{"id":258193,"date":"2023-05-19T21:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258193"},"modified":"2023-05-19T21:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T19:05:48","slug":"rfk-jr-green-hero-turned-anti-vaccine-activist-takes-on-biden-as-climate-skeptics-welcome-him-morano-we-need-to-realign-coalitions-to-oppose-covid-climate-coercio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258193","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr.: Green hero turned anti-vaccine activist takes on Biden \u2013 As climate skeptics welcome him \u2013 Morano: \u2018We need to realign coalitions to oppose Covid &amp; climate coercion\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" data-attachment-id=\"258199\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=258199\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?fit=1894%2C1066&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1894,1066\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?fit=723%2C407&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=723%2C407&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=1536%2C865&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?resize=1200%2C675&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?w=1894&amp;ssl=1 1894w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/054ab6c8c3ef465c1fe35f79756cffc0a.jpeg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2023\/05\/18\/rfk-jr-green-hero-turned-anti-vaccine-activist-takes-on-biden-as-climate-skeptics-welcome-him-morano-we-need-to-realign-coalitions-to-oppose-covid-climate-coercion\/\"> CLIMATE DEPOT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/rfk-jr-green-hero-turned-anti-vaccine-activist-takes-on-biden\/\">E&amp;E News:<\/a>&nbsp;Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once a hero of the environment in New York&#8230;That Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gone. &#8230;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Kennedy once told Marc Morano, a conservative activist who runs a prominent climate denial blog, that those who reject climate science should be held criminally liable and that polluters should be thrown in jail. Now, Morano says, all is forgiven because Kennedy is \u201cundergoing a genuine transformation over his views on the climate agenda.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Morano considers the new Kennedy an ally in his fight to sow doubt and distrust around climate science, vaccine research and Covid-19 public health measures.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cI have received some flak from my fellow climate skeptics for being so welcoming and forgiving to RFK Jr., given his hostile history to anyone opposing the climate \u2018consensus,\u2019 but I truly believe we are at a pivotal point in U.S. history where we need to realign coalitions to oppose Covid and climate coercion,\u201d Morano said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/author\/rbushway\/\">Admin<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/\">Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-e-amp-e-news wp-block-embed-e-amp-e-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Wu93c4oeyM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/rfk-jr-green-hero-turned-anti-vaccine-activist-takes-on-biden\/\">RFK Jr.: Green hero turned anti-vaccine activist takes on Biden<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;RFK Jr.: Green hero turned anti-vaccine activist takes on Biden&#8221; &#8212; E&amp;E News\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/rfk-jr-green-hero-turned-anti-vaccine-activist-takes-on-biden\/embed\/#?secret=p7sQoPHWzc#?secret=Wu93c4oeyM\" data-secret=\"Wu93c4oeyM\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Scott Waldman | 05\/18\/2023 06:59 AM EDT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once a hero of the environment in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He helped push a fracking ban. As an environmental lawyer, he spent more than three decades fighting for a cleaner Hudson River. He protected New York City\u2019s reservoir in the Catskills. He pressed for the closure of the Indian Point nuclear plant. He founded an environmental group devoted to water protection that has worked on six continents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The long shot presidential candidate and onetime crusader for environmental protections has transformed into a font of anti-vaccine misinformation and conspiracies. That includes promoting false claims about the assassination of his father, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncle, President John F. Kennedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard not to be sad about it,\u201d said Alex Beauchamp, Northeast region director for Food &amp; Water Watch, who was a Kennedy ally during the years long fight to ban fracking in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou start to have a couple of crazy views, and then, all of a sudden, you\u2019re a full-blown conspiracy theorist,\u201d Beauchamp said. \u201cI do think it changed; I don\u2019t think he was the same 10 years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Kennedy officially launched his bid against President Joe Biden in the Democratic primary. Since then, his poll numbers have been surprisingly strong, reaching as high as 21 percent,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/president-primary-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to FiveThirtyEight<\/a>, a media and poll tracking site. That puts him in a similar position to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in his uphill battle against former President Donald Trump on the Republican side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Kennedy campaign did not respond to a request for comment. However, in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/3976753-rfk-jr-on-running-against-biden-i-just-disagree-fundamentally-with-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interview last month<\/a>&nbsp;with a New York radio station, Kennedy blamed the media for portraying him as \u201ccrazy\u201d and said people would be open to his ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen they see me, I don\u2019t look like the mischaracterizations,\u201d he said. \u201cIt may be that people just want something different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy\u2019s environmental work in New York is the type of resume that climate-minded Democrats could embrace \u2014 had he not clouded it with his public persona of the last few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy, with his famous lineage and long career of battling and beating polluters, was a regular presence at the New York State Capitol. He\u2019d stand atop its grand staircase looking down at hundreds of cheering activists hanging on to his every word as he railed against fracking, Hudson River pollution and greedy corporations poisoning natural resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But over the last decade, Kennedy\u2019s visits to the New York State Capitol became less about environmental causes and more about attacking the safety and efficacy of vaccines. It\u2019s there where he began to split his time as an anti-vaccine activist and as a climate champion. He would spout discredited claims about vaccines causing autism one day, and then the next, he would be back to the Hudson River protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By 2015, Kennedy was using his name to host press conferences where he pushed false claims about vaccines harming children who receive meningitis shots. He wasn\u2019t holding forth on the grand Capitol staircase, however, and in June of that year, he crowded reporters into a small basement room off the Capitol with angry parents who claimed vaccines had caused autism in their children, a thoroughly debunked claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy and his supporters shouted at reporters for hiding the \u201ctruth\u201d about vaccines. He flipped over a poster board and began writing, in small, barely legible script, formulas that he claimed proved his point that additives in vaccines were harming children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy told reporters that vaccines were \u201cmaking our children dumber and \u2026 giving them injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a difficult moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first weeks of his presidential campaign, Kennedy has not rejected climate science, but now claims that climate policy is part of an international conspiracy involving Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum. That type of rhetoric fits squarely with the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/climate-foes-push-great-reset-conspiracy-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Great Reset\u201d conspiracy<\/a>, which holds that governments will exploit the protocols of the Covid-19 era to force \u201cclimate lockdowns,\u201d including forcing people to eat bugs instead of meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cClimate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by, you know, the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big, you know, mega-billionaires, the same way that Covid was exploited, to use it as an excuse to clamp down top-down totalitarian controls on society,\u201d Kennedy recently told radio show host Kim Iversen, who has also trafficked in conspiracy theories around Covid-19 and vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some in New York who fought alongside Kennedy for years feel betrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy waged so many important environmental battles in New York for so many years that the activist community mostly looked the other way when he started to ramp up his anti-scientific screeds against public health, said former state Assemblyman Steven Englebright (D), who chaired the Environmental Conservation Committee. He said the Kennedy name and the long record of success discouraged people from ostracizing their erratic ally at a time when he alternated between climate and anti-vaccine causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t see that man anymore. From what I see, he\u2019s eccentric at best and maybe disturbed,\u201d Englebright said. \u201cHe has lost his way in a direction away from science, and the other word for science is facts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new Kennedy is a purveyor of cherry-picked and junk science who claims public health officials act like Nazis, compares Anthony Fauci to Adolf Hitler and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/25\/robert-kennedy-anne-frank-remarks-00002055\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">invokes Anne Frank<\/a>&nbsp;when discussing vaccinations. His own&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/26\/us\/robert-kennedy-covid-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">family is horrified<\/a>&nbsp;at what he is doing to harm the public at large and the political legacy he inherited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBobby\u2019s lies and fear-mongering yesterday were both sickening and repulsive,\u201d Kerry Kennedy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KerryKennedyRFK\/status\/1485880244892438529\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;after her brother referenced Anne Frank. \u201cI strongly condemn him for his hateful rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently, Kerry Kennedy has made it clear that the family does not support his presidential run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI love my brother Bobby, but I do not share or endorse his opinions on many issues, including the Covid pandemic, vacawsaKennedy once told Marc Morano, a conservative activist who runs a prominent climate denial blog, that those who reject climate science should be held criminally liable and that polluters should be thrown in jail. Now, Morano says, all is forgiven because Kennedy is \u201cundergoing a genuine transformation over his views on the climate agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He considers the new Kennedy an ally in his fight to sow doubt and distrust around climate science, vaccine research and Covid-19 public health measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI have received some flak from my fellow climate skeptics for being so welcoming and forgiving to RFK Jr., given his hostile history to anyone opposing the climate \u2018consensus,\u2019 but I truly believe we are at a pivotal point in U.S. history where we need to realign coalitions to oppose Covid and climate coercion,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bonus Material: Here are the full comments I gave E&amp;E reporter Scott Waldman on RFK Jr.:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marc Morano comments: Climate Depot publisher and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Reset-Global-Permanent-Lockdown\/dp\/1684512387\">Great Reset<\/a>&nbsp;author:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last three years have seen a monumental change in political alliances. No longer is it Left versus Right, but freedom versus tyranny. Who thought we would see alliances between conservatives with people like Naomi, Wolf, Jimmy Dore, Russell Brand, and RFK Jr.!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates, and the public health manufactured \u2018consensus\u2019 that the world should follow China on lockdowns really shattered the old Left, Right paradigm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">RFK Jr. is being red-pilled by COVID to now expose that the same forces (UN, WEF, WHO) that pushed China-inspired COVID tyranny on the world are also pushing climate tyranny on the world. See:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2023\/04\/26\/rfk-jr-red-pilled-on-climate-agenda-rfk-declares-climate-being-exploited-by-the-wef-bill-gates-in-the-same-way-that-covid-was-exploited-top-down-totalitarian-controls-on-society\/\">RFK Jr. red-pilled on climate agenda?! RFK Jr. declares climate \u2018being exploited by the WEF &amp; Bill Gates\u2019 in \u2018the same way that COVID was exploited\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Top-down totalitarian controls on society\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In my book,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Reset-Global-Permanent-Lockdown\/dp\/1684512387\">The Great Reset<\/a>, I welcomed an alliance with RFK Jr. and climate skeptics. I officially granted him pardon for his past jail climate \u2018denier\u2019 comments. It was my 2014 interview with him at the New York City climate march that made his jailing \u2018deniers\u2019 comments go viral&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2014\/09\/21\/robert-f-kennedy-jr-wants-to-jail-his-political-opponents-accuses-koch-brothers-of-treason-they-ought-to-be-serving-time-for-it\/\">both then<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jdd385James\/status\/1651670999837057024\">now<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Page 252 of my book:&nbsp; I wrote. \u201cAll is forgiven by me for him wanting to jail climate skeptics after this anti-lockdown speech! Maybe climate skeptics can work with RFK Jr. on opposing the climate agenda someday. Climate skeptics have a big tent. We welcomed progressives Michael Moore &amp; Michael Shellenberger, in 2020, and I am ready to welcome RFK Jr. to our issue as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have received some flack from my fellow climate skeptics for being so welcoming and forgiving to RFK Jr., given his hostile history to anyone opposing the climate \u2018consensus\u2019, but I truly believe we are at a pivotal point in U.S. history where we need to realign coalitions to oppose COVID AND climate coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also believe that RFK Jr. is undergoing a genuine transformation over his views on the climate agenda \u2014 not necessarily on his scientific view of climate change. There is no way that he could accurately expose the WHO\/UN\/WEF and other public health organizations\u2019 COVID \u2018solutions\u2019 and not see the same players pushing the same type of \u2018solutions\u2019 on climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In many ways, RFK Jr. is helping the Democrat Party base wake up to the global institutions and government bureaucracies\u2019 push to strip away more and more freedoms in the name of fighting viruses and\/or climate change. Given the incredible similarities in COVID and climate change, RFK Jr.\u2019s dalliance on the national political scene will help expose how the UN\/WHO\/WEF are using a ginned-up climate scare to gain more power and control and strip away our freedoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will find many 2024 voters may just as easily pull the lever for RFK Jr. or Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>End Morano comments as submitted to E&amp;E.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatedepot.com\/2023\/04\/26\/rfk-jr-red-pilled-on-climate-agenda-rfk-declares-climate-being-exploited-by-the-wef-bill-gates-in-the-same-way-that-covid-was-exploited-top-down-totalitarian-controls-on-society\/\">RFK Jr. red-pilled on climate agenda?! RFK Jr. declares climate \u2018being exploited by the WEF &amp; Bill Gates\u2019 in \u2018the same way that COVID was exploited\u2019 \u2013 \u2018Top-down totalitarian controls on society\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KimIversen\">The Kim Iversen Show<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Broadcast April 25, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RFK Jr.:&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cThe climate issues and pollution issues are being exploited by the World Economic Forum and Bill Gates and all of these big Mega billionaires the same way that COVID was exploited. To use it as an excuse to clamp down \u2014 top-down totalitarian controls on society and to then to give us engineering solutions. And if you look closely as it turns out, the guys who are promoting those engineering solutions are the people who own the IPs, the patents for those solutions. It\u2019s being used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They\u2019ve given climate chaos a bad name because people now see that it\u2019s just another crisis that\u2019s being used to strip mine the wealth of the poor and to enrich billionaires. I, for 40 years, have had the same policy on climate and engineering. You can go check my speeches from the 1980s, and I\u2019ve said the most important solution for environmental issues is not top-down controls, it\u2019s free market capitalism and what we have in this country now is not free market capitalism; it\u2019s corporate crony capitalism. It\u2019s capitalism, cushy, kind of socialism for the rich, and a brutal, barbaric merciless capitalism for the poor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr on How the Elites are Exploiting Climate to Introduce Totalitarian Controls <br><br>&quot;Climate has become a crisis like COVID that the Davos group and other totalitarian elements in our society have used as a pretext for clamping down totalitarian controls.&quot;\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3U1pjTNX7m\">pic.twitter.com\/3U1pjTNX7m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheChiefNerd\/status\/1658897070034493440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"723\" height=\"407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/41yJTxrPFhM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Agreed! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Facebook?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Facebook<\/a> is &quot;aiding and abetting the spread of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climate<\/a> misinformation. They have become the vehicle for climate misinformation, and thus should be held partially responsible for a lack of action on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climatechange?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#climatechange<\/a>.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SLN78izbSX\">https:\/\/t.co\/SLN78izbSX<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertKennedyJr\/status\/1275773783064879105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 24, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was once a hero of the environment in New York&#8230;That Robert F. 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