Almost immediately after Trump announced he’d exit the Paris Climate Accord, the world went haywire. Dilbert creator, Scot Adams, was the first to notice and promptly tweeted his reaction.
Our resident cartoonist, Josh, noticed and replied:
inspiring, now all bad weather can be blamed on @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/ZlKZj56mUS
— Josh (@Cartoonsbyjosh) June 2, 2017
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President Trump refused to sign the Paris Accord and by doing so he made my day.
Paris Accord was composed by shortsighted people, not considering what will or might happen in the future. It is nonsense accusing CO2 to cause climate change, or at least I was unable to find any evidence for that claim.
I hope, everybody is as happy as I am. But one thing has to be clear to everybody:
Our energy future is solar. Not coal, natural gas, oil, atomic of any kind, not wind, not tide noting else but solar. Please, understand this. Sun is ubiquitous, its energy is dense, clean, reliable, free, undepletable, electricity produced by solar soon will be too cheap to measure.
So, don’t fool yourself, prepare to our solar future. It will come inevitable and this is because Paris Accord is unnecessary.
Yours sincerely
Pizza Boy
What, you still got a warehouse full of solar panels to unload?
Actually solar energy is the opposite of dense. Mankind has been trying for 10,000 years to harnass it for work, to do more than just dry laundry and make adobe bricks, but it doesn’t have the oomph to do much more than that.
Was listening to an old favorite last night and a line from that song surely describes the reaction of so many warmers. It’s as if they just realized “there ain’t no Coupe de Ville hiding at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box”.
Cracker Jacks have a greater carbon footprint than plain popcorn, I imagine, and so a proper gloating celebration should involve the lesser carbon footprint food item, out of respect for those whose setback we are gloating over.
Glory Glory Hallelujah !
Glory Glory Hallelujah !
Glory Glory Hallelujah !
The Truth Keeps Marching On !
We all got to see coordinated, global, mass activist hysteria and political catering for the same nonsense. Where else do you get to see it all on embarrassing display all at once? Now back to the rational world and work. But stay on guard for the next run at global pick pocketing.
You do realize the overhang of California climate regulatory costs is going to keep building up so when the next run at forcing this on the nation is made in DC it will be a tidal wave of costs for the sane places to absorb. The pressure on the political fault zone is still there and building up for the next Obama-style over reach to trigger it.
I listened to EPA Director Pruitt today at the news conference. His remarks were unsettling to say the least and the administration has set itself up for challenge.
Why? No one has debunked or at least challenged the “settled science” of CO2 contributing to temperature increases.
No one has countered the fact that AGW does not exist to the extent portrayed by the media and the Mann, et al, camp. No mention of climate change natural variability was or has been made.
The administration has simply said the Paris Agreement deal was/is a “bad deal” for America based on economics and jobs.
There is a missed opportunity here to challenge the green left to produce verifiable and observable facts; i.e. empirical evidence and for the administration to present a side of the science no one hears except people like WUWT readers, and those who have a strong interest in the subject matter based on their understanding of the science.
Why was that done and what can we do to help teach the public?
Now the media and the greenies will double done on Trump as being deaf to science and reckless with the future.
The same holds true of green energy and the fact that the only material green energy outside of hydro is nuclear. Solar, wind, tidal and the like is underwater when you take away the subsidies and is not sustainable because it takes more power (energy per period time) than can be created by each of those respective sources.
The action regarding Paris is 100% correct but the way it was presented after the fact was dead wrong.
Tom Tamarkin
I agree 100%. The problem is Trump and Pruitt themselves aren’t capable of understanding the intricacies of the flawed science, so they are unable to explain that. When you really think about it, it’s a daunting task for POTUS (even if he had a science background) because most voters’ eyes glaze over after ten seconds of technical talk. I’m going to keep giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, he seems to know what counts with voters. He’ll never win over anyone who voted for Hillary no matter what he says. He needs to keep his voter base intact, and framing this in terms of jobs and not sending $trillions to “climate victim” nations is probably the right message for now.
I agree and said pretty much the same thing yesterday.
However, I really don’t think it’s that hard to explain to the public at least one of the many ways in which CACCAlarmists have the science all wrong.
ECS is easy to understand. If possible warming really lies between 0,0 and 2.0 degrees C (or less, ie cooling) per doubling of CO2, then, no worries, mate. In a single sentence you can state that IPCC has clearly way overestimated the positive feedbacks to arrive at 2.0 to 4.5 degrees C per doubling. The “canonical” 3.0 degrees is unsupportable by actual evidence. So no wonder the GIGO models have it so wrong.
Natural variability is also readily grasped. It was warmer in the last interglacial. It was warmer during the HCO, the Minoan, Roman and Medieval Warm Periods. We’re recovering from the frigid Little Ice Age. Nothing out of the ordinary is happening, hence, now human fingerprint.
CO2 is plant food. More of it is better. Earth is greening.
And so on. You can keep it simple but still make your scientific point.
Meant no human fingerprint.
The alarmist media are trebling down on CAGW. CNN last night trotted out alleged “experts” like Fareed Zakaria and some lefty retired rear-admiral etc, who all breathlessly declared this move puts humanity on the brink of extinction. We may be winning the battle with the man in the street, but the MSM will now drop any pretext that there is any legitimate debate on the science, they’re digging in their heels on “settled science”.
It’s now an all-out attack on “Trump, Climate Denier #1”. What little pretense of balanced coverage is out the window, this is a battle to save the planet. I think you’ll see all the media outlets (bar Fox) trotting out a “climate change tragedy” story every night.
The new Fox under the younger Murdoch has jumped on the CACA bandwagon.
It is a significant change from the Obama Administration when the Liberals blamed everything on Bush.
How nice that China can wait till 2030 to then dump the informal agreement after doing little or nothing up until then. The amazing thing is how well this purely political creation was veiled from what it really is, i.e. the world’s largest hollow policy proclamation from a U.S. President bought an paid for with taxpayer money to coordinate this glorified conference gathering.
I’ve been thinking Josh could do a great cartoon re the meme that we are ceding “leadership”. It would have a herd of cattle charging toward the cliff edge, with one branded “US” veering off, and the others shouting: “Hey, come back here and lead!”
After the game last night, ABC news reported that Trump was pulling out of the Paris Accord despite all of the troubling signs around the planet, great white sharks off the California coast (yes more apex predators means we’re in the midst of an extinction event), late spring snowfall in Europe, and cicadas emerging in a year they were not predicted to. We laugh now, but they are literally insane, and literally insane people can be dangerous.
I suppose few people know that Great Whites prefer colder waters. That’s why you find them near Amity Beach (Martha’s Vineyard) and not in the Gulf. So, it’s likely an indication that the coastal waters are cooling.
There currently are negative sea surface temperature anomalies off the California coast.
In the old days they would say “It’s God’s will” whenever there was a weather event now they say “It’s Climate Change” and “It’s Trump’s fault” which is one more reason it is either a cult or religion and not science.
I’m not a biologist but if I recall my biology classes correctly; isn’t Carbon the basis of all life on Earth, and all the food to feed that life? So why doesn’t this get mentioned when jackasses like Governor moonbeam complain about “carbon pollution”?
I dunno just too much stupid spouted by the so called elites and “leaders”
cheers!
Joe
Water started pouring out of the sky the minute Trump made that announcement. No, seriously. I’m in Taiwan and the largest monsoon event in 21 years fired up. Rainfall amounts upwards of 49 inches and counting. I’m sure America’s Poli Sci graduates can end this by some posing and speechifying.
Perfect, thanks Josh.