And So It Begins, Trump’s Great Climate Purge
May 8, 2017 16:02:21 #
Finally the Trump administration is starting to get serious about taking on the Green Blob.
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt – perhaps stung by criticisms that he was turning into a squish – today reaffirmed, in an interview with CNBC, that he is not a believer in catastrophic man-made global warming.
“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet…”
This new boldness coincides with a purge of warmist scientific advisers at both the EPA and the Interior Department.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has chosen to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, while Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is “reviewing the charter and charge” of more than 200 advisory boards, committees, and other entities both within and outside of his department. EPA and Interior officials began informing outside advisers of the move on Friday, and notifications continued over the weekend.
Pruitt’s move could significantly change the makeup of the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises EPA’s key scientific arm on whether the research it does has sufficient rigor and integrity. All of the members being dismissed were at the end of serving at least one three-year term, although these terms are often renewed instead of terminated.
Among the tragic victims is Robert Richardson, a Michigan professor and “ecological economist”, who tweeted movingly about his martyrdom.
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Robert Richardson @ecotrope
Today, I was Trumped. I have had the pleasure of serving on the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, and my appointment was terminated today.
5:57 PM - 5 May 2017
5,701 5,701 Retweets 5,708 5,708 likes
A closer look at the man’s biog gives a few clues as to why his contract was not renewed:
His research, teaching, and outreach program focuses primarily on sustainable development, and he uses a variety of methods from the behavioral and social sciences to study decision-making about the use of natural resources and the values of ecosystem services.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
But the biggest sign of Trump’s commitment to slaying the Green Blob is expected tomorrow when we’ll finally hear whether or not the president means to keep his election promise to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
If this happens it will be a disaster for the U.S., with the only beneficiary being White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. At least that’s what environmental journalist David Roberts claims in Vox.
Given that Roberts is the guy who once called for Nuremberg-style trials for climate skeptics perhaps his views should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Nonetheless, he is quite right when he argues that whether the U.S. stays in or out of Paris it will make little difference on the policy front.
[The agreement] asks participants only to state what they are willing to do and to account for what they’ve done. It is, in a word, voluntary.
Roberts suspects, as I do, that the legalistic reasons being advanced for pulling out of Paris have probably been overdone.
But whatever works is fine by me. The important thing is for the U.S. to pull out of Paris not in order to facilitate exit from Obama’s Clean Power Plan or to avert legal action from politicized litigators like the Sierra Club but purely as an upward extension of the presidential middle finger to the bloated, corrupt and overmighty Climate Industrial Complex.
If and when Trump pulls the U.S. out of Paris it won’t be the end for the Green Blob, nor even the beginning of the end. But it might, perhaps, be the end of the beginning. It will be arguably the first big signal by any major leader of the Western world that the tide on the Great Global Warming Scam is about to turn and that the Alarmists are about to be crushed by fortune’s wheel.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/08/delingpole-and-so-it-begins-trumps-great-climate-purge/
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt – perhaps stung by criticisms that he was turning into a squish – today reaffirmed, in an interview with CNBC, that he is not a believer in catastrophic man-made global warming.
“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see. But we don’t know that yet…”
This new boldness coincides with a purge of warmist scientific advisers at both the EPA and the Interior Department.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has chosen to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, while Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is “reviewing the charter and charge” of more than 200 advisory boards, committees, and other entities both within and outside of his department. EPA and Interior officials began informing outside advisers of the move on Friday, and notifications continued over the weekend.
Pruitt’s move could significantly change the makeup of the 18-member Board of Scientific Counselors, which advises EPA’s key scientific arm on whether the research it does has sufficient rigor and integrity. All of the members being dismissed were at the end of serving at least one three-year term, although these terms are often renewed instead of terminated.
Among the tragic victims is Robert Richardson, a Michigan professor and “ecological economist”, who tweeted movingly about his martyrdom.
Follow
Robert Richardson @ecotrope
Today, I was Trumped. I have had the pleasure of serving on the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors, and my appointment was terminated today.
5:57 PM - 5 May 2017
5,701 5,701 Retweets 5,708 5,708 likes
A closer look at the man’s biog gives a few clues as to why his contract was not renewed:
His research, teaching, and outreach program focuses primarily on sustainable development, and he uses a variety of methods from the behavioral and social sciences to study decision-making about the use of natural resources and the values of ecosystem services.
Oh dear. How sad. Never mind.
But the biggest sign of Trump’s commitment to slaying the Green Blob is expected tomorrow when we’ll finally hear whether or not the president means to keep his election promise to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
If this happens it will be a disaster for the U.S., with the only beneficiary being White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. At least that’s what environmental journalist David Roberts claims in Vox.
Given that Roberts is the guy who once called for Nuremberg-style trials for climate skeptics perhaps his views should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Nonetheless, he is quite right when he argues that whether the U.S. stays in or out of Paris it will make little difference on the policy front.
[The agreement] asks participants only to state what they are willing to do and to account for what they’ve done. It is, in a word, voluntary.
Roberts suspects, as I do, that the legalistic reasons being advanced for pulling out of Paris have probably been overdone.
But whatever works is fine by me. The important thing is for the U.S. to pull out of Paris not in order to facilitate exit from Obama’s Clean Power Plan or to avert legal action from politicized litigators like the Sierra Club but purely as an upward extension of the presidential middle finger to the bloated, corrupt and overmighty Climate Industrial Complex.
If and when Trump pulls the U.S. out of Paris it won’t be the end for the Green Blob, nor even the beginning of the end. But it might, perhaps, be the end of the beginning. It will be arguably the first big signal by any major leader of the Western world that the tide on the Great Global Warming Scam is about to turn and that the Alarmists are about to be crushed by fortune’s wheel.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/08/delingpole-and-so-it-begins-trumps-great-climate-purge/
May 9, 2017 10:23:58 #
If this happens it will be a sad day I get it keeping water and air clean hurts the bottom line . All for greed
May 9, 2017 10:33:48 #
If this happens it will be a sad day I get it keeping water and air clean hurts the bottom line . All for greed
May 9, 2017 15:24:30 #
desparado wrote:
If this happens it will be a sad day I get it keeping water and air clean hurts the bottom line . All for greed
Trump, or the GOP, is not going to dirty the air, or water....moron. I saw an article yesterday depicting the top ten cities with the dirtiest air, and guess what? Six of those cities were in CA, and held the top five spots, and the seventh spot. And, everyone was run by a Democrat, those six CA cities are also in a blue state. So, I suggest you Democrats are the ones that dirty the air and water. So, clean up your own back yard.
May 9, 2017 15:30:02 #
what part of lowering air and water standards don't you understand i'm sorry red states don't have this problem probably because can't afford cars yet
May 9, 2017 15:42:31 #
desparado wrote:
what part of lowering air and water standards don't you understand i'm sorry red states don't have this problem probably because can't afford cars yet
Another absolute stupid comment....your norm.
May 9, 2017 16:52:49 #
May 9, 2017 17:22:45 #
desparado wrote:
ok they allow coil mines to dump coal contaminated water in streams "this is Good "
Huge exaggeration! Look up the law....moron.
May 10, 2017 06:36:30 #
desparado wrote:
That's NOT the law. That is nothing but a skewed opinionated journalism article from the leftist media site 'The Hill.' Now that you have shown that you can do more than just look up porn, try looking up the REAL LAW! And, IF you do, try READING IT!
May 10, 2017 12:55:41 #
well i read it and it's troubling especially since we have the head of the epa that's a climate change denier .
why would you want to find new sources for coal nobody wants the stuff I have worked on coal and oil power plants clean coal is a myth
why would you want to find new sources for coal nobody wants the stuff I have worked on coal and oil power plants clean coal is a myth
May 10, 2017 13:02:59 #
desparado wrote:
well i read it and it's troubling especially since we have the head of the epa that's a climate change denier .
why would you want to find new sources for coal nobody wants the stuff I have worked on coal and oil power plants clean coal is a myth
why would you want to find new sources for coal nobody wants the stuff I have worked on coal and oil power plants clean coal is a myth
More leftist bullshit....sigh. You just don't quit with the stupidity, do you?
May 10, 2017 16:16:38 #
I can't help it if you can't read trump needs to step down before he lands in prison o I forgot he has the racist jeff sessions as ag who fired 43 lawyers hoping to hamper the trup russian connection. he fires comley 2 days after comley asked for more money to continue the investigation! which in the letter trump made public he thanked him for reassuring him he wasn't being investigated I know a fucking commie when i see one shit maybe your one your self
May 10, 2017 16:22:29 #
Rivers wrote:
b Finally the Trump administration is starting to... (show quote)
One more "false fact" disappearing for the libturds to get their knickers in a knot over.
May 10, 2017 16:26:32 #
desparado wrote:
I can't help it if you can't read trump needs to step down before he lands in prison o I forgot he has the racist jeff sessions as ag who fired 43 lawyers hoping to hamper the trup russian connection. he fires comley 2 days after comley asked for more money to continue the investigation! which in the letter trump made public he thanked him for reassuring him he wasn't being investigated I know a fucking commie when i see one shit maybe your one your self
More leftist bullshit....sigh. You just don't quit with the stupidity, do you? Can't spell either....dumber than a bag of hammers.
May 10, 2017 16:28:50 #
desparado wrote:
I can't help it if you can't read trump needs to step down before he lands in prison o I forgot he has the racist jeff sessions as ag who fired 43 lawyers hoping to hamper the trup russian connection. he fires comley 2 days after comley asked for more money to continue the investigation! which in the letter trump made public he thanked him for reassuring him he wasn't being investigated I know a fucking commie when i see one shit maybe your one your self
Are you another of those ghetto-denizens who gets paid for haunting houses?
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