Trump Will Literally Drain the Swamp of ‘Gators

Trump Will Literally Drain the Swamp of ‘Gators

A few years ago I drove across the Florida Everglades on the southern highway, state road 9336. In the middle we came across one of those signs of the maximum altitude of the pass or highway. It was three feet above sea level. We did visit a mountain peak there, Mahogany Hammock, which was about 8 feet above sea level.

Alligators are fresh water reptiles, and cold blooded, so they like sunning themselves. Crocodiles are in a different family, and can tolerate salt water. As the sea level rises at least three feet during this century, salt water will flow further into the Everglades, and push the remaining alligators closer to their fresh water source, Lake Okeechobee.

So with President Trump’s soon to be achieved total annihilation of the clean energy program, he will actually be achieving his goal of draining the swamp of ‘gators, and replacing them with Crocodiles. So Trump has been stocking his cabinet, apparently, with actual cold blooded oil company and climate denying Crocodiles, to replace the rather tamer ‘gator lobbyists (still cold blooded.)

About Dennis SILVERMAN

I am a retired Professor of Physics and Astronomy at U C Irvine. For two decades I have been active in learning about energy and the environment, and in reporting on those topics for a decade. For the last four years I have added science policy. Lately, I have been reporting on the Covid-19 pandemic of our times.
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