The Time Has Come! Trump to roll back EPA Climate Regs

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Trump to roll back Clean Power Plan tomorrow

Niina Heikkinen, E&E News reporter

The White House will release its executive order on the Clean Power Plan tomorrow, triggering President Trump’s promises to dismantle the climate policies of his predecessor.

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced the timing yesterday on ABC’s “This Week.” The move comes as the White House seeks safe footing after its stunning legislative loss on health care Friday.

The twin announcements about signing the executive order and permitting the Keystone XL pipeline, made before the weekend, stand to ease the turbulence of last week by fulfilling two of Trump’s oaths to rural constituents.

“We’ve made tremendous progress on our environment, and we can be both pro-jobs and pro-environment, and the executive order’s going to address the [past] administration’s effort to kill jobs across the country through the Clean Power Plan,” Pruitt said.

Vice President Mike Pence set the stage Saturday by telling a crowd in West Virginia, “The war on coal is over.”

His remarks sought to reorient the White House toward an issue that served Trump well on the campaign trail, where he at one point wore a coal miner’s hard hat and exulted in the devotion of workers in reflective stripes and coveralls.

“We’re going to bring back jobs,” Pence said. “We’re going to get Washington out of the way of energy producers and coal miners — because energy means growth for America, and President Trump digs coal.”

Al Gore Adds Brexit To The ‘Stupid Things Blamed on Climate Change’ List

Perhaps it’s because most of the calamities predicted in the first movie didn’t happen, hurricanes didn’t increase in frequency and strength, polar ice caps didn’t melt, NY and other coastal cities aren’t underwater,   Mt. Kilimanjaro still is snow-capped, tornadoes aren’t increasing in frequency and strength, the arctic isn’t melting, the Antarctic ice extent is growing, oh and the polar bear population is doing very well thank you. So former VP Al Gore wants to try another movie. He didn’t however take my suggestion and call the movie, “More Crap That Wont Happen.” The inventor of the internet did come up with something new and creative, he blamed Brexit on Climate Change, so it gets added to the “Stupid things blamed on climate change” list.

His latest theory is that climate change caused the British Brexit vote:

“One of the lines of investigation [scientists] have been pursuing has led them to the conclusion that significant areas of the Middle East and North Africa are in danger of becoming uninhabitable

 

“And, just a taste of this, to link it to some of the events that the UK and European Union are going through – think for a moment about what happened in Syria.

On the bright side, Gore’s claim that Brexit was caused by climate change becomes #64 on

“The Official Lid List Of Stupid Things Blamed on Climate Change:”

  1. Arab spring
  2. Incredible shrinking sheep,
  3. Destruction of Afghan poppies 
  4. Invasion of jellyfish in the Mediterranean
  5. Surge in fatal shark attacks
  6. Boy Scout tornado deaths,
  7. Severe acne,
  8. Global conflict,
  9. Beer tasting bad
  10. Better Beer
  11. Suicide of farmers in Australia,
  12. End of the American Dream
  13. Bigger tuna fish,
  14. Fish shrinkage
  15. Longer days,
  16. Shorter days,
  17. Collapse of gingerbread houses in Sweden,
  18. Cow infertility,
  19. UFO sightings in the UK,
  20. Shortage of Hookers in UK
  21. Rise in insurance premiums,
  22. Heroin addiction
  23. Bear attacks in Japan 
  24. Frigid Cold Winters in Great Britain
  25. Cancer
  26. Death from heart disease, diabetes, stroke, respiratory disease and even accidents,
  27. Homicide, suicide
  28. Coffee from Uganda
  29. Doggie Depression
  30. Water -borne disease outbreaks
  31. Bad relations with Russia 
  32. Decline of Circumcision in Africa
  33. Heavier, wetter snowstorms treacherous for travel and ambulation, 
  34. Lyme disease, swarms of allergy-inducing, stinging insects, along with
    mosquitoes and devastating pine bark beetle infestations and the spread
    of forest and crop

Recent Research Shows Climate Models Are Mostly “Black Box” Fudging, Not Real Science

Climate models fail on the test stand By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof. Fritz Vahrenholt [German text translated/edited by P Gosselin) 20 years ago climate models were celebrated as a huge breakthrough. Finally we were able to reproduce reality in the computer, which had been becoming ever more powerful and faster.

Source: Recent Research Shows Climate Models Are Mostly “Black Box” Fudging, Not Real Science

Video: Milloy presents ‘Draining the Government Climate Science Swamp’ at the Heartland Institute climate conference

The March 23-24, 2017 Heartland Institute climate conference (12th International Conference on Climate Change) panel on resetting climate policy (Steve Milloy, Bette Grande, Myron Ebell) begins at about 2:54 into the video. Milloy’s presentation is at the beginning.

Source: Video: Milloy presents ‘Draining the Government Climate Science Swamp’ at the Heartland Institute climate conference