Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Anyone have anything to offer on what &quot;checks and balances&quot; would be put in place against dismantling the little environmental progress we&#x27;ve made in the past 8 years?<p>We seem pretty screwed. This guy seems as in the industry pocket as possible.

The only good news is that I&#x27;m so dead inside I don&#x27;t think it even matters. &quot;That&#x27;s the thing, Will. Americans are optimistic by nature. And if we face this problem head on, if we listen to our best scientists, and act decisively, and passionately, I still don&#x27;t see any way we can survive.&quot; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=6CXRaTnKDXA</a>

Less than 24 hours and I&#x27;ve gone from being simply stressed out about work and ready for the election to be over to general depression, feelings of hopelessness for our future, and an overwhelming urge to curl up into a ball for an indeterminate period of time.

At this point, I just assume it will all go back to being as wacky as it was under Bush (very wacky). He threw in plenty of people that refused to acknowledge Climate Change too.<p>Now, its fascinating how much executive power Obama has used to push through policies that neither the House nor Senate would agree to. And yes, Trump will definitely roll them back.<p>I still don&#x27;t understand why the Dem&#x27;s didn&#x27;t try and change this whole crappy process when they briefly had it all. None of these positions should be so easy to f-up with a new President. They should require actual knowledge and a proper skill-set for the people in them.

Am I being optimistic in thinking that at some point the American public may flip on climate change and denying it exists will become very unpopular?<p>Where I live we&#x27;ve set multiple temperature records in the last few weeks and may break a record for latest first snowfall ever. Even if correlating the weather outside with global climate conditions is a flawed metric, people have to figure out what&#x27;s going on at some point... right?

So much for the &quot;outsider not beholden to politics&quot; argument eh? This is the GOP playbook of forcing anti-science partisans into important roles and gutting environmental regulations to please industry.<p>Also so much for the Trump supporter excuses of &quot;Oh, he didn&#x27;t really mean that, he just said that to get elected -- wink, wink, nudge, nudge,&quot; nonsense. Clearly climate change skepticism has become a mainstream view in the US government after nearly two decades of fighting these skeptics. Its incredible how much progress was lost last night.

Disgusting. Terrifying. It was a nice planet while it lasted.

And so it begins

What infuriates me more is the people jumping to conclusion about their futures

Good. Maybe this will help to shift the focus to real pollutants, which actually harm human health, instead of CO2.