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Wilson, EO

7/20 oddly blank?<div>
</div><div>Is Humanity Suicidal ~ Am Exception?</div><div>
</div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">aha rw pundits have an almost perfect record of being wrong, yet somehow paul Ehrlich gets to be poster boy punching bag for inaccurate prediction (did not help he lost long bet).&nbsp; Club of Rome? greens get tarred with that brush.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">common ploy / complaint is that left is rooting for catastrophe (motive?&nbsp; if capitalist system crashes we get to build a better one? We hate America and thus want it to fail for pure spite?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">related to alarmist Alare Scare chemophobia, manly stoic clear-eyes scientists and engineers are not scared b/c they see reality and are masters of the physical universe. eg nuclear power</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Relates to to American Exceptionalism: we are not bound by rules/history, if we run out of X we'll just use Y (or as in peak oil, frack our way out).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/04/judicial-watch-lawsuit-seeks-obama-white-house-records-controversial-global-warming/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.nationalreview.com/<b>2017/04/</b>judicial-watch-lawsuit-seeks-obama-white-house-records-controversial-global-warming/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span class="article-header__subtitle" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.52381; vertical-align: baseline; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;former scientist at the NOAA has exposed a shoddy report on global warming. Judicial Watch is suing to learn more.</font></span><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="drop" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 84px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">following allegations of impropriety over the handling of a controversial climate change report, a government watchdog group now wants to know whether there was any collaboration between the report’s lead author and a key Obama adviser.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;On March 27,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Judicial Watch&nbsp;</em>filed a lawsuit seeking “all records of communications between a pair of federal scientists who heavily influenced the Obama administration’s climate change policy and its backing of the Paris Agreement.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The FOIA specifically requests correspondence between Tom Karl, the former head of the climate-data program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and John Holdren, the director of Obama’s Office of Science and Technology Policy</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Holdren is from that species of Baby Boomer global catastrophists who make changing predictions each decade about how we will all die</span>. He also happens to be the science guy who had the president’s ear for eight years....</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.8125rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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