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 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.
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I’m sorry. Maybe I should know who this is but I don’t........anyhoo, I love President Trump!!
More winning!
The New York Slimes. The most uneducated and ignorant slobs ever to call themselves “journalists”.
Liberals are the most stingiest, polluting, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.
You KNOW Trump is on the right track when it causes them to have a petulant hissy fit of this magnitude.
What about lowering (or eliminating ) CAFE standards? Where are we on this?
I just tell these climate-changes nutbags that “we can all agree that pollution is bad and should be stopped, right?”
So then we only need two laws- 1) don’t pollute and 2) jail time if you do, with your company assets seized to clean up
Relief?? Shouldn’t that be climate ‘FRAUD’??
Well, if the NYTimes says it, it must be true.
How many videos is Project Veritas going to release about the NYTimes exposing their corruption?
So, which law requires the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions?
Go to hell, NYT. There is no way we can affect the climate to any noticeable degree.
The Sun is the source of at least 98% of the heat on this planet.
Water vapor is the biggest greenhouse gas. Cutting down on Co2 will not affect that.
“Liberals are the most stingiest, polluting, unfriendly, greedy, fascist, hate-filled, mean-spirited, envious, resentful, vicious, close-minded, violent, murdering, child-abusing, amoral, stupid, censoring, horse-punching, book-burning, ignorant, uneducated, unskilled, childish, prejudiced, racist, women-hating, man-hating, perverted, thieving, destructive, American-hating, Christian-hating, muslim-loving, Jew-hating, Israel-hating, communist, vote-rigging, vulgar, dirty, smelly, election-rejecting, regressive, restrictive, prohibitive, bed-wetting, poo-flinging, cop-killing, and scared little lying thumb-sucking idiots God has ever created.”
Right into my Glossary of Flames. Stand by to be plagiarized.
“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.” ― Joseph Goebbels
Oh my.... That would be SO awesome. Is there really a chance?
They are the stupidest, most annoying government intrusion.
Lazmataz, is that you???
LOL!!
“The fight against climate change.”
Does the NYT editorial board realize how stupid it sounds, especially when so much of the so-called evidence for manmade climate change has already been debunked?
"It repudiated the rock-solid scientific consensus that without swift action the consequences of climate change will become more likely."
I thought severe and terrible catastrophe was already upon us or at the very least right around the corner and there was absolutely, positively, without a doubt awful consequences in our ignoring this threat.
Now its "more likely".
When did we backtrack?
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