TRUMP SAYS HIS ‘VERY HIGH LEVELS OF INTELLIGENCE’ MEANS HE CAN’T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE
 TRUMP SAYS HIS ‘VERY HIGH LEVELS OF INTELLIGENCE’ MEANS HE CAN’T BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE, SCIENTISTS DESPAIR News Week
His administration released a dense report compiled by 13 federal agencies last week that painted a bleak picture of the severity of the impact of climate change on the lives of Americans, and the U.S. economy. But Trump dismissed it. “One of the problems that a lot of people like myself, we have very high levels of intelligence but we’re not necessarily such believers,” Trump told The Washington Post in an interview in the Oval Office. “As to whether or not it’s man-made and whether or not the effects that you’re talking about are there, I don’t see it,” he said, doubling down on his initial reaction to the National Climate Assessment report on Monday, when he said: “I don’t believe it.” …. The White House report warned that rising temperatures had already harmed the U.S., and that limiting greenhouse gases would substantially benefit the American economy….. Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, called the president’s comments “idiotic,” The Post reported. And Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told The Post: “Facts aren’t something we need to believe to make them true, we treat them as optional at our peril. “And if we’re the president of the United States, we do so at the peril of not just ourselves but the hundreds of millions of people we’re responsible for.” https://www.newsweek.com/trump-says-his-very-high-levels-intelligence-means-he-cant-believe-climate-1234608 |
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The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
Antinuclear 
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