TRUMP APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR OF UNUSUAL UNSCIENTIFIC CRAP

FINALLY ! 

   "This is a victory for science !

 -- noted K-Street hack Marc Morano

THE WORK OF LEGATES,  A WORLD FAMED

 POLAR BEAR IMPERSONATOR

 AUTHORITY ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF DELAWARE, HAS BEEN CITED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES:

   

Trump Administration Removes Scientist in Charge 

of Assessing Climate Change

WASHINGTON — The White House has removed the scientist responsible for the National Climate Assessment, the federal government’s premier contribution to climate knowledge and the foundation for regulations to combat global warming, in what critics interpreted as the latest sign that the Trump administration intends to use its remaining months in office to continue impeding climate science and policy.

Michael Kuperberg, executive director of the U.S. Global Change Research Program,is expected to be replaced by David Legates, an academic who was worked closely for years with climate-change denial groups.

Marc Morano, a prominent denier of established climate change science, cheered the departure...

“The Trump administration is ‘listening to the science’ by clearing out the anti-science promoters of extreme climate scenarios. These moves are long, long overdue,” he said.

Myron Ebell, a director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former member of Mr. Trump’s transition team... said 

“It might be a short-term appointment... If he only directs it for two months and a week, then he may not get very far, but let’s see what can get done in two months. Maybe the next administration will throw it all away, but maybe some changes will be adopted, who knows,” 

Dr. Kuperberg’s departure comes amid a broader effort, in the aftermath of Mr. Trump’s defeat last week by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., to remove officials who have fallen afoul of the White House...

“They’re trying to just do a takeover of all this stuff so they can control the National Climate Assessment thinking,” said Judith Curry, a former chairwoman of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in an interview Monday.

One of the new political hires was Dr. Legates, a professor at the University of Delaware’s geography department and now a deputy administrator at NOAA who has worked closely for years with climate denial groups and has argued that carbon dioxide “is plant food and not a pollutant.”