{"id":4852,"date":"2018-02-11T16:39:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp\/?p=4852"},"modified":"2018-02-12T21:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T01:02:25","slug":"oklahoma-oceanfront-mr-pruitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/oklahoma-oceanfront-mr-pruitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Oceanfront Mr. Pruitt?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4873\" style=\"width: 636px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oklahoma-Map-w-Scott-Pruitt-e1518381268462.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4873\" class=\"wp-image-4873 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oklahoma-Map-w-Scott-Pruitt-e1518381268462.jpg\" alt=\"EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, from Oklahoma, suggests global warming beneficial.\" width=\"626\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oklahoma-Map-w-Scott-Pruitt-e1518381268462.jpg 626w, https:\/\/johnenglander.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Oklahoma-Map-w-Scott-Pruitt-e1518381268462-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA Chief Scott Pruitt, from Oklahoma, suggests global warming will be beneficial.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This week Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), again questioned if human induced climate change was really such a bad thing. Yesterday’s headline from<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/energy-environment\/373169-epa-chiefs-questions-about-climate-science-draw-new-scrutiny\">The Hill<\/a><\/strong>, a leading Washington D.C. news organization, read:<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“EPA chief\u2019s questions about climate science draw new scrutiny”<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Pruitt acknowledged that climate was changing and that we may be partly responsible.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Then he questioned how we could know what the best temperature was for our world and noted that generally that warmer was better. As they quoted him:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cWe know that humans have most flourished during times of, what? Warming trends. So I think there\u2019s assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I know he is from Oklahoma, where winters can be extremely cold, so perhaps warmer just seems better to him. However<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, Mr. Pruitt might do well to check the EPA’s own website. One page has a clear graph of<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">“Heat Related Deaths”<\/span> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">showing a significant upward trend. And have we forgotten the 35,000 deaths in Europe caused by the heat wave in 2003?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement set a goal to limit the warming to one additional degree Celsius (about one and a half degrees Fahrenheit) over present. It is questionable that we can even achieve those global targets. Now\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr. Pruitt is advocating that those goals to limit warming are not necessarily a good idea. Yet the overwhelming majority of scientists believe that our entire ecosystem has flourished during the relatively stable climate of the last 11,000 years<em>.<\/em> <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Except for the United States, governmental leaders of essentially all nations are on record that stopping global warming should be a top priority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>And what about rising sea level?<\/strong>\u00a0Mr. Pruitt had no comment on that in the remarks quoted this week. Of course that is understandable, since Oklahoma is land locked \u2014 at least for now, LOL. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">That started an interesting line of thought.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Is Mr. Pruitt aware that:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Over thousands of years, global sea level changes by roughly 20 meters per degree Celsius of global temperature change (about 35 feet per degree Fahrenheit).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">As the ice on Greenland and Antarctica continues to melt faster and faster, that global rising sea level will move the coastline for aeons, submerging thousands of coastal communities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From Boston to Bangladesh, Calcutta to Copenhagen, and Miami to the Maldives, cities worldwide are already experiencing much worse flooding.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of course “no worries” for Oklahoma. They are presently far from the sea, so not immediately vulnerable. But could the idea of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cOklahoma Oceanfront\u201d be a reason for Mr. Pruitt to embrace a warmer planet that will have less polar ice, even though it would put all coastal cities underwater? <em>Hmmmm<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sarcasm aside, a warmer world is neither benign nor beneficial to life on Earth as we know it. Anyone who believes that a warmer planet could be a good thing \u2013 is either ignorant or disingenuous.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), again questioned if human induced climate change was really such a bad thing. 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