Posted on 03/28/2017 1:00:09 PM PDT by pabianice
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, third from left, and Vice President Mike Pence, right, while Trump held up the signed Energy Independence Executive Order on Tuesday at EPA headquarters in Washington.
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will roll back many of former President Barack Obamas efforts to curb global warming. The order is aimed at helping spur American energy jobs.
The president signed the order at the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Trump says this is the start of a new era in energy production.
The order will mandate a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. It will also lift a 14-month-old moratorium on new coal leases on federal lands.
Trump has called global warming a hoax, and has repeatedly criticized Obamas efforts as an attack on American workers and the struggling U.S. coal industry.
May I suggest we revert to “man-made global warming”? It’s shorter and liberals only came up with “anthropogenic” because it sounds scientific and people don’t know what it means, whereas common sense leads people to disbelieve that global warming is caused by man.
ML/NJ
We could, and I pay close attention to the focus of liberals on controlling language and symbology.
I’ll tailor it to the audience, how does that sound? I do believe in speaking their language, because it is harder for them to sidetrack you with semantics.
I had a discussion with another Freeper about the number of their own citizens murdered by the Chinese communist government in the late fifties and early sixties. When I discuss this, I use the frame of 30-60 million starved, shot, beaten, and otherwise murdered by the communists. There are estimates where it may be as high as 75-90 million people, as hard as that is to believe, but I believe from what I have seen that the number is between 60 and 90 million.
The fellow Freeper took issue with my usage of 30-60 million, but I maintained I use it because if I do, it avoids discussions with liberals about the actual number. They cannot deny it was 30 million, because even the most ardent liberal has had to accept that one. I can focus on the horrific murder of large numbers of their own citizens without going off the rails.
Kind of the same with this. But I get your point.
It is important to make the distinction with man-caused global warming as well. They would like to conflate natural warming with man-caused warming because it makes their job easier.
Kind of the same thing they do with immigrants and illegal aliens.
How I despise them.
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