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.
Wonder have a EPA will use all the bullets they purchased.
Thank you for the ping Jim...this is GREAT NEWS!
I mean, there are a lot of creative things you could do with all that methane. Which is just one tiny aspect of all the creative things you could do with Global Warming.
If... sigh... if warming were actually happening...instead of the coming Little Ice Age...
But who knows? Keep posted on those two solar magnetic belts. That's where the action is.
Grim thought.
Might as well describe someone as a ‘fierce opponent of magnetism’.
So far, so good.
Yeah... funny all the screaming about being cooked off the earth, rather than what we could do with a thawing earth.
Even though the long term cycles show this up as the equivalent of an Indian Summer, with a deep chill lurking close behind it. So it’s 80 degrees out in November? Don’t worry, December is at hand.
L-actually-OL!
Bjorn Lomberg is who you are thinking of.... author of the Skeptical Environmentalist. He is a Swede I believe. Great book - even today.
I am as conservative as they come, but Bjorn made many excellent points in his book, chief among them, that for pennies on the dollar we have wasted on this scam we could have improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people. In the end, more prosperous and healthy people is better for the environment.
If I were Trump, I’d sell that stash at economical rates to the 2nd Amendment aficionados. You could hear the Yeehaw from here to Pluto.
“The wall just got ten feet higher.”
Thank you for the ping, JR.
Ebell’s first act as EPA chief is to ask for the resignation of everyone above the level of Administrative assistant.
thinking of Brian Lomborg?
Trump has said many times at the rallies that he wants clean air and pure water. He will not disappoint.
Wow!
Let’s roll up our sleeves and Get working.
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
“not the same old climate change BS, I am tired of hearing this nonsense”
The left screams in horror. Metrosexual snowflakes at the DNC panties are so wadded they are fixin to die. Regular Americans say roll on Trump Train!
Also Trump has said he will defund the USA contribution to the UN global warming initiative.
Absolutely! That alone would save billions...
ROFL...Libs just don’t know what to do...loving this winning!!!
Thank you for the ping...
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