"When he mentions the Canadian media guru Marshall McLuhan, Allen erupts and then, in a delightful spectacle of comeuppance, produces McLuhan himself, who tells the man, "I heard what you were saying. You know nothing of my work. . . . How you ever got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing." Allen then says, to the camera, "Boy, if life were only like this.""
"Given that President Trump had declared climate change to be a "hoax," and given that Energy Secretary Christopher Wright had previously declared it to be a "side effect of building the modern world," it stands to reason that Wright's department picked to conduct its report exactly five climate researchers, all notable for careers in which they've stood conspicuously outside the overwhelming scientific consensus that global warming is a grave and immediate danger."
The Trump White House is described as populated by oddballs and charlatans and characterized by a desire to publicly expose ignorance. Eighty-six climate scientists produced a four-hundred-page rebuttal to a July Department of Energy report that minimized the risks of global warming. The DOE report relied on five researchers known for dissenting from the scientific consensus, and concluded that CO2-induced warming might be less economically damaging and that aggressive mitigation could be harmful. President Trump had labeled climate change a "hoax," and Energy Secretary Christopher Wright framed it as a "side effect of building the modern world." Lee Zeldin was named administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
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