{"id":369841,"date":"2018-07-18T02:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T01:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-kills-science-nature-strikes-back-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T02:38:05","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T01:38:05","slug":"trump-kills-science-nature-strikes-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-kills-science-nature-strikes-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Kills Science, Nature Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div id=\"attachment_103781\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103781\" src=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/28563012804_6ff7cabdc2_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/28563012804_6ff7cabdc2_z.jpg 510w, https:\/\/uziiw38pmyg1ai60732c4011-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/dropzone\/2018\/07\/28563012804_6ff7cabdc2_z-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Edward Palmquist | <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Trump administration\u2019s every move is marked with a strange creepiness as well as confusing messages that can only mean: They don\u2019t get it. Their nefarious \u201cdestroy science\u201d mentality promotes insane irreversible carbon emissions in good ole America, ultimately threatening the abilities of farmers to cope with ruinous global heat.<\/p>\n<p>As scientists duck for cover from mean-spirited Orange Trumpeters, nature strikes back, emitting 220M tons of carbon from melting permafrost in Alaska. In response, Trumpeters, fighting back, have already taken the first steps towards drilling Alaska\u2019s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, thus setting the stage for oil and gas leases on 19-million-acres of \u201cpublic land.\u201d All of America owns it.<\/p>\n<p>Alaskan permafrost is melting so fast that it has already hit a \u201ctipping point,\u201d meaning it emits carbon into the atmosphere in competition with human-caused carbon, hands-free, no more anthropogenic assistance required, self-perpetuating, a prelude to Runaway Global Warming (\u201cRGW\u201d), a major, very serious threat to life, especially as Trumpeters focus on making America More Drillable than ever before, feeding more, and more, and more force into gigantic arcs of methane CH4, a molecule that is 100xs more powerful at entrapping heat in the atmosphere than is CO2 during its initial stages.<\/p>\n<p>Aforesaid news couldn\u2019t be worse even if Stephen King were commissioned to write a creepy, horrifying climate&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/07\/17\/trump-kills-science-nature-strikes-back\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Edward Palmquist | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration\u2019s every move is marked with a strange creepiness as well as confusing messages that can only mean: They don\u2019t get it. Their nefarious \u201cdestroy science\u201d mentality promotes insane irreversible carbon emissions in good ole America, ultimately threatening the abilities of farmers to cope with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-369841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}