At 1200PM EST today, Donald J. Trump took the oath of office and was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. At that same instant, the domain whitehouse.gov was switched, and in an instant, the climate change page which used to be front and center on the main whitehouse.gov web page, is no more. This side by side documents the change:
As Trump’s first order of business, he put up a page calling to end the worthless Climate Action Plan and the EPA’s “waters of the United States” draconian policy that turned puddles into protected waters.
You can hear the heads exploding already.
![head_asplode[1]](https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/head_asplode1.jpg?quality=83)
Added: BTW for those that think that the White House climate page was really “deleted” like those worried that climate data will be “deleted”, a new version of the WH website is just part of the normal transition, like changing the drapes and wallpaper and furniture in the White House. For those that want to see the old WH web page, complete with climate action plan, see the archives: https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/
As joyous as I am over Trump being President there is a shadow over the US that will take a monumental effort to lift, Obama’s legacy to the US people still runs –> http://www.usdebtclock.org/ .
If for no one else but the generation to come, Trump must initialize the removal of this burden.
Agreed. But enthusiasm makes lifting a lot easier.
Hear, hear. Why is it that EVERY — SINGLE — TIME
we have a happy celebration thread on WUWT,
a few Eeyores have to come along and dump water on the fireworks.
Meh. I’m just going to ignore them.
And pull out some more fireworks (and music!) 🙂
(youtube — Tchaikovsky’s “1812 Overture”)
HOORAY!
HOORAY!!
HOORAY!!!
WE WON!!!
And THAT,
just that,
is cause for celebration.
And, yes, the Russian hymn, “God the Omnipotent” is worked into Tchaikovsky’s composition. So be it. And, after all, the Russian people are not our enemy.
He can rely on Paul Ryan to start that. Plus the supressed 2016 report about $135 billion in back office waste in DoD alone. Plus about $30billion in green subsidies- wind, solar, ethanol. Plus all the fed payments to sanctuary cities. Can revamp fuel taxes to help with infrastructure; haven’t been touched in almost 30 years. Revenue from dumped Chinese steel and aluminum excise taxes. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the deficit is not the only important agenda.
Don’t forget his statement a couple of days ago called for a 10% across the board budget cut for all/most federal agencies along with a 20% reduction (through attrition) in personnel. I don’t know how much of that he can get through but if you listen to the complainers there are a bunch of federal workers claiming to retire if he got elected. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Yes. This has been building for decades.
Let’s hope and pray that he looks at it as his own business’s debt and deals with it accordingly.
Lots of people won’t be happy in the short run.
But, if he holds to the ideal that the chief “business” of America is Freedom for it’s citizens, we’ll be moving in the right direction.
Today’s losers won’t approve of him but their kids …
Fox news is reporting that the Obama team took down the webpage(s).
How nice of them!
Did they remove all the “O”s from the keyboards?
No, they burned cars and vandalized stores this time.
The paid protests didn’t amount to much. Nothing like what was predicted.
Did they wipe all their hard drives?
obamawhitehouse.archives.gov is no longer headed by Historic Commitment, but Yes, we did. Yes, we can.
The sea change with respect to how the US Government addresses global warming (which apparently is not!) is largely due to a small group of people. And to that effect, this blog has played a huge part in unifying the voices of the skeptical community. In my opinion, our country owes a huge debt of gratitude to our host, Anthony. He took on the beast and was personally beat up for it at great cost… but he never lost his humility and grace, even when dealing with people that lacked both of those attributes.
+1 for Anthony. A very big Thank You !
+100
Raise you +1000
Raise you!!! +1776.
We really DO appreciate your dedication and perseverance. More than mere words can describe.
+ a whole bunch more…
Absolutely.
Very true and a lesson for what is possible with truth, persistence and time! I salute all the major contributors to this site which has so richly informed me, and all the honourable scientists who kept their ideology and their facts separate. Don’t quit when you’re ahead!
And they change all the mattresses and bedding also (BuzzFeed take note). The WH staff is very busy while everyone else is watching the ceremony.
Does that mean they clean the press room that is often described as a pig sty?
They sent in a couple of guys from the Navy with a very large steam cleaner and 30 gallons of bleach
I had heard there were plans to move the Press room out of the Whitehouse entirely and into another building.
Do they put new batteries in all the microphones and cameras?
I hope they go revamp the White House history pages and remove Obama from all the biographies of past presidents. What Obama’s team did to the simple presidential biographies to insert Barack Obama into EVERY SINGLE ONE of them was pure defilement and graffiti. I hope President Trump hires some real historians to redo the one to two page biographies in pure historical setting of their lives and get rid of the presentism that is so prevalent in current SJW historians.
He apparently skipped Washington, Ford and Eisenhower, but, yes, many of the later Presidents’ bios have been pointlessly Obamanized–unless the point is that Obama considers himself a god.
I don’t know whose idea this sorry mess was, but if it was Obama’s, it’s narcissism of the most unhealthy kind. I’d sooner see a Chaka placa in the oval office.
Not a god – but at least an Emperor with almost godly powers.
Very glad to finally see the beginning of the end of Obama and the Democratic Party’s climate alarmism idiocy that has done so much damage to America.
President Trump will have his hands full getting control of government agencies including NASA, NOAA , EPA and the Department of Energy that Obama has so completely politicalized to support his massively misguided climate alarmism bs. There is indeed a huge swamp to clean out.
Today is a very great day for America!
Well said
Don’t leave out Justice and the IRS…
Now, we have ti do our part, by writing and e-mailing our congress critters, esp. those who have DEM congress critters …
Well, that was swift! The Donald certainly does not waste time…
FD
DOE = DOA?
This was the moment when the rise of the oceans of Leftist b*** s*** began to slow and our nation began to heal.
No there’s a “what goes around comes around” kind of statement. Well done!
Now rename the Yucca Mtn nuclear site as the Harry Reid Waste Dump and restart the facility that already had many billions of taxpayer money thrown at it and the NV economy and countless numbers of consultants.
Actually, why don’t we rescind the Jimmy Carter EO and restart the reprocessing of spent fuel rods so that hard mined and processed Uranium doesn’t go to waste. We can use Yucca to store the hot decommissioned reactor containment steel and concrete from old plants as we replace them.
Okay, that was what much of the DOE budget was for anyway along with nuclear weapons cleanup. That was before Bill Clinton used it as a pass through budget for unrelated spending and President He Who Must Not Be Named Anymore used it to fund crony green entities headed by former politicos.
It was Ford, not Carter. Sorry about that.
Decommissioned reactor vessel steel/etc is currently buried (permanently) at Hanford. That is where the reactor vessel from the Trojan Nuclear Plant ended up. Yucdca mountain is designed to accept – for the VERY long term – irradiated spent fuel.
The problem with Yucca is that the geology of the area may change before the radioactive waste is safe. Then there is the problem of how to get it there safely.
risrac: The geology of Yucca was know a long time before the billions were spent on engineering.
The deleted lead image was of jug-ears himself, giving us his backside as usual. Nice combo jettison.
Happy to report my head did not explode. Fortunately I’ve been vaccinated against exploding head syndrome with frequent injections of WUWT.
A head (mind) is a terrible thing to waste.
The NASA site still has this on their global climate change page:
“Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.”
The references in 1 show two quotes from studies by John Cook.
I wonder how long that page is going to hold up.
http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
I’d replace the references to Cook’s study with the review of his study by Jose Duarte.
Steve January 20, 2017 at 2:47 pm
Hmm John Cook, is he still coming to Mason Univ, or did he get a case of the “bugout blues” after Nov 8,
michael
“The NASA site still has this on their global climate change page:
“Multiple studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals1 show that 97 percent or more of actively publishing climate scientists agree: Climate-warming trends over the past century are extremely likely due to human activities.”
This goes to show just how dishonest NASA is to put this lie on their website as the truth. They know good and well this is a bogus study, yet they put it out there as the truth. Completely dishonest. I hope somebody is taking notes.
The media luvvies here, BBC, ITV and Sky News, are distressed that Trump actually made it to the White House. Their anguish is amusing to watch but such satisfaction is wrecked by the irritation of their overwhelming disapproval of Trump and blatant bias.
Iain Dale on LBC was likening the inaugural speech to Benito Mussolini the Italian fascist leader. All adjectives being used imply a negative picture. I think it is helping them to try and forget Brexit. Such poor and anti-democratic losers.
All the U.S. Leftwing News channels are all “gloom and doom” over Trump. It’s kind of disturbing to see just how delusional some people can really get.
It’s all handwringing on the Leftwing channels, but I watch Fox, the Rightwing channel and thoroughly enjoy their coverage “Fair and Balance” not “Glum and Unhappy” like you get from the rest of the MSM.
Out with the old and failed, in with the new and successful.
Although we REALLY enjoyed the hours of inauguration coverage by Alex Jones and his cohorts on Infowars. Finally someone COMPLETELY off the news grid. Fox on days seems even a bit tainted.
Though you could just feel the MSM pulse flowing through the local tweets and other social media feeds. The mind control engines have been quite effective making “man into their own image” as many appear to bow down to those false gods by repeating the same mantras without so much as a sliver of thought themselves.
“Fox on days seems even a bit tainted.”
I’ll have to agree with you there. I had to turn the channel tonight after suffering through a few minutes of an attack on Trump from commentator Charles Krauthammer. He can be a real pain sometimes.
There is a little clique of never-Trump reporters on Fox who can be quite irritating (to me, anyway) as they follow the MSM narrative of the day on Trump. Maybe they should change their attitudes. After all, Megyn Kelly is no longer at Fox, and it’s because of her feud with Trump. Others should feud with Trump at their own peril.
This is still my favorite reaction, introduced to me by Janice:
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGcaNY5eBWw&w=560&h=315%5D
#(:))
“Iain Dale on LBC was likening the inaugural speech to Benito Mussolini the Italian fascist leader. ”
Funny.
The picture that most reminds me of Benito Mussolini on his balcony was here:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/18/president-obama-just-transferred-another-500-million-to-the-un-green-fund/
Chin up. Being superior.
I have read that Obama’s own team took down their web pages, as they should. It’s just part of cleaning out the desk drawers. They made a copy of it called “obamawhitehouse.gov. (like anyone cares).
The planning for the transition dates back to October.
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/10/31/digital-transition-how-presidential-transition-works-social-media-age
Fake News WaPo and other MSM outlets didn’t even bother research the story.
Reassuring it may be that the Whitehouse website has been scrubbed clean of reference to “climate change”. However, the only reference to coal there is the dreaded term “clean coal energy”. Question is, has the new Administration changed the definition of that term? Radically. Thanks to the alarmist industry, it means minimising or sequestering carbon dioxide emissions. Plain stupidity it is, of course, demonising that pristine gas essential to all life forms. My hope is that Trump will see to it that “clean coal energy” will be defined as just that: no particulate emissions like soot. He is on record, after all, as having alluded to just that.
See my guest post over at CE some time ago titled Clean Coal. Or read the same in my ebook Blowing Smoke. Moremfuel,for your your fire.
This one, ristvan?
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=2KPTBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT108&lpg=PT108&dq=clean+coal+%22blowing+smoke%22&source=bl&ots=NlHnSte3eV&sig=avQNn6pDCKSpIa9CtyfdiwXOyJ4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwiOzuidLRAhXHU7wKHU7BBeoQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=clean%20coal%20%22blowing%20smoke%22&f=false
If so, excellent essay that ends with “‘Clean coal’ is a stark example of the increasing politicisation of ‘climate policy’.”
Apart from the self-evident madness of CCS philosophy, it’s essentially dead in the water economically anyway, as you have amply demonstrated with numerous examples. Here in alarmist infested Australia, our nominally conservative, though green drenched, government is blundering on with its “clean coal” technology like CCS, hell bent on “honouring” the Paris climate accord.
So you will appreciate that you are preaching (grandly) to the converted, friend! May I submit that it would be useful indeed for you to communicate your essay to Trump’s team via the “Participate” page at whitehouse.gov. It surely would help to reinforce what I hope is the new Admistration’s approach to the “climate change” hoax.
Today is a wonderful day not seen in at least 25 years, a return to reality. It’s the beginning of the end of climate change hysteria and lies. I’m extremely optimistic President Trump will succeed as no one before. Let the great times roll!!!!!
This is a God-given answer – finally – to many years of hard work by myself and countless others, battling in anonymity against global warming, global cooling, AGW and climate change nonsense, which was developed by communists to strip the US of IRS wealth and was doing a great job of it. Go Trump. MAGA.
Someday there will be a big budget Hollywood picture about the late great PR climate scare conspiracy run out of the White House and called out by Anthony Watts. But that won’t happen till some time after the popular release in China of the movie about the massacre in Tiananmen Square. Possibly long after
Let’s have a pledge now not to give each other medals.
An appropriate reply to the previous comment by firesign58, I suggest. Grandstanding is off limits.
Slightly O/T: Apparently wearing a mask (or otherwise covering your face) while committing a crime is a felony in the District of Columbia. So all the little SJW rioters are now facing jail time and permanent criminal records. Wonder if the knew that when they signed up?
Bring on the civil suits from businesses too for the damage done.
“…committing a crime is a felony…” You don’t say.
Yes, I do say. Some crimes, such as vandalism, are misdemeanors.
Not sure what your point is, Graham. Please explain.