Guest essay by Eric Worrall
US Presidential Candidate Donald Trump has signalled a drastic revision of US environmental policy, by nominating high profile climate skeptic Myron Ebell to head his proposed “EPA transition” team.
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition
Choosing Myron Ebell means Trump plans to drastically reshape climate policies.
Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.
Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading Trump’s transition plans for EPA, the sources said.
The Trump team has also lined up leaders for its Energy Department and Interior Department teams. Republican energy lobbyist Mike McKenna is heading the DOE team; former Interior Department solicitor David Bernhardt is leading the effort for that agency, according to sources close to the campaign.
Ebell is a well-known and polarizing figure in the energy and environment realm. His participation in the EPA transition signals that the Trump team is looking to drastically reshape the climate policies the agency has pursued under the Obama administration. Ebell’s role is likely to infuriate environmentalists and Democrats but buoy critics of Obama’s climate rules.
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In a biography submitted when he testified before Congress, he [Ebell] listed among his recognitions that he had been featured in a Greenpeace “Field Guide to Climate Criminals,” dubbed a “misleader” on global warming by Rolling Stone and was the subject of a motion to censure in the British House of Commons after Ebell criticized the United Kingdom’s chief scientific adviser for his views on global warming.
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Read more: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-picks-top-climate-skeptic-to-lead-epa-transition/
Frankly I think the US EPA should be abolished. The apparent capture of EPA policy by green activists and their disregard for the harm their actions cause are pretty nearly the definition of an over-mighty collection of bureaucrats who should be relieved of duty – not to mention the EPA’s gross incompetence in their handling of actual environmental problems, such as the Gold King Mine disaster.
However, a “transition” headed by someone on Greenpeace’s hit list is a good start.
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Might be the first thing trump has done that would allow me to vote for him. Let’s not forget trump’s praise to the ethanol farmers in Iowa during the primaries. Which way are you really swinging donald???
Ethanol is a very good fuel for conversion into electricity via a fuel cell, perfect to power your home when the wind generators kill the grid. Quiet in operation with no pollution. (sarc)
It won’t be a moment to soon, if it happens. It must happen.
The UN’s Figueres is back on the money trail, with a new, very well funded propaganda outfit:
http://www.climatechangenews.com/2016/09/28/london-calling-figueres-dives-back-into-climate-after-un-bid/
“Fresh from quitting what is becoming an increasingly brutal race to replace Ban Ki-moon as UN secretary general, Christiana Figueres is back with a new project: Mission 2020.
City leaders, bankers and the burgeoning climate philanthropy sector can expect calls in the coming weeks and months as the Costa Rican gets to work.
“By 2020 we have to bend the [emissions] curve and by 2020 we have to have a critical level of support for developing countries,” she tells Climate Home.
Staffed with former UN colleagues and boasting Newton Investment Management chief executive Helena Morrissey as one of five advisory board members, Mission 2020 will be based in London.
After the Brexit referendum and with UK climate and energy policy in a state of flux it seems a curious choice for an HQ, but Figueres cites the city’s rich seam of climate policy and finance expertise.
Last week she was spotted talking to new UK climate minister Nick Hurd and longtime climate advocate Kate Hampton, CEO of the Mayfair-based CIFF, which is valued at £2 billion.”
This does not bode well:
https://twitter.com/nickhurdmp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Well, this certainly helps move me out of the undecided camp. Trump may keep “putting his foot in his mouth”, but the policy decisions and cabinet appointments seem sound.
Go Myron!
Yes, I might be a little biased.
If Mr Trump is elected President of the USA, it’s the end of the climate change mass delusion.
Here’s an interesting story just found – professor and wife going to prison for defrauding Nasa of climate research grant money. About time!!! Maybe Shukla will be next…
http://www.ien.com/operations/news/20835297/professor-wife-sentenced-on-convictions-of-defrauding-nasa
And maybe sometimes there’s space to talk about environment as with
https://www.google.at/search?client=ms-android-samsung&ei=vzbtV9rlMcH-afqii9AO&q=annie+proulx+books&oq=prouls+Washington+french+Canadian&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp
I think Myron Ebell is a good choice. We need realism regarding global warming.
A good start. If Trump can pull off a win he can take a hose to the EPA.
Donald Trump is the face of people who see erosion of their quality of life caused by a White House out of touch . When the USA President says global warming is the # 1 problem and the people rank it #16
it is not hard to see why Trump has a sizable following .
Wasn’t that 16th out of 16? I E last on every list?
Max
This is such a laugh. So the guy who thinks climate change is an invention of the Chinese, is going to appoint a guy who thinks climate change was invented by the Europeans. Dear oh dear.
What’s the problem? At least they both understand that “climate change” was invented.
Yea but if they are gonna make it up at least have the same lie.
Simon, I guess there’s no room in your world for a humorous quip. And, besides which, you didn’t explain why there was a problem. For my part, I am happy to think that both China and Europe have an agenda served by promotion of the “global warming” scam (I like my scams pure, so I don’t bother to use “climate change”). Isn’t this the case?
Falsehood has a thousand fathers, but there is only one truth.
Yeah but irony is …. the Donald would not have the slightest clue re the truth about climate change. He is almost completely ignorant from what I can tell, but like he is on many subjects, it doesn’t stop him opening his mouth.
I am from OZ and from here it seems to me and many of my friends, the best last chance America has of being great and a world leader again, in all things, is a change of direction with a leader that is not cowed by anyone or anything. It would be the biggest shot in the arm of America to have a leader that is genuine red white and blue, a real american, not a socialist globalist. Wayne