Stalling progress in favor of the status quo is not a good way to go into the future.
Donald Trump seems afraid of science, and is more comfortable with the old ways of energizing this country, unless it is just that his friends and his investments take precedence over the America people, present and future.
I was curious about his attitude toward science and found this.
These are science related tweets:
“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”
“This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps, and our GW scientists are stuck in ice”
“NBC News just called it the great freeze – coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the GLOBAL WARMING HOAX?”
“Any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet! They don’t believe it $$$$!”
“No more massive injections. Tiny children are not horses—one vaccine at a time, over time.”
“I am being proven right about massive vaccinations—the doctors lied. Save our children & their future.”
“I’m not against vaccinations for your children, I’m against them in 1 massive dose. Spread them out over a period of time & autism will drop!”
“So many people who have children with autism have thanked me—amazing response. They know far better than fudged up reports!”
“Ebola patient will be brought to the U.S. in a few days – now I know for sure that our leaders are incompetent. KEEP THEM OUT OF HERE!”
“Stop the EBOLA patients from entering the U.S. Treat them, at the highest level, over there. THE UNITED STATES HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS!”
“The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!”
“The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our “borders.” Act fast!”
When it came to appointing people who will have a lot to do with science he:
appointed Scott Pruitt, who is very anti-EPA and favors and promotes fossil fuels over even looking at alternatives or even co-fuel-sources of energy to head that department. Pruitt thinks that the EPA has had n “Activist agenda”, opposes environmental regulations, and denies climate change science;
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chose former ExxonMobil Chief Executive Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State. This the man who had been hiding that his company knew it was contributing to Global warming.
Wanted Robert Kennedy, Jr. to chair an autism commission. Kennedy promoted the discredited arguments that link vaccines to autism, and Trump has tweeted that there are “many cases” of children who become autistic after receiving vaccinations;
and
asked the Department of Energy for the names of employees who have worked on issues related to climate change.
Trump issued an executive order that removes President Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity production.
He wants to bring back coal even as he removes support for wind, solar, and other forms of nonpolluting and renewable energy.
Employees of the EPA and USDA were told not to speak to the public.
The EPA was ordered to take down its climate-change page.
45 ignores the reality that solar jobs are on the rise, and, as Hillary had said, it is better to retrain people like coal workers for these jobs of the future than to promise to “end the war on coal and have clean coal, really clean coal”.
While solar now accounts for some 260,000 energy jobs in the country, the majority of which are held by installers making that almost four times the number of coal industry jobs, the coal industry has been on a steady and steep decline for the past 30 years.
When it came to wind energy, Trump had a problem with the wind mills.
First he was concerned that “They’re made out of massive amounts of steel, which goes into the atmosphere, whether it’s in our country or not, it goes into the atmosphere.”
And then there were the birds.
“The windmills kill birds and the windmills need massive subsidies. In other words, we’re subsidising wind mills all over this country. I mean, for the most part they don’t work. I don’t think they work at all without subsidy, and that bothers me, and they kill all the birds.”
The irony of the concerns is that unlike the pollution emitted by coal, steel does not go up into the atmosphere, and as far as subsidies, he has no problem with oil ones.
He also favors both the XL Pipeline and the Dakota Access Pipeline that could threaten the environment, but is not bothered by the steel from manufacturing those pipes will go up into the atmosphere.
When on British television, Stephen Hawking was asked about Trump’s attitude about science, and how he fits into it. He may have been speaking about himself, but he could very well have been speaking for all science when he said,
“I have many friends and colleagues there, and it is still a place I like and admire in many ways. But I fear that I may not be welcome.”