reporter about his position on global warming: Did he still consider it a hoax, ...
The Washington Post <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMI7UlAowt9F0?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
Yesterday
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Greta Thunberg boils the basics down to just 5 words: “… and it will get worse”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhQVustYV24>


She knows it will get worse because climate scientists had made the same point; e.g., ….


Camilo Mora: “ ….  our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233 <https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233>

Michael Mann: ““A new normal makes it sound like we have arrived in a new position, and that's where we're going to be. But if we continue to burn fossil fuels ... we are going to ... get worse and worse droughts, and heat waves, and super storms, and floods, and wildfires.”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how <https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/climate-change-is-making-wildfires-more-extreme-heres-how>

Kate Marvel: “The whole idea that everything’s going to work out isn’t really helpful because it isn’t going to work out ” said Kate Marvel a climate scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Climate change is going to worsen to a point where millions of lives, homes, and species are put at risk she said. 
https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism <https://newrepublic.com/article/151608/case-against-climate-pessimism>

My own view: <<https://mountainjournal.org/why-rising-temps-mean-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it>>

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