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Trump 2024 Climate Panic: “in a word, horrific”

Essay by Eric Worrall

I could read this stuff for hours.

‘In a word, horrific’: Trump’s extreme anti-environment blueprint

Allies and advisers have hinted at a more methodical second term: driving forward fossil fuel production, sidelining scientists and overturning rules

Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor Tue 6 Feb 2024 22.00 AEDT

The United States’s first major climate legislation dismantled, a crackdown on government scientists, a frenzy of oil and gas drilling, the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried.

A blueprint is emerging for a second Donald Trump term that is even more extreme for the environment than his first, according to interviews with multiple Trump allies and advisers.

“Trump will undo everything [Joe] Biden has done, he will move more quickly and go further than he did before,” said Myron Ebell, who headed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team for Trump’s first term. “He will act much more expeditiously to impose his agenda.”

He would, his allies say, also scrap government considerations of the damage caused by carbon emissions; compel a diminished EPA to squash pollution rules for cars, trucks and power plants; and symbolically nullify the Paris climate agreement by not only withdrawing the US again but sending it to the Senate for ratification as a treaty, knowing it would fail.

“A return of Trump would be, in a word, horrific,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official, now fellow at the University of New Hampshire.

“It would also be incredibly stupid. It would roll back progress made over decades to protect public health and safety, there is no logic to it other than to destroy everything. People who support him may not realize it’s their lives at stake, too.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/trump-climate-change-fossil-fuels-second-term

I must admit, a part of me feels a little sorry for people suffering such extreme fear of climate change and the coming Trump presidency, despite the harm their ideas have inflicted on the rest of us.

It’s like watching a mistreated pet rabbit which has been stuck in a cramped cage so long, instead of leaping for freedom when the door to the cage is opened, it just sits there crying. But there is very little we can do to help them escape the psychological cage of their own making, they have to take the first step.

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February 7, 2024 10:05 am

Bunny in the cage, sheep in the cage only beholden to the “consensus”, same difference.

michael hart
Reply to  pillageidiot
February 7, 2024 7:15 pm

About five decades on, I still mourn the passing of my pet rabbit when he escaped his hutch to meet the world outside. A dog most likely.

But before that, he had still developed the skill of a ninja-type twisting urination leap which enabled him to piss on me as I approached the hutch to feed him.
Swings and roundabouts, I guess.

Editor
February 7, 2024 10:05 am

Trump’s the orange man, not the green man. YAY!!

Regards,
Bob

Reply to  Bob Tisdale
February 7, 2024 12:30 pm

…“Trump will undo everything [Joe] Biden has done, he will move more quickly and go further than he did before,”…

I was already voting for him. They don’t have to hard sell me.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Fraizer
February 7, 2024 4:19 pm

Good one… thanks, Fraizer.

Reply to  Bob Tisdale
February 7, 2024 12:33 pm

Let’s get priorities straight

CLOSE THE NORTH AND SOUTH BORDERS AND BUILD THE FRIGGEN WALL AND START DEPORTING

All else is next

Reply to  wilpost
February 7, 2024 1:14 pm

Why north?

Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 1:54 pm

I live in Vermont and illegal crossings are up 10 fold since Biden in the basement took over.

Reply to  wilpost
February 7, 2024 2:05 pm

But all those illegals are balanced by those heading into Canada. I live right on the border in Manitoba and there has been a recent increase in illegals headed into Canada between legitimate crossings. Building a wall across the prairies would be interesting. We count on freezing weather (except this year) to slow down the flow. Feb. 2022 saw a family of four from India frozen to death only metres from the US border trying to get across after being dropped off not quite close enough to safely make it over. At least the smuggler in MN was caught with other illegals in his van.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Tomsa
February 7, 2024 4:21 pm

You may be close to South Junction…?

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 8, 2024 8:00 am

No further west than that

Drake
Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 5:04 pm

I agree. Why the north?

Truedope is all for amnesty and illegals and the northern US boarder is primarily illegals going NORTH. So it is much like shipping them to sanctuary cities and states from Texas.

If Canada does not want them, Canada can build the wall.

Then the US can be like the Mexican government and help the illegals get INTO Canada, LOLOLOL!

Reply to  Drake
February 7, 2024 6:44 pm

In Vermont we have a lot of socialists who like to use other people’s money to Molly-coddle “those poor refuges”, that Canadian NGO traffickers are dropping off near the border.

Reply to  wilpost
February 8, 2024 4:23 am

Ask these Vermont Socialists if they would like to take migrants into their own homes, and watch them squirm!

Reply to  MyUsername
February 8, 2024 5:50 pm

OK dumbass,

If there were 50/day coming east into Dutch Harbor, then shipped to your town, you and your ilk would be 100% in favor of stopping the entry.

It does not matter where they come from, regardless of your bias and racism.

Reply to  wilpost
February 8, 2024 3:53 am

McConnell’s hand-picked RINOs Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska), James Lankford (Okla.) and Mitt Romney (Utah) voted for PERMANENT OPEN BORDERS, north and south, and PERMANENTLY allowing up to 1.8 million walk-ins, who are unvetted, unskilled, needy, culturally different, from poverty-stricken, crime-ridden, neighborhoods from all over the world, ready to start sucking from multiple government programs, thereby PERMANENTLY altering the make-up of the US into a LEFTIST, government-dependent UN-AMERICAN society, 

The Founding Fathers will be spinning in their graves

Farmers, get out the tractors, to put an end to this nonsense, as farmers are doing in Europe

Tom Johnson
Reply to  Bob Tisdale
February 7, 2024 7:27 pm

This can’t be a real article. It sounds mor like a Trump campaign commercial.

Reply to  Tom Johnson
February 8, 2024 3:56 am

That is great, because Trump needs to win by a landslide, so he can undo all the Biden Socialist garbage that is destroying the US

0perator
February 7, 2024 10:10 am

there is no logic to it other than to destroy everything.

YES!

William Howard
Reply to  0perator
February 7, 2024 10:21 am

I think these people really believe, without any objective evidence, that CO2 is destroying the climate and will make the earth uninhabitable even though the amount of CO2 that could be removed from the atmosphere from the cessation of use of fossil fuels is so tiny that it couldn’t possibly have any effect on the weather let alone the climate – it’s now their religion – worshiping nature which God specifically forbids in the bible

Reply to  William Howard
February 7, 2024 10:55 am

I’m told every day- here in Wokeachusetts- that we’re having a climate emergency. I step outside, look around, and see no emergency- only a nice, mild winter- and I see nobody complaining about it.

Decaf
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 1:48 pm

My Boston progressive friends think climate is our biggest problem. Totally paralyzed by fear, the lot of them.

Reply to  Decaf
February 8, 2024 3:28 am

“Totally paralyzed by [irrational] fear,”

That’s even worse.

I wonder what those people would think if they learned that there is no connection established between CO2 and the Earth’s weather or climate?

They have been worrying themselves sick over nothing. They have an unwarranted fear of CO2.

What they should fear is lying climate change alarmists. That’s the cause of their psychological problems.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 4:24 pm

Mildest Winter that I can recall in 40 years in Stevens County, WA. It must be because I don’t drive much.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 7, 2024 4:25 pm

I had better add “so far” to that first line. Still Feb.

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 7, 2024 8:14 pm

We had a hard freeze in the Seattle-Everett area a couple of weeks ago. The pond next to my house (I live on a golf course) had the thickest ice that I have ever seen. There’s not much snow, but it’s colder than–you know the thing!

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 8, 2024 3:07 am

That makes it an extreme weather event- an extremely mild winter. It’s an emergency!

strativarius
Reply to  William Howard
February 7, 2024 12:40 pm

Belief is key

“”A powerful message through song’: the UK’s Climate Choir Movement is growing””https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/07/a-powerful-message-through-song-the-uks-climate-choir-movement-is-growing

just like Christianity – only without original melodies

Richard Page
Reply to  strativarius
February 7, 2024 5:59 pm

Well if I heard these muppets singing some self-written anti-oil polemic to something by the spice girls, I’d probably start crying too, or laughing so hard tears would roll – either really.

observa
Reply to  Richard Page
February 7, 2024 6:32 pm

The Wailing Banshees don’t turn you on?
The meaning behind Extinction Rebellion’s red-robed protesters | Dazed (dazeddigital.com)
Sheesh is it any wonder so many young blokes are checking out of the Western women dating scene altogether and/or becoming passport bros.

Decaf
Reply to  William Howard
February 7, 2024 1:46 pm

False idols make mincemeat of their followers, hence their paralysis and constant anxiety.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  William Howard
February 7, 2024 4:22 pm

Of course god would forbid it.

Reply to  William Howard
February 8, 2024 4:02 am

This article shows, it is impossible for CO2 to play any role in global warming, compared to water vapor, which prevents the earth from turning into an ice ball.

El Niños and the Hunga Tonga Sub-Surface Volcanic Eruption
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-eruption
.
Refer to this URL to see images
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-periodic-global-warming

Official Contribution to Greenhouse Effect
.
Below is a summary of official numbers regarding the greenhouse effect. They can be found on many websites.
They were determined in a laboratory by relatively few people
Atmospheric scientists cannot definitively say, based on direct experiments, exactly how much greenhouse effect is caused by each GHG.
They cannot simply remove one gas and see how the absorption of IR photons changes. Instead, they must use subjective models of the atmosphere to predict the likely changes.
So, they run their models with one GHG removed; say, for instance, water vapor. They might find that this results in a 36% reduction in the greenhouse effect.
I have been unable to find the calculations and or measurements that yielded these values
https://www.windows2universe.org/earth/climate/greenhouse_effect_gases.html ;

H2O molecules, as water vapor, 39 to 62%
Clouds, 15 to 36%
Water vapor and clouds, 67 to 85%
CO2 molecules, 14 to 25%. See below Molecules Absorbing Photons Excites Molecules and Creates Heat 
All other GHGs, 5 to 9%
http://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s9636.pdf
.
Allocating Available IR photons
.
We assume, for simplicity, H2O and CO2 molecules have equal global warming capacity.
About 22% of IR photons escape to space through an atmospheric window, per Image 11A, blue part.
That leaves 78% to be allocated to H20 and CO2 molecules, as follows:

Worldwide basis: H2O molecules absorb 78 x 4037/(4037 + 423) = 70.6%, and CO2 molecules 7.4%; some sources state up to 8% of IR photons is absorbed by CO2
Temperate zone basis: H2O molecules absorb 78 x 9022/(9022 + 423) = 74.5% and CO2 molecules 3.5%
Tropics: H2O molecules absorb 78 x 29806/(29806 + 423) = 77%, and CO2 molecules 1% 
It appears, CO2 has almost no global warming role to play in the Tropics, where huge quantities of water vapor is heated, that is distributed to the rest of the earth, by normal circulation processes.

If H2O molecules had greater global warming capacity than CO2 molecules, the CO2 role regarding global warming would be even less. 

Atmospheric Window. See Image 11A
The window exists, primarily due to the reduced absorption of IR photons by water vapor.
The window varies from 15 to 30%, primarily due to changes in water vapor ppm and cloud cover
The wide IR photon absorption spectrum of H2O, from 20 to 70 micrometers, almost entirely limits the right side of the blue part, plus the wide spectrum, from 4 to 10 micrometers, almost entirely limits and reduces the left side of the blue part
The narrow IR photon absorption spectrum of CO2, centered on 14.9 micrometers, also limits and reduces the right side of the blue part.
Water vapor molecules play the dominant role absorbing IR photons, because they have much wider absorption bands of wavelengths than CO2, plus H2O molecules are 9.54 more prevalent than CO2 molecules, on worldwide average, as above calculated.

Reply to  William Howard
February 8, 2024 4:12 am

Global warming, this I know
‘Cause some experts told me so
They can err as humankind
But my faith in them is blind

Industry is greedy!
Al-mighty íííSCIENCE!!!
Because I’m profit-phobic
My faith in them is blind

Science-TV
February 7, 2024 10:11 am

“But there is very little we can do to help them escape the psychological cage of their own making, they have to take the first step.”

That’s the best way of putting it that I ever heard! They really have brainwashed themselves into being carbon-phobes – don’t anyone tell them that they are full of carbon, they might do something drastic.

J Boles
Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 10:45 am

BTW they all use FF every day of their lives, of that they are in denial.

Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 10:57 am

What really got me was- about a decade ago- hearing the term “carbon pollution”.

Tom Halla
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 11:42 am

I know one woman who sincerely believed that referred to soot. She had a masters degree.

Reply to  Tom Halla
February 7, 2024 2:03 pm

A clear sign that a “Masters Degree” is highly overrated.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
February 7, 2024 4:28 pm

Now, I wonder.. how did “she”, get a “Masters Degree”?

Kevin Kilty
Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 7, 2024 5:16 pm

could have been purchased at a degree mill.

Reply to  AGW is Not Science
February 7, 2024 8:22 pm

Well, I have a Master’s Degree in Software Engineering. It usually depends on what subject the Master’s Degree is in–basket weaving usually doesn’t count for much.

Coach Springer
Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 11:00 am

Sounds like a need for another 12-step program. These folks are certainly intoxicated with something and you can’t help any of these people if they don’t want to be helped.

Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 3:12 pm

Story Tip :

Alberta’s 4,481 Megawatts of Wind Power Produced Only 3 MW Monday Night, 2 Tuesday Morning:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/albertas-4481-megawatts-of-wind-power-produced-only-3-mw-monday-night-2-tuesday-morning-5581732?utm_source=ref_share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ref_share_btn
It’s paywalled (highly worth it by the way! Look for deals) but you the “reader” function in the browser might be able to get around it.

Lots of good links in the article:

http://ets.aeso.ca/ets_web/ip/Market/Reports/CSDReportServlet
Still dismal wind output as I post this.

https://twitter.com/ReliableAB/status/1754823640258900010?s=20

https://pipelineonline.ca/round-4-alberta-declares-fourth-electrical-grid-alert-in-4-days-second-in-17-hours/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0

https://pipelineonline.ca/a-few-weeks-after-albertas-grid-was-on-the-brink-renewables-again-bottom-out-but-no-crisis-this-time/#/?playlistId=0&videoId=0

It’s disgusting what the previous socialist provincial government and the federal government have done to Alberta – it should be an energy powerhouse like Texas, free to develop at will, yet it gets red-taped-locked worse than it being land locked. Or should I coin a new phrase and call it green-tape?

sturmudgeon
Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 4:27 pm

hopefully… (nasty, I know).

Gregory Woods
February 7, 2024 10:13 am

If only we could trust Trump to follow through. If only…

Gregory Woods
Reply to  Gregory Woods
February 7, 2024 10:17 am

First, get CO2 off the blacklist.

technically right
Reply to  Gregory Woods
February 7, 2024 11:09 am

Agreed. I never could figure out why Trump didn’t submit the Paris Agreement to the Senate as a treaty. It would never have been ratified which he could have used to argue that the Agreement had no legitimacy.

Reply to  technically right
February 7, 2024 2:55 pm

Trump was afraid they would pass it just to spite him.

Drake
Reply to  Matthew Bergin
February 7, 2024 5:09 pm

Yes!

Too many squishy RINOs in the senate then and they only needed 60 votes.

He needed 41, and I don’t think he had them.

Reply to  Matthew Bergin
February 7, 2024 6:58 pm

Kyoto redux.

Reply to  Gregory Woods
February 7, 2024 10:32 am

When he ran the first time he made no secret about what he wanted to do.
Then he actually tried to do it!
He was hindered by Dems and RINOs and bogus charges.
He has a track record this time of trying to follow through.
Success will depend on Congress.

Editor
Reply to  Gregory Woods
February 7, 2024 11:01 am

Above all he was hindered by the EPA swamp

We had it in the UK after Brexit. Politicians wanted to roll back all of the EU regulations, but the Civil Service simply refused

Reply to  Paul Homewood
February 7, 2024 1:53 pm

If Trump wins, this EO needs to come out on day one, not at the end of year four.

https://brownstone.org/articles/the-astonishing-implications-of-schedule-f/

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Frank from NoVA
February 7, 2024 4:48 pm

Thanks for that link… hadn’t visited for some time.

February 7, 2024 10:23 am

Considering all the damage “The Cause” has caused, Trump (or anybody else) damaging “The Cause” would be a good thing.

February 7, 2024 10:31 am

Dear Santa,

I know it’s a bit early this year, but can my present for Christmas 2024 include Mr. Trump in the Whitehouse please.

Thank you,

HotScot.

Reply to  HotScot
February 7, 2024 10:59 am

By the way, I believe Trump’s ancestry is half Scotch- and half German.

Mr.
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 11:54 am

I never take scotch with anything other than a teardrop of water.

Reply to  Mr.
February 7, 2024 3:14 pm

How about scotch with a beer caser?

sturmudgeon
Reply to  PCman999
February 7, 2024 4:56 pm

Wouldn’t a ‘caser’two delute it a ‘wee bit’?

Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 12:35 pm

You mean half-Scottish. Mr. Trump has no Scotch in him, he’s teatotal. As the Scots do say, “There’s no harm in bein’ teatotal … if it saves ya’ a shillin’ or two.”

Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
February 7, 2024 12:46 pm

I stand corrected. By the way, I love the Scottish accent.

Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 2:24 pm

Lang may yer lum reek. 🙂

Reply to  HotScot
February 7, 2024 4:31 pm

My wife says, now that I’ve retired and sometimes skip my usual daily shower, I sometimes reek. But it can’t be because of a lang or a lum since I’ve never knowingly eaten either. 😎

Reply to  Gunga Din
February 7, 2024 4:40 pm

If you ate a lum, you would know about it. 🙂

Richard Page
Reply to  HotScot
February 7, 2024 6:03 pm

Especially if it were a lang lum! 😎

Phil Rae
Reply to  HotScot
February 8, 2024 12:45 am

…..wi’ ither folks’ coal 🤣

Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 4:20 pm

Maybe because you can’t understand it? 😎

I love the old “39 Steps”. Watching it and any “auto-generated” captions, such as a Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes can be quite amusing.
(Maybe a useful application of AI?)

Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 8:32 pm

Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry, was visiting Scotland. He asked one Scot what he thought of his Star Trek Scotty character. The Scot replied, “Do you know Sean Connery?” Roddenberry said, “Yes.” The Scot said, “That’s a Scottish accent.”

Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
February 7, 2024 2:24 pm

Thank you Mumbles. 🙂

Half Scot’s is fine as well.

Scissor
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 1:40 pm

Gore’s is half man, half bear, and half pig.

Reply to  Scissor
February 7, 2024 4:32 pm

What half is the BS?

Reply to  Gunga Din
February 7, 2024 8:34 pm

50%

Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 4:14 pm

Ancestry.
My Dad’s side was 100% Irish. My cousin traced us back, one branch back to … 1670? maybe 1760.
I remember Mom saying she was “99% German and 1% Scotch-Irish”.
Since her Grandmother’s maiden name was (fill-in-the-blank) definitely not German, I don’t really know know much about her side. (But I do know, from her obituary, that my Great-Ma was born on the second floor of a log cabin saloon.)
You can blend Scotch with Irish Whisky or Bourbon (Born and raised in Kentucky), bottom line is that it doesn’t matter where or what you came from, what are you now?

Richard Page
Reply to  Gunga Din
February 7, 2024 6:07 pm

You can blend Scotch with aviation fuel but I really wouldn’t recommend it; I’m half Irish on my mum’s side and half Irish on my dad’s side and I’ve had a few dram’s that tasted quite like that!

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 4:54 pm

I believe the adjective would be “Scottish”, or Scots. The manner in which you are using it, to describe his ancestry, it would, preferably, be “Stottish”.

strativarius
February 7, 2024 10:46 am

Trump derangement syndrome is a very strange affliction.

pass the popcorn

Reply to  strativarius
February 7, 2024 2:08 pm

The American Left should consider Trump’s return a gift, i.e., a controlled burn or a chance for the rubes to harmlessly vent off a little steam. An administration that truly endeavored to uphold and protect the Constitution would need to eliminate 80-90% of what the Federal government routinely does today.

Drake
Reply to  Frank from NoVA
February 7, 2024 6:00 pm

Every law passed using the interstate commerce clause for justification that is not actually interstate commerce, such as welfare, food stamps, the EPM, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Education, Energy, etc.

The FBI is only supposed to get involved in interstate crime, then they got into banks because of the Federal Reserve, and look at what they did to TRUMP! No constitutional authority for a central government police force.

I read some comments on the new Boarder/Ukraine/Israel bill. It would require any challenges of the boarder part to be in the DC Circuit. What a surprise.

SO, yes, laws can specify where the suit may be filed. There must be NO trials in the DC courts.

Reply to  Drake
February 7, 2024 8:36 pm

Or appeals.

February 7, 2024 10:49 am

“A return of Trump would be, in a word, horrific,” said Andrew Rosenberg, a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official, now fellow at the University of New Hampshire.
“It would also be incredibly stupid. It would roll back progress made over decades to protect public health and safety, there is no logic to it other than to destroy everything. People who support him may not realize it’s their lives at stake, too.”

Andrew: I would like to get rid of the NOAA oversight and additional regulatory costs associated with removing an isolated 0.3 acres of defined wetland on a 10 acre piece of ground (that is more than 60 miles from the Ocean, and is more than 1 mile from any fish bearing stream). I would like to avoid the NOAA Endangered Species Act review for this urban area (that has already gone through the State mandated review by the local jurisdiction for such activity).

If doing so endangers my life in any way, or puts my health at risk, so be it. I will take the chance.

Reply to  DonM
February 7, 2024 11:06 am

Wetlands! No place is more fanatic about them than Wokeachusetts- which I think had the first wetland laws in America. As a forester, I filed a cutting plan for a timber harvest for a property that was loaded with small streams and real wetlands. It was a nightmare mapping it all out. The rules are strict about staying clear of the wetlands. Then I walked the entire site with the state “service forester” who regulates cut plans in my area. She saw an old rut from the last logging job 25 years earlier. Maybe 6′ long and 2′ wide- right on an old logging skid trail. She saw that and said, “Joe, why didn’t you put this wetland on the cut plan”. What with my Italian hot temper- you can imagine what I wanted to say- but I didn’t. Just to shut her up, I said I’ll add it when back to the office and I did. She didn’t even realize that the rut was just where the log skidder dug into the ground as it tried to climb a hill. She had very little real world experience- but a masters degree in wetlands! Just one story of hundreds I could tell about practicing forestry in Wokeachusetts for half a century. Gotta write a book- then have it made into a move. Brad Pitt could play me. 🙂 Or maybe Sylvester Stallone.

Fran
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 11:20 am

Wetlands = mosquitoes.

Ron Long
Reply to  Fran
February 7, 2024 11:44 am

Bingo! The wetlands in Summer Valley, north of Paisley, Oregon, have the biggest and fiercest mosquitos I have ever seen (several places in Alaska in second place), and the locals are so proud of this that they have an annual National Mosquito Festival. Interestingly enough, no environmentalist whacka-doodles show up for the Festival, you know, to honor the wetlands.

Reply to  Ron Long
February 7, 2024 3:00 pm

Just outside Newcastle, Australia, there is a place called Hexham Swamp

The local club has the sign below

Hexham-mossie
Reply to  Ron Long
February 7, 2024 3:23 pm

Someone should invite them – don’t mention the mosquitoes and tell them they are required to help support the poor creatures of the wetlands. Appropriate dress: T-shirts and shorts are OK, it’s not a formal festival, in fact bikinis and speedos preferred!

Reply to  Ron Long
February 7, 2024 4:20 pm

https://youtu.be/sgtwD9CKKA8

The one-eyed guy is a galactic environmental regulator … on earth to ensure the endangered mosquitos are not harmed.

Reply to  Ron Long
February 7, 2024 4:27 pm

Ron,

My uncle Olaf kept a mosquito as a pet when he lived in Paisley. Had it chained to the bedpost, but after a while it chewed thru the chain and escaped.

Jeff Alberts
Reply to  DonM
February 11, 2024 6:36 pm

I think his taxonomic identification may be a bit off…

Reply to  Fran
February 7, 2024 3:20 pm

That gave me an awesome idea – pit the NOAA wetland crazies against the CDC disease crazies! 2 swamps fighting each other, hopefully to the death, and a piric victory to the winner as well.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Joseph Zorzin
February 7, 2024 5:00 pm

Her degree being in ‘wetlands’, it is little wonder her brain was soggy.

Ed Zuiderwijk
February 7, 2024 11:11 am

Sending the Paris treaty to the senate would be the coup de grace, if the senate throws it out. Then a future Demo president can’t rejoin without going back to the senate for approval. Fat chance.

February 7, 2024 11:21 am

Why not let Texas secede and vote Trump for president there? Show everyone how awesome it will be 😉

Mr.
Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 11:56 am

Well at the rate that US citizens are leaving the woke Dem states & cities and moving to TX, that could be a viable option.

Reply to  Mr.
February 7, 2024 2:37 pm

Hence the Left’s urgency in bringing in citizens from everywhere else.

Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 12:15 pm

Texas derangement syndrome.. and Trump derangement syndrome…

… so gormless. !

Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 2:31 pm

‘Why not let Texas secede and vote Trump for president there?’

One thing you should know about secession is that it’s really not arbitrarily limited to state boundaries. Take a look at an electoral map sometime and you’ll realize that most of the US land area (in red) is populated by folks that probably don’t share your vision of energy use or any other aspect of a socialist nirvana. And then consider that the significantly smaller and isolated areas (in blue) don’t have any where near the resources necessary to sustain their populations. Be careful what you wish for.

Reply to  Frank from NoVA
February 7, 2024 3:04 pm

As with ALL far-leftist whingers…

They rely totally on what the conservative and rational-minded of the world produce, for their very existence.

Living in their little 15min inner-city ghettos, totally reliant on fossil fuels and everything they are used for.

Thing is, most are too DUMB to realise it.

Reply to  bnice2000
February 7, 2024 7:41 pm

Yes, the sort of people who will tell you that power comes from the outlet in the wall and food comes from the grocery store.

Reply to  bnice2000
February 7, 2024 8:51 pm

“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” –Margaret Thatcher

Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 3:12 pm

As long as you give all the Red States the option of joining Texas I don’t think there would be much opposition. Let the Blue and Red States each go their own way.

Richard Page
Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 4:13 pm

Slow down there a tad, mylittlepony. First, another 4 years in the White House, then 2 terms as president of Texas. Yes you’ve had a really great idea there – we’ll all be sure to pass on your recommendation so you get all the credit!

Reply to  MyUsername
February 7, 2024 4:40 pm

Why do you seem to think that the only people that would vote for Trump for President live in Texas?

Reply to  Gunga Din
February 7, 2024 11:01 pm

I don’t think so, but the republicans of texas seem to be the loudest to call for independence. So the new country would probably be in favour of trump, wouldn’t it?

Richard Page
Reply to  MyUsername
February 8, 2024 1:40 pm

The more likely scenario would be, if Trump got a second term, that blue states would immediately try to secede.

Reply to  Richard Page
February 8, 2024 2:15 pm

blue states would immediately try to secede.

The terms are acceptable.

Bob B.
February 7, 2024 11:29 am

“It would also be incredibly stupid. It would roll back progress made over decades to protect public health and safety…”

Assuming this refers to climate change via CO2, the only measure of progress is the reduction of CO2. Can someone please post the graphic showing the reduction of CO2 over decades. Where is our bang for the multi-trillion bucks?

Reply to  Bob B.
February 7, 2024 11:40 am

I keep saying this. The rubber never hits the road. At some point, people unable to afford to light their homes will miss the 39 cent 100 watt light bulb. The actual minimum wage is zero. Never forget that.

Reply to  Bob B.
February 7, 2024 3:20 pm

Better – let’s see the empirical evidence that supports the notion that atmospheric CO2 levels drive the Earth’s temperature.

Or go fish.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  AGW is Not Science
February 7, 2024 5:06 pm

Used to play that with my Grandmother. More fun than the games played with us these days.

Bob
February 7, 2024 11:34 am

I don’t like these CAGW lemmings. The more educated they are the less I like them.

Reply to  Bob
February 7, 2024 2:26 pm

More educated?

How can any of them be educated at all if they believe in CAGW?

Reply to  HotScot
February 7, 2024 4:14 pm

Yes, you don’t have to be too educated to figure out that the climate alarmists don’t actually have any evidence for what they are promoting.

If one can figure out the difference between evidence, and speculation, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions, then one can figure out that the climate alarmists have no real evidence of any connection between the Earth’s climate and weather and CO2.

Lots of climate alarmist speculation, but no evidence. None. That’s a fact.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 5:09 pm

If one can figure out the difference between evidence, and speculation, assumptions and unsubstantiated assertions, then one can figure out that the climate alarmists have no real evidence of any connection between the Earth’s climate and weather and CO2.”

But..but.. that “figuring” relies on Critical Thinking.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 7, 2024 5:09 pm

A long time since that was required in “larnin” institutions.

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 8, 2024 3:49 am

That’s true, it does require critical thinking.

I know if I thought my life might be in danger from CO2 then I would want to know everything about CO2. I would want to know what I was facing. I wouldn’t depend on someone else’s opinion, which is what naive climate alarmists do.

They don’t do their homework. If they did, they wouldn’t be in fear of CO2, they would be in fear of lying alarmist climate scienctists.

Tom Halla
February 7, 2024 11:40 am

Trump tried to do most of it in his first term, but was blocked by lawfare, bureaucrats undermining policy, and some regrettable appointments.
I hope he has learned a lesson.

Reply to  Tom Halla
February 7, 2024 2:27 pm

He doesn’t strike me as a man who makes the same mistake twice.

Simon
Reply to  HotScot
February 7, 2024 3:54 pm

He doesn’t strike me as a man who makes the same mistake twice.”
Just remind me…. how many times has he been bankrupt, and or married?

Richard Page
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 4:16 pm

And, Simon, please enlighten us as to whom he was married twice? Or how many of his businesses went bankrupt twice in succession? Hmm?

Simon
Reply to  Richard Page
February 7, 2024 6:25 pm

Hmm… two of his casinos on two separate occasions filed for bankruptcy. And two separate hotels on two separate occasions filed… so I’d say he wasn’t a fast learner. As for the marriage thing… you got me there.

Tom Halla
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 6:32 pm

Simon, repeating a deceptive Democrat claim? Trump organized each building project as a separate LLC, so the investors were recruited for that particular project only. There were several hundred projects, so Trump’s track record was rather good.
Which you, or the group you are quoting, knew going in.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Halla
February 7, 2024 6:53 pm
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 9:41 pm

Simon’s track record is still..

Trump Derangement Syndrome… 10

Rational thinking… ZERO

His mind is still totally bankrupt, with no possible way out..

… destitute and in the gutter.

—–

Far-left Wiki, written by whom ?

And you are DUMB enough to cite it as meaning anything… Hilarious!

You really have to find a truthful and reliable reference rather than just far-leftist democrat lies and propaganda pap.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:58 am

I can’t believe you just used Wikipedia as a reference.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Accurate …NOT

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 8:55 pm

Gee, if I could become a billionaire by going bankrupt twice, then let me have it!

Simon
Reply to  Jim Masterson
February 8, 2024 1:49 am

So you would be happy to be a billionaire even if it meant ripping others off? I think you might just fit nicely in to Trump world.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 3:30 am

Trump has HELPED more people in America than you and your scummy democrats ever will..

They only help themselves, and hurt the strugglers of the world… ON PURPOSE.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 10:04 pm

:O:

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Simon
Reply to  karlomonte
February 8, 2024 1:50 am

On Q here he is….Karlomonte, the wannabe proud boy.

Reply to  Tom Halla
February 7, 2024 4:26 pm

Trump says he *has* learned his lesson.

When Trump first went to Washington DC he didn’t really know most of the characters there and had to depend on recommendations from others for filling out his administration. Trump did get some people who were not up to the job, but as soon as Trump realized they couldn’t do the job, he fired them quickly.

Trump now says he knows the Washington DC actors and the Swamp and knows the good ones and the bad ones.

Trump is leading in all the polls except Wisconsin, and I just heard on tv that Trump and Biden are now tied in Wisconsin. Trump is leading in all the other battleground State polls.

Trump’s only Repubican rival, Nikki Haley, ran in the Nevada election yesterday and she got 30 percent of the vote and “None of these. . .” got 60 percent. Nevada switched to a caucus system for presidential elections and Trump is said to be going to get all of Nevada’s electoral votes. That’s tomorrow, I think.

So Trump is the Republican nominee.

I also think Trump’s team is a little bit better organized this time around. They are organized around getting out the vote, and around preventing cheating.

Biden is going to have to cheat to win this one.

I just watched a segment on tv where one black voter after another said they were voting for Trump and didn’t have any kind words for Biden.

Trump may get 100 million votes this time around.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 5:12 pm

Biden is going to have to cheat to win this one.” Well, he certainly has had a lot of practice… and ‘bragged’ on it.

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 8, 2024 3:57 am

Yes, the Democrats are very good at cheating.

It will be interesting to see what, if anything is put in place to stop the Democrat vote tampering.

Trump says elections should be held using paper ballots, and voter ID, and the votes should be counted the same day, not weeks or months later.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 6:40 pm

I just watched a segment on tv where one black voter after another said they were voting for Trump and didn’t have any kind words for Biden.”
Just wondering what channel that was on Tom?
And I agree the polls favor Trump at the moment. But…. in 1948 Harry Truman was in a very similar position to Biden in that the economics were improving and he was not that popular. He pulled off a surprise win as the people realised things were a lot better than they had been lead to believe. Gonna be interesting…..

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 7:45 pm

a very similar position to Biden in that the economics were improving

HAHAHA, thanks for the laugh! FJB, by the way.

Simon
Reply to  Independent
February 8, 2024 1:55 am

Are you saying the economics are not improving? Then I say you are out of touch. Good luck…

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:08 am

It will be interesting to see what the economy does from now until the election.

There are storm clouds on the horizon. Not only for the United States but for economies all around the world. China is in a big economic slowdown.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 11:10 am

You and I agree on a lot it seems. Given what you said Tom do you not agree that much of what happens (high gas prices, high inflation) are often not the presidents doing (sometimes they are), they are often the result of outside forces.

Reply to  Simon
February 9, 2024 3:40 am

Trump had both gas prices and inflation under control when he was president. I would say that gaoline prices and inflation are two things a president can control.

Trump controlled gasoline prices through the U.S. being the biggest producer of oil in the world, and he kept inflation down by not overspending.

Trump did increase spending but I wouldn’t call it overspending. It was necessary spending. He had to increase the Defense budget by a lot because Obama and Biden had neglected the U.S. military during their terms, and he had to spend a lot of money to keep the American economy going during the pandemic and consequent shutdowns. Trump saved a LOT of businesses and jobs by doing so.

That, no doubt, caused some inflation, but nothing like the overspending Biden and the Democrats and some Republicans have done since that time, such as the Inflation Reduction Act which really increases inflation rather than reducing it.

There are a few things a president can do to enhance the economy and there are many things a president can do to harm the economy.

Trump helped the U.S. economy, and everything Biden does harms the economy because Biden is on the attack against the oil industry, and is spending like a drunken sailor.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 2:13 pm

And… given the other super economies are not doing well, isn’t it quite amazing that the US economy is head and shoulders above everyone else?

Reply to  Simon
February 9, 2024 3:44 am

The U.S. has an inherently strong economy. No thanks to Joe Biden.

But if the rest of the world is slowing down economically, then that means the U.S. will also slow.

Of all the economies in the world, the U.S. is in the best position, again, no thanks to Joe Biden. Everything Joe Biden does slows and hinders the American economy. That the U.S. economy is still doing good is not attributable to anything Joe Biden is doing.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 9:46 pm

And the simpleton’s delusions continue apace !!

Americans, by the time Biden has finished , will be A LOT WORSE OFF. !

Simon
Reply to  bnice2000
February 8, 2024 1:56 am

Nope…inflation down, employment up and the stock market flying. Now if I’m wrong let see some proof.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 3:33 am

DESPITE Biden….

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:11 am

The rate of inflation is down, but prices are still 20 percent higher than when Trump was president.

The stock market is up because about 10 stocks are driving the SP 500, the rest of the 490 aren’t doing all that well.

Employment is up because people are having to work more than one job to make ends meet.

Interest rates are currently at about seven percent. They were about 3 percent under Trump. That’s the difference between being able to buy a house, and not being able to afford one.

Simon, meet reality.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 4:44 am

His reality is not of this world…

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:04 am

Well, I saw the interviews on Fox News Channel (the only channel worth watching). A black reporter was interviewing black voters in Chicago, and one after another they said they were voting for Trump this time, and they were very upset with the way Biden is favoring illegal aliens over the poor people in Chicago.

And you hear the same sentiment in New York City and other Democrat-controlled cities. Biden’s insane policy on illegal aliens is alienating his base. Trump’s favorability among black voters is up 20 percent and if that holds, Trump wins the election.

Minorities in the United States are not happy with Joe Biden for a number of reasons.

In a fair election, Joe Biden wouldn’t stand a chance of being elected again, considering the damage he has done to the economy of the United States and the people who live here.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 5:46 pm

“And you hear the same sentiment in New York City and other Democrat-controlled cities. Biden’s insane policy on illegal aliens is alienating his base. ”
Agree. So let’s hope the Dems and Republicans can agree on this bipartisan border deal.

“In a fair election, Joe Biden wouldn’t stand a chance of being elected again, considering the damage he has done to the economy ”
Tom this is here we disagree. The economy s the strongest in the western world.

Reply to  Simon
February 9, 2024 3:50 am

There won’t be a border deal because the border deal won’t stop the flood of illegal aliens. And Republicans don’t trust Biden to enforce the new laws even if they were passed. Biden is not currently enforcing the law. If he did, we wouldn’t need new laws. But he ignores the current law and throws the U.S. borders wide open to every bad guy in the world.

The U.S. economy *is* the strongest in the world, despite Joe Biden, not because of him. That’s what you don’t understand.

Reply to  Simon
February 10, 2024 5:19 am

Simon, the U.S. economy would be SO much stronger had Trump continued as president.

Biden’s actions have been bad for every sector of the economy. Every major decision he makes harms the United States.

Which is a testament to just how strong the U.S. economy really is.

And keep in mind that the chief trading partners of the United States are Canada and Mexico, so we have our own little buzzing economy going right here in North America, not subject to much economic turmoil besetting the rest of the world.

Dennis Gerald Sandberg
February 7, 2024 11:42 am

The good news is Trump would attempt to get congress to do what needs to be done. The bad news is the reason he lost the last election is because we are a nation of irresponsible idiots. Considering the state of our LIC’s (Liberal Indoctrination Centers – schools and universities in the distant past), we are even dumber now. Sorry about that, color we skeptical. Biden’s “election” may very well have ended our last chance to get out of the self-imposed rabbit cage. Ouch.

Reply to  Dennis Gerald Sandberg
February 7, 2024 4:30 pm

We have one more chance. We better make it good.

David Wojick
February 7, 2024 11:58 am

Unfortunately (or fortunately) the President does not have these sorts of powers. Only Congress does and even that is limited. Love the green panic though.

February 7, 2024 12:02 pm

From the above article:

” ‘Trump will undo everything [Joe] Biden has done, he will move more quickly and go further than he did before,’ said Myron Ebell . . .”

Begs the question: What has [Joe] Biden actually done (productively, that is) during his term in office?

Reply to  ToldYouSo
February 7, 2024 1:10 pm

You are asking the wrong crowd. Go to the line where 10s of billions in grants are being passed out.

Reply to  AndyHce
February 7, 2024 2:30 pm

Thanks, Andy . . . but I did qualify with the word “productively”. 🙂

Rud Istvan
Reply to  ToldYouSo
February 7, 2024 1:25 pm

Spend about 40% of his days on vacation. Else it would be worse.

Bob Meyer
Reply to  ToldYouSo
February 7, 2024 2:06 pm

He made a wonderful argument for mental acuity tests for politicians.

Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 7, 2024 2:31 pm

Touché.

Simon
Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 7, 2024 3:58 pm

He doesn’t strike me as a man who makes the same mistake twice.”
Sorry we have to be clear now days. Are you talking about Trump or Biden?

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 4:33 pm

Well Simon, make the same post again to the wrong person and we will have some pretty good irony.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 7:30 pm

Now you are trolling because you have nothing to say about his plans in his coming second term.

You warmist/alarmists are a pathetic bunch.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 9:48 pm

Biden makes different mistakes EVERY DAY…

… and then keeps repeating them, because he forgotten he had made them the first, second, third, fourth etc time.

Simon
Reply to  ToldYouSo
February 7, 2024 3:56 pm

Stock market flying. Unemployment down. Inflation falling. Wages up. But oh that’s right… Trump says that’s all because he is going to win the election.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 5:15 pm

You insist upon absorbing the “gov’t. figures”. The gov’t., of course, never lies to its Citizens.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 8:01 pm

Biden’s economic disaster:

Bottom line, you are a terrible liar.

Reply to  Independent
February 7, 2024 10:06 pm

Its in his blue Marxist blood.

Simon
Reply to  Independent
February 8, 2024 1:58 am

I’ll not waste my time commenting to a poster who quotes 2022. Keep up……

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:45 am

Yet here you are…

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 6:24 am

Yes, 2023 was better than 2022 for the stock market. So what? 2022 still exists and the terrible performance was due to Biden and his economically illiterate party.

I notice you don’t say a word about the other easily disproved lies you told, very telling.

Richard Page
Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 1:46 pm

You’re an idjit. 2023 is only slightly up because 2022 was very much down. In your tiny mind it’s ok to view each year in isolation but, in the real world, we have to look at several preceding years to see where it is in actual terms. So yes, 2022 is a very valid point to make.

Reply to  Simon
February 9, 2024 11:04 am

Then you are certain to NOT be commenting on:
— global warming (“2023 was hotter than 2022”)
— Increasing tropical storms (“there were more in 2023 than in 2022”)
— increasing droughts or floods (“there were more in 2023 than in 2022”)
— increasing forest fires (“there were more in 2023 than in 2022”)
— climate disasters/damages (“2023 was worse than 2022”)
— decreasing areal extent of sea ice in the Arctic (“there was less ice in 2023 than in 2022”)
— decreasing areal extent of sea ice in Antarctica (“there was less ice in 2023 than in 2022”)
— decreasing total volume of sea ice in the Antarctica (“there was less ice in 2023 than in 2022”)
— increasing atmospheric CO2 concentration (“there were higher levels of atmospheric CO2 in 2023 than in 2022″)

Thank you for informing us of your position on these matters. I hope you carry through on your promise.

Joe Crawford
February 7, 2024 12:06 pm

Trump is going to have to tread careful if/when he takes office. Most of the CAGW crowd have been brain washed to the point where ‘Climate Change’ has either replaced any religion they might have had or has been accepted in conjunction with said religion. And, no one accepts criticism of their religion. After taking office, Trump will only have 4 years to replace decades of brain washing most likely with the main stream media fighting him all the way. If he doesn’t plan and do it properly, the ultra-left will again take over government. There will be no one left that is strong enough to take the heat, and we will fast follow the other empires documented in Sr. John Glubb’s book, The Fate of Empires.

Dennis Gerald Sandberg
Reply to  Joe Crawford
February 7, 2024 2:30 pm

Count on it.

Simon
Reply to  Joe Crawford
February 7, 2024 3:59 pm

Trump is going to have to tread careful….” I can see a problem here.

Drake
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 6:19 pm

Yes, that statement is crazy, he needs to the bull in the China shop and clean house. Put the Schedule F rule in and require long term leftist bureaucrats to make the determinations of WHO makes policy, etc. and IF they fail to meet the deadline, FIRE them. If they fail to identify all pertinent positions, FIRE them. etc., etc.!

This goes back to MY proposed requirement that every line written in any regulation must have a name attached, so you will know who to get rid of. Only civil service or the new Schedule F can take responsibility, not appointed.

Reply to  Drake
February 8, 2024 4:26 am

“Yes, that statement is crazy, he needs to be the bull in the China shop and clean house.”

Yes, that’s why we are electing Trump. We want a Bull to go in there and clean out the Swamp in Washington DC. The Swamp that is currently trying to steal our country away from the People.

The Swamp doesn’t even want people to be able to vote for Trump. We’ll see about that.

And if Trump does get elected, then lookout Swamp! And the Swamp knows it, too, and that’s why they are pulling out all the stops, legal and illegal, to prevent Trump from being elected.

And Trump just keeps getting stronger because people see what is going on with this persecution of Trump. They see that the Elites in Washington are trying to take away their ability to vote for the person of their choice. People don’t like that. There will be a reaction.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 4:48 am

And scaly swamp creatures like our own (WUWT) beloved Simon are terrified of their corrupt world caving in.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 9:57 pm

At least he won’t constantly be falling UP the stairs !!

And won’t get sidetracked by 12-year-old girls’ hair. !!

That Trump derangement syndrome just keeps rattling around in your empty cranium, doesn’t it, simpleton !!

Reply to  Joe Crawford
February 7, 2024 4:33 pm

If Republicans can get majorities in both Houses of Congress, it would make Trump’s reform job SO much easier.

There is a chance the Republicans will get these majorities.

Let us Pray.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 5:09 pm

Genuine question Tom. Can you explain to me why God would want to support a man who fornicates with porn stars while his wife is giving birth to his child and skites about grabbing women’s genitalia at will? I just don’t get the whole “God loves this man thing.”

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 5:48 pm

Yes, why would God love Bill Clinton? But you voted for him twice, didn’t you?

Simon
Reply to  doonman
February 7, 2024 6:19 pm

Nope. I don’t think God would be on his side either.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 7:32 pm

Your Trump Derangement illness is showing up……….

Reply to  Sunsettommy
February 7, 2024 9:59 pm

Full blown manic derangement in every post the simpleton makes.

It’s funny in a very pathetic sort of way.

Simon
Reply to  Sunsettommy
February 8, 2024 2:00 am

Well can you explain why the christian right in the US love this guy, who pretty much has every sin in the book covered?

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 3:16 am

And the simpleton proves his derangement.

Well down, bozo !!

Reply to  bnice2000
February 8, 2024 4:57 am

Simon accuses Trump of “every sin in the book”, while posting and repeating bald-faced lies about Trump and people here in WUWT, what a hypocrite.

There is a law in “the book” about telling lies (but as a committed marxist, laws of course does not apply to him).

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:37 am

I can tell you. It’s because the Christian Right does not believe all the lies told about Trump by the radical Left.

Everything the radical Left says about Trump is an outright lie, or a deliberate distortion of the facts, which is the same thing.

That you believe all these lies is what puzzles me. I must conclude that you want to believe these lies.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 4:51 am

The supply of lies from the left is unbounded, which this Simon clown taps into without remorse.

Simon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 8, 2024 10:51 am

Thank you for your reply Tom. I am puzzled by it though. I can see what Trump does. He did say he grabs women’s genitals. Th don’t have to trust the left’s media…. the tape is there. That surely to any Christian is crude and demeaning to women and a sin I would wager
He did pay hush money. His lawyer admits it and he is about to be tired for it. He did lie about it not raining on his inauguration. You can see the rain. I mean the list goes on and like I say you don’t have to trust the lefts media you can check for yourself.

Reply to  Simon
February 9, 2024 3:56 am

“Thank you for your reply Tom. I am puzzled by it though. I can see what Trump does. He did say he grabs women’s genitals. Th don’t have to trust the left’s media…. the tape is there.”

You should provide us with a transcript showing that Trump says *he* grabs women’s genitals.

If you actually have a transcript, you know he did not say that. He talked about other people doing that, not himself.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:33 am

I’m hoping that God would want to support me, by getting Trump in office so Trump can protect me from radical Democrats who want to steal my freedoms away by stealing the country for themselves.

That’s what I’m prayig for.

You exaggerate and distort Trump’s actions. He never said he grabs women’s genitalia, and he denies having sex with a porn star. You can believe what you want.

What does God say about bearing False Witness, Simon?

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 5:17 pm

‘Action’ in the critical ‘trenches’ will be more effective.

Drake
Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 7, 2024 6:47 pm

IF TRUMP! wins there is no way that the Republicans will not take both houses of congress.

TRUMP! will probably get a few million less total votes then the aggregate of all house Republican candidates get.

At least 3 Democrat senators are toast.

And now that the Democrats have made it so 50 Senators plus the VP can appoint every position in the government, one slate of appointees for every appointed position submitted to the Senate the first day with a SINGLE vote to “consent” to every appointee immediately puts a stop to all the delay tactics that plagued his first term.

As to legislation, TRUMP!’s team needs to present the bills, one page bills, to congress. Veto every bill sent to him NOT provided to congress by the Executive branch.

BUT provide one massive budget balancing bill to do everything he wants that will only require 50 +1 votes, like the Dems did with the Green New Deal they called the IRA. Also how they did Obamacare. And don’t let the RINOs change a thing.

If the RINOs block the progress, just veto everything, cause a spending crisis, terminate whoever HE wants to, starting with the EPA and the DC courts, to make outflow equal income, no new borrowing. Make it clear that there will be no back pay when and if the congress decides to start passing spending bills that meet TRUMP!’s requirements. Do that for 4 years and the government will be fixed.

How you ask? MOST voters will realize they don’t need the federal government. Thus a TRUMPIAN! next president.

Reply to  Drake
February 9, 2024 4:02 am

I’ve been promoting U.S. Senator Tim Scott for Trump’s vice president, but it might be a good idea to keep Tim in the U.S. Senate at this time. We need every Republican Senator we can get.

Unless we can be assured that Tim’s replacement will be a Republican.

I think Nikki Haley might have blown her chance at such a position what with her continuing attacks on Trump who is going to be the Republican nominee. She’s not doing herself any favors by attacking Trump.

Editor
February 7, 2024 12:29 pm

The Guardian is a major player in the Climate Crisis News Cabal, Covering Climate Now, which has declared “This Is the Year of the Climate Election. Journalists Should Cover It That Way“,

This just means that every U.S. Presidential election story will be featuring Republicans as Climate Deniers and Planet Wreckers, and Democrats as Saviors of the Planet.

Of course, they say this will be done in a non-partisan way.

Reply to  Kip Hansen
February 7, 2024 4:36 pm

We have our work cut out for us. 🙂

Lee Riffee
February 7, 2024 12:38 pm

Every time one of these clowns wails on and on about “health and safety” it makes me want scream! Imagine two scenarios, lets say, in two alternate universes:
In “dirty” fossil fuel powered world one, Bill lives within sight of a coal or gas power plant. He has a nice house and one or more ICE vehicles and a good job. He has plenty of food and is able to keep his house at temps that are comfortable for him and his family. The air he breathes contains traces of actual pollutants and, of course, a little more CO2 than there was a couple hundred years ago.

In “clean, green” world two, Bill looks out of the window of his tiny apartment and sees lots of windmills and solar farms in the distance, just outside the city in which he lives. Much of the time his apartment has no electricity, and because everything (including the heat and the stove) is electric, he has no heat, no AC and no way to cook anything during the frequent power outages. He barely makes ends meet, and his stomach is always grumbling as he tries to be sure his kids have enough to eat. Little meat or animal protein is available, so getting enough nutrition is tough. Worse yet, one day as Bill waits for a bus to go to work he gets mugged and beaten. He cannot afford one of the few EVs available for sale (nor would he have a place to park and charge it) and so he must use public transit.

Now, which version of Bill do you think is most healthy? The one that breathes rarified air that is close to what people would have breathed thousands of years ago? Or the one that has all of his necessary material needs met (adequate shelter, food, warmth, being safe from crime, etc)?

This is very much like the rabbit in the analogy – the rabbit’s keeper has it locked away for its “safety” of all things…..it might get hurt, lost, attacked by another animal, etc. But no, it is crammed into a tiny cage with a miserable existence. But no worry – the rabbit is safe!

Reply to  Lee Riffee
February 7, 2024 3:33 pm

I don’t think ‘green’ Bill will be breathing clearer air: there’s a biomass plant also near him and it’s spewing out all kinds of real pollution, and don’t forget all people burning garbage to stay warm, some of it old resin covered wind turbine blades. If he lives near a road then he’ll be breathing in lots of heavy EV tire particles as he is waiting for the bus.

February 7, 2024 12:43 pm

Unfortunately, during his first term, Mr. Trump was often mis-advised by Government bureaucrats about withdrawing from the Paris Accords, etc. And he was late to the party in appointing scientists such as Ryan Maue as NOAA Chief Scientist. I hope next ’round he’s more savy about how swamp creatures slow walk and push back on his policies and be proactive and cracks some heads. A few very negative evaluations here and a Reduction of Force there and the creatures will get the message.
It is worthy of note that during his first Administration, NOAA’s budget did reduce funding for it’s climate wing in favor of it’s forecasting wings. Alas, that’s since been undone.

Bob Meyer
Reply to  Mumbles McGuirck
February 7, 2024 2:02 pm

Maue and Legates both got fired from NOAA for publishing a paper that was not approved supposedly because the paper had a presidential seal on it.

Trump’s handlers are in a panic to implement economic poison before the election in case they lose. Limits on LNG export, banning natural gas stoves in new construction and lowering the particle content of air from 12 to 9 micro-grams per cubic meter. There is no reason for the latter except to paralyze manufacturing.

Bob Meyer
Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 7, 2024 2:04 pm

That was supposed to read “Biden’s handlers”, not Trump’s. Senior moment I guess.

Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 7, 2024 4:35 pm

(Hey Bob, the edit button works and stays active for a long time … bottom right of your comment box.)

sturmudgeon
Reply to  DonM
February 7, 2024 5:22 pm

That’s fine, but posts would work better if they were read at least once, prior to posting.

sturmudgeon
Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 7, 2024 5:21 pm

You had me ‘sitting up straight’ with that S.M.

Reply to  sturmudgeon
February 10, 2024 5:34 am

It had me wondering at first, but I thought he must mean “Biden”, and sure enough. 🙂

Reply to  Bob Meyer
February 8, 2024 9:18 am

Maue and Legates both got fired from NOAA for publishing a paper that was not approved supposedly because the paper had a presidential seal on it.

They published some climate fact sheets with the imprimature of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) on them, but the OSTP Director disagreed with the contents and called it “disinformation”. This gave the climate alarmists in the Government the excuse they needed to fire them. So a scientific disagreement became a Federal “crime” so as to besmirch anyone not toeing the line.

Curious George
February 7, 2024 1:07 pm

“the Paris climate deal not only dead but buried”
I shudder. All that good that Paris gave us? Like .. .. .. .. I must have Alzheimer’s.

Reply to  Curious George
February 7, 2024 1:14 pm

Assumptions can kill. What if the Senate approves the Paris Agreement?

February 7, 2024 1:31 pm

When the ‘pollution’ we’re talking about is CO2, all I can say is, GO, TRUMP! 👍

Simon
Reply to  Brian.
February 7, 2024 4:00 pm

Same… I say, “Go Trump…. to jail.”

Richard Page
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 4:22 pm

That won’t stop this from happening.

Simon
Reply to  Richard Page
February 7, 2024 5:03 pm

Wouldn’t that be crazy. He could be in jail. He can’t vote, but he could be elected president. Funny old world.

Richard Page
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 6:19 pm

“O brave new world, that has such people in ‘t.”

Drake
Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 6:53 pm

And immediately pardon himself, @ssh@t.

Then appoint special prosecutors to gather up all the persecutors who have , for example found the Brandon keeping all his secret papers in the offices of the Chinese at Penn State? was OK. But TRUMP! having HIS documents in his house was not.

Funny thing Simon, is that true liberals not leftists like you, are beginning to swing to TRUMP! because they are seeing what a dictatorial government under the Democrats are willing to do to keep and expand their power. A true liberal speaks truth to power.

You, and Democrats in general, speak lies for power.

Simon
Reply to  Drake
February 8, 2024 11:36 pm

And immediately pardon himself, @ssh@t.”
Yep that’s what dictators do.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:49 am

“Funny old world.”

I think you are describing *your* world, Simon. Reality is different.

Reply to  Simon
February 7, 2024 10:03 pm

They only have Trumped up fabrications.

You know that.

So why the moronically stupid comment ??

Or it all you can manage. !

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:47 am

Trump is not going to jail. He hasn’t committed a crime.

Joe Biden, on the other hand, should go to jail for mishandling classified documents.

Trump, as president, can legally have the classified documents he was in possession of, but Joe Biden got his classified documents when he was a U.S. Senator and Vice President, and neither postion allows him to take classified documents home with him.

The investigation into Joe Biden’s illegal possession of classified documents is now over. We should have the results soon.

Reply to  Tom Abbott
February 9, 2024 4:05 am

The results of the Joe Biden investigation are that Joe “willfully” stole classified documents, which is a crime, but Joe won’t be prosecuted because the Special Counsel thinks Joe is too senile to prosecute.

Reply to  Simon
February 8, 2024 4:09 pm

The very same characters screeching about ‘threats to democracy’ want to throw the leading opposition figure in jail.
They wanted to do the same thing with ‘climate deniers’, too, at one point.
Tyranny seems to be their answer for everything.

The Dark Lord
February 7, 2024 1:31 pm

stop … I was already going to vote for him … no need to try and give me more reasons …

Decaf
February 7, 2024 1:45 pm

I don’t feel at all sorry for the climate fanatics at the thought of Trump returning with the determination to wipe climate alarmism’s damage off the map. Zero sympathy.

The sooner they wake up and realize they were lied to and manipulated the better, even if it entails them being dragged backward through the hedge of the Paris climate agreement and every Net Zero bit of rubbish shrubbery.

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