This is hilarious. Over the past couple of days on Twitter and Facebook, I’ve seen dozens, perhaps even hundreds of meltdown tweets like this:
There’s some others far worse that are in full meltdown mode:
Sign this petition to prevent Myron Ebell, a climate denier, from heading the EPA transition https://t.co/kQfiYyJDPX
— Kyra Prats (@KyraPrats) November 10, 2016
https://twitter.com/wantedalex101/status/796888758742175744
It even made Scientific American, who even seemed incredulous as they wrote the article:
There is so much incredulity, that Snopes had to make a page saying that it was in fact true. Screencap follows:
In September 2016, candidate Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint Myron Ebell to lead his administration’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency. Ebell currently serves as the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the libertarian think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He also chairs an initiative named the Cooler Heads Coalition, which, according to Ebell’s official bio:
…comprises over two dozen non-profit groups in this country and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.
Ebell openly declares himself to be a climate change skeptic who disputes the severity of human activity on Earth’s climate. On this point, Ebell has been extremely consistent: He argues that anthropogenic global warming, if it happens at all, is a minor issue that has been usurped by liberals to expand the federal government. He has stated in many different venues that he intends to dismantle the scientific consensus around anthropogenic global warming, as discussed in this October 23 2012 interview with PBS Frontline’s John Hockenberry:
EBELL: […] What we’re fighting is the expansion of government. And there are many pretexts for expanding government.
HOCKENBERRY: Opposing government action on climate change to defend American freedom is a perfect fit.
EBELL: We felt that if you concede the science is settled and that there’s a consensus, you cannot— the moral high ground has been ceded to the alarmists.
HOCKENBERRY: So you had to go to work and break down this consensus.
EBELL: Yes. And we did it because we believed that the consensus was phony. We believed that the so-called global warming consensus was not based on science, but was a political consensus, which included a number of scientists.
More here: http://www.snopes.com/trump-taps-outspoken-climate-denier-to-oversee-epa-transition-team/
We live in interesting times.
Riots, death threats, threats of succession, you’d think all those racist conservatives were upset about a leftist being elected… oh wait!
Job #1:
EPA declares CO2 is NOT a pollutant.
+ Lots.
With a Memo – in bold type – to the various UN hangers on:
ILO, IMO, IMetO, ICAO, and the rest.
CO2 is good – it is plant food.
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I believe Obama’s full statement was “elections have consequences and at the end of the day I won” said to Eric Cantor 1-23-09.
Just wow. This video just sums up everything I am thinking as a Conservative and he voted for Hillary. I would comment but the video speaks for itself.
Leave it to the British to politely say Fyou.
https://www.facebook.com/JonathanPieReporter/videos/1044777035645189/
That may be one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.
What a hoot !
Excellent.
Duncan —
Thank you! Great video. And everything the guy said was absolutely right.
Except for one thing.
The left can’t honestly debate because if they tell their “Truth” no one would vote for that nonsense. Remember, their stuff has been put to practice — always with diastorus results.
I can remember Mao calling for debate — Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom! And a year later those who had tried to debate found themselves suddenly arrested and shipped off to labor camps.
Eugene WR Gallun
+1
Yes very powerful. If only ever liberal could see this and then begin understand and accept responsibility for what they have created. We would not see riots in the streets of the USA, nor the finger pointing. Whenever something does not go their way, it is someone else’s fault.
Germany is next in 2017, Merkel is gone, the liberals last bastion of hope, their last defender, MARK MY WORDS.
A courageous appointment and a very good sign. Experience informs us that massive pressure will be brought to maintain the status quo. Myron Ebell is well outside all of that and this is a pocketbook issue for the politicians.
Give em hell Myron
This is interesting. Donald Trump announced this in September, as mentioned above, but the alarmists have just found out about it or acknowledged it. It shows they either did not read about DT’s policies etc. or they blindly thought there was absolutely no way Clinton would lose and just ignored what he said.
So, who’s going to lead the world now on “climate change”, with the US out of the picture? Don’t all step up at once now.
Probably California…
“Probably California…”
Or the Independent People’s Republic of California (or Califoregon?) if certain lunatics get their way. 🙂
J. Philip Peterson — Laughing, laughing laughing! — Eugene WR Gallun
Some people can’t speak without lying.
These aren’t “climate skeptics,” they’re panic skeptics and bureaucratic control skeptics.
Pow! +100
Cut the EPA by 50% within 6 months and put the money into Infrastructure .
Rolling the EPA into Energy so the economic interests of the country are factored into decisions would correct a major flaw in government .
See you Gina maybe someone in California will take your act on . They love to run businesses off too .
But don’t worry all those Regs you have been spewing out will get made into recycled toilet paper .
Won’t it be wonderful when the sun comes up and we breathe clean air the morning after destroying their corrupt edifice.
The EPA needs to be neutered in such away that it can never again be a problem. Or closed down all together and its duties shifted to the states.
It is a sad commentary on science that moving beyond the “global warming” hoax comes from a political development rather than scientists arriving at the truth from considering the data. But I guess you have to take progress any way you can get it.
The issue was political from the get go. A mechanism for social change.
So the science nor the scientists can be separated from it.
I knew it was going to be fun if Trump was elected. Starting off with a bang!
Donald says one of these days we are all going to be so sick of winning. I don’t think so, Donald, I like winning. I don’t think I will ever get enough to make me sick. Yeah, it’s going to be fun.
It’s going to be a hoot. Just checking out The Drudge Report to see the cover of ‘The New Yorker’ and checking the videos at The Media Research Center is a barrel of laughs. While driving up to Chicago for a three stop load I listened to the National Proletariat Radio (NPR) and had a chuckle or two. The left is completely unhinged! I can’t remember so much pure venom being projected by the MSM about any President elect ever. They’re scared shitless. But I’m sure once they dry their tears and change their diapers they will start to collude to bring Trump down in a more coordinated manner. What they don’t seem to understand is that the very people that voted from Trump rejected them every bit as much as they rejected Hillary and nothing they can say or do will change that.
Did you see the pictures of all the buses that took the protesters to Austin Texas for one of the “spontaneous” demonstrations?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/figures-anti-trump-protesters-bussed-austin-fakeprotests/
I know people are angry. The ones to keep an eye on are the ones holding a match to the fuse…and the ones renting the buses.
It would be nice to see federal funds for NPR ended under the Trump administration.
Ghostbusters – Dogs and Cats living together…
An interesting artifact from the election:
As we drove from Kent (Ohio) to Canton today for a setup at an antiques show,
we noticed the county Dem/Repub party workers, and some of the municipal/
county folks had cleared the political yard sign debris from sight.
There were NO yards signs left up for Hillary’s campaign in a 40-mile drive.
There are STILL a goodly amount of Trump/Pence signs up on private property
along the road sides.
Just anecdotal, but telling if the phenomenon is widespread.
During the election silly season I drove through IN, IL, WI, MI, OH, PA, WV, VA, MD, CT, NY, NJ,MA, KY, TN, MS, MO many times. Trump-Pence signs far out numbered Hillary signs nearly everywhere I drove in all of them during the months leading up to the election. One would see an occasional Bernie bumper sticker but Hillary stickers were very rare. Nothing like the way it was with Obama campaign signs and stickers in 2012. Even in most urban areas in the eastern states where Hillary had the strongest showing the lack of enthusiasm was evident.
How did I not know about the cooler heads coalition until now?
Hopefully they’ll change things so man-made reservoirs, canals, etc cannot be called “wetlands” then “protected” by banning people from using them. Places like Lake Lowell, impounded by dams and dikes built in 1980 and 1911. The water attracted various animals, who got along just fine with the boaters, water skiers etc for decades.
But now it’s the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge with a ton of rules, regulations and restrictions to “protect the wildlife” that never needed any protection, and wasn’t there until the dam was built. https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Deer_Flat/visit/rules_and_regulations.html
Theodore Roosevelt created a lot of these refuges at man made irrigation and recreation projects, but it’s only in recent times that the EPA has decided that means human use of what humans built for their use has to be severely restricted.
This seems to be incredibly good news, but as a Briton (who voted Leave), I’m not sure what it means. Is it likely Myron Ebell will be appointed head of the EPA? I certainly hope so. When Donald Trump becomes President in January, will he have the power to fire the present head of the EPA and to appoint Myron Ebell?
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I certainly hope so. When the EPA called CO2 a “pollutant” it was obvious they had lost any concept of reality. CO2 is a trace gas that is natural, clean, invisible, harmless in normal concentrations, and it is what trees and plants breathe in. It is a sad irony that the people who call themselves “green” demonise the very thing that makes the world green.
A bar chart, Figure 5 in http://globalclimatedrivers.blogspot.com puts CO2 level in context.
So Ebell talks to the scientists and all the scientists, as near as makes no difference, tell him, no, it is real, and by the way we aren’t involved in this to expand the government.
And all the other scientists in all the other countries in the world, they say, yes, we’re with the US scientists on that. And we aren’t involved in expanding anyone’s government.
and then we get into political opinion driving muzzling of science.
What color is the sky the planet you’re on Griffy?
I’ve seen Griff post here numerous times, even if ‘we’ don’t agree with him, insulting his intelligence, shouting him down does not do anything. Griff made a logical statement (from his point of view), he did not insult anyone (this time). I’d prefer to see you explain to him a counter argument, or your opinion, opposed to doing the exact same thing the establishment has done to us “deniers” for 20 years. Don’t become one of ‘them’. We could do with more interaction from other points of view so we don’t all live in a bubble. Sometimes a whisper is easiest to be heard.
Griff has been debunked over an over…
Griff, “political opinion driving muzzling of science.” this is the pot calling the kettle black
University of Colorado banned questioning of climate change, this even extended to online discussion too. The ‘muzzle’ was already on the dog, time to take it off!!!
http://louderwithcrowder.com/university-of-colorado-bans-students-questioning-climate-change/
Griff: provide your evidence. Especially as to numbers of scientists. Please avoid quoting from rigged ‘97%’ polls.
Griff, thinks it is ok for scientists to be mouth piece for propaganda.
How charming of you.
A salute to Mr Trump
It’s a start, a good start, but mind the increasing water vapor and declining water tables.
Saturdays NYT article quotes him to the effect that the 2015 Clean Energy Policy will impede economic growth.
Probably not as much as five feet of water in lower Manhattan, but what the hell.
I’m hoping for the best, but this guy, Banning, and Pence are storybook bad guys. We’re in for a rough ride.
“May you live in interesting times.”
Once again the limousine leftists show us why Trump won and why they will keep losing.
Can we really call those people “Liberals”? No! We can’t! They are Eco-Fascists or at least a sort of “Special-Democrats” disparaging those as populists, who are not of the same opinion!
OT.. Tim Blair in Australia starts the search for all this social misfits leaving the USA after the TRUMP election..
ENJOY ! 🙂
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/help-them-find-a-home/news-story/61fce29d7ce9ed95fee75c70963d2eaa