“It’s just a tell when someone is lying all the time”
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Elon Musk is an unelected white supremacist authoritarian drug addict, who is going around wrecking incredibly important decades-old government projects, because he’s a completely out of control megalomaniac:
On the flanks of the largest active volcano on Earth, the Mauna Loa Observatory tracks the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that are warming the planet, and has been doing so since 1958.
But the office in Hilo, Hawaii, that manages the world-famous site could close in August, according to a copy of an internal federal document viewed by The New York Times.
The observatory has been a pole star of global scientific research. The data collected there helped to create the Keeling Curve, a famous upward-sweeping graph that documents the steep rise in carbon dioxide concentrations over decades.
“These data are our eyes on the planet,” said Ralph Keeling, a climate science professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the son of Charles Keeling, the curve’s creator. “It’s really vital base line data for how things are going to change going forward.”
The observatory’s office is among 30 buildings operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s leading agency for climate research, that are listed on the spreadsheet for possible lease terminations, beginning as early as May.
The observatory may be the single most important data collection point in the international effort to understand and address anthropocentric climate change.
That seems like an important goal, but there are some things that are apparently more important:
It is unclear what would happen to operations at the observatory if the office were to close. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to comment, writing in an email, “As a matter of policy, we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.”
Relatedly, Michael Lewis, author of among many other things the excellent book The Fifth Risk, which was about how the unqualified clowns the first Trump administration unleashed on federal agencies undermined the incredibly important work done by those agencies, is publishing a new book Who Is Government? In it, he edits a collection of essays by people writing about what the government actually does, and naturally he has some thoughts on Elon Musk.
The link is to a short clip from an interview Lewis did with Katie Couric about the book, and the quote that’s the title to this post was taken from it.
Elon Musk must be stopped, and I don’t particularly care exactly how that happens, as long as it happens as soon as possible.