Biden appoints former NOAA’s “Carbon Queen” Jane Lubchenco to key climate change role!

March 20, 2021 Featured, International News, National

The White House has appointed Jane Lubchenco, a well-known marine scientist at Oregon State University and former head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to a high-level position coordinating climate and environmental issues within its Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The announcement scheduled for Friday marks another step in the Biden administration’s all-of-government approach to tackling climate change. >click to read< 08:37 from 2008, Environmental Defense Fund Honored that Board Vice Chair Reportedly Picked as NOAA Administrator – >click to read<

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4 Responses to Biden appoints former NOAA’s “Carbon Queen” Jane Lubchenco to key climate change role!

Joel Hovanesian says:

March 20, 2021 at 7:07 pm

Can things possibly get any worse. Our nation is f#(&ed

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Rocky Novello says:

March 21, 2021 at 10:31 am

BAD CHOICE , Bottom of the Barrel, Worst of the WORSTS !!

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William Diller says:

March 26, 2021 at 11:41 am

The Catch Share Queen. America’s fishing industry is in for the worst of times.

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- Joel says:
  
  March 27, 2021 at 7:25 am
  
  As the saying goes….Elections have consequences. Just wait, you ain’t seen nothing yet
  
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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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