US president Donald Trump will honour his campaign pledge to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement and defund UN climate programmes, a former adviser to the new administration has said.
Myron Ebell served as head of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) transition team from early September until 19 January, when he helped to draft an advisory action plan on how to implement Trump’s campaign promises.
At a press briefing held by the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) and the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in London today, Ebell declined to divulge any details of the EPA document on the grounds that it is confidential.
But Ebell, a well-known climate change sceptic and head of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s (CEI) energy and environment centre, outlined Trump’s “very clear” promises on energy and the environment that he is convinced the new president will honour.
Apart from withdrawing from the UN climate deal, Trump will also potentially repeal all of the previous administration’s EPA rules on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions including the clean power plan and the climate action plan.
Ebell expects Trump “to be very assiduous in keeping his promises despite all the flack he is going to get from his opponents,” adding that he brings a “message of hope” in terms of the new administration’s energy and environment policy.
The first hopeful aspect is that the US will clearly change course on climate policy, Ebell said. Secondly, the new US president has undertaken to unleash US energy production growth. Trump said he wants to make the US the world’s largest energy producer and achieve a position of global dominance for the country, he said.
“This is obviously good for the US, but also for the world because in becoming the top global energy supplier the US will reduce the influence of certain countries in the Middle East and of Russia,” Ebell said. “This is going to happen because the US has the world’s largest fossil fuel reserves — by far the largest coal reserves and also, because of the shale revolution, gigantic fields of natural gas and oil.”
An apparent contradiction emerged in recent weeks between Trump’s position and that of his incoming secretary of state Rex Tillerson, who said the US will “remain part” of UN climate discussions. When asked about these contrasting positions, Ebell said it is impossible for him to predict the outcome, but “in a disagreement with the president, who do you think will win?”
Ebell outlined three major ways in which Trump can annul US participation in the Paris climate deal. In the first instance, the president can simply stop any US financial contributions to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In any event, all US funding to the UNFCCC, including to the Green Climate Fund, represents a violation of US law ever since Palestine — which is not internationally recognised as a legitimate state — was accepted as a UNFCCC member, Ebell argued.
Trump can have the US Congress reject the Paris agreement on the basis that legally it is a treaty and does not qualify as an executive presidential order. He can also withdraw the US from the UNFCCC altogether, which according to Ebell would be “the cleanest way” as it would absolve the US from any commitments, financial or otherwise, under the UNFCCC and the Paris climate deal.
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Whistle blowers will come forward from NASA,NOAA,EPA,DOE,etc. That is when the truth will out.
In fact, like any closely-held criminal conspiracy, insider whistleblowers are the ONLY way to break up the fraud.
Think Bernie Madoff (undone by his son blowing the whistle); Mafia insider informants (Valachi and others); Watergate (Mark Felt, ‘Deep Throat’); the Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg); NYPD corruption (Frank Serpico); Enron’s massive fraud (whistleblower Sharon Watkins); Israel’s illicit nuclear weapons production (Mordechai Vanunu); Clinton cover-ups (Linda Tripp); and a myriad of recent whistleblowers who revealed federal grant fraud and were well-compensated for their efforts under the False Claims Act.
Full details to share with all climate scientists. The time for insiders to speak up is now!
https://realclimatescience.com/2016/09/climate-fraud-whistleblower-rewards-program/
In fact, like any closely-held criminal conspiracy, insider whistleblowers are the ONLY way to break up the fraud.
Think Bernie Madoff (undone by his son blowing the whistle); Mafia insider informants (Valachi and others); Watergate (Mark Felt, ‘Deep Throat’); the Pentagon Papers (Daniel Ellsberg); NYPD corruption (Frank Serpico); Enron’s massive fraud (whistleblower Sharon Watkins); Israel’s illicit nuclear weapons production (Mordechai Vanunu); Clinton cover-ups (Linda Tripp); and a myriad of recent whistleblowers who revealed federal grant fraud and were well-compensated for their efforts under the False Claims Act.
Full details to share with all climate scientists. The time for insiders to speak up is now!
The first to break from the pack is a courageous whistleblower.
The last to break is a criminal.
It’s up to you as to which category you want history to remember you as.
and in all these years, where have the whistleblowers been?
I can think of many areas of science and journalism where fake stories and fake research data have been exposed.
and yet, nobody called out on climate change.
Don’t worry, once they realize the worm has turned, the ship is sinking, the rats will begin to leave the ship. When the investigatory agencies were controlled by co-conspirators, potential whistleblowers saw the risk-reward equation weighed down on the risk side.
How long did Madoff’s fraud continue? Do you know?
The key is to have a concerted investigation, and to have the authorities on the side of the angels. We have one of those variables now.
You just keep gloating. Join Michael Mann at his Deniers Ball. Dance and laugh. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick……
Griff commented: “…and in all these years, where have the whistleblowers been?…”
They lost their jobs or were censured for their honesty. After the first few were sacked nobody dared raise their head above the parapet. Consensus? More like threat.
He’s impressive at stripping hype down to the bone and showing what is important in a rational way. The EU could learn something from this guy if they wanted to avoid the Greek tragedy of financial ruin and the shock and awe of reality.
{It seems to me…. a few of the libs out there could use some reminding, thus, this comment, here.}
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It will be interesting to see how many are committed to ‘saving the planet ‘ when there is not fat paycheck coming with it .
Somebody pinch me….. Another good day, in ‘The News’!
God bless America, and all who love the USA!
One of the most enjoyable part of the briefing was watching the BBC’s environmental liar-in-chief Roger Harrabin getting worked up to near fury as it finally sunk in that his career will soon be ending in ignominy.
Well it won’t will it?
because only the US has an anti climate change government.
The tsunami from the other side of the pond will get a far as York Street be sure of that.
griff, you are the one ignoring changes in climate from the first 3/4 of the Holocene.
It is YOU that is the Climate Change Denier.
Ebell was very cool. I just loved the way truth completely screws the questioner who tried to make something of Ebell’s links to Trump: He was asked: ‘Have you met Trump, what’s he like?’ To which Ebell replied: ‘Nope. Never met him.’ You could just – to coin a phrase – feel the oxygen being sucked out of the room. Brilliant.
My only problem with the article is the assertion that Palestine is not internationally recognised as a state. This is not so. Resolution 43/177 explicitly recognises it as a state and 137 UN member nations recognise Palestine as a state. And indeed Palestine has existed in both the historical and archaeological record for millennia. Which is more than can be said for Israel.
The territory “Palestine”, yes. Not the nation. That’s a modern creation.
Craig.
Myron Ebell stated quite correctly that Palestine was only accepted as a full member of the UN in March 2016. This is what made Obama’s second $500m contribution to the UNFCCC last month illegal under US law. What is your point?
Incidentally, the original Palestinians were the Peleset, and they were proto-Greek speaking Macedonians who arrived with the Sea People in the 12th century BC. The Bible called them the Philistines. But they were all exterminated and exiled in the 7th century AD by the invading Mslim Arab armies, who not only took their lands but stole their name too. So of all the melee of tribes, cultures and nations in that region, the Arab pseudo-Palestinians have the least claim on the region.
R
R, thanks for the brief History lesson on a period that I know little about
Craig (@Zoot_C) January 31, 2017 at 1:23 pm
Palestine as a state, as you imagine it never existed. Thought the Jewish State did.
Here is an account of the situation of the region in 1260AD
No Palestine. Sorry.
https://www.strategypage.com/articles/?target=mongol.htm
michael
Without the US, the Paris “agreement” is toast, and a dead parrott. It will be no more, it will cease to exist, and will be pushing up daisies.
Carbon Markets and Green Blight most affected.
And climb-atologists.
This is the sweetest sound I ever heard. Good riddance UN, IPPC and the warmist rent seekers!!!
Thank you Mr President.
Is a ‘raspberry’ ‘discussing?’ It’s participating.
Please spend the hour watching this presser. It’s well worth your time. Ebell is brilliant. There’s a couple of very interesting exchanges with the snowflakes and dewdrops in the far left UK media, one around the 23 minute mark, and another near the end, in which Ebell talks about an imperious “Expertariat” and the “Climate Industrial Complex” and arguing that people’s rejection of this powerful interest group is seen in Trump’s election as well as in the Brexit vote. Near the end, Ebell opines that the modern environmental movement has morphed into a totalitarian threat to political liberty. The green heads in the room seemed very flummoxed throughout, as if they’d never heard any of these arguments before.
I do wish Trump would reassign even a small part of the climate science budget to universities that previously had little or no involvement to highlight all the deficiencies in the science and the data used by the climate science fraternity. If a research grant is for proving CO2 causes climate change all data that does not back the premise is ignored giving an ever growing body of selective circumstantial evidence that appears plausible.
If the grant is to highlight deficiencies then if the science is indeed beyond reproach then there will be none.
David,
I doubt any research is needed, just look at the raw data and this alone exposes the gross exaggerations. The temperature has not responded to CO 2 increase, or decrease. Data is king, all that research with a computer is just garbage. Having some experience with smaller models it is obvious that a computer model is useless without and understanding of all the physics and chemistry of how the medium in question responds in order to write the equations. Also one needs to know the boundary conditions, etc. The earth’s systems are much to complicated to accurately model.
Again I mention the Berkley Earth project, where skeptics funded exactly that research.
and what did it find?
Just change all the grants to disprove AGW and he’s done. It would be interesting to see how many people/institutions would do a 180 for the $.
GOD VERSUS CO2 BY STEVE FINNELL
Can God’s control over climate and weather be modified, or amended by made-made CO2 emissions? Is it possible to void the miracles of God by the actions of man-made CO2 emissions?
Genesis 7:12 The rain fell on the earth for forty days and forty nights. (NASB)
Could controlling man-made CO2 emissions have prevented forty days of rain and the great flood? Of course not.
Jonah 4:8 When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life.” (NASB)
Would it have been possible for Jonah to be spared the scorching wind if men had controlled their man-made CO2 emissions? Certainly not.
Genesis 8:22 “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.”(NASB)
Can restricting man-made CO2 emissions determine cold, heat, the temperature in summer and winter. Can man-made CO2 emissions control the seasons. No it cannot.
If men who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ believe that man-made CO2 emissions can control weather, climate, and seasons, then, why would anyone look to them for spiritual guidance concerning salvation?
Psalms 148:8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds; Stormy wind, fulfilling His word; (NASB)
This fulfills God’s word, what does man-made CO2 fulfill?
Job 1:16 While he was still speaking, another also came and said, “The fire of God fell from heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them , and I alone have escaped to tell you.” (NASB)
If men would have restricted their CO2 emission, could they have prevented God from destroying Job’s sheep, and servants? No, of course not.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. (NASB)
No amount of man-made CO2 modifications, can cause or prevent the earth from be burned up.
Revelations 20:14-15 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. 15 And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
Men need to stop worrying about the false doctrine of man-made global warming and start being concerned about the warming in the lake of fire.
How to get your name written in the book of life.
1. Faith: John 3:16
2. Confession: Romans 10:9
3. Repentance: Acts 3:19
4. Immersion in Water: Mark 16:16, Acts 2:38
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Re Paris Treaty pull out …. Hope he does but I will believe it when I see it . He has got a mega phone in his ear on this and the hoax promoters will do anything to keep the fraud going . It is no accident the green mafia keep getting meetings .
If he bails on keeping his commitment you will know a whole bunch more BS was spread in that 100 day plan . We will see . I am thinking weasel words …. like studying the issue .