Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Trump supporter Myron Ebell, former vice-president Al Gore and UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed all have one thing in common – they have all just independently suggested that President Trump’s campaign climate agenda is on the verge of being defeated.
Exclusive: Trump EPA transition chief laments slow progress in killing green rules
By Valerie Volcovici | WASHINGTON | Mon May 22, 2017 | 7:03am EDT
The man who led President Donald Trump’s transition team for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Myron Ebell, told a conservative conference last month that the new administration is moving too slowly to unravel climate change regulations.
In closed-door remarks to members of the conservative Jefferson Institute in Virginia on April 18, a recording of which was obtained by Reuters, Ebell said Trump’s administration had made a series of missteps, including delays in appointing key EPA officials, that could hamper efforts to cut red tape for industry.
“This is an impending disaster for the Trump administration,” Ebell, a prominent climate change doubter, said in the recording provided to the Center for Media and Democracy and shared with Reuters.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-ebell-exclusive-idUSKBN18I196
Al Gore thinks the climate movement has defeated President Trump;
Trump may surprise on climate change: Gore
Published: 3:10 pm, Tuesday, 23 May 2017
US President Donald Trump may ‘surprise’ people when it comes to acting on climate change, says former vice president and environmental crusader Al Gore.
A decade after his award-winning environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth, Gore is back at Cannes Film Festival with An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which follows him to the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris.
President Trump has vowed to quit the Paris Agreement which came out of the 2015 conference and aims to see an international reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.
‘I do believe there is a better than even chance that (Trump) will surprise many by keeping the US in the Paris Agreement, I don’t know that he will but there’s a chance he will,’ Gore said on the sidelines at Cannes on Monday.
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The UN think they have President Trump on the run;
Trump treading water over climate change deal, says deputy UN chief
Amina Mohammed says president seems to be avoiding making decision on whether US will renege on historic agreement
The UN’s deputy secretary general has accused President Donald Trump of “treading water” over a decision on the future of the Paris climate change agreement, on which the fate of millions of people depend.
Amina Mohammed told the Guardian she was hopeful the US would not renege on the deal signed last year, but that Trump appeared to be avoiding a public declaration after taking such a hard line during his campaign for the White House.
Trump has previously described climate change as a hoax orchestrated by China. During his battle for the presidency against Hillary Clinton he vowed to “cancel” the historic agreement, which commits countries to ensuring that the average global temperature does not rise 2C above pre-industrial levels.
Since being elected Trump, who is on a world tour starting with a visit to Saudi Arabia, has delayed announcing his administration’s position, although it is widely believed he will be forced to make a statement at the G7 summit in Italy next weekend.
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Tearing up the Paris Agreement is something President Trump could do with the stroke of a pen, as he has done with other Obama executive orders.
The continuation of the USA’s commitment to the Paris Agreement is a symbol of the swamp’s ongoing victory over President Trump’s reform agenda. My guess is Trump’s opponents, both within and outside the Republican Party, are leading the President on, promising cooperation in return for concessions – but drip feeding the President on fulfilling those promises.
This is how the swamp survives – they weather the storm, and do everything in their power to undermine, retard and destroy anyone who might stand in their path. They don’t have to defeat President Trump face to face, they just have to block him, to convince him to sit when he should be standing, to undermine his confidence, to convince the President’s supporters that there is no hope, that their trust and faith was misplaced. To convince Trump supporters to stay home on swamp day.
President Trump, you must take back the initiative. Tear up the Paris Agreement. Do something for all those hard working people in the heartlands who made the effort to vote for hope of a better life. Deliver them from the carbon pricing parasites.
What have you got to lose?
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With 17 Trillion in market cap backing Paris you would think the arm chair communist crowd at least wonder aloud about what is going on and where their principals are sleeping with;
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-24/president-trump-arrives-at-vatican-for-meeting-with-pope
Then again they aren’t a curious lot as a rule. Climate “policy” is as curious sausage making contest if there ever was one. If everyone thinks their face ends up on the back of a coin anything is possible. Where are those hippie G-8 protesters whining about globalism on this issue? Having protests and riots? Right in their pockets naturally! Against the system? They are the system!
Gold standard arguments are the only modern analogy I can think of. They all hate “bankers” who are basically enabled by government but they always want more redistribution and could never live otherwise. It’s only possible WITH GOVERNMENT BACKED BANKING who they love to hate. The hypocrisy couldn’t be more clear, they protest the forces they demand must exist in the first place. How about we abolish climate policy and take money policy private as well at the same time? It would end the delusions of the forever disappointed leftist collective once and for all. I include all the business interest cronies who can’t imagine a world without financial inflation or fake climate fears (Paris for example) to exploit for the remainder of the century.
You are correct, Chris, that I did confuse the incident, and I did inject my thought about her possible thoughts in another country.
(I’ll make a mental note of typing while multi-tasking thoughts can be dangerous) : )
My comment still stands, it was a love tap.
Just because Israels couple held hands, does not mean that they have to follow suite. That’s ridiculous.
you say Chris, “If anything, she would normally be inclined to take his hand to match the behavior of their hosts ”
No. They do not need to match any behavior of anybody, host or not. Which is why I stated what I did about the head scarf. She did not wear a scarf because she doesn’t need to ‘ match the behavior’ of their host.
I’m taking this meme as a good sign;
It’s too bad DJT didn’t have a copy of “Climate Change The Facts” to offer back;
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24475607-climate-change
The great thing about the Paris Pledge is that it will define the true Trump .
Keep the promise and he still has a chance . Bail on the promise as it appears he is doing and
he will be back to real-estate and beauty pageants in no time at all .
The closet liberals inside the white House will take him down .
Actually it will be the neocons that do in Trump. People are sick and tired of wars in the middle east and he is slowly but surely giving in to the neocon agenda. Most people don’t care about CO2 one way or the other.
Leave the deceiver.
https://youtu.be/ROUCzi00Ysg
Trump sure drained that swamp in Saudi Arabia this week. Drained the one in Israel too.
check “youtube sinti | trump”
Youtube “Merkel | Schavan | Vatican”
Daydream was; wake up to the real world.
Dear Mr. President, just do it. Dump Paris, and then politely suggest to your daughter that she strive to learn the real facts.
The UN should have brought underdeveloped proteges to maturity.
What happened with our money.
You can buy your Trump flip-flops here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+flip+flops&oq=trump+flip&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l5.4835j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=trump+flip+flops&tbm=shop
The president is just a puppet. No way Donald would have been allowed anywhere near the White House if he wasn’t on board with the program. All the programs. Endless war to control the resources of the middle east being the most important and expensive. The lies Trump told make Hillary look downright honest….well, not really. I suggest the only recent politician who ran for president who told the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth is Ron Paul. And that’s why Ron was portrayed as a whack-job by the media.
I know.
You didn’t get EUKLID.
what’s yours with EUKLID.
shucks.
Maybe that’s equivalent
https://wn.com/mobile/extrabreit_110_
and not comment awaiting.
Key figures in the Trump Administration are confused about what “science” is. Thus they are ill-equipped to attack the argument of the opponents of the Trump Administration’s policy on global warming at its position maximum vulnerability. The vulnerability is that the “science” of the opponents is pseudoscientific. Trump administration officials are unaware of the difference between a “science” and a “pseudoscience.”
the difference between a “science” and a “pseudoscience.”
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“pseudoscience” looks for positive examples, such as arctic ice melting as proof of climate change.
“science” looks at negative examples, such as antarctic ice growing as proof of the null hypothesis.
the problem is that you can ALWAYS find examples showing the climate is changing, simply by chance. that doesn’t mean that it is. science tells us that it is the examples that show climate is not changing that are important. if you cannot find any of these, then climate is indeed changing.
the problem is that there are a great many examples showing that any change there might be is so small that it is insignificant as compared to the daily change that occurs when the sun rises and sets. and equally insignificant as compared to the change the occurs between winter and summer. thus there is no “signature” scientists can point to that definitively shows climate change beyond what might occur due to chance.
as such, climate science has been reduced to proof by pseudoscience, rather than proving the null hypothesis to be wrong. the IPCC is chock full of positive examples that do not prove science, they prove via pseudoscience in support of politics.
After Trump leaving
comes house speaker
who needs Trump.
trump won the counties marked in red below. hillary the ones marked in blue. there are a whole lot of people in rural america that think the system is broken, that the traditional politicians don’t represent their interests, and feel disrespected that press and entertainment industry continually try and tell them how to think. as if the entertainment industry should lecture anyone on morality.
http://static.snopes.com/app/uploads/2016/12/3141-counties-trump-won-841×452.jpg
I would submit that President Trump has
already won for the United States. Abolished
BO’s Coal Killing Executive Orders. Keystone.
Offshore drilling…on and on…
Ej said “My comment still stands, it was a love tap.’
Nobody slaps away an offered hand hold as a love tap. You might squeeze the hand back, and then let it go, but you don’t slap it away.
If trump focused on the enormous business opportunities of the change to renewable energy, then hed be a support it.
The previous Prime Minister of Australia tried to wreck progress and innovation. And all he achieved was increase the cost of energy to everyone, by destroying confidence of investors.
Fortunately things are shifting towards renewable energy again now because it is cheaper than coal, gas and nuclear.
The question is – why wouldn’t we want to avoid the risk of climate change?
“Ian May 24, 2017 at 10:12 pm
Fortunately things are shifting towards renewable energy again now because it is cheaper than coal, gas and nuclear.”
Which is why Australia is going down the economic pan. Renewables are becoming cost competitive BECAUSE of subsidies. Nuclear? Sheesh man, this *IS* Australia.
When a politician talks of “renweables” and “energy security” they are talking rubbish!
Trump Slashes Climate Funds
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/budget/fy2018/msar.pdf
Trump said in November 2016 “We’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars. We don’t even know who’s doing what with the money.” Trump promised to cancel UN global warming payments while on the campaign trail. Trump’s budget makes good on that promise, and Congress is likely to agree.
The Trump administration has proposed eliminating nearly $1.6 billion in international programs aimed at promoting green energy and ‘fighting global warming.’ There will be no funding to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF), which hands out money for programs to adapt or mitigate global warming. The White House said this proposal is in line with President Trump’s campaign pledge to “cease payments to the United Nations’ climate change programs.” The budget “fulfills that pledge,” according to budget documents.
The budget has withdrawn funding for the Clean Technology Fund and the Strategic Climate Fund for a savings of $239m. It would also stop funding the Global Climate Change Initiative – saving $362m.
Ceaucescu’s back again: https://www.google.at/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/03/30/peter-thiel-suggests-being-less-competitive-could-give-you-an-edge.html
Trump has done very poorly in all his promises. It was too good to be true, came out to be just your usual politician but this time it’s even worse.
Really.
Trump has:
You’re a bit stupid, aren’t you?
Utter rubbish.
You haven’t a clue, have you?
Trump being Trump…
Trump just delivered one heck of a good speech at NATO! Classic Trump! He pulled no punches and showed what a leader looks like.
Ej said: “…………..Obviously you don’t know much about relationships Chris…………
The husband and I hold hands A LOT. I have ‘slapped’ his hand from behind on many occasions, and he knows what it means. It MEANS, yes dear, I am behind you.’
Ej, why do you bring up an example that is totally unrelated to the Trump’s? They were walking side by side, not front and back. No need whatsoever for her to communicate to him she was behind him – since she was not.
Thank you for your attempt to educate me on what this site is, but I am fully capable of understanding what it is and isn’t.