<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="gmail_attr">Whatever economic successes allegedly achieved by the Trump administration are touted as positives, the denial of well founded scientific expertise may be viewed by history as one of the glaring flaws. The rejection of warnings from epidemiologists in the first days of the COVID-19 pandemic likley led to thousands of avoidable deaths in the US, with a late response from Washington. Trump's dismissal of the risks of COVID-19 early in 2020 are well documented.</div><div class="gmail_attr">Assuming the 2020 election is not rigged or manipulated somehow, which appears likely, these avoidable deaths may cost Trump a second term, especially with the economy not "booming" for many workers (regardless of Wall Street recovery) as it was just before the pandemic.</div><div class="gmail_attr">And in the coming decades, as disastrous impacts from anthropogenic global warming increase, the Trump administration's anti-science agenda on climate change, expressed in dismantling EPA regulations aimed at lowering fossil fuel related greenhouse gas emissions, may be viewed as another anti-science failure.</div><div class="gmail_attr">--------------------------------------------</div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_attr"><font size="4"><a href="https://apnews.com/6fcaab97241d34c83f448f019179ca6b" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/6fcaab97241d34c83f448f019179ca6b</a><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left;color:rgb(44,44,44);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-family:Times New Roman;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:block;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding-top:2.5rem;font-family:GoodOT-Cond,Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4">"Dy</font><font size="4">namic ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet driven by sustained glacier retreat"</font></h1><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Nature journal 8-13-20</font></div><h1 style="margin:0px;padding-top:2.5rem;font-family:GoodOT-Cond,Arial Narrow,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:700;box-sizing:border-box"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2</a><br>--------------------------------------------</font><br></h1><div><font size="4">Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</font></div></div><div style="margin:0.5rem 0px 1rem;text-align:left;color:rgb(44,44,44);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:300;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;display:inline-flex;white-space:normal;box-sizing:border-box"><span style="padding-right:1.37rem;box-sizing:border-box"><div><br></div></span><span title="2020-08-20 18:09:37 - Thu Aug 20 2020 11:09:37 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)" style="color:rgb(130,130,130);box-sizing:border-box"><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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