“… one of the less well understood aspects of the damage Trump is doing is how long it will take to repair it after he’s gone, assuming that he is not succeeded by an equally anti-fact president. You can’t entirely recover from it.” (- John Holdren, below)
The bad news was really good in the New York Times stocktaking, “How Trump’s First Year Reshaped U.S. Energy and Climate Policy,” subtitled “The sweeping changes have affected everything from coal plant retirements to international diplomacy over shipping emissions.” Four Times reporters—Brad Plumer, Lisa Friedman, Maxine Joselow, and Scott Dance—summarized the Trump Administration’s ethics-driven course change. [1] Quotations follow:
… Continue Reading[Trump’s] changes have reverberated far beyond the United States, as the administration has pressured other countries to abandon their own efforts to tackle global warming.
“IREF concludes that the EU’s net-zero plan is effectively dead on arrival. Its internal coherence is unachievable at this scale, across member states moving at different speeds. Persisting regardless will damage prosperity and liberties, repeating the classic failure of grand central plans—what the Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek once described as ‘fatal conceit’.” (Clintel, below)
“The irony is that the climatic impact [of EU Net Zero] would be negligible. Based on IPCC formulas, IREF deduces that for Europe, reaching net zero in 2100 rather than 2050 would alter global temperatures by only 0.02 to 0.06°C—below any meaningful measurement threshold.”
A recent report by the French think tank, Institut de Recherches Économiques et Fiscales (IREF), “Against All Rationality, the EU Persists in its Net-Zero Delusion,” challenges the false assumptions and erroneous conclusion of “Europe’s 2040 climate target and path to climate neutrality by 2050 building a sustainable, just and prosperous society.”…
Continue ReadingEd. Note: This repost from April 17, 2017, is timely given Executive Order 14199 this week to withdraw the U.S. from 35 non-United Nations (UN) organizations and 31 UN entities assuming/promoting climate alarmism. The UN climate program dates to 1988 and became a political force at the ‘Earth Summit’ with the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (Rio Treaty).
… Continue Reading“I am writing to urge you to attend the upcoming United Nations Conference on Environment and Development [‘Earth Summit’] scheduled for early June in Brazil and to support the concept of establishing a reasonable, non-binding, stabilization level of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions.” – Ken Lay (Enron Corp.), to George H. W. Bush, Letter of April 3, 1992.
“The United States fully intends to be the world’s preeminent leader in protecting the global environment.