Trump promised to hire the best people. He keeps hiring the worst. Nasa is next | Dana Nuccitelli

Trump’s Nasa nominee Jim Bridenstine is a climate denier who wants to end the agency’s climate researchAccording to 2016 election exit polls, only 38% of voters considered Donald Trump qualified to be president. 17% of those who thought him unqualified voted for Trump anyway, perhaps because he promised that as a wealthy businessman, he would be able to hire the best people to advise him. That was a claim his daughter Ivanka explicitly made in her speech at the Republican National Convention:global temperatures stopped rising 10 years ago. Global temperature changes, when they exist, correlate with Sun output and ocean cycles. During the Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1300 A.D.—long before cars, power plants, or the Industrial Revolution—temperatures were warmer than today. Who needs science when you can just use NASA to send up your big shiny rockets carrying American flags & feel like a big powerful space man? https://t.co/XO8fAAXw5M Continue reading...