So, now we know for sure that Trump just took the previous GOP presidential candidate out for a public shaming, and the rest of the GOP is left just saying, “Thank you sir, may I have another.”
Cowards.
Here are Tillerson’s views of climate change [he favors a go it slow approach]
[These comments are half way through an interview at the Economic Club of Washington, you might want to start at the beginning.]
A mini-biography:
Same retarded points from deniers about not having a consensus.
And also the old chestnut about this being a “hypothesis” and claims that the risk assessments Exxon has calculated are telling them to essentially wait because the “model could be wrong” well that is just the garbage he is making and he is eating it up too.
The point is crucial, because one of the big lies from the fossil fuel supported contrarians out there is that scientists are basing what they report about climate science just on a computer model. Not so.
Oh Christ! Trump expected to tap Exxon’s Tillerson for State, even as Russia ties raise concerns. We are all doomed. Doomed I say. DOOMED! BWA Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha…
Tillerson received the Order of Friendship from Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013? Wha??!?
Say goodbye to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine.
The WaPo mini-bio actually portrays him as fairly sane on the subject of climate change, especially for the CEO of the biggest oil giant. And it’s certainly true that he reversed the outright denialism at Exxon that had characterized Lee Raymond’s tenure before him, although Raymond was a raving loon.
One might suspect that Tillerson has had to walk back some of his science-based views in favor of the required Republican orthodoxy about climate, but I have a different theory. I suspect that Trump actually doesn’t give a damn one way or the other, and feels that he has enough climate change deniers already appointed, particularly Pruitt, to satisfy the red-meat Congressional Republicans. Making nice with his pal Putin is the main thing here.
I have to point out that they have moved to the next step, to admit that there is a problem, but do just feeble efforts as there is “no good evidence” to do much more now. The problem is that in the end it just turns into doing virtually nothing. As I pointed before in a different thread, it is only when they do give a signal to the congress critters that they have in their pockets that very significant efforts to curb emissions will be allowed to take place.
In the meantime, as far as I know, mostly Shell does keep making good efforts to research or help in the development of new alternative fuels. Exxon, like many other companies that claim to understand the issue now, is almost dropping all efforts to diversify or help develop alternatives or solutions.
I agree in terms of what needs to be done, and I certainly don’t want to give the impression that I’m defending Tillerson. But everything is relative. I’m just saying that Tillerson is relatively a moderate on climate change compared to his predecessor and compared to denialists like Pruitt, and that his relationship with Putin and Russia and his vested interests in the oil industry are far more damning.
It seems that most of Trump’s appointments could each inspire an essay on “why this was the worst possible choice by any rational criteria”, mostly focusing on how they’re opposed to the fundamental purpose of the agency they’re supposed to administer, and for Tillerson the latter stuff I mentioned I believe is a lot more significant than his position on climate. I’m not convinced that Tillerson would want to pull out of the Paris accord – he is said to have expressed support for it though also claiming that it will not significantly curtail oil consumption in the immediate future – and I’m sure Trump has long forgotten or doesn’t care that he promised the rubes he’d pull the US out of the agreement.
That’s not all I’m concerned about, Georgia is on my mind as well.
Trump’s appointing the ghost of Sherman as Secretary of the Interior?
So you have a pro-Russia Secretary and an strong anti-Russia Undersecretary? Weird.
I don’t understand: don’t Cabinet Secretaries choose their own subordinates?
Gorsnak: Georgia is a country next to Russia, a former part of the USSR.
^ Whoosh!
When you whoosh upon a star…
Vichy Republicans.
And Moscow girls make me sing and shout That Georgia’s always on my my my my my my my my my mind
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Texas Governor Rick Perry Said to Be Trump’s Top Candidate for Energy Secretary.
Sure, why not. How about Elmer Fuddfor … whatever.
So, you figure that Dr. Ernest Moniz, (Ph.D, Professor of Physics and Engineering, M.I.T) will give Rick Perry (Aggie) a briefing?
It’s like Trump is asking to be impeached, given all the opportunities for it he’s creating.
Hey, Rick got a Bachelors in Animal Husbandry. (I notice Wikipedia called the degree “Animal Science”–the Aggies do get tired of that joke, but Perry has used the older term.)
As governor, he had a long history of getting into bed with the oil & gas industry. (Figuratively!) Which will, no doubt, serve him well.
What opportunities do you think Trump has created for impeachment?