Mr. Trump Nails Shut the Coffin on Climate Relief

The New York Times ^ | October 10, 2017 | The Editorial Board

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The Trump administration formally proposed on Tuesday to roll back yet another of President Barack Obama’s 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. Trump’s 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 administration’s 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. Trump’s 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 won’t amount to much, surely not the closing of any coal-fired plants. Meanwhile, Mr. Obama’s measures lie in tatters, along with Mr. Trump’s claims to leadership.

[GOPBiker]

Via Drudge/AP; 'Ring of fire volcanos sparking massive evacuations in the last month.'

ring of fire volcanoes

Probably no CO2 involved there ... /s

[GOPJ]

The move, though widely anticipated, was deeply disheartening. All this is infuriating on several levels.

LOL - pictures - pictures... I want to see the corrupt haters at the New York times being 'disheartened'... Maybe a few crying?

[prophetic]

1 notable trick these Global warming creeps did was to remove a lot of weather monitoring stations from rural areas and put more inside big cities. When the sun heats up the black asphalt it causes the classic heat island effect and thus the Weathermen gets to say how really hot the city is baking today.

I've witnessed here in West Palm Beach where I live, near the airport there is a auto repair shop just at the end of the runway with a sign that shows the time & temperature. Less than a mile south of it there is a autozone store with the same type of signs. The one at the edge of the runway is always 5 degrees more.

And to top off everything, the weather monitoring station at the airport sits on the runway.