Donald Trump has fired Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State, and appointed Mike Pompeo, formerly the head of the CIA. Pompeo has a background in the army and in industry, and entered politics in 2010 as Congressman for Kansas. Apparently he is opposed to the Paris Agreement and to wind power. He said that Obama’s suggestion … Continue reading
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“We knocked out the Paris Climate Accord”
President Trump slams Paris climate accord: “We have massive, just about the top in the world, we have massive energy reserves … Basically, they said don't use it. You can't use it. It makes us uncompetitive with other countries.” pic.twitter.com/ABaV9rHbjj — KCTV5 News (@KCTV5) February 23, 2018 Donald Trump has been speaking out about the … Continue reading
Ranter Santer
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) appears to be a contagious disease spreading through academia and the media and becoming more virulent. Thus we have Stephen Hawking, a man I used to have a lot of respect for, saying “We are close to the tipping point where global warming becomes irreversible. Trump’s action could push the Earth … Continue reading
ClimDown ’17: we pay you a penny per thought on the Americoparisian pullout
Recently we asked you, our readers: What does the United States’ complete pullout from the Parisian front (less the couple of thousand ‘military advisors’ we left behind, *wink wink*) mean to you? In case you’ve been on a peyote bender in the Atacama, that was an allusion to some game-changing news: Donald Trump has … Continue reading
#Clexile – Trump Exits Schroedinger’s Paris Climate Accord
So, here we are a couple of days later and the toxic fallout dust is settling from Trump’s momentous, earth-shattering decision to drop the Mother of all Bombs on the Paris Climate Community, joining those two other well known ‘rogue climate states’, Nicaragua and Syria, in #Clexile World leaders literally queued around the block … Continue reading
Trump Smashes Green Hulk
ClimAxed! ClimExit! Make the climate great again! Hulk actor, Mark Ruffalo was one of the first out of the gate, claiming Trump “will have the death of whole nations on his hands”. Right Mark, of course he will. Perhaps stick to an acting role where you’re just pretending to be smart. For half the time … Continue reading
The Derailed Gravy Train Apocalyptic Effect – G7 becomes G6 and Merkel Gets Mad
It’s not 100% definite yet, but it looks like Trump is going to pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. This would be a big deal, not for the climate, as many alarmists suggest, but for the global credibility and viability of the whole UN IPCC driven climate change narrative. At the … Continue reading
Climate spending cut in Trump’s budget
A budget that puts #AmericaFirst must make safety its no. 1 priority—without safety there can be no prosperity: https://t.co/9lxx1iQo7m — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 16, 2017 Donald Trump has published a budget, America First: A Budget Blueprint to Make America Great Again There’s an increase in defense spending (+10%), and cutbacks, often referred to as savings, … Continue reading
Trump, Brexit and Climate Change: Silencing ‘The Mob’
The floodgates are open. The tears are flowing out. Reality floods back in. For the regressive elements who have captured many of the institutions across the West, including academia and the media, their walled garden has been breached. The depth charge of the Brexit vote shook and cracked the foundations. An all-out assault followed. … Continue reading
Gove meets Trump
A day before his inauguration I thought it’d be good to take a fairly lighthearted look at the president-elect, as seen by the UK’s archetypal political egghead, Michael Gove, together with Kai Diekmann from Bild, on Sunday. The charm of being there This is from the full transcript of the interview (sadly, as with the … Continue reading