After "Excruciating" 1st Hearing, Shitstain's CEQ Nominee In Serious Trouble In Senate In Round 2

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Kathleen Hartnett White, the former Texas regulator who has extolled the social benefits of carbon dioxide and asserted that coal helped end slavery, faces a difficult road to Senate confirmation as top White House environmental adviser, according to lobbyists and Capitol Hill sources. They say that White, still awaiting a committee vote that has yet to be scheduled, is the most endangered of President Donald Trump's environmental nominees. Her embattled bid to chair the Council on Environmental Quality underscores larger problems for the White House in filling key roles throughout the federal government.

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Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware, the highest ranking Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said: "In the 17 years I have been in the Senate, I have never sat through a hearing as excruciating as Ms. White's."
White's View of CO2: 'The Gas of Life'

White, a senior fellow at the Austin-based Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative and fossil fuel industry-funded think tank, faced a fusillade of questions about her comments over the years that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, but "the gas of life"; that the human contribution to climate change is "very uncertain; and that ozone, or smog, isn't harmful unless "you put your mouth over the tailpipe of a car for eight hours every day." Senators entered into the record her essay on "the moral case for fossil fuels" and a 2014 blog post in which she theorized that "fossil fuels dissolved the economic justification for slavery."

But the most memorable exchange of the hearing was her halting parry of a series of ocean science questions lobbed by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). She said she didn't know about ocean absorption of heat or carbon or even whether the law of thermodynamics applied to seawater (starting at 4:50 in the video below and at 9:40). "I do not have any kind of expertise or even much layman study of the ocean dynamics and climate change issues," she said.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29012018/kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-denial-nomination-trump-ceq-trouble

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1. Ok, I missed something

How did coal end slavery??