Posted on 11/14/2016 10:55:41 PM PST by GonzoII
President-elect Trump's plan to bring back the coal industry will likely start by scrapping the Environmental Protection Agency's climate change agenda, according to a newly appointed member of his transition team.
The agency would be dialed back to focus strictly on "genuine pollutants" that pose immediate harm to public health, and not carbon pollution blamed for causing manmade global warming, said Kathleen Hartnett-White, a member of Trump's economic advisory council, in an interview with the Washington Examiner.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Make America Great Again....Shut down the EPA forever.
This is good news.
Trump is the best. MAGA!
“The agency would be dialed back to focus strictly on “genuine pollutants” that pose immediate harm to public health, and not carbon pollution blamed for causing manmade global warming.”
There is no direct scientific correlation between manmade emissions of carbon dioxide and world wide temperatures either up or down. Emissions of fine particulate such as soot and volcanic ash on the other hand which make it to the upper atmosphere such as from volcanoes have been known to cause world wide cooling.
Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. It is a beneficial trace gas necessary for all life on the planet. Historically, rising worldwide temperatures lead the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by a hundred years or so. When the temperature of the oceans rise they release vast amounts of dissolved CO2.
The temperature of the earth has been rising at a cyclic, but more or less steady rate since the end of the coldest period of the “little ice age” which corresponded with the end of the Maunder Minimum in Solar Activity in 1715. This is well documented.
A couple of SE PA counties were the highest percentage in PA for Trump — 82+%. Monroe County in Ohio went +47% for Trump after being -18% for Romney in 2012.
This is getting better and better.
I've asked many times on this and other forums...has ANYONE seen an area that has experienced a rise in waters? Not counting sinking land areas.
It's time to give Al Gore his just due for NONE of his predictions coming true.
Pull the trigger!
If the coal states PA and OH would have shifted 1%, Hillary would be President.
Global warming defeated Hillary.
I’ve been saying for a long time that CO2 is not a pollutant, and that more CO2 at current concentrations just is a plant growth stimulant. If you’re against that, why do you hate the poor? Since higher CO2 leads to cheaper food, and the poor spend high percentages of their income on food.
If you told the guys who passed the enabling legislation for the EPA that ~45 years later it would be used to regulate CO2, most if not all would be aghast.
Roll coal indeed. However do not forget the 800 pound gorilla in the room: relatively cheap natural gas. It will take market forces to bring coal jobs back. Trump’s promised actions will be a big first step.
I bet when those coal plants/mines open up he’ll win by a lot more than 1% next time around. Success breeds success....
China still uses much coal but it can’t get cheap access to American coal if American workers mine it and it gets used for domestic purposes...like making steel!
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a giant nuclear furnace that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Very much so. 0bama's war on coal was a war on all of America.
WOW!
I've seen what the Marcellus Shale boom has done for many workers in Western PA, and Eastern Ohio, and the same thing can happen because of coal.
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