Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The climate establishment is expressing hope that President Trump will treat the wishes of the American people, and the promises he made to the voters who supported him, with the same contempt and disregard which they themselves feel for the needs of ordinary people.
Donald Trump: Paris climate change delegates hopeful presidency will not derail agreement
Delegates at annual climate change talks in Morocco are hopeful Donald Trump’s presidency will not derail progress made on action.
Representatives from 200 countries are at the Marrakech summit finalising the details of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which commits governments to keeping a global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius.
Tina Johnson from the US Climate Network said the movement had its work cut out for it now.
“I think if we have a scenario where the action that he takes is contrary to where we feel it needs to be going, it will impact us, of course, because it means we have to do more work to make sure that he actually is moving in the direction that we need him to move in,” she said.
“This is not going to be a walk in the park, but we’re up for the challenge and we think we have history, momentum and the world on our side, because every country is acting on it.”
The road to ratification
Mr Trump is a well-known climate change sceptic and has threatened to remove America from the treaty.
But Australia’s Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said it was going to be difficult for him to do that.
“It’s also important to note that the US climate action has come from the states,” Ms McKenzie said.
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I somehow think the climate parasites may be in for some big disappointments. From the first page of President Trump’s landmark “Contract with the American Voter“;
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FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward.
SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure.
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Read more: https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/_landings/contract/O-TRU-102316-Contractv02.pdf
Sadly its not all good news, the climate movement still has some powerful friends. In Australia the member for Goldman Sachs, long term climate advocate Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, vowed to push forward regardless with ratifying the job destroying Paris Agreement.
Turnbull government, ignoring Trump election, proceeds with Paris climate agreement ratification
The Turnbull government has ratified the Paris climate agreement, formalising Australia’s commitment to a global effort to curb carbon emissions and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change.
The move comes less than a day after US voters elected Donald Trump, a sceptic of climate science, to become the next president. The US is the world’s second-highest carbon-dioxide emitter after China.
Australia is already experiencing an increase in extreme conditions from climate change – and it’s projected to get worse.
The ratification also comes just before Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Environment and Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg head to Marrakech, Morocco, where a global meeting is taking place to work on the implementation of the Paris agreement.
“Almost a year from the Paris Conference, it is clear the agreement was a watershed, a turning point,” Malcolm Turnbull told a media conference. “The adoption of a comprehensive strategy has galvanised the international community and spurred on global action.”
The government’s target of cutting 2005-level emissions 26-28 per cent by 2030 now becomes a global commitment, that “we look forward to actively and fully implementing”, he said.
Australia joins more than 100 nations to ratify the global deal agreed last December in Paris.
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Australia’s ratification will bring some cheer to climate negotiators in Morocco, many of whom were stunned by the US election of a climate-denying president.
One European delegate told Fairfax Media that some had become upset as the results rolled in on Wednesday.
“Shock. Terrible. Some were in tears,” said the delegate, describing the reaction. “Many – like me – were blocking it out and seeking refuge in sarcasm.”
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I suspect we’re seeing the beginning of a global attempt to pressure President Trump into watering down his electoral commitments, but I also think they have chosen the wrong President to try to bully – President Trump is not an unprincipled professional sellout like some of his predecessors.
In tribute to a great man who seemed to know what’s up! RIP GK
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Leonard+Cohen&&view=detail&mid=4EDF951AC40E7A1765894EDF951AC40E7A176589&rvsmid=B2431C41D76B6A489444B2431C41D76B6A489444&fsscr=0&FORM=VDFSRV
All they have left is a faint hope.
While I voted for Trump, I have no idea what he will do. But I suspect while he may not do everything he promised (he is not a dictator after all), he will try to keep his promises – at least in spirit (i.e. maybe not deporting 12 million illegals, but stopping the hemorrhaging). But again, I do not know. I only say that as he is a very successful businessman. And in business, you only get one chance. If you screw it up, and screw your associates, you will not get another. Business relies on results, not intentions.
Nothing so far has shown me that Trump is not a man of his word. I think at his age, he is too old to change. So the hope that he was lying is a very faint hope.
But we will see.
I just love this quote:
“Australia is already experiencing an increase in extreme conditions from climate change – and it’s projected to get worse.”. What total rubbish the climate is no different than I experienced more than 60 years ago. What extreme conditions? Look at some of the temps recently : Sept 14 Max 23C Record High 1923 at 30.7C; Oct 19 Max 22C Record High 37.2C in 1898; Nov 8 Max 27C Record High 36.6 in 1862 – just some examples.
Wishful thinking on the part of the chicken-little bed wetters.
I have said this before here at WUWT, and I’ll say it again.
If PE Trump is to effectively kill climate alarmism, he will need to do more than just tear up the Paris Agreement and ignore the climate alarmist movement. He needs to put together a panel of scientists that will prepare a presentation that consists of all the science that pokes holes in the CAGW theory until it starts looking like a block of Swiss cheese. I believe MIT’s Richard Lindzen has been mentioned here a few times, and I agree that he would be a good start for panel (and a good science adviser to Trump). John Christy would be another. And yes, they could also have one or two CAGW believers on the panel if any of them are willing to join.
Trump and the science panel would then go on national television and present all of the dis-confirming scientific evidence to the American people. This would include things like the rising ice levels in Antarctica, the lack of evidence of positive feedback driving temperature, the lack of warming from the mid-1940s to the mid 1970s, etc. The presentation might take a while depending on the amount of content and how much detail they go into. They could break up the presentation into two hour segments spread out over a week–again depending on the amount of content presented. They would need to ensure that everything is explained in a way so that the average Joe non-scientist can understand it all.
A series of questions would then be posed to the alarmists based on all the science presented. The alarmists would be challenged to a debate their responses to the questions on another nationwide TV presentation. The alarmist reaction to all of this would be—to say the least—very interesting.
The disconfirming evidence (and the questions) should all be put together in a document for the U.N. and the world’s leaders to ponder if and when they challenge the U.S. position on the the climate issue. It would be interesting to see how well climate alarmism holds up in the face of all of these actions.
+1M Ignoring it will not make it go away. Now that we have a voice we need to use it.
CD — I agree absolutely. To reverse climate alarmism will take more than just a change in government policy. It will require a strong and protracted education of the public on the false claims of alarmists. Obviously, President Trump will have many things on his desk, so he has to find, appoint and strongly support new secretaries of the departments — including Dept. of Education (assuming, as many of us hope, that he simply doesn’t just do away with that monstrous entity) — that have some part in the issue.
The next two years — before the mid-term elections in 2018 — have to be a time of strong and continued effort.
First step: A new Secretary of State who will stand up to the internationalist, anti-science and anti-Western governments and organizations that want to undermine human progress.
Just a couple of days after the election (once we all got over the giddiness of our success), we have to realize that there is going to be a tough, tough fight ahead of us. It ain’t going to be pretty, but it has to be done.
Except the majority of scientists really do accept the science and scientists like Lindzen have no credibility with other scientists and many others.
I, to be frank, consider him a politically motivated charlatan.
You would be getting people of a convinced opinion to reach conclusions they already formed for political reasons. a peversion of science.
@Griff:
Your attacks on the skeptics in the form of character assassinations (calling Lindzen a “politically motivated charlatan”) demonstrates that CAGW has become a religion with you. Rather than debate the science which pokes holes in your Holy CAGW Faith, you transform the skeptics like Lindzen into religious heretics with your assasssinations. Such behavior proves that CAGW has morphed into a religion with likes of you and others. Character assassinations are a lousy substitute for science.
Only an ignorant fool will fail to realize what can happen when scientists with their CAGW theory climb into bed (figuratively) with government, especially the U.N. Politics and money (especially billions of $$$ of it) can corrupt almost anything that they get their hands on, and science is no exception. Remember, it is the CAGW scientists that YOU believe in that are primarily in bed with government (again, figuratively speaking), at least much more so than the skeptics. The CAGW believers are the ones getting $$$$ billions from government, not the skeptics.
As for your “majority of scientists,” you obviously have little understanding of the history of science and have learned nothing from it. The majority in science have been wrong any number of times in the past. Two examples:
(1) For a long time, medical science believed that stomach ulcers were caused by stress and anxiety. It is only in recent times that it became known that a bacteria in the stomach (maybe from the food) is probably playing a role or causing the ulcer. http://www.webmd.com/digestive-disorders/h-pylori-helicobacter-pylori#1.
(2) For many years, scientists believed that Pluto was one our solar system’s planets. Only in recent times, when scientists discovered many other objects out there with a similar size and at a similar distance from the sun as Pluto, did they decide that Pluto had to be downgraded to the status of a dwarf planet.
The two examples above show why “the majority” in science means nothing. There are probably other examples, but you get the idea. Any scientist will tell you that science learns when scientists initially get things wrong and when they discover and why they were wrong. And the majority can be in the wrong in science as in any other realm of life.
Griff, one of life’s lessons that you have yet to learn is that you are capable of placing your faith and trust in the wrong people without knowing that you did. We humans have a habit of doing that all the time. Once you come to realize that, you MIGHT stop making a fool of yourself here at WUWT.
In case there’s any doubt, although Trump makes no mention of the Paris “Agreement” let alone ripping it up, in his First 100 Days plan we see:
“FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $50 trillion dollars’ worth of job-producing American energy reserves, including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal.
SIXTH, lift the Obama-Clinton roadblocks and allow vital energy infrastructure projects, like the Keystone Pipeline, to move forward
SEVENTH, cancel billions in payments to U.N. climate change programs and use the money to fix America’s water and environmental infrastructure”
Not much room for a climate “agreement” there.
Cancelling payments is one thing, to bale out of an “agreement” is quite a different story.
..The “agreement” is not worth the paper it was written on…It means nothing…
The US does not have an agreement, Obama does.
Trump won’t betray your trust, he’s a honourable man, he’ll throw out the AGW scam.
I other words, they are hoping he’ll do a Gillard on the American people:
“There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”
Two weeks later, the Australian people were lumbered with the world’s highest carbon tax.
And again by Turnbull. The tax kicked in only one day before our (Australia’s) last elections. It was tax by stealth, called something totally different (of course). Even now I wonder how many Australians are actually aware that we have it.
“My Prediction:
After 8 long years without a single mention, on Jan. 20, the media will rediscover the plight of America’s Homeless. ”
I had this discussion with my sister 25 years ago after we visited San Francisco. I told her that if you were homeless and waiting for POTUS to do something about it, you would be still be homeless when each president leaves office.
Two weeks ago I was again in the bay area. We parked our motor parked in the marina parking lot where we used to keep our boat. A beautiful spot that is practically deserted at night and very safe. At 1 am two patrol cars showed up and one officer told me we could not sleep in a vehicle. I would have explained that I was doing just fine sleeping but he was resting his hand weapon.
You have to love sanctuary cities that making housing expensive and then sleeping a crime. As a point of reference, we enjoy free camping on the beach in Texas.
Part of the freedom we enjoy is being responsible citizens. Unfortunately many in government are more interested in controlling responsible citizens. Do you think they understood the message from us last Tuesday?
So you have to ask police for permission when you want to take a nap in the vehicle? Unless you have just met Officer Megalomaniac then there is something desperately wrong.
It is in fact illegal to sleep in your vehicle in many parts of California, as this reference shows
https://www.reference.com/government-politics/illegal-sleep-car-california-b471172a9df67869
The intent was apparently not aimed at homeless people… but seems to be selectively employed against them
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/06/01/52119/california-bill-prohibits-crackdown-on-sleeping-in/
May I say that while SF is a beautiful city, I was shocked at the homeless people there (even though I work in London)
A Sanctuary City for all reasons. An Illegal? A bum? Come one, come all!
Like Griffie, we care for your plight. We’ll pick up the tab. That is, until we run out of OPM.
I’ve been doing this for many years myself.
The stupidity from the warmunists and watermelons is finally going to have to face scrutiny and SKEPTICISM.
Let THEM squirm and flail in the wind.
It’s their turn now.
Whenever I read statements like this: “Australia is already experiencing an increase in extreme conditions from climate change – and it’s projected to get worse,” I wish I could make the speaker stop right there and enumerate what he sees as “an increase in extreme conditions from climate change.” Too many politicians and writers get away with such lazy boilerplate, and they should be called on it.
A few days ago, I was reading about the 10,000+ hypocritical ‘gravy train riders’ who were all flying off to Marrakech, Morocco, in order to have another good knees-up at the taxpayers’ expense. Apparently, they were all presented with a Michelin guide to the best restaurants, hotels and nightclubs – where they could party away for a fortnight or so, while ostensibly being there to discuss the perils of Catastrophic AGW.
Then.., The Donald won the election and became the new POTUS-elect. I would have happily have paid for a return flight just to see the look on their faces when they crawled out of their hotel beds with their stinking hangovers, only to find that their worst ever fears had come true. MWAHAHAHAAAAAA! }:o) Schadenfreude is a wonderful thing, especially after nearly 30 years of putting up with their CAGW crap.
Dreadnought, never begrudge anyone for enjoying themselves on another’s dime. I’ve done it many times!
Everyone should remember, though, one must pay the piper. Also, we should keep in mind that the funder will not invite you back unless you sing their praise.
With The Donald triumphant (haha, haha, haha, ad infinitum), tit-suckers better adjust their aim.
Ernest Bush commented : “…those Chinese. They are about to learn that he can’t be pushed around like Obama….”
Obama didn’t/doesn’t need any pushing. His compliance is self motivated to attain the Progressive’s goal of wealth redistribution. Some are accusing Trump of fostering isolationism with his stated trade policies when in fact it’s nothing more than returning America to it’s preeminence as an industrial leader. The whole “outsourcing” scam was an exercise like AGW to cripple industrial countries.
What a rubbish post! Trump principled? Currenly he’s the subject of a staggering 75 court cases, including several rape accusations. Hardly surprising considering his boast of how he “picks up” women by grabbing their vagina! Really Eric? Would you like your wife or daughter to meet him? He also has a long history of stripping companines, then not paying workers their rightful dues after the company becomes insolvent? Principled??? This post is another disgrace and this blog is starting to look like a moronic, fact free, right wing propaganda machine.
Richard, try getting more of your news off the web, or a wider choice in biases.
Trump was in construction and real estate, which is notoriously liitigeous. As he was invovlved in some 500 operations, 75 current suits are on the low side. I was in construction, and ended up using legal processes several times, but did not have the resources to press several good cases. Trump has a policy of not settling suits, which pays off if one has the money to keep lawyers on the payroll.
Most of “climate science” is overtly political, and trying to avoid any mention of politics is in my experience a tactic of the CAGW true believers.
Didn’t realize that. It takes some pressure off his otherwise pretty quarrelsome image.
#1 – Trump is principled. You just do not like his principles.
#2 – Trump boasted no such thing. If you are going to use his locker room talk against him, at least get it right. Lies upon lies do not make even a kernel of truth.
You are going to have a miserable 4 years if you cannot even get the slurs and slanders correct.
“Mr Trump is a well-known climate change sceptic and has threatened to remove America from the treaty.”
What *treaty* is this? She can’t be referring to the Paris agreement, agreed to by soon-to-be private citizen Barack Obama, can she?