Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), gave the keynote speech at a conference on Wednesday morning, one which was hosted by a prominent climate-denying think tank that previously compared those concerned about the climate crisis to the Unabomber on billboard posters in 2012.
“No longer are we going to rely on bad, flawed assumptions instead of accurate, present-day facts, without apology or regret,” Zeldin said at the Heartland Institute’s conference on climate change in Washington, DC, referring to well-established climate science.
Zeldin has been widely criticized by climate experts. Last month, more than 160 environmental and public health organizations called for him to resign or be fired, saying no EPA administrator in history “has so brazenly betrayed the agency’s core mission.”
In his speech, Zeldin poked fun at the media for calling him “controversial” for not “following blind obedience to whatever the dire, doom and gloom position of the day is from John Kerry or Al Gore or AOC”—referring to the congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “It’s controversial that we won’t sign up for the script that the world is imminently about to end,” he said.
I just read that the earth’s rotation is slowing because there is such an incredible mass of ice melt from the poles which is now at the equator. Which is ANOTHER completely different set of facts proving climate change. Fuck you fossil fuel industry.
Zeldin said: “No longer are we going to rely on bad, flawed assumptions instead of accurate, present-day facts, without apology or regret,”
We continue to await his independent and impartial assessment of the evidence for public scrutiny.
In that photo he looks like he could be the brother of Zuckfuck and has that same look about him. Zuckfuck is a denier of reality too.
dark eyes, dark soul
The world isn’t going to end. It’ll stay right here, 93,000,000 miles away from the sun. Whether humans remain on it or perish due to famine/plague/disease, well, no one but (many, but apparently not all) humans cares, least of all the earth. Denying a bullet is flying at your face despite seeing the flash won’t stop it from completing its trajectory (metaphor).
It’s kinda shit we’re going to take out almost every other species though. They don’t have a say.
Maybe if all the birds teamed up to go apeshit on people, they might be able to stop things. Hitchcock and du Maurier were on to something…
He looks like the “ally” at the beginning of the film that everyone looks at and goes, “He’s totally going to be the bad guy in the movie.”
Yep, every Trump goon has the “bad guy mook” face.
current EPA = Environmental Polluting Agency, courtesy of the fossil fuel oligarchs who control the GOP
Because of course he does.
