ADMINISTRATOR PRUITT BANNED REPORTERS FROM HIS
"SCIENTIFIC TRANSPARENCY" SIGNING CEREMONY
AND INVITED THESE CHAPS INSTEAD:
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QUOTIDIAN IDIOCY, INANITY, IDEOLOGY AND HORSEFEATHERS IN THE CLIMATE WARS, FROM THE GUARDIAN TO BREITBART AND
THE VVORLD'S MOST PARODIED CLIMATE BLOG, WATTS UP WITH THAT
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THEY SEEM TO HAVE DONE SOME CELEBRATING IN ADVANCE: |
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Has named EPA administrator Scott Pruitt among 2018's 100 most influential people
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NB: Recent EPA & Heartland publications have thrown the end of the Medieval Dumb Period into doubt. |
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WELCOME TO PRUITT COUNTRY !
Oklahoma Attorney General turned Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has yet to respond to the lethal Rhea Fire, which The National Weather Service in Norman says continued its spread across the state Tuesday, having so far burnt through nearly 400,000 acres, and claimed at least two lives.
The NWS issued a fire warning at the request of the Rhea Fire Incident Command and the Dewey County Sheriff's Office asking residents along Highway 60 and east toward Chester to evacuate north and northwest toward Woodward. The U.S. Drought Monitor lists conditions in western Oklahoma as “exceptional” the highest ranking on its drought intensity scale. Some areas have gone more than 185 days without more than one-quarter inch of rain. Oklahoma's Department of Emergency Management requested the air support assistance of the Oklahoma National Guard to help fight the rapidly spreading wildfire Tuesday. The NWS issued a fire warning at the request of the Rhea Fire Incident Command and the Dewey County Sheriff's Office asking residents along Highway 60 and east toward Chester to evacuate north and northwest toward Woodward.
The U.S. Drought Monitor lists conditions in western Oklahoma as “exceptional,” the highest ranking on its drought intensity scale. Some areas have gone more than 185 days without more than one-quarter inch of rain.
The Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management requested the air support assistance of the Oklahoma National Guard to help fight the rapidly spreading wildfire Tuesday.
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modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation. The largest terrestrial mammal 200 years from now could well be the domestic cow …
In the time line of mammalian extinctions, large animals started to disappear only after humans or their hominid cousins showed up. But could that be a coincidence? Others have argued the main culprit behind these die-offs was the changing climate.
In their new study Smith and her team compiled a database of all terrestrial mammals that lived from 65 million years ago until today. They divided that time line into one-million-year chunks, and analyzed extinction trends for each of them.
"We found absolutely no effect of climate on mammalian extinction over 65 million years" she says.
But starting around 125,000 years ago and continuing until today, large-bodied mammals have been more likely to go extinct than smaller ones, the researchers found. The average size of surviving mammals has decreased as a result...
In North America the average mammal weighed around 98 kilograms before the ancestors of humans showed up. Today the average size is closer to eight kilograms…
This finding does not mean climate-related changes could not have stressed some wildlife populations, enabling humans to more easily bring about their eventual downfall