Posted on 10/11/2017 8:35:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration formally proposed on Tuesday to roll back yet another of President Barack Obamas efforts to position the United States as a global leader in the fight against climate change. The move, though widely anticipated, was deeply disheartening.
All this is infuriating on several levels.
It repeated the same false narrative that congressional Republicans have been peddling for years and that Mr. Trumps minions are peddling now that environmental regulations are job killers, that restraining greenhouse gas emissions will damage the economy, that the way forward lies in digging more coal and punching more holes in the ground in the search for oil.
It reaffirmed the administrations blind loyalty to dirtier energy sources, ignoring the pleas of corporate leaders who know that economic momentum and new investment lie with cleaner sources of energy.
It repudiated the rock-solid scientific consensus that without swift action the consequences of climate change will become more likely.
And it gave us another reminder that Mr. Trump is hellbent on abdicating the leadership on climate change Mr. Obama worked so hard to achieve.
Like some of Mr. Trumps other rollbacks, the power plant decision will be fought in court by some states and by environmental groups. The E.P.A. is required by law to regulate carbon dioxide emissions in some fashion, but so far Mr. Pruitt has not proposed a substitute plan. The betting is that if he does, it wont amount to much, surely not the closing of any coal-fired plants. Meanwhile, Mr. Obamas measures lie in tatters, along with Mr. Trumps claims to leadership.
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Too bad Algore wasn’t in it.
Here’s how we can regulate carbon: just use hell out of it. The sooner it’s gone the better, right libs? Plus, scarcity always creates demand for alternatives and rather than pushing alternative forms of energy, that way everyone would be clamoring for them. Just might take a few thousand years longer...
$4 trillion wasted on so-called renewable energy that hasn’t made a dent on what modern economies require to keep going and growing. Screw you, NYT propagandists. What is YOUR agenda in keeping these fake energy sources subsidized?
Here is a good 2014 article on the Clean Air Act of 1990 and how Obama used rulemaking to try to regulate “Green House Gasses”. You will see that a new president has the power to change the rules.
Another New York Times Conspiratorial.
New York SLimes. You can help by not cutting down trees for your worthless rag.
In before
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth...
Yes I must have relief from the climate! It hurts! Lol.
Exactly how does one arrive at a rock-solid, scientific "MAYBE?"
Thank you. I’m slapping my head here. I had seen that face before but drew a blank........;(
Nah, we’re just like minded.
*cough*bull$hit*cough*
“Rock-solid scientific consensus” from the well-heeled grant-pimping witch-doctor guild.
I'm rooting for the aneurysm.
Noooo! I soooo needed relief from the climate! /s
Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels, I think. The NY SLIMES continues to peddle the Big Lie, just as Goebbels did in the 1930s/40s.
These idiot warmers are beyond idiots. What pathetic nonthinking pinheaded fools.
If these "corporate leaders" truly believe this, they can convince their shareholders of that and use their own money.
Is the NYT solar powered? Do these editors drive solar or wind powered cars?
We have at least one AGW nutcase on here who has spent the better part of the day insulting me and ignoring blatant challenges to his cult. He admits it’s all about the money, and then he turns around and says that the science is settled. There is no such thing as science EVER being settled. If it was “settled”, then we wouldn’t have new theories on gravity that have recently surfaced, on the question of quantum physics, on the way we do many things. They say it’s settled to try to get us to shut up and say “Well, if it’s settled, I guess I’ll have to accept it.”
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