Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Climate change consistently ranks dead last on people’s list of priorities, only 36% of US people believe humans are “mainly” responsible for climate change, the USA elected President Trump in 2016, but the Washington Bubble still hasn’t gotten the message.
How bad can the climate crisis get if Trump wins again?
US greenhouse gas emissions are up since 2017 and Trump’s administration has ripped up curbs on climate polluters
Emily Holden in Washington
Sun 12 Jan 2020 20.00 AEDTClimate pollution in the US is up under Donald Trump and threatens to undermine international efforts to stall the crisis, especially if he wins re-election this year and secures a second term in the White House.
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“What they have done is created confusion within the business community and the environmental world as to what are going to be the standards,” said Christine Todd Whitman, who led the Environmental Protection Agency under the Republican president George W Bush. “Essentially every regulation the agency promulgates gets a lawsuit that goes with it, almost inevitably … that’s the only good thing you can say about it.”
Whitman called the approach “mindless” and said “whoever is a bigger donor gets to tell them what the environmental policy should be, it seems”.
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Andrew Light, a climate negotiator for President Barack Obama’s state department, said the world is taking note of those efforts, but if Trump is re-elected “you are going to see a lot of people who are worried anew about what the US can do.”
Americans choosing Trump would send the signal that they don’t care about the climate, Light said.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/12/climate-crisis-if-trump-wins-again
Here’s my prediction for 2020 – I think Tom Steyer will win the Democrat nomination. Not because he is better or more popular than the other candidates, but because “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer might be about to obliterate most of the Democrat front row.
Steyer will run the climate change campaign he is promising to run – and will lose badly to President Trump, because Trump focuses on issues people actually care about.
Will Washington get the message in 2020?
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“If you vote for a liberal then you don’t care about the future of the U.S.” (or fill in the country you are from)
See how throwing junk out there is? It doesn’t have to be true, it just has to resonate.
I care about a lot of things – including the truth. I am not worried about the climate (which is different then saying I don’t care about it)
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Osmium dense Christine Todd Whitman?
Or is this your version of virtue signalling to devout democrats?
The actual question is how did you miss the message in 2016!?
Plus, even EPA bureaucrats should be smart enough to recognize that none of the glitterati, especially Obama and many other top democrats, live their carbon dioxide lives entirely unconcerned.
I just posted a comment and it did not ask me to sign in. Did that get pushed out into the future somewhere?
As a liberal I support the movement to protect the environment from polluters. However, Carbon Dioxide is not a pollutant.
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Climate does not matter … and the “Crisis” does not exist! Just “snow fake” hysteria.
-RB
“Huge rain bomb forecast gives hope to exhausted firefighters – but the downpour will be so heavy it could cause LANDSLIDES”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7879977/Bushfires-Heavy-rainfall-forecasted-New-South-Wales-gives-huge-hope-firefighters.html?fbclid=IwAR0XqA6okT4LTudE7HCurDO7ASLa9s_JMnwixOLBXlBSfNvYiVskTESkitQ
Greatly appreciate this site plugging Schweizer’s book, he has been exposing corruption at high levels, both parties. Clintons still #1 grifters in USA.
When experts with PhDs sometimes write a lot of hogwash in scientific journals, is it any wonder that a journalist with no science and a single degree will write a lot of hogwash? She has evidently not looked closely and critically at conflicting scientific views and tried to examine the reasoning and logic looking for flaws.
of course she hasn’t, an environment reporter for Guardian, she only looks for what fits the narrative she/the Guardian wants to tell.
Americans do care very much about the environment, but just don’t care about the Left’s climate hoax.
“Send the Signal that they Don’t Care about the Climate” You are right. As it relates to human impact on climate change/global warming we don’t care because it is all a hoax. Man’s impact on any change that might occur is insignificant. Why worry or spend money on something that is not happening. Current environmental efforts are sufficient to protect the environment. In fact we can even cut back on a few of them that are over the top.
And their point is?…..
It would send a message that they dont care about their faux manufactured climate hysteria, thats about all in regard to climate. The Dems have so muddied the water with Trump derangement I doubt alleged climate issues are top of mind for the bulk of Americans. There have been many surveys to show this in the past, I expect that is only more so now.
Americans choosing Trump sends the signal that we don’t believe in the “climate change” scam or in its proponents who have lied and falsified data, and none of whose predictions have come true, and who can’t explain why the two-mile-thick glaciers that covered much of North America just melted away…Hint: it wasn’t Man, and it wasn’t CO2.
How can you even begin to believe people who claim that CO2 is a “pollutant”, and who regularly confuse Carbon and CO2 and demonize them both? How can you believe people who tell you that “ocean acidification” is a thing and that it’s caused by Man? How? By being ignorant. The left likes the hoi polloi ignorant, by design.
A email sent to Ms. Holden:
Dear Ms. Holden,
Having read of your recent article, “How bad can the climate crisis get if Trump wins again?” I trusted you’d like to know of my recent peer-reviewed paper about climate predictions.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00223/full “Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections” shows that climate models cannot predict the future climate.
The whole thing about CO2-induced heat is nothing more than a massive exercise in false precision.
The real crisis about climate, then, is how so many climate scientists got away for so long with being so incompetent.
Yours,
Pat
Patrick Frank
Palo Alto, CA 94301
email: xxx@xxx.xxx
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These things are, we conjecture, like the truth;
But as for certain truth, no one has known it.
Xenophanes, 570-500 BCE
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“Climate pollution”?? — I had not seen that one, before reading the article.
The phrase does not even make sense. It makes about as much sense as the phrase, “chromatic obesity”, which I just made up.
Climate is not a containment of something that can be polluted — it is a pattern of observed conditions over a period of years.
Idiots are stringing words together mindlessly to further increase their vocabulary of doom.
I’ve got some suggestions: “climate idiocy”, “climate pretentiousness”, “climate dim wit”, “climate perversity”,
“climate stupidity”, “climate narcissism”, “climate prevarication”, “climate clueless”. I’ll stop there.
I don’t view the climate as a being with feelings.
Whether I care about the climate or not has no bearing on reality.
Exactly. I do not care about climate. And that’s why I voted for Trump and will continue to do so.
I care about the weather next weekend. And I’d vote for Trump if I could.
Problem solved by Aussie Greens politician Senator Sarah Hanson-Young. She is demanding that our Prime Minister, Scott Morrsion just pick up the phone and tell Donald Trump to “do more on climate change” 10:20 into the clip unless you want to watch the rest.
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6122034588001
I am sure Donald is waiting for the call.
I keep my house at 295K (71F). The average temp in Indiana is 284K (51.8F). So technically about 96.3% of my heat comes from solar. Global warming should improve my numbers to 96.8%. I switched to LED light bulbs, and my SUVs runs off of recycled dinosaurs, and I do my best to help eradicate farting cows by eating them whenever possible.. Besides flying in my private jet to every climate apocalypse summit, I’m not sure what else I can do? Maybe buy an Apple Phone made in the sweat shops of Asia where they have taught their child workers to live without air conditioning.
Choosing Trump would mean that people prefer someone who is abrasive, blunt and sometimes downright nasty but who is also as real as a heart attack over the usual lies, deception. People want to reduce the size of the hand that empties their pockets. They want jobs, they want an economy that works for them and not for the elites, they want houses and cars and send their kids to school. And they are sick of the drama.
Donald Trump, at the bottom of the issue, is a builder. He looks you in the eye, shakes your hand and says “I will build you the greatest building ever.” And then he builds it. I got no problem with that mindset, absolutely none. I want him running rampant through the US Federal government with a machete and a scalpel. That is what he is doing, while all this tv drama crap oozes its way through the msm. Good man! And punking them in front of the American people the whole time. #4more
I voted for Trump PRECISELY because I care about the climate.