GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2020

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2020

🌎 December

Approaching 2021

Time lapse: How plants move in a 24-hour time period

"Open Sesame", Voila

Flowers Bloom

'In a Last Rush'

Chaotic final weeks in office as defeated president threatens reprisals

Election loss denial accompanied by over 50 failed election challenge lawsuits and flurry of executive actions and orders

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Transition from Trump Proceeds

President-elect Biden to nominate N.M. Representative Deb Haaland, Native American from the Pueblo of Laguna, as next Secretary of the Interior

• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/politics/in-last-rush-trump-grants-mining-and-energy-firms-access-to-public-lands.html

• https://www.outsideonline.com/2419877/biden-deb-haaland-first-native-interior-secretary

Watch President-elect Biden Announce 'Climate Team'

• https://www.c-span.org/video/?507448-1/president-elect-biden-announces-climate-team

Why is the U.S. retreating from confronting the #ClimateCrisis?

President Trump's Chief of Staff, Mick Mulvaney:

March 2017 / “Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward — We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”

 

 

 

NOAA chief: I’ve never briefed Trump on climate

Donald Trump has called global warming a "hoax" on multiple occasions ---

The head of the government agency that monitors climate change says that he has never discussed the issue with the current U.S. President, Donald Trump. Acting National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) chief Adm. Timothy Gallaudet: "I personally have not briefed the president on climate change."

President Barack Obama's science adviser, John Holdren, estimates that over eight years he briefed the president about climate change more than 50 times.

Measure-to-Manage

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | Merchants of Doubt
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
• http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science

2020 / A President's 'false and misleading' statements (many repeated multiple times)

A Washington Post Fact-Checker @work

An End of Year Review, December 2020

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claims-database/

• https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/21/most-popular-fact-checks-2020/

* https://www.factcheck.org/person/donald-trump/

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjeUoVOoTGM

 

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