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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My scary £1k bet turned up over £4k this morning…result. The bloke with a £200k bet in London should be about £500k better off…damn!
Well done – between signing up and trying to place a bet, the odds dropped from 5:1 to 1.12:1. Still made some pocket money…
I wonder how much Soros’ mate won when he shorted the US for a Trump win (while voting Clinton).
Another £400 arriving now due to three £10 side bets about college numbers. Another guy got £100k with a few dozen bets over the last few months. Just going out to bung a poppy collection box..in memory of what was fought for…the hard way!
I can only hope that this could be the start of real change in America, not the false change that Obama promised. To chip away at the corruption in government and Wall Street. To provide opportunities and pathways to prosperity for all Americans. To work towards good relations with all nations from a position of strength.
All one had to do was research Obama’s past to realize there was no chance or hope he would make any improvements. His whole two terms centered on implementation of failed ideology and self-aggrandizement. His recent forays campaigning for HRC were centered on himself and nothing else.
In that light, I’d surmise his stumping for Mrs. Clinton did more harm than good to her campaign. Just cemented what many Americans already suspected, that he was angling to receive a third term vicariously. All the legal ass-covering he’s almost certainly been doing on her behalf would have added up to a lot of strings to pull.
But there’s one genuinely good thing that’s come from 8 years of Obummer: he’s been the albatross around Hillary’s neck. By winning the 2008 Dem primary, he was the one who rode the wave of Dubya-hate into the White House, not her. And by making a general mess of things for two terms, he created another wave, of Obama/Dem/Establishment-hate, that her 2016 campaign was swimming against the whole time.
He kept us out of two more terms of the Clintons. For that, I can say without irony, “Thanks, Obama!”
Er, replace “albatross” with “millstone”. I got my metaphors mixed up. XD
I’m all for putting a millstone around that albatross.
Even hanging on by our fingernails as we have to do in the Antipodes we want to let go with one hand and shout Hurray! John Kerry just passed through today on his way to Antartica. I do hope he finds a lot more ice that he thought. May be a heavy snow storm will keep him down there!
They learned the power of fear with acid rain
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2857442
and then moved on to ozone depletion
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2843032
and finally to climate change
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2862438
The irony is that they are funded by our taxes
In other words, we pay them to scare us
How weird is that?
A great day for the UK as well as for America. I suggest Anthony Watts to be Presidential Adviser on Climate Change, or what ever they now call it.
@ur momisugly geraldthemoler: Don’t put him in charge of the EPA, it will soon be gone. ( But maybe Anthony can be put in charge ( at a healthy retainer of course) to either restructure or dismantling the EPA.( there must a few pieces worth keeping, like Satellites etc? Just think of it Anthony , your own satellites! you must be tempted)
See my post below for renewed UK commitment on renewables, close down of coal…
A bunch of idiots can still make stupid decisions, Griff. The UK decision is just another example.
Two wrongs don’t make a right no matter how often you repeat it.
Yes, on acid rain and on CFCs the world agreed to bring in legislation which restricted pollutants and resolved the problem.
Action taken on real problems.
so too should it be on climate change.
And DuPont benefited. You do know ozone breaks down when exposed to UV and is repelled by magnetic fields, I dunno, what you find at the poles? No, I didn’t think so!
Griff: Even you should know that the replacement of CFCs with HFCs (to ‘fix’ the ozone hole ‘problem’ has caused a worse problem and HFCs are now going to phased out. Cui bono?
Neither acid rain, nor the ozone hole ever existed. As the science has shown over and over again.
@ur momisugly chaamjamal
November 9, 2016 at 2:49 am: Thankyou Chaam, you are so right there.
Trump’s victory is a HUGE lug wrench tossed into the gears of the CAGW hoax machine.
It’s far down Trump’s priority list, but the Paris “understanding” will eventually be burned in a coal furnace.
BTW, did anyone notice the DC election results? Clinton 92%, Trump 4%… LOL! No wonder the Leftists’ CAGW scam is so difficult to stop…
The DC suburbs are why the Democrats always win statewide races in Maryland and Virginia.
Two changes I’d make if I had the power.
Nobody who works for the government gets to vote. (Maybe an exception fire and police)
If you don’t pay taxes, you don’t vote. (No representation without taxation)
IMO the District of Columbia should be expanded into Virginia, as originally platted, and into suburban Maryland counties. If its population doubles, give it four Electoral Votes instead of its present three.
I’d like to exempt public employees and welfare recipients from voting, except for military, fire and police, but don’t think that will fly.
In his first 100 days The Donald will be able to save the world from global warming, just by getting all the ‘adjustments’ to climate records removed, surely a Nobel science prize can be expected. As well he can expect his Nobel peace prize in mid 2017, Obama got his after 8 months for “what he was going to do”, we wouldn’t want those swedes and norwegians to let the world think they were only giving prizes to left wing figures.
Personally I cant wait for a NYT reporter to ask The Donald, just as Obama was asked back in 2009, “Mr president, what do you find enchanting about the white house”. Can’t beat those hard hitting questions from New York Times reporters.
Congratulations to those who fought so hard to make this happen.
The green rent seeking cabal has crapped it’s collective pants. Time to flush the Augean stables indeed. Watch him dismantle the executive order regime including the Paris accord.
Well done Americans. we love youse all. From Oz.
We are very thankful. Now, let us get stuck in and muck out the stables….
I saw a quote by Nassim Taleb where he noted that the academico-bureaucrats that want to run our lives aren’t even rigorous. They can’t tell science from scientism and in fact in their eyes scientism looks more scientific than real science. I wouldn’t argue against that thought.
A great morning. If you read Trump, and listen to his speech this morning (inUK) the man is no fool, or idiot.
That speech, not obviously scripted, was a great speech offering great and real hope to the USA.
Hopefully we will turn away from the ‘green hell’ that the UN offers and seeks to impose, and so avoid millions dying from cold and hunger in the name of UN rule..
With Brexit and now Trump sanity will hopefully return to the world.
I hope that Obama is held to account for his transgressions.
@Sylvia Marten
November 9, 2016 at 3:27 am: There was a quiet Churchilian understanding there.
“A great morning. If you read Trump, and listen to his speech this morning (inUK) the man is no fool, or idiot.”
Trump is a smart guy. He is also an excellent talent scout. Can’t wait to see who he picks for his Cabinet.
The head of the RNC, Reince Priebus, said this morning on Fox that Trump was very involved in every speech that was written, crossing out words and writing others in, and was particularly involved in the one to which you refer.
@ur momisugly ilma630
November 9, 2016 at 2:11 am: Cheers mate, we are with you.
Well say goodbye to the Paris Accord. This has exposed the futility of current President Obama’s ruse of calling it an ‘Executive Agreement’ rather than what it was, a Treaty.
Just think.. at next year’s climate conference, any USA participant will have to PAY THEIR OWN WAY !!!
Latest from the UK shows we aren’t abandoning renewables, though we are abandoning coal…
“The UK government has today provided a major boost to the country’s clean energy sector, confirming long awaited plans for a fresh round of renewable energy project support and launching a consultation on its promised phase out of unabated coal power.
As green business leaders digest the implications of a Trump presidency for global decarbonisation efforts, the UK today reaffirmed its commitment to its domestic climate goals confirming £730m of annual support will provided to renewable electricity projects over this parliament.”
http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3000140/breaking-uk-government-unveils-coal-phase-out-plan
(this link will get paywalled after about 2 days, but info should be available elsewhere)
It’s only just past 5th of November. I think policy makers better check their decisions…lots more angry people if the power goes out. Wot?! No EastEnders?
Another term for that, griff, is ‘digging you own grave.’
This morning, a day when snow was forecast for Northern England and demand was up to 45GW , my check of metered windpower showed that it was producing 0.98GW .
It is about 30 years since the first wind turbines appeared on the hills around Manchester . Billions surely has been spent on this technology and the day you want it delivers 2% of demand.
Billions spent , 30 years and 2%.
Not brilliant is it?
Quite.
This is anything but new technology. One of the great lies that the Green Blob is selling and which the Government has bought into is that this is a young technology and it has potential to improve efficiency.
There can be no significant savings in efficiency or economy of scale. This is apparent since the only way to get more power is to build a bigger turbine which occupies a greater area with even more wind shadow.
You know technology is improving when it gets smaller and can be more densely packed. This is just not happening with windfarms.
With Brexit, the UK will need to concentrate on cheap energy. I suspect that it will quickly pull back from renewables. It needs to unlock fracking.
The Green Blob ought to welcome that since out of all the developed nations, only the US made significant reductions in CO2 emissions this Millennium and that was achieved entirely because of fracking. We know that fracking works at reducing CO2 (not that I am that concerned about CO2 which appears to be doing a wonderful job of greening the planet).
I look forward to the construction of the last windmill.
The big problem will be the demolition of hundreds of thousands of those utterly inefficient panorama-destroying relicts of stupidity.
Too bad we don’t build monuments to failures. A statue in DC of broken wind turbines, to commemorate the hubris and ultimate folly of the renewable energy movement, is something I’d totally support using my tax dollars for.
A big thank you to all you Americans who voted for Trump.
-Israel is Happy
-You guys are Happy
-Science is Happy
-Cubs wins World Cup
-Cure for AIDS is in the Horizon (Gammora)
-Progressives are Crying
-Liberals are Crying
-Democrats (half of them) crying
AMEN!
First move on the climate front.
New team moves into the NCEI/NCDC to preserve whatever data is left, two months is alot of time to whitewash everything. Then there needs to be a forensic audit. Maybe there will be enough whistle blowers to get back to the REAL temperature record.
Second move is a new team at the NSF grant making boards.
Congratulations & Thanks!
Sat next to an attractive young Scottish woman graduate in political science from Aberdeen University at a lunch in Melbourne for the US Presidential Election at 11am Wednesday 9 November our time.
She told me her father was a MccLeod from the Isle of Harris I said my grandmother was a Mccleod from Isle of Skye She said while working for the University of Aberdeen she had lunch with Donald Trump who at the time was building a golf course partially on University land
I asked her how she had found him? She replied “although at times he was inclined to go off at tangents to the discussion” overall she found him “Charming and Charismatic” — not the image our Australian Fairfax or Guardian press portrayed of him.
The clincher was though she discovered from her conversation with him that his mother was also a Mccleod
Question:- Could she and I be distantly related to the next President of the USA ?!
There was an ‘interesting’ interview with some of his relatives from the Scottish island only two or three days ago, some of them may now regret talking to the BBC.
Are you both related to regular poster Tony McLeod?
Dear Canada, I am sorry to inform you that quite a few undesirable folks from the US will be trying to sneak across the border to your country. When they arrive, be advised that we won’t be taking them back!
Calexit? California applies to join Canada ?
Probably not. They’d have to teach French in school in addition to Spanish.
I’m thinking Mexico since illegals have taken over.
California has already joined with Quebec on a carbon scheme:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-09-24/quebec-california-seeking-to-boost-size-of-carbon-market
“Less than a year after establishing North America’s largest carbon market, Quebec and California are aggressively recruiting the province of Ontario and other U.S. states to join, Quebec’s premier said.”
Because CA refuses to accept CA hydro as “green”, I think CA is depending on Quebec hydro to power the high-speed train to (and from) nowhere.
States are expressly forbidden from forming pacts with foreign governments.
They also can’t form pacts with other states without the permission of congress.
MarkW
Ironic, it is the same with EU countries ! hence Brexit.
I posted a comment a while ago, but it didn’t show up yet.
Congratulations to everyone on a well and hard fought for election of what will be our best choice for USA.
No Doubt we will see changes that will see the demise of the Climate doom and gloom politics.
MAGA #PresidentTrump, #WeDeplorables. :))