Posted on 11/11/2016 4:45:56 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o
Donald Trump's transition team is preparing for the billionaire businessman to take over as commander in chief, they're ruffling a few feathers along the way.
Scientific American reports Trump has selected climate change critic, Myron Ebell, to lead his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team.
Ebell, who's the director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, has been described by Newsweek as a fierce opponent of climate change, which the publisher calls “entirely at odds with scientific consensus.”
David Goldston, a policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, explained that Ebell's disbelief in climate change would “utterly destroy” any environmental advances made by the Obama administration:
“The Competitive Enterprise [Ebell's employer] Institute has done everything it can politically and through litigation to block any forward movement on climate and to try to harass anybody who is trying to get forward movement.”
Trump's controversial pick should come to no surprise, given his harsh stance on climate change:
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 6, 2012
Give me clean, beautiful and healthy air - not the same old climate change (global warming) bullshit! I am tired of hearing this nonsense. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 29, 2014
The backlash Trump's receiving from the left is expected, but some are taking it a step further by petitioning for Ebell to not lead the EPA transition team.
It reads, in part:
“Donald Trump has chosen a leading climate skeptic to head the EPA transition. Do not let a man who denies science in the name of profit lead the nation in environmental protection.”
The petition needs 100,000 signatures in order to get a response from the White House; it has a mere 1,055 so far.
Other Democrats on social media were just as upset:
Fuck, Trump picks Exxon funded climate denier, Myron Ebell, to head EPA transition https://t.co/UAtF2x1F0a — Naadir Jeewa (@randomvariable) November 9, 2016
Myron Ebell, Trump’s pick to lead the EPA, is a lobbyist for fossil fuel industry. Think the system’s rigged? Ask who’s doing the rigging. — Darcy James Argue (@darcyjamesargue) November 10, 2016
So it begins. Trumps transition man for the EPA is @myronebell who is one of the biggest climate skeptics around. Good job America. — Akash Patel (@ab_patel9) November 9, 2016
Senior politics editor of The Huffington Post, Sam Stein, summed up his thoughts on Trump's controversial pick:
FWIW. we have probably lost the battle against climate change tonight — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) November 9, 2016
Though Newsweek notes Ebell leading the EPA transition team doesn't mean he will definitely have a job within a Trump EPA, his position is undoubtedly a sign of what's to come.
Ah don’ feel no ways taaaaaaard.
Pinch me....it feels unreal...so long since a politician I can cheer ...oh yeah Trump isn’t a politican...but he will soon be prez!
Thank you so much for posting this link and excerpt, Syncro.
Splendid!
Poor snowflakes will be so incapacitated by the vapors that they won’t be able to riot for at least a week!
Oh, and I almost forgot, those who are here illegally better get out now before they get the knock on the door--not from Immigration, but from your p!ssed off neighbors.
Is that a Gadsden flag pin on his lapel ???!!!!
Awesome !!!!!
IRS should be first.
WOTUS is going down!
abolish the irs, dea
abolish the irs,ooops, meant dept of education
Unseal his records, and finally reveal his true identity!
Only a few days in and I LOVE this guy!
Elections. Have. Consequences. We. Won.
Didn’t know it was the Chinese who put forth Climate change. LOL Sure made Goreless and friends a lot of money.
Taught the world a lot of whooie about something no one can change.
But the Chinese?? And they have some of the worst air to
breath.
Well we have to wait until President Trump is officially President.
But the GOP are starting to dismantle it and DUMBOCARE with procedural and funding ways.
It won’t take long for the children to learn how to do real math over this crap they were forced to learn. Deck of flash cards for each child would help. It’s how we learned.
halsam can kiss our butts. We are hoping Trump will give corker a unimportant AMB harmless post so we don’t have him hanging over our heads as next governor. Bad thing is halsam would get to appoint next senator of his ilk. Keep him hanging until it’s to late to do so.
2nd Step: Ebell & Trump NUKE the unconstitutional EPA
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