In his final years in office, Barack Obama tried to make fighting so-called “global warming” a top policy priority.
To that end, his administration entered into the Paris Climate Agreement – which would impose job-killing and economy-wrecking regulations on America’s economy – in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
However, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sends a strong signal his administration will move to quickly undo one of Obama’s most disastrous policies.
President-elect Trump has tapped Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA.
As Oklahoma’s Attorney General, Pruitt was a fierce skeptic of the junk science being used to promote the controversial theory that human beings were causing global warming.
Politico reports on the selection:
“President-elect Donald Trump is planning to pick Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to run the EPA, putting one of the agency’s most hostile critics and a skeptic of climate change science at its helm, sources close to the transition said Wednesday.
As attorney general for a state that is one of the nation’s biggest oil, natural gas and grain producers, Pruitt has been at the forefront of lawsuits challenging EPA regulations on carbon emissions and water pollution, and he is expected to lead the effort to erase much of President Barack Obama’s environmental agenda. Pruitt has also faced accusations that he’s unusually close to energy producers, including a 2014 New York Times story reporting that he and other Republican attorneys general had formed an “unprecedented, secretive alliance” with the industry.
But his agenda would mesh well with Trump, who unloaded on Obama’s EPA during the campaign, calling it a “disgrace” that was strangling the economy. Trump promised to reduce the agency to “tidbits.”
“We’ll be fine with the environment,” Trump told Fox News last year. “We can leave a little bit, but you can’t destroy businesses.”
Conservatives cheered the selection as it meant Trump would stick to his guns on rolling back Obama’s “climate change” agenda.
Democrats were infuriated and reacted in their typical over-the-top fashion.
Former top Obama advisor Dan Pfeiffer summed up their hyperventilating with this Tweet.
At the risk of being dramatic. Scott Pruitt at EPA is an existential threat to the planet
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 7, 2016
But the science behind man-made global warming has always been dodgy.
Many conservatives believe that the media’s spreading of the notion that there is no debate about humans causing climate change may be the best example of Fake News.
In fact, leaked emails from scientists working at the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change revealed that they, themselves, believe the science behind these assertions – that humans are causing global warming – is a weak theory, but would conceal that data by deleting emails.
The emails also showed these scientists viewed their work as a “political cause” – and not scientific.
Many conservatives believe President-elect Trump is correct in rejecting the hysteria and junk science surrounding man-made global warming.
His selection of Scott Pruitt to head the EPA is a strong sign that President-elect Trump will live up to his campaign trail promises to rollback Obama’s job-killing, radical environmentalist agenda.
The destroyer-in-chief time has come to a end. And good riddance. You have done enough damage to our country. Now it is time to start the rebuilding to make this country great again. We the People,movement have spoken.
I agree
Some people like funny terms like Man made global warming, Artificial intelligence.
So we can say that Man made Global warming is Artificial intelligence. Let say you have bad kidney an your doctor informs you, that you can get artificial intelligence developed
man made kidney. As soon as doctor leaves the room, you grab the jacket
and run away from hospital without even thinking about it. Some people will ask why
you are running away, you just may ask: Is it political correct to ask me ?
Wow…and if Rick Perry is added as the Energy Secretary…between him and Pruitt should be able to clean up a lot of the mess.
Yeah, somehow BAD AMERICA needs to be punished for enjoying the fruits of their labors. For being the point of the spear for the benefit of mankind. BAD America says the negro sodomite.
You must be punished. No more greenhouse gas for you. Therefore, says the negro, I am using one of my golf tees to plug my ass.
Poor negro. Trump was talking about draining the swamp. Not the swamp gas.
After 8 years of foolishness, Trump and his cabinet have a lot of work to do.
Global Warming/climate change/whatever they call it next is a scam. From computer modeling to scams based on every drop of fossil fuel being unleashed at once or in the next few years… 500 gigatons.. Even in that scenario they take the 100,000 year scenario coupled with whatever naturally occurring events such as the Earth wobble” and mix it all up into one as if it will happen over the next few years.
They use faulty data pumped into computer modelling and then spit out charts compacted in ways to create hockey stick visuals.
Out of all this they ignore things we SHOULD be worried about like the rain forests and impending Iranian nuclear tests. Explosions that will create carbon out of nitrogen they will no doubt then use for their modeling and as evidence that ‘fossil fuels’ are the problem.
BS… BS… BS and more BS..
Biggest scam of all – they cite sjws and women’s studies degreed loons as “scientists’ that all agree, when in fact there isn’t even one legitimate scientist that would agree with their farce in part or in whole.. not one..
Dear President Trump. Please de-fund these globalist geo engineering projects including the chem trailing pollution of our skies .with toxic chemicals.
Its about that little arrogant punk got his. Way o go Presidnt Trump.. By the end of 2020 people will be asking obama who???
It’s Sad To Say, But I Could “READ ‘TWEEN THE LINES 8 YRS. AGO”!! I Knew His Goal Was “TO DESTROY OUR NATION & HE’S DONE A HELL OF A JOB DOING IT”!!! Just “HOPE & PRAY PRES. TRUMP WILL BE ABLE TO BRING US BACK TO NORMALITY & THAT IT AIN’T TOO LATE”!!! Jim
Destroying natural forests has a greater impact on atmospheric pollution than the accused factors. While there is a change in the atmosphere and various areas of the earth´s surface, it is due to other man-made causes. Deep tunnel borings around the earth, such as DUMBs and extensive, unpublicized underground tunnels, the misuse of HAARP and Tesla+Keshe principles that create earthquakes and huge tidal waves called Tsunami. Such a Tsunami was used to destroy the three Nuke-generator stations of Japan. The evil entities that are responsible for such human-engendered destruction will not be stopped by over-regulation of the oil producing industry.
They will show America and the world all about the money making scheme we made up
OBAMA, Barry Sotero the worst MF President in American History. America elected a TERRORIST, Lying piece of Excrement that was Illegal to run for President
About time we had a common sense person over the EPA. Climate change is killing us with this cold WINTER weather here in TN.
It’s up to us to demand that obama be charged with treason. Charges should also be brought upon soros & clintons. Tell Trump we the people want charges brought against these people. Let Trump know that we stand with him.
Why in the world, don’t they impeach the fool along with Hillary and Billary and stop all this last minute crap he’s pulling. On the flip side, why in the heck does Trump keep advertising his moves as to what he will be doing once he takes office? Thereby giving Bama Bama the time to set up stops to destroy anything Trump tries to do. Why can’t he see that Obama blocks him everytime he says what he’s going to do? I just don’t understand it. Trump be quiet until you get into Office for crying out loud. Yes Trump and his cabinet will have a lot of work to do, and they’ll have even more if he keeps advertising what he’s going to do.