Here’s how to do climate change

From Atheists Against Pseudoscientific Nonsense on Facebook:

This has been one of the most succulent ironies I’ve seen in a long time. The administration that denies climate change has created a scale model of how it happens at their door because of their ignorant decisions and impositive orders.

They have a miniature anthropocene right there.

Disturbed by what he deemed a “filthy” aesthetic, Trump bypassed seasoned engineers and civil specialists, awarding a $14.2 million no-bid contract to a company that had previously coated a swimming pool at one of his private golf clubs.

The mandate was simple, superficial, and unburdened by expertise: paint the bottom of the historic, 2,000-foot-long basin a specific, patriotic hue dubbed “American flag blue”.

​What followed is a masterclass in the unintended consequences of weaponized ignorance. By applying a dark, industrial epoxy coating across an expanse larger than six soccer fields, the builders unwittingly created a perfect, enclosed macro-experiment in anthropogenic climate change.

And I want to state the following: executive orders cannot override the basic laws of physics.

When solar radiation hits a body of water, the color of the basin’s floor dictates how that energy is managed:

​The light, untreated stone bottom reflected a significant portion of solar energy back out of the shallow water, keeping temperatures relatively stable.

​The dark “American flag blue” epoxy acted as a giant solar heat sink. Dark colors absorb a drastically higher percentage of the light spectrum, transferring that energy directly into the stagnant water as heat.

As a heatwave rolled through Washington D.C., the water temperature spiked. In biology, an increase in temperature accelerates metabolic rates. Combined with the untreated, nutrient-rich water pumped from the Tidal Basin, Trump’s dark blue floor transformed the national monument into a high-capacity biological incubator. Within days of completion, the pristine “azure expanse” underwent an ecological shift, blooming into a chartreuse, mossy green soup.

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