CEO of Continental Resources vs University Scientists

Sal wrote:Our corporatist oligarchs and their servants in the GOP have no use for science.

This is nothing new.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gop-war-on-science-gets-worse

Last week, the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, headed by Texas Republican Lamar Smith, approved a bill that would slash at least three hundred million dollars from NASA’s earth-science budget. “Earth science, of course, includes climate science,” Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, a Texas Democrat who is also on the committee, noted. (Smith said that the White House’s NASA budget request favored the earth sciences “at the expense of the other science divisions and human and robotic space exploration.”) Johnson tried to get the cuts eliminated from the bill, but her proposed amendment was rejected. Defunding NASA’s earth-science program takes willed ignorance one giant leap further. It means that not only will climate studies be ignored; some potentially useful data won’t even be collected.

The vote on the NASA bill came just a week after the same House committee approved major funding cuts to the National Science Foundation’s geosciences program, as well as cuts to Department of Energy programs that support research into new energy sources. As Michael Hiltzik, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, noted, the committee is “living down to our worst expectations.”

2seaoat wrote:Can you say global warming.....can you say smoking is benign.....can you say unsafe at any speed........on and on special interests have tried to profit and ignore the consequences and costs to society........nothing new here.....this is how America is run.....money, power, and influence.

Markle wrote:"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, another lie.  A lie which has cost millions of lives.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:

Markle wrote:"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson, another lie.  A lie which has cost millions of lives.

Semi-demented poster Markle must think there is no such thing as hazardous waste, no such thing as a hazardous waste site, and no need for any environmental regulations.

Almost all environmental regulations ever passed resulted from an incident or incidents that occurred whereby Congress declared such incidents were not tolerable and therefore would be regulated.

And, the funny thing is, you can't blame Democrats for making these laws, since almost all of the major environmental and safety laws were signed into law by Republican presidents. To wit:

1969 National Environmental Policy Act (thus establishing EPA)--Nixon
1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act--Nixon
1972 Clean Air Act--Nixon
1972 Clean Water Act--Nixon
1974 Safe Drinking Water Act--Ford
1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act--Ford
1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act--Reagan
1986 Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act--Reagan
1990 Oil Pollution Act--Bush41

I worked in the environmental protection field for 16 years. I am no activist, and have little tolerance for environmental activism. The U.S. has the most protective environmental laws on the planet. They are enforced and industry works hard to comply. There is no conspiracy between industry and government to slowly poison us. However, if we had no environmental regulation, we would have the air and water pollution that China now has--and they are starting to regulate for the health of their people.

Markle wrote:Show us all where I made that statement or admit you LIED.  It is impossible for you to dispute my post so you changed the subject.

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