Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The victory of President Trump is a gift not just for America but for the world.
As WUWT recently reported, the last few days has seen a growing panic amongst the inner core of the Climate movement, currently partying at taxpayer’s expense in Marrakesh, about what they hoped was the unlikely possibility of a Trump Victory. Now their worst fears are realised.
Many years ago, Lord Monckton predicted America would be nation to lead the world to freedom from the anti-humanist greed of the green movement. Lord Monckton’s prediction has now come to pass.
In my native Australia, in Europe, across the world, in the bleak halls of the United Nations, the climate elite were gathering for one final great push to claim the future. Their plans are now in ruins.
God bless the United States of America. God bless the next President of the United States, Donald J Trump.
Update (EW) fixed a typo (h/t Dodgy Geezer)
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Does this mean that the people of a world in the grip of an ice age, teetering on the brink of the next great glaciation, will no longer be trying to cool the place down?
That would seem eminently sensible.
The Millennial Cult, the Global Warming Panic, the Climate Change Hysteria….has run its course.
Some of us called it sooner than others.
In a few years time there will be no need for a site like WUWT.
Now is the time to evolve!
Best wishes to everyone in the USA…’the greatest gift to the world’!
Charles, President Trump will be tested sorely. WUWT will provide support against the barbarians.
Even after the great Gore Bull Woe Mann swindle is finally put to rest, I’m sure WUWT will stick around as a general climate research and discussion site.
Haven’t you been watching?
The President ‘leads’ all governmental bodies in their policy direction…that’s why we’ve had the anaemic embarrassment of Obama’s Climate posturing…sure it may take a couple of years but soon we wlll have actual scientists back in control of our key government Agencies!
Other than the politics surrounding AGW, I would prefer that WUWT steer clear of politics. There are enough political sites around if that is your thing.
As long as figures like Michael Mann and that ilk are spreading nonsense, fully supported by politicians and politics, there ought to be an intelligent and sane counterweight to that. That’s what WUWT is, imho.
Climate barbarians, Mark.
Being “Green” is not all about Global Warming. It is also being sensible in the use of our planet (do you know another one on which to live). Using LED saves electricity. Bikes are good for small distance commuting etc. And I heard that a lot of infrastructure is past there replacement date. Let’s wait for the factual plans before acting like a “GW hothead”, we are supposed to be the “Cool Guys”
This rock we live on has a shelf life, and one day, it will be expired, with us or not. So lets use our resources the best way possible, ie, nuclear for power generation, after all, climate change driven by human emissions of CO2, primarily from power generation, is the cause, right?
Yet Nasa tells us the planet has greened by 14% in the last 30 years. Can you direct me to anything CO2 is cited as the culprit for, that has increased by 14%? Hurricanes? Temperature? Droughts? Sea level rise?
Face reality, this is empirical science, not wacky computer projections based on Cr*p in = Cr*p out.
Wim, did you not get the mail? Big Green has been long owned by BIG SOCIALIST/MARXIST … maybe GREEN will come back to meaning genuine environmental concern again … one day.
@Streetcred
November 9, 2016 at 2:08 am: Yes. Having lived my life on the land and sea, like any reindeer or fish, I am sick of being treated as scum by greens. Though i have earned a scientific understanding of nature far above theirs Through great travails, maybe some sunlight?
so Walmarts latest policy announced this week on renewables and sustainability – commercial decision or driven by Marxists on the board?
Or maybe Walmart was forced into it griff?
Griff,
It’s called green-washing. People like you are so easily bought off.
Being green is mostly about being gullible.
Just to make sure Wim you understand right. I like bicycling and bicycles, but making environment-talk a cross-cutting pillar of society, something that everybody needs to think first in every case, sounds very much like a religion. This has been said before, but really there is no escape. Greens have brought us a religion, and it is not a religion of green peace, it is a religion of anger, It contains a huge combination of values, some of which I do support to some extent. But I am dead against submitting everything in the society under the control of this ideology. It is not just about saving environment, it is an ideology with an opinion on everything.
Griff: green and wet behind the ears
I, for one, don’t like to be forced because of someone else’s hobby horses. If I do it, it will be voluntary…
Good on you Wim Gossen – just hold on to that simple opinion and everybody will agree with you. That was the original Green idea. But then they started following flimsy ideology, based on ignorance only – and ignorance and ideology are dangerous bedfellows.Hopefully a bit of “realpolitik” from the likes of Donald Trump will call a stop to that.
So you’re saying being liberal a.k.a progressive, socialist ect. is being the “Cool Guys”? Mind numb.
We are being sensible in our use of this planet.
Why do you feel the right to enforce your opinion of what is sensible and what isn’t onto others?
We can finally begin to concentrate on what is really important rather than a what a cabal of rent seekers tell us to worry about.
Will those that said they would leave the USA if Trump won actually do it?
Will whiny Californians & New Yorkers want to secede?
This means that the AG Lynch is finished, as well as the head of the EPA, and many of the other useless/inept bureaucrats who gained positions during Obama’s reign. The carbon tax is DOA. The Paris Treaty is DOA. Unbelievable, I would have never bet on Trump though I voted for him.
goldminor, If we would have put money on him we would made a few bucks, I didn’t expect him to win either but I am going to sleep with a smile on my face. Did you see his speech? Great, Presidential and powerful.
Actually, I did make ten bucks on a bet with a colleague.
When he comes to pay up – might take him a while to get out of bed today – I will offer him another bet, namely that WW3 is not going to start in 6 months, NAFTA is not going to be repealed, and the Mexican wall is not going to be built.
Michael P, iffen you bet $10 on each one of those 3, ……. then you are gonna lose $10.
You will win the WW3 bet, …… but will lose the other 2 bets.
OK, Sam – wanna bet?
The president isn’t a dictator. He can’t tear up agreements without the consent of congress.
Even Trump has stopped emphasizing the wall in favor of internal enforcement.
Two of the most miserable and unhappy American citizens this morning. Al Gore and Michael. Mann
Can the Green CAGW movement infiltrate into the Trump camp by stealth? Will they try or will they just continue going all-out for vilification?
It does not matter what they try, they will not succeed.
We should all remember that Trump is not a climate skeptic because of scientifically based judgement, like those who are so. He is a skeptic because Hillary Clinton is not. His decisions as to climate and energy may therefore be slightly irrational, like they have been much more so so far under the old rule. Let us just hope he chooses wise women and men around him! The present administration has been totally in the grip of a bunch of ruthless golddiggers.
Qe!? He’s a sceptic because he realises the damage that the CAGW sycophants are doing to the US and World economies.
His skepticism has nothing to do with Hillary.
That is pure BS.
Menicholas, agreed, people should read about how he had to fight against the windmills they were putting up just offshore in Scotland right in front of one of hie developments there.( right when Scotland was getting huge benefits from fossil fuels)
He had a fight with the Scottish Parliament that he thought he had bought influence over. That was no climate fight, his golf course was built over a site of special scientific interest because of its unique drifting sands nature. He drove anybody he didnt like off the surrounding area and he was furious when the new windmills out to see ruined his picture of Scottish wild, links golf idyll.
I wouldnt use that as a proof of his climate credentials if I was you. I fully support the change in politics, democracy at last is becoming a positive force again. Trumps Scottish venture shows that he is a determined and forceful business man. Strip away his unpleasant character traits and I think you will find a very strong and resolute leader – he could be one of the greats – he has a mandate to get on with it – more so than any president for nearly 100 years. He will need to control his bullying nature to do so – thats going to be difficult for him – he is a natural autocrat!
MWH…”That was no climate fight, his golf course was built over a site of special scientific interest because of its unique drifting sands nature”
Gee, is that why they wanted to put a wind farm there ???
I suspect that his skepticism simply comes from knowing what hucksters look like.
the wind farm is out to sea not on his golf course but does destroy his outlook from the tee!!
You don’t have to understand the science to see the harm done by the policies that have been put in place to combat CO2.
Further, you do not need to understand the science to see that those policies fail in their primary objective; they do not result in the meaningful reduction of CO2.
Any business man can see the madness of pursuing costly policies that do not reduce CO2 and only serve to hike up the cost of energy thereby leading to job losses.
Yes RV,
For too long we the people have been assured that government run by career politicians is superior to one run by business leaders. Now is the t St of that insulting assertion.
He struggled with Salmond (SNP First Minister) in Scotland and lost…Wind Turbines in view of his golf course. Payback time?
Wonder what the old trout will have to say, sorry, Sturgeon
That is undeniably incorrect. Trump’s skepticism existed long before he ran for President.
Have you noticed the guy that Trump with put in charge of the EPA.
Now that WILL be fun to watch 🙂
True.
Opposition to renewables and climate science in the US is a political, not science based, position and often it is part of the binary situation in the US, where a Democrat policy is bad/must be opposed automatically by Republicans and vice versa.
Griff you seem to imply that its all right to cheat Bernie Sanders out of the Democratic Candidacy because he was ‘not credible’
This is exactly the same mentality revealed by ‘Climategate’ apologists.
The ends justify the means.
Then you wonder why people don’t vote for a two faced lying cheat called Hillary.
The old left represented by Sanders and Corbyn have more in common with the ‘tea party libertarians’ than with the neocons.
That is a basic honesty about their program.
Note
Some prominent Neocons are GW Bush,Tony Blair,Bill Clinton,Hillary Clinton,McCain and so on…..
It has always been real science fighting against the far-left AGW totalitarian agenda and its massive one-world funding
It will now become science based, instead of driven by that far left wing ideology.
That will mean the AGW scam is finished.
Griff: dont lie.
…chooses wise women and men …
Take your political correctness and cram it.
“humananist”? Even when gloating – try to get the spelling right….
You sound like my old English teacher… 🙂
I AM your old English teacher….
YOU’RE FIRED!
The irony is that Arnie has taken over the “Boss” role at the Apprentice. I expect he says “you’re terminated”
Hopefully scientists can now speak without fear of being driven out of their jobs.
since scientists working for the state of Florida are forbidden to mention climate change on penalty of losing their jobs, I expect that sort of nonsense to spread, meaning more scientists will be muzzled and in fear.
I can’t think of any scientist with a skeptic viewpoint in fear in the US to this point.
Griff…have you been taking lying lessons from Hillary?
I’m one of those scientists in Florida…and what you just lied is total BS
The earth’s climate has been changing from inception and there’s no stopping it.
Do you have any credible source for your claim, Griff (that “scientists working for the state of Florida are forbidden to mention climate change”)?
It’s like arctic ice, Griff sees what he’s paid to see.
I call BS on that Griff. What they can’t do is attach CAGW to something completely unrelated. And this is true with other subjects as well, so is not something unique to CAGW, or even a new policy.
So gratifying to have this happen just as so many of us here hoped and thought it would.
In addition to winning the White House with a clear and strong mandate, Trump will be the first Republican President since 1928 to take office from day 1 with a Republican Senate and House.
And in two years there will be 25 Democrat senators up for re-election.
In the meantime, Trump will nominate the tie breaking vote to the Supreme Court of The United States, and he or she will be a constitutional conservative.
Likely over the next four or eight years he will get to appoint three or even four or more.
America is saved.
Hallelujah!
And those appointed sit for a long time.
The appointments to the SC will have a long lasting impact.
Actually Trump is not a true Republican, was a democrats once and has been fighting the republican party this election. He owes nothing to anybody. If he needs a title, he is a true independent
Strange, As I remember, Regan has been a democrat as well and had to fight the GOP establishment. Bush I was a compromise.
I’m British, so I couldn’t vote for him. I did bet on him though. The next four years are going to be verrrrry interesting…
I;m still wide awake and going through the list of things that really need to be done, they all in one way or another circle back to the nightmarish green machine, the EPA the UN, and the EU tall of them sucking dry the the economic well being of all country’s, The green fanatics and their enablers ability to control and influence will diminish to a wimpier starting in the United States and circle the world. Thank god!
I do love me an underdog win, even when the dog is a might dirtier than usual.
It’s telling that Mrs. Clinton did not get up in front of the cameras to concede the race, or personally thank her campaign staff for all its work. Just a curt phone call to Trump and a lackey essentially telling everybody to go home.
And with clear victories in both the popular vote and the EC, there’s no wiggle room for Democrats to cry foul. Trump won it fair and square.
Remember “Weekend at Bernie’s” ? That’s why!
She was almost surely too drunk to get up on any stages.
Well, that didn’t work. Maybe this:
http://www.theliberaloc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/House-falls-on-Wicked-Witch.jpg
Dumped upon by the House of Trump!
Good picture, Chimp. That’s what I was thinking, too. Ding Dong
“And with clear victories in both the popular vote and the EC,..”
As of 3:30 Eastern, Trump still trails in the popular vote…. with 59,489,636 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 59,686,517. I think he’ll lose the popular vote. It’s pretty rare.
Four previous U.S. presidents entered office having lost the popular vote: 2000 George W. Bush v. Gore; 1888 Benjamin Harrison v. Grover Cleveland; 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes v. Samuel Tilden; 1824 John Quincy Adams v. Andrew Jackson.
Trump has his work cut out for him.
“As of 3:30 Eastern, Trump still trails in the popular vote…. with 59,489,636 votes to Hillary Clinton’s 59,686,517. I think he’ll lose the popular vote. It’s pretty rare.”
Just think, there are at least 59,686,517 *seriously* deluded people in the U.S., eligible to vote and who do vote. That many people willing to put the Clinton Crime Family in control of the USA. That’s really scary.
As for Hillary winning the popular vote, I’m betting if you subtracted the illegal aliens that voted in the U.S. election, Trump would probably be the one with the most actual legal US American (to quote the beauty queen) votes.
As Paul Keating, a former Australian Prime Minister said – “Well, this is the sweetest victory of all – this is the sweetest. This is a victory for the true believers, the people who in difficult times have kept the faith”
I believe that those people would be the hard-working men and women, many with children, who are the backbone of America.
Very best wishes from an Australian friend.
+ ^1000000 😉
Yes, Donald Trump has re-established hard work as fashionable again. What a concept!
Ceux qui nous ont trompé sont maintenant trumpés. Fin des financements pharaoniques ..Very good new, indeed !
Just as Mosul is about to be liberated from extreme religious fundamentalism, the world is now freed from the grip of climate fundamentalism.
… but the climate priesthood will hunker down and hope to ride out the storm for 4 years.
I noticed that the adjacent ENSO app thingy has immediately dropped on the news!
Trump’s win is the best occurrence since the fall of the Berlin wall. I hope that the top jobs of NASA/GISS, EPA, NOAA and DoJ will quickly be changed to people with a sense of reality and fairness. In particular I would like to see commissions of scientists with a detached view of “Climate Science” analysing the work of GISS and NOAA to find out how close to reality their temperature records are and if their uncertainty bands hold water. I would also like to have an analysis of the EPA finding that CO2 is a poison and all their regulatory activities including all the “cosy” arrangements between EPA and green groups to get favourable court cases on stricter regulatory rules. Stopping payments under the Paris agreement and to IPCC in general is to be applauded. Hopefully revisions to NOAA and GISS temperature records will resound in other countries basing their statistics on the US ones. Could help here in UK with HAD/Crut outputs. I would also like to see some efforts in torpedoing the Climate Models on the basis that they are running hotter than even the adjusted NOAA/GISS temperature sets. Plenty to do for the next US President.
John Peter
I could not have put it better myself. Time for all the “corrections” to be undone and graphs put back to their ‘real’ levels prior to tampering with history.
While Trump is intent on infrastructure let it include the relocation of all weather stations that do not comply with NOAA regulations (i.e. most of them).
@ur momisugly John Peter
November 9, 2016 at 2:19 am: Yes, I think we know the people for the jobs….Brave, honest scientists.
For those knowledgeable (Ristvan?)
– My recollection is that the SCOTUS did NOT rule that CO2 was a pollutant, only that the EPA had the power to so rule after conducting the proper investigations.
– There has been residual questions since the EPA ruling whether the process they used was consistent with their own procedures; rather they essentially said if the IPCC finds CO2 harmful, then so do we.
My question then is, is that an opening for someone to overturn the EPA finding (did not follow their own procedures) and reopen the EPA process, including real evidence and proper hearings.
If that were to occur there are a LOT of laws (and EPA rulings) that depend on CO2 being a “pollutant” (as defined by the legislation that created EPA) that would now evaporate.
Good-bye EPA Director Gina McCarthy – I hope you can find a good therapist to deal with your climate phobia. No more “Protect our Winters” needed. No more collusion with “green” groups. Maybe we can stop building bird blenders and fryers now and focus on making life more comfortable for those who don’t have power or water.
Who exactly would those people without power be? The solutions being adopted in the developing world are all renewable ones…
Tell that to the countries downstream from the Ethiopian hydro project that dwarfs Aswan. You are a fool!
Clean water is the most pressing need in the developing world, Griff, and little or no attention or resources have been allocated to that by the greens. Likewise, their battle against CO2 would argue that they are clueless as to the source of the earth’s “green”. Talk about abject hypocrisy.
Clean water and the eradication of Malaria would be the two at the top of my list that would improve the lives of the third world immeasurably. Of course the objective of clean water also requires proper waste management in areas with much population and THAT is the expensive part of the deal.
I see that Griff still thinks that promises to do something 30 years from now is real action.
you do talk such utter BOLLOCKS griff
“Leo Smith November 9, 2016 at 1:52 pm”
No, no! He’s talking of the solar powered TV’s being installed in Kenya for 10,000 people. Yeah, that’s a real and pressing issue for many Kenyan’s living in remote areas. Last time I checked it was rather difficult trying to eat a TV.
Those who are still cooking over manure fires in African countries.
“4TimesAYear November 10, 2016 at 12:54 am”
Under the glow of a solar powered light!
I watched all night. Never has an election been so important.
Well done America. The world is a far better place for your courageous actions.
anyone starting a pool as to when Tesla will declare bankruptcy? I mean subsides for electric cars and the manufacture of them is likely to take a hit. Same goes for wind power and base load solar.
Wonder how many of those projects will see the owners just walking away and leaving the clean up to the Government.
Peter,
Solyndra all over again ??
But think of all those unfortunate people who bet on contributing to the Clinton Foundation presuming she would redeem their bet when she became President. Does she offer refunds?
No, but they can be proud that their corruption contributed to the electoral downfall of their crony criminal.
The shares dived today. Haven’t looked since just after trump won.
Forget about Greens, they just suffered transmutation into pea soup.
One thing to watch is what’s going to be relation with Putin.
“NATO puts 300,000 troops on ‘high alert’ in readiness for a confrontation with Russia as fears grow Putin is preparing to attack the West “
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3912398/NATO-puts-300-000-troops-high-alert-readiness-confrontation-Russia-fears-grow-Putin-preparing-attack-West.html
That is the Daily Mail. My best advice is to take anything they write with about a ton of salt.
Agree, except that this bit “NATO puts 300,000 troops on high alert” is true.
Stoltenberg was on the TV news channel day or two ago but because of the US election, May in India got pushed to the back.
Good news: Russian President Vladimir Putin has become one of the first global leaders to congratulate Trump with the victory, expressing hope that the two countries will continue collaborative work on international issues.
In contrast no congrats from the UK opposition leader, instead lengthy political analysis. I’m waiting for a ‘Boris the Brexit’ reaction considering his past comments.
Vukcevic: At least Trump and Putin can be seen to working openly, whereas, if it was Clinton, Putin would still be relying on the hacked confidential stuff on her private server – or the stuff the maid printed.
Especially the David Rose climate pieces…
Stoltenberg is on BBC news just now, looks a bit grim to me despite saying he is fully confident that everything is going to be fine.
Most political leaders have got themselves into a bit of a pickle since they have been very rude to Trump these last 9 months. They never expected him to win, and wanted to show their support for Clinton thereby helping Clinton’s campaign. Now it is more difficult for them to work together. I bet that many politicians are now regretting what they have said earlier this year about Trump.
Boris Johnson is one such politician who would have been better advised to have kept his mouth shut.
Once again, Farage was on the pulse. He certainly has better political nouse than the other European politicians.
I find the tone struck by Merkel today to be insulting. This will do nothing for US/European relations.
NATO has been surrounding Russia’s borders for months, so when Putin puts up a response, he is the aggressor.
Stoltenberg, former PM of Norway, is another Socialist UN apparatchik. He was co-chair of Ban Ki Moon’s “High Level Panel on Climate Finance” set up after Copenhagen and which led to the Green Climate Fund after Cancun. Also on the panel with him were George Soros, Lord Stern and Christine Lagarde.
@ur momisugly dennisambler
November 9, 2016 at 3:29 am Putin’s borders aere about 20000 miles long. Come off i!t!
Mr. Keane
I have no idea if the new president has any counsel from the first lady, it should be noted that she was educated and grown up in a part of Europe where people do not see Russians either as great enemy or special friends, just the country that needs to be respected. Her native country’s language (Slovenia, ex Yugoslavia) is very similar to Russian and she could get by without a help of a translator.
It appears that the West learned nothing from the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile crisis.
What the heck do the West/Europe/NATO expect from their expansionist policy?
Stoltenberg was also PM of Norway when Norway’s transfer of the 100 million USD bribe to the Clinton Foundation was initiated. Of course he is grim today, something went impossibly wrong with the current US election. He even had to unexpectedly ditch his congratulation to HRC.
vukcevic – November 9, 2016 at 5:15 am
Well now, “Taudy Dah”, ….. tis no wonder that Putin is being kinda sorta friendly toward/with our new POTUS.
When President Trump and President Putin get around to discussing “the good, the bad and the ugly”, ….. the Russians will hafta be on their best behavior and “up-front and honest” with all of their commentary ….. iffen Melania Trump is sitting beside of her husband at any such meetings.
Interesting thing how any country not named Russia that has it’s own troops, becomes a provocation that entitles Putin to act.
Poland asking to join NATO proves that the west is expansionist?
Vuk,
The present Mrs. Trump could talk to Putin in German if he couldn’t understand her Slovenian or Serbo-Croatian. She also speaks French, for a total of five languages, although the two South Slavic languages are, as you know, very similar.
Mrs. Clinton was that rare Secretary of State who speaks no foreign languages.
“Poland asking to join NATO proves that the west is expansionist?”
I was wondering that myself. I guess that’s the expansion the poster is talking about.
The fact is Russia is the one making all the troop movements and jacking up the tensions. The West is just now responding a little bit.
I don’t know what Putin is up to. Is it a small landgrab like Crimea, or something bigger. Does a lame-duck, pacifist U.S. president figure into his thinking? Is this an impetus to action for him?
yup saw that and was worried sick hildabeast would get in and ramp it up fast..
praying Trump will pull em back/out n calm it all down fast.
his win was excellent news indeed
thank you everyone that voted for him.
news tonight is some serious harm at a murmansk naval or nearby power station
someone dead outside russian embassy and helos in streets moscow
this following the usa bragging theyd cyberhacked russias power grid etc
does NOT look good..
check RT for the power fire and
shtfplan.com for the list of 3 events
I think Hillary will be DWOL for quite a while (Drunk Without Leave).
dead without leave. I think that’s one sick puppy…
Visualize Whirled Peas….
NATO has become a clown troupe. Someone told them to dance along for a made-up scare scenario in order to help “tough on Putin” Hillary win the elections. All in a days work for a government that sees nothing wrong with letting convicts and illegal aliens vote.
I’d have been far more worried about US/Russia hostilities if we were looking at 4 years of Hillary. She’s clearly hawkish and supports the same military adventurism we come to know and loathe from Dubya and Obummer. From leaked email correspondence, we also know she has entertained ideas for destabilizing and fomenting “regime change” in Russia, ie. deposing Putin. My first reaction to learning about this was more or less as follows:
“Are you mad, woman? This isn’t some easily bullied Third World country you’re talking about. This is a former superpower with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. What experienced statesmen from both nations worked tirelessly for decades to prevent, you could end up causing with this stuff.”
Then there was that “remember Barry Goldwater?” ad a couple weeks ago, questioning if Trump could be trusted with our own nuclear arsenal. In light of the above, that was rich, coming from the Clinton side.
Trump has gone on the record as being ready and willing to sit at the negotiating table with Putin. The one thing he’s not going to do is intentionally antagonize Russian relations. He’s a businessman and any businessman would recognize there’s little to gain and potentially everything to lose from starting a Cold War 2.
I’m not worried about Cold War 2. I’m worried about Hot War 3. While I share your concerns (now moot) about Ms. Clinton’s warmongering tendencies, I don’t share your comfort that President-Elect Trump is calm and sane enough not to start Hot War 3. I really hope I’m wrong.