WTF is a "climate team"?

[Jack]

The block (which is an extremely rare and expensive NASCAR block) is still at the machine shop and the guy I'm having rebuild it knows more about the older FE engines than I do. He's built some pretty stout engines, so when the block comes back, we'll decide how I want it built and I will help.

"and I will help".
That's ... that's about the saddest thing I ever heard.
What exactly does that mean?
You'll be the Gofer that fetches the coffee? (shaking head on this)

 

[Port Tack]

President-elect Joe Biden formally introduced his climate team on Saturday, saying that the people he has selected will lead his administration's "ambitious plan to address the existential threat of our time, climate change."

Biden announced his intention to nominate Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., to serve as secretary of the interior; former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm to head the Department of Energy; Michael Regan as EPA administrator; Brenda Mallory as chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Gina McCarthy as national climate adviser; and Ali Zaidi as deputy national climate adviser.

All told, the members of the team that Biden announced on Saturday illustrate an agenda markedly different from that of the Trump presidency.

The Trump administration has gutted a number of environmental protections and the president himself has questioned climate science.
The president-elect and his incoming team have made clear that they plan to try to undo or block many of the Trump administration's initiatives, as well as to prioritize communities of color and low-income communities, which have been disproportionately impacted by climate change and pollution.

During his remarks, Biden compared the climate threat to that of the coronavirus pandemic, and promised to take action.

"Just like we need a unified national response to COVID-19, we need a unified national response to climate change," he said. "We need to meet the moment with the urgency it demands as we would during any national emergency."

Biden also stressed the diversity of his emerging Cabinet, describing it as "a Cabinet that looks like America, that taps into the best of America, that opens doors and includes the full range of talents that we have in this nation."

If confirmed by the Senate, Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo, would be the first Native American to lead the Interior Department. The agency has responsibility for not only managing the nation's public lands, but also honoring the United States' treaties with the Indigenous peoples from whom those lands were taken.

"This moment is profound when we consider the fact that a former secretary of the interior once proclaimed his goal to 'civilize or exterminate us,' " Haaland said in her remarks. "I'm a living testament to the failure of that horrific ideology."

Haaland is not the only member of the climate team that would break barriers. Regan, Biden's pick to run the Environmental Protection Agency, would be the first Black man to hold that role. And Mallory, whom Biden will nominate to head up the Council on Environmental Quality, will be the first Black person to hold that position, if she is confirmed by the Senate.

You are too fucking stupid to understand so why even try to explain.

 

[RB 60]

"and I will help".
That's ... that's about the saddest thing I ever heard.
What exactly does that mean?
You'll be the Gofer that fetches the coffee? (shaking head on this)

That's because you don't know shit about engine building. For example, someone has to turn the crank when checking the measurement of each piston's TDC. It's easier and quicker for one to watch the indicator while the other turns the crank. You ever gap piston rings? On a V8, there's two sides of the motor, one can work on one side, the other on the other side.
But yeah, I can go get tools, unpack new parts, install rod and cam bearings, etc. Simple shit to save time and money.

 

[cancel2 2022]

That's because you don't know shit about engine building. For example, someone has to turn the crank when checking the measurement of each piston's TDC. It's easier and quicker for one to watch the indicator while the other turns the crank. You ever gap piston rings? On a V8, there's two sides of the motor, one can work on one side, the other on the other side.
But yeah, I can go get tools, unpack new parts, install rod and cam bearings, etc. Simple shit to save time and money.

Sadly Jacky think's that TDC means Turkey, Duck Chicken. Don't even ask him what blowing a big end is all about, he'll get a flashback to Vietnam and his R&R in Saigon.

 

[Jack]

That's because you don't know shit about engine building. For example, someone has to turn the crank when checking the measurement of each piston's TDC. It's easier and quicker for one to watch the indicator while the other turns the crank. You ever gap piston rings? On a V8, there's two sides of the motor, one can work on one side, the other on the other side.
But yeah, I can go get tools, unpack new parts, install rod and cam bearings, etc. Simple shit to save time and money.

Translation: 'OK. I admit I'm a rich, fat, Jay Leno type that just buys cars ... but really doesn't know that much about them nor wants to get my hands dirty'.

 

[RB 60]

Translation: 'OK. I admit I'm a rich, fat, Jay Leno type that just buys cars ... but really doesn't know that much about them nor wants to get my hands dirty'.

Whatever you say, Jack. Whatever you say