If you are a climate-change denier, you will be pleased to know whom the President-to-Be has chosen to oversee the selection of people for important positions in the new administration.
According to the New York Times, Michael Cantanzaro, a lobbyist who has worked for Devon Energy and Encana Oil and Gas, will run the “energy independence” portfolio. The person in charge of choosing who to oversee our country’s energy policy is Michael McKenna, a lobbyist who numbers among his clients the Southern Company, a vehement opponent of limiting emissions from coal-burning power plants.
Elizabeth Kolbert, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer for the New Yorker magazine, outlines the damage we can expect.
If you do believe that human activity is affecting the world in which we live, you might be curious about what you personally are doing.
“For every metric ton of carbon dioxide released into the air, three square meters of Arctic sea ice disappear. If you do the math, this means the average American is melting roughly 50 square meters of those frozen reserves every year.”
In past eons, we speculated on how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Now, scientists are debating when the Arctic and Antarctic ice will be gone.
If you are a George Carlin devotee, you’re not worried; the earth will be just fine.
