DO NOT FORGET CLIMATE CHANGE!!!

Why the EPA cannot work: Mind numbing complexity and 

slow, slow bureaucracy sabotaged by Republican climate science 

deniers and government haters

Every step can be and is quietly subverted by climate science  

deniers, threatened special interests, Republicans

 and/or other kinds of government haters

The AP writes:

Earth’s poles are undergoing simultaneous freakish extreme heat with parts of Antarctica more than 70 degrees (40 degrees Celsius) warmer than average and areas of the Arctic more than 50 degrees (30 degrees Celsius) warmer than average.

Weather stations in Antarctica shattered records Friday as the region neared autumn. The two-mile high (3,234 meters) Concordia station was at 10 degrees (-12.2 degrees Celsius),which is about 70 degrees warmer than average, while the even higher Vostok station hit a shade above 0 degrees (-17.7 degrees Celsius), beating its all-time record by about 27 degrees (15 degrees Celsius), according to a tweet from extreme weather record tracker Maximiliano Herrera.

It caught officials at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, by surprise because they were paying attention to the Arctic where it was 50 degrees warmer than average and areas around the North Pole were nearing or at the melting point, which is really unusual for mid-March, said center ice scientist Walt Meier.

“They are opposite seasons. You don’t see the north and the south (poles) both melting at the same time,” Meier told The Associated Press Friday evening. “It’s definitely an unusual occurrence.”

“It’s pretty stunning,” Meier added.

“Wow. I have never seen anything like this in the Antarctic,” said University of Colorado ice scientist Ted Scambos, who returned recently from an expedition to the continent.

“Not a good sign when you see that sort of thing happen,” said University of Wisconsin meteorologist Matthew Lazzara.

Yup,  it is not a good sign when you see this sort of thing happen. This is the scariest bit of data that I can recall about climate change. 

Questions: In view of past and current success in blocking government action, it now reasonable to consider people and organizations that oppose government action on climate change criminals, demagogues and/or intractable liars? What about quiet opposition by Exxon-Mobile and other oil and gas companies, the ex-president, the Republican Party, libertarians and other government-hating ideologues, chemical companies, Toyota, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Disney[1], etc?

Footnote: 

1. The Guardian: “Some of America’s most prominent companies, including Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Disney, are backing business groups that are fighting landmark climate legislation, despite their own promises to combat the climate crisis, a new analysis has found. A clutch of corporate lobby groups and organizations have mobilized to oppose the proposed $3.5tn budget bill put forward by Democrats, which contains unprecedented measures to drive down planet-heating gases. The reconciliation bill has been called the “the most significant climate action in our country’s history” by Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the US Senate.”

The Guardian again: “The largest five stock market listed oil and gas companies spend nearly $200m (£153m) a year lobbying to delay, control or block policies to tackle climate change, according to a new report. Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil were the main companies leading the field in direct lobbying to push against a climate policy to tackle global warming, the report said.”

This is all the GOP has to say about climate change, “The weather is always changing. We take climate change seriously, but not hysterically. We will not adopt nutty policies that harm our economy or our jobs.” In other words, “don’t worry, climate change is not a serious problem and we will not take it seriously.”