Posted on 03/18/2017 5:36:23 PM PDT by mdittmar
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will never admit it, the 2015 Paris climate treaty Canada signed with great fanfare died last week.
It died because of the release of U.S. President Donald Trumps 2018 budget plan.
While Trump has to get it through the U.S. Congress, which means parts of it are unlikely to survive, his clear intention to gut U.S. climate change policy by dismantling the Environmental Protection Agency spells the death knell for the Paris treaty.
Trump is proposing deeper cuts to the EPA than any other government agency, reducing its $8.2 billion budget by 31%, laying off 19% of its 15,000 staff and cutting 50 programs.
That includes funding for Barack Obamas signature climate change initiative, his Climate Action Plan, to reduce Americas use of coal-fired electricity.
Trumps budget director, Mick Mulvaney, made the presidents intention crystal clear Thursday.
Regarding the question of climate change ... Were not spending money on that anymore, Mulvaney said. We consider that to be a waste of your money ...
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Bury it face down with a brick in its mouth and a pole through it’s sternum.
LOL!
The worldwide golden calk of AGW is being melted into bullion.
The world’s leaders will very much be hampered to use it to line their pockets and control their populaces.
Trump WINS AGAIN!
Chuck Berry dead. 90.
calk=calf
I guess that means modern society will have to continue as normal. So much for progress back to prehistoric times.
I’ve lost my count of wining ...
It died because of the release of U.S. President Donald Trumps 2018 budget plan.
So much WINNING!
and wrap that pole in barbed RAZOR WIRE.
YAY!
YAY!
You've been messing with grapes again?
Even then, always be on guard, should the individual atoms start re-grouping together to reconstitute itself.
“Bury it face down with a brick in its mouth and a pole through its sternum”
I like the way that you think.
“Ive lost my count of wining ..”
Time to slack off the wine.
Hahaha. Are we all going to die now??? Just askin’.
Bury it face down with a brick in its mouth and a pole through its sternum.
You bury it face down so when tries to dig itself out...it keeps digging deeper!
“Paris climate treaty dead”
Send in a flamethrower tank to be certain.
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