Ice breaks up along the Kuskokwim River in Alaska on April 12. By Joel Clement May 6 at 3:13 PM Joel Clement, the former director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the Interior Department from 2011 to 2017, is a senior fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center Arctic Initiative and a senior fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists Center for Science and Democracy.
This isn’t the first time this episode has played out. I bore witness to the administration’s self-inflicted embarrassment two years ago while working at the Interior Department. Then, as now, the leader of the free world stood thoroughly diminished while other nations and the people most affected by the climate crisis were forced to face the consequences.
It didn’t end there. Once negotiators finalized the declaration, another wave of climate-change insecurity beset the martinets at the White House, and they told then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to demand additional changes just days before the signing ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska. Those changes? Eliminating or changing language about — you guessed it — climate change and the Paris agreement.
The indigenous peoples of the Arctic, like the Pacific island states who face inundation from the rise of sea levels, live squarely in the path of dramatic climate impacts. Vulnerable coastal villages in Alaska face the twin threats of vicious storms and coastal erosion as protective sea ice shrinks and permafrost thaws beneath their feet. In a place where store-bought food is expensive and sometimes scarce, subsistence hunters in some areas can no longer safely travel and hunt on thick sea ice.
Hard to embarrass a hoax.
The NOAA has records or reports that show how the saltier thus heavier Atlantic currents flow in and under the lighter Arctic ocean waters, which is how the thermal contamination gets released upwards neutralizing normal fragile downwards conduction values that protect the ice.
Its all about money and greed.
Mostly the ignoramus in the WH. Most Americans know the truth.
Because we're banking on the idea that God is going to rapture us up before it gets too bad. Until then, we need more coal jobs.
I blame Ford. The president, not the car company.
WAPO is an embarrassment. They question nothing that comes out of the mouths of Democrats. They don't research and verify claims if it fits their personal views. They're being sued for millions due to their failure to verify claims.
This US administration is just a bunch of idiots. How the US got to this will be debated forever in History and Political science classes for decades to come.
as long as realDonaldTrump senatemajldr GOPHouse & GOPSenate are making money, they don't care about America's health - yours or your children.
The party that wants to claim religion is happy to destroy the planet as long as they're making money. As Jesus said, 'It's all about that paper.' Luke 12:15
Since Gore, I been waiting for California to go under water... Why Hasn't it?
'Once again, the U.S. embarrasses itself on climate change.' Not America. Trump.
DramaAlert 'Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.' — Harvard biologist George Wald, April 22, 1970
This country has been embarrassing itself since November 2016
Holy smokes. Holy smokes! This is great. I love it! I love it, folks. You know, the left has gone nuts. They literally have gone nuts on this climate change business. - Rush Limbaugh