Stephen Moore - Shitstain's Fed Nominee - A Full-On 12-Gauge Buffoon On Climate

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President Trump's new nominee for the Federal Reserve Board has long been hostile to climate science. Stephen Moore, a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, has labeled people worried about climate change "Stalinistic" and said climate scientists are engaged in a global conspiracy to make money. And after the Trump administration released the National Climate Assessment last December, he wrote an op-ed for the Washington Times saying the government is steering trillions of dollars toward "climate change hysteria and research."

"The tidal wave of funding does reveal a powerful financial motive for scientists to conclude that the apocalypse is upon us," he wrote. "No one hires a fireman if there are no fires. No one hires a climate scientist (there are thousands of them now) if there is no catastrophic change in the weather."

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Moore has attacked conservative groups that seek to craft climate policy. Earlier this month, he tweeted that student climate marches were essentially the "manipulation & exploitation" of children. He attacked conservative groups, including RepublicEn, which promote carbon taxes as a way of addressing climate change, as encouraging "economic destruction." He has retweeted false claims that carbon dioxide is not pollution and said that "state renewable energy mandates are a regressive green tax on America's poor."

Moore's rhetoric around climate policy is outdated and sounds more like the early days of the tea party, said Bob Inglis, founder of RepublicEn and a former Republican congressman from South Carolina. Inglis said many Republicans now hear such "intellectually indefensible" rhetoric around climate change, including an outright dismissal of climate science, from their leaders and lose trust in them. What's more, he said, Moore doesn't have the proper academic background for such an important position. "He's no more of an economist than I am, and I'm not much of an economist," Inglis said. "I would never accept a nomination for the Federal Reserve Board, because I'm just simply not qualified, but what worries you about somebody who doesn't recognize their limitations, that's a dangerous person to have around."

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1. Almost all leading climate scientists have tenure, income constant no matter what they conclude

Research can provide extra pay for summer months perhaps, when a professor would not be paid for teaching. But leading scientists would often get grants for other studies even if not for climate research. And climate scientists could get unlimited funding from Koch brothers to do research debunking climate change. Indeed a physics professor at UC Berkeley did get a million dollar grant from the Koch brothers to prove the measurements for the hockey stick graph were false. He concluded, to his surprise, that the hockey stick measures of temperature were dead on correct. He changed his views, concluded human caused warming really is true. And got no more money from the Koch brothers.