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ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@slrpnk.net )  to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

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Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary says ‘there is no climate crisis’

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ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@slrpnk.net )  to Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago
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Donald Trump’s pick for Energy Secretary has close ties to oil, gas, and nuclear energy.
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  • houseofleft ( houseofleft@slrpnk.net ) 
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    I find it really baffling that climate change denial is so strong in America given the ectreme effects the country is already seeing.

    • b161 ( b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Actually those hurricanes are caused by gay sex and women having abortions. /s

    • ZeroCool ( ZeroCool@slrpnk.net ) OP
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      Unfortunately, Republicans have spent decades systematically destroying public education in this country, and this is the end result. When Trump said “I love the poorly educated” back in 2016 he wasn’t really saying anything new or breaking from the mainstream GOP stance… He was just honest about it, unlike the rest of the GOP who have always described their supporters with cynical euphemisms like “salt of the earth” and “regular folk” when they really mean ignorant rubes.

      • Rubanski ( Rubanski@lemm.ee ) 
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        Maybe more like “salting the earth”

    • Mihies ( Mihies@programming.dev ) 
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      Because that’s work of Soros, chemtrails and HAARP /s

      • No1 ( No1@aussie.zone ) 
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        I’m suspicious that 5G and space lasers has something to do with it as well…🤔

        • SaharaMaleikuhm ( SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ) 
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          But it’s cool if Elon does the space stuff and starlink and such?

  • thefartographer ( thefartographer@lemm.ee ) 
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    They’ve saved us! Just like when they fixed COVID by telling people to stop testing and then sent our tests over to Putin

    • adarza ( adarza@lemmy.ca ) 
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      they did save us…

      by losing enough elections in 2020.

  • Rentlar ( Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 
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    There’s no climate crisis, but guys, there are evil Democrat controlled weather machines that generate hurricanes and droughts! Coal power plants, mines, oil refineries, old landfills, all emit radio waves and lasers to communicate on the GHG network with satellites that generate the weather!!!

  • Riskable ( riskable@programming.dev ) 
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    I hope his home gets destroyed by a climate-induced natural disaster.

    • ReversalHatchery ( ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org ) 
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      is it a natural disaster when members of one of the endangered species destroys it?

      • Sas [she/her] ( Sas@beehaw.org ) 
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        “Here we can see a mob of angry homo sapiens, recently displaced by a flood, attacking another member of their species they deemed responsible for it. You can see the difference in status by the angry mob mostly using improvised weaponry but even some better armed individuals joined this attack, showing, that in these trying times, empathy is still strong in a lot of members of this species” - David Attenborough, hopefully 2025

  • islands ( islands@lemmy.cafe ) 
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    Even the oil companies admit the climate is changing, they just refuse to take responsibility. These clowns are in straight up denial mode. Just pretend the hurricanes aren’t there and disregard your thermometers. It will all be fine. Oops, ignore that forest fire… it’s, uh, just an illusion.

  • No1 ( No1@aussie.zone ) 
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    Phew! Well, that’s a relief!

    I was getting worried for a while…

  • Blackmist ( Blackmist@feddit.uk ) 
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    Phew, I’m glad that’s settled then.

  • acargitz ( theacharnian@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Have fun selling Florida to Aquaman.

  • OhVenus_Baby ( OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ) 
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    I had someone tell me the other day that the whole worlds gonna get cancer and end because 5g network towers have to be 400 yards apart and within 10 years everyone’s gonna have cancer and die ending the world. I was like while I don’t think radio waves are good for us, I had to ask… What pipe are you smoking off of?

    • immutable ( immutable@lemm.ee ) 
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      Remember when everyone that got the COVID shot would be dead in 2 years.

      These are Christian nationalists, they love death cults.

    • Noxy ( noxy@yiffit.net ) 
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      while I don’t think radio waves are good for us

      Can you elaborate?

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky ( AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) 
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    Give him a few months and there won’t be a climate crisis at his house because he won’t have a house. Just ashes. Wishful thinking, but you never know.

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    we are fucked :)

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