Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Never mind he’s not even President yet – greens are already trying to pin the blame for the embarrassing slow motion collapse of the Paris Climate Agreement on US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.
Trump’s Climate Change Denial Is Already Complicating the Paris Climate Deal
If Donald Trump wins and pulls the U.S. out of its climate change commitments, some countries wonder, why should they keep their own?
Donald Trump first shared his analysis of the climate crisis in a now infamous 2012 tweet-rant: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” he claimed.
The Republican presidential hopeful has since dialed back the rhetoric, calling that earlier claim a joke. But — as in other areas of critical domestic and international concern — he’s fallen short when pressed for specifics on what a Trump presidency would mean for energy and the climate. It seemed his oft-repeated phrase “trust me, I’ll get the best people“ was as close as the American public was going to get to details.
Until now.
The best Trump could find turns out to be climate denier and staunch fossil fuel backer Kevin Cramer, a two-term Republican congressman from oil- and coal-rich North Dakota. As a newly tapped energy adviser, Cramer recently handed the Trump campaign a four-page policy paper urging the candidate to scrap the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, among other regulations introduced by the EPA to curb pollution from the energy sector.
Trump promised to cancel the Paris Climate Agreement in an earlier speech.
Earlier this month, he told Reuters in an interview that he would renegotiate “at a minimum” the U.N. global climate accord agreed by 195 countries in Paris last December, saying he viewed the deal as bad for U.S. business.
He took that a step further in North Dakota. “We’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement,” he said.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-energy-idUSKCN0YH2D9
Everyone knows the Paris agreement was dead on arrival. President Obama’s desperation to get China on board, by granting a joke size concession, the Chinese “commitment” not to do anything about CO2 emissions until 2030, created an intolerable structural economic advantage. Add the ongoing split with Russia about the implementation of the Paris Accord, it was only a matter of time before the agreement collapsed.
In my opinion, Greens are well aware that the agreement was doomed from the outset. Now they’re just trying to save face, by trying to pin the blame on someone else, for their own political blunders.
Bahahahaha! Poor Believers! My heart bleeds for them. And in their honor, here is the world’s smallest violin playing a sad tune. As far as voting for him, if people are having trouble with that, think of it as a vote against Hillary. If there was ever a time to vote on the basis of a single issue, this is it.
Agreed – people can go on and on about what’s “bad” about Trump all they like – but until the Republicrats get some decent candidates WHO OPENLY OPPOSE “climate policy” BS, I’ll vote for the Trumps of the world, again and again. Time for AGW BS to be eradicated like an infestation of termites in your house.
The UN has outlived its usefulness. Now it is nothing but a safe haven for despots, Marxists, and terrorists. Add dropping out of the UN to Trump’s to do list.
Trump has never addressed the UN’s usefulness or lack thereof. Someone ought to ask him what he thinks. 🙂
Hear, hear. Go, Boris.
It is nonsense to place the blame on political leaders as Mr Lyman and others want to do. The moronised electorate is the only responsible party. In the US they have voted twice for the same wanderfully competent man. In Canada they have voted overwhelmingly for a totally empty suite. Well not even a suite.
Well the old saying:” when you need an excuse, anything will do”. That Trump is having an effect on the Paris agreement is certainly fine with me. If Trump doesn’t change things I think the prospect of a cooler batch of temperature data will. I am from the US and nothing offered during this election cycle rose above a clown act, in my opinion, but having someone who scares the living bejesus out of everyone is just fine with me, its about time someone in the office draws some kind of respect. I would certainly like to see the whole climate cadre go through a terrible night of fear and trembling on election night, and awake to their worst nightmare. That would satisfy me. I am also interested in someone to fertilize the Middle East Desert with ISIS fighters. That would really satisfy me.
I think Trump will satisfy you on those points, Steve.
Trump throws out those over-the-top comments, like saying maybe Japan should develop nuclear weapons, as a way of shaking up the status quo. That’s his first offer on the subject/deal.
Trump says you always ask for more than you will settle for when first making a deal. And he says it is good to keep your oppostion off balance and guessing. It’s part of his “Art of the Deal”. Trump’s philosophy is playing out right before our eyes.
Trump saying maybe Japan should develop its own nuclear weapons is really a brilliant move, if you think about it. I know everyone and their brother was horrified when they heard Trump say this, but think about it this way:
What must the leaders of China be thinking after hearing Trump say Japan might be on the road to developing nuclear weapons? They are *horrified*! The LAST thing the Chinese want is for Japan to get nuclear weapons.
China remembers the last time Japan was a great threat to them and they don’t want to go through that again. The Chinese think they are in a position to handle an attack from Japan today, but in the back of their minds, they remember the past.
So, let’s say Trump eventually gets elected with this position still out there. Trump then goes to the Chinese and threatens them with Japan nukes, but then he tells them he will not force Japan to build its own nuclear weapons IF China will reign in that little dictator in North Korea, which means taking his nuclear playtoys away from him.
The Chinese don’t know if Trump is serious or not about facilitating nukes for Japan, but he just might be, so they pick the lesser of two evils and reign in that little murderous dictator. If the Chinese want to put the kabosh on Kim Jung Un, they can. Trump is going to tell them they have to.
China would probably be more cooperative on trade deals under such circumstances, since Trump has leverage over them. Trump likes leverage. He got it over them by speaking about two sentences about Japan and nukes.
It’s a brilliant move, that noone else in the world would do. Trump is thinking outside the box. Everyone else is inside the box.
And of course, Trump’s little speech has put Japan and South Koreans on notice too. You can bet all three, China, Japan and South Korea are reassessing their situations with regard to a Trump presidency. As is NATO: another briliiant ploy of Trump’s.
Trump puts pressure on China with an “off-hand” remark. Brilliant! If he is elected, he’s right where he wants to be when it comes to dealing with China. He has the upper hand.
And Russia is not going to like the prospect of Japan going nuclear any more than China will. So Trump already has leverage on both Russia and China when he takes Office.
Another smart move Trump made: As the Transgender bathroom issue arose recently, the news media asked Trump what his policy was on transgender bathrooms, hoping that Trump would take a tough line, like North Carolina, so they could smear Trump as a bigot and homophobe.
But Trump fooled them. The press asked Trump what he would do if Caitlin Jenner came to Trump Tower to use the bathroom. Trump said Jenner could use any bathroom she desired, and completely disarmed the Left over this issue versus Trump. Trump shut them down with one sentence. You haven’t heard the press raise this issue with Trump since. Brilliant, again!
After Trump is elected, he can get together with Japan’s Prime Minister Abe, and Trump and Abe can play “good cop, bad cop” with China and Russia.
Abe will say he is extremely worried about the murderous dictator of North Korea and his nuclear weapons, and is very concerned about China’s efforts to steal natural resources from other countries, including Japan, by building artificial islands in disputed waters and then trying to claim the natural resources that surround these artificial islands.
And because of all these worries and concerns, Abe feels Japan *must* develop its own nuclear weapons stockpile.
This will, of course, scare both China and Russia considerably, and then Trump comes in and plays “good cop” and says we can fix this situation if you guys in China and Russia just give us a little cooperation, like taking Kim Jung Un’s nuclear weapons away from him, or stepping aside and letting the U.S., and South Korea do the job, and China must stop its building of artificial islands until these matters are settled in an international court.
If China and Russia really thought Japan was going to go nuclear, they would do just about anything to keep that from happening, even to the point of cooperating with the U.S. Trump might just be able to convince them that that might just happen if they don’t cooperate.
Trump has set himself us in a very good postion with his ambiguous statements on Japan’s nuclear weapons future.
And notice, this action by Trump is aimed not at winning the election, it was done to give him some leverage after he is president. The fact is, this ambiguous position will be used to try to harm his election chances, and he has been roundly criticized for it already, but Trump is thinking way far ahead of the election.
Trump is already planning his first term and is setting himself up to be in the most powerful bargaining position he can manage with the rest of the world.
A good analysis of Trump for those whom he scares the living bejesus out of:
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139119223061/why-does-trump-terrify-people
The Trump movement is a tidal wave. The Climate Change scam is only one of the artifacts of the “New World Order” that is going to be swept away. Because they are all busts.
Yep!
Picking Cramer, a congressman from North Dakota with very little experience in the field, to be his “energy advisor” tells me that Trump’s campaign will be mostly about pandering without giving much thought to what comes after. I’m not impressed.
As for Paris, it has so many inconsistencies and such a poor structure, it’s a fairly meaningless piece of paper. I don’t think Clinton will make a difference, her main focus seems to be pandering to neocons and greens. She’s a terrible candidate, even worse than Trump.
I feel like I’m in the dying days of the Republic. The country can’t stand lousy president’s one right after the other after the other after the other like this.
His work experience is entirely public service, which I don’t consider a “plus”. However, he did run the North Dakota Public Energy Commission, so he seems likely to know the in’s and out’s of the energy business to some extent, at least for oil and gas. If he’s a good administrator he’ll hire the brains he needs to get the job done.
I’ve been in the oil and gas for over 40 years, and I consider the North Dakota energy commission a bunch of amateurs. Their understanding of the industry and regulatory issues rates at best a D. This is to be expected, they are political figures in a state with a population the size of Beaumont Texas. I’ve met several hundred individuals in my career who have much better credentials than Trump’s advisor. And since I’ve been overseas so much, I bet there must be thousands very qualified individuals who would do a better job. The choice is very revealing. I was seriously considering backing trump. But right now I’m going to simply look up a third party candidate.
You will be pleasantly surprised by a Trump presidency. None of the new-world-end-of-civilization totalitarian edifiice constructed by UN EU and Obama’s US will be too big to fail with Trump. Any other of the GOP “good guys”+ who were in the race, maybe with the exception of Cruz, are incapable of doing other than giving ground by shifting leftward, the strategy of republicans for some years now. Obama’s, Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ constituentcy is outside the US – Trump is going to turn this back around.
Gary
Huh? Obama’s constituentcy is outside the US? What did I miss?
Lydia? Syria? Israel? Russia? Egypt? Saudia Arabia? Ukraine? Germany? Britain? Iran? Pakistan? Afganistan?
Exactly where is this constituency? My guess is nobody trusts the guy.
Fernando
STOP! Don’t slit your wrists!
Obama had Steven “Solyndra” Chu, who is good at trapping atoms with lasers. but not so good at national energy policy. He also had Timothy “tax cheat” Geithner running Treasury, and Eric “gun runner” Holder at Justice.
Face it: A lot of political appointments (and politicians) are, shall we say, sub-optimal.
I consider Obama a failure. He’s decayed as time went by. This is why I wrote bad president one after the other after the other. Clinton was bad, Bush was awful, Obama seemed average and then went bad, is closing out almost as bad as Bush. The country simply can’t stand one bad performer right after the other for decades, coupled to another large group of fairly incompetent individuals in congress.
“Alarmists credit Donald Trump with exposing the truth about the Paris climate accord.”
There – I fixed it for you.
LOL I always love a good translation.
Democrats (esp. Reid, Pelosi and Obama) blamed the powerless Republican minority in both houses for their own inept failures, too. It was supposedly their bad attitudes that caused failure and not Democrat’s screwing things up with bad laws and policies.
Hmmm. I seem to recall Stalin, Mao and Castro used the same excuses.
Every administration blames the last, it’s an on going game politicians play all over the world from the level of mayor to state senator to national or federal gov since forever, am pretty sure Consuls did this in Rome too and Roman senators
LarryFine wrote: “Hmmm. I seem to recall Stalin, Mao and Castro used the same excuses.”
Yeah, it’s called lying.
I would look for the Alarmists to get politically active against Trump, now that he has officially come out against the Paris Peace Accords.
Along with the Mexicans, the Anarchists, and the general Loony Leftists who will be outside the Repubican National Convention demonstrating, we can add a bunch of Climate Alarmists.
Trump’s Reponse? Get ’em out! Get ’em out!
The Loony Left always has violent demonstrations against the Right. But you never see the Right raising hell outside the Democrat convention, now do you?
That would be because the Left is violence-prone and the Right is not. The Left will say that’s not true, but who are you going to believe, the Left, or your own eyes?
‘But the Obama administration also pledged that the United States would cut its emissions as part of the Paris climate deal, a treaty painstakingly negotiated with 194 other nations to avoid some of the worst consequences of climate change.’
It was NOT a treaty.
Obama’s pledges become null and void next January. So sorry.
Trump is potentially the best thing for America in a long time. Helping. Not intentially hurting. Refreshing. Exciting. The Greens know he would END their little Socialist party.
“The Republican presidential hopeful has since dialed back the rhetoric, calling that earlier claim a joke”
I didn’t laugh.
Anyone here thought it was funny?
simple-touriste
May 28, 2016 at 12:11 pm
Trump will save you, too!!. It’s like the nile crocodile, while you are saving them they are trying to eat your A55 off.
Gary
+1
Since there is more than a 50% chance of the GW pause ending into cooling (following winding down in solar activity), the industrial countries may need all energy they can get their hands on. It will be down to the USA and its administration to lead the way in preparing for such a scenario, but it could be a long slog, it may take more than one or even two presidential terms to do it.
Perhaps Mr. Trump arrived to the right place at the right time, and if so, it is likely that after eight years of Trump senior, the USA may be tempted to follow with another eight years of Trump junior, there are two of them, and apparently they are gifted young man.
vukcevic wrote: ” it is likely that after eight years of Trump senior, the USA may be tempted to follow with another eight years of Trump junior, there are two of them, and apparently they are gifted young man.”
To tell you the truth, I am almost more impressed by Don Jr., than I am by Donald himself. Don Jr. has impressed me every time I have listened to him talk.
Then there’s Ivanka Trump; also very impressive. Perhaps she could follow the Don as the first woman president.
Hilarious. He knows it is all mostly for show but the press eats it up right out of his hand. Please vote for this man he will infuriate and mock the liberals and elitists every day of their lives from here on and call them out on their BS and hypocrisy.
Trying to pin the blame on someone else is what enviro-activists do. Responsibility is never theirs, as far as they are concerned.
I’m pleasantly surprised to see the shifting towards Trump. I was promoting him through the period when most thoughtful people hear thought he was a joke. Now he’s “rattled” world leaders – just what we need more of to stop the horrible totalitarian end game that has been marching forward. The whole world knows that if America isn’t all in, then their scheme is dead in the water. Now America can join Russia and China at the top again and contain their ambitions.
“Trump’s Climate Change Denial Is Already Complicating the Paris Climate Deal”
Denial my a*se. Climate realist.
Praise be that this is happening. It’s the light of truth shining in all those dark, danky, dirty depths of dubious so called climate science.
I would not be too quick to count Trump out. See the video that starts 25 seconds after Rachel starts talking:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
And here; maybe someone could put these on you tube:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/hah-trump-releases-compilation-anti-trumpers-saying-hed-never-nominee-video/
Now is the time for undecideds to join the winning team… ☺
http://americandigest.org/get-in-pussy-we-are-making-america-great-again-funny-donald-trump-meme-image.jpg
+97% !!
Donald Trump is the best candidate for President! This is just one more reason to vote for him! 🙂
Demo or Greenie playbook page 1, in good ol’ Basic:
10 A = LeadingRepublican
20 Blame = A
30 goto 10
It is good to see that Trump changed his wording from “…renegotiating the Paris Agreement…” to this ““We’re going to cancel the Paris climate agreement,” he said.’ “. I much prefer the idea of outright canceling the Paris Agreement versus his original thought of renegotiating it.
The Paris ‘Accord’ is a bureaucrats dream, everybody agrees that ‘something’ must be done, but nobody can tell anyone what each individual countries ‘something’ is; the individual ‘somethings’ are strictly voluntary; and there is no consequence for failing to meet the voluntary ‘something’. All there is is the creation of a very large bureaucracy to receive periodic reports about the progress (or lack thereof) in meeting the voluntary non-commitment ‘something’, not that the accord says what the bureaucrats are to do with the reports.
What a bang up, gosh darn, fun thread.
Here’s a thought: think of all the made up, deliberately misleading, deceptive, and therefore morally repugnant statements made over the last 25+ years wherein it was claimed that ‘the majority,’ the ‘vast majority,’ ‘97% of all climate scientists,’ or ‘99% of all climate scientists agree on AGW,’ yet no one ever produced one goddam survey to back up these claims. But everybody, at least in the media, believed it because, well, because…
Now, let’s think about the claims made about the Donald’s odds. He won’t last. He’ll shoot himself in the foot. He’ll go too far. He’s just an anomaly. “Low energy” Jeb’ll beat him. “Little Marco” Rubio will beat him. Ok, “Lyin’ Ted” Cruz’ll beat him. It’ll be a contested election. He won’t get 1,237 delegates: he just won’t. Ok, he’ll lose Indiana.
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, & wrong.
Now, let’s think about the one big hurdle that all those who just know these things know will defeat him: Women don’t like him. Are we hearing that from women?…or, are we hearing that from?…men: Men who are, maybe, jealous? Now, I’m not transgender, and therefore haven’t changed sexes, so I can’t say what a young woman might fantasize about. But, I suspect any fantasies are unlikely to center around being a ward of the state such as in the vomit inducing Democrat cartoon of the life of Julia; and more likely to center around perhaps being a wealthy supermodel; maybe a supermodel married to a billionaire; maybe a supermodel married to a billionaire who’s President of the United States. But, of course, none of the supermodels he’s known like him. Wait a minute; they all like him!
But, the foregoing is just a thought experiment. Instead, just take a look at the crowds at his rallies. I’ll be damned if at least – at least – 50% appear to be women.
It’s gonna’ be a helluva’ ride in November!
Thank you for saying it better than I can. This thread made my day.
If I was still in high school today, I would say I feel like a woman so I could shower with the girls. But I think I would be found to be a lair because of my male “junk” noticeable effect…
Funny Trump video releases of those saying he wasn’t going to win (don’t know why these aren’t on you tube yet):
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/05/hah-trump-releases-compilation-anti-trumpers-saying-hed-never-nominee-video/
A vote for Hillary = 4 more years of “It’s all Bush’s fault.”
A vote for Trump = 4 years of “It’s all Trump’s fault.”
That would be a welcome change.
Well, Rocky, you got my point. Since the Propaganda arm of the Democrat Party (MSM) is always going to place the blame on Republicans, in office or not, it would be nice to hear a different name for a change. 16 years of “It’s all Bush’s fault” has become wearisome.