ALERT: A Joyful Day in DC! White House declares ‘global warming’ funding is ‘a waste of your money’
Via The Hill:
BY DEVIN HENRY – 03/16/17 03:58 PM EDT
The White House on Thursday defended a proposal to slash federal funding for climate change programs, calling it “a waste of your money.”
“I think the president was fairly straightforward on that: We’re not spending money on that anymore,” Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said at a White House briefing on Thursday.
“We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that. We consider that a basic tie to his campaign.”
The budget proposal takes aim at climate change programming throughout the budget. It zeros out funding for State Department climate change programs, including American contributions to international climate change accounts, and the budget also reduces funding for advanced energy and renewable power research.
Environmentalists and greens have slammed the budget, saying lawmakers should not cut funding for climate change during a period of increasing global temperatures and the greenhouse gas emissions that cause that.…
Reuters: U.S. group Sierra Club seeks IG probe of EPA’s Pruitt over skeptical CO2 comments
U.S. environmental group the Sierra Club has asked the Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general to investigate whether the agency’s head, Scott Pruitt, violated internal policies when he said he did not believe carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
Lawyers for the Sierra Club wrote to the EPA’s Office of Inspector General on Tuesday asking the independent watchdog to check whether Pruitt violated the EPA’s 2012 Scientific Integrity Policy when he told a CNBC interviewer on March 9, “I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
The request ramps up tension between the U.S. environmental movement and the administration of President Donald Trump, who has called global warming a hoax meant to weaken the U.S. economy and has packed his Cabinet with people who question the science of climate change.
An overwhelming majority of scientists think that carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels is a major contributor to global climate change, triggering sea level rise, droughts and more frequent violent storms.
“It’s pretty unprecedented to have the head of the EPA contradicting basic scientific facts,” Sierra Club Senior Attorney Elena Saxonhouse told Reuters on Wednesday.
In the letter, the Sierra Club’s lawyers said Pruitt’s comments contradicted a “comprehensive review” of scientific research on climate change and appeared to be politically motivated.
The EPA website says its policy is meant to maintain “a culture of scientific integrity for all its employees,” and requires EPA officials and staff to ensure the agency’s work respects the findings of the broader scientific community.
“Administrator Pruitt’s comments are perfectly in keeping with the scientific integrity policy,” EPA spokesman John Konkus said in an email. “There is an ongoing scientific debate on climate change, its causes and its effect. That debate should be encouraged as the Administrator has done, not discouraged as Sierra Club is attempting to do.”
A spokeswoman for the EPA’s inspector general said in an email the IG’s office could neither confirm nor deny investigation requests.…
Analysis: ‘Everyone Is Misinterpreting Mattis’s Remarks On Climate Change’
The media needs to take a deep breath
Source: Everyone Is Misinterpreting Mattis’s Remarks On Climate Change…
Clexit: ‘Trump must Dump Paris and defund the UN climate industry’
Media Release Clexit Says: “Trump must Dump Paris (and defund the UN climate industry)”. By Viv Forbes Secretary The Clexit Coalition 14 March 2017 To download a print-ready pdf of the whole article click: http://clexit.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/trump-dump-paris.pdf The International Clexit Coalition today joined the growing chorus urging President Trump to keep his election promises and dump every climate treaty “agreed” in Kyoto, Paris and the UN/IPCC.
Source: Clexit Says “Trump must Dump Paris (and defund the UN climate industry)”.…
Cheers! Warmists outraged! ‘There are 6 references to ‘climate’ in Trump’s budget. All of them are cuts’
Trump’s draft budget is short on details — but climate policies in all parts of the government are expected to get cut. A portion of President Donald Trump’s first proposed budget, focusing on the Environmental Protection Agency, March 15, 2017.
Source: There are 6 references to ‘climate’ in Trump’s budget. All of them are cuts.…
Trump Proposes Deep Cuts To EPA, Federal Climate Funding
President Trump’s first budget proposal includes a 31-percent cut to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of an administration effort to slash federal climate change funding. The budget blueprint , released on Thursday, provides $5.7 billion for the EPA, down from $8.3 billion.
Source: Trump Proposes Deep Cuts To EPA, Federal Climate Funding…