The outline above from the President-elect clearly shows that his motive is purely short-term profit on old dinosaur energy investments, protecting that industry for as long as possible. It would result in the immolation of our earth and its life. It's the whip-and-buggy approach to critical global contemporary energy issues.
"Stranger in a Strange Land" is a 1961 science fiction novel by American author Robert A. Heinlein. It tells the story of Valentine Michael Smith, a human who comes to Earth in early adulthood after being born on the planet Mars and raised by Martians. The novel explores his interaction with—and eventual transformation of—terrestrial culture. It is eerily similar in construct to the man who fell into the Presidency two weeks ago. However, Valentine Michael Smith had the intelligence to adapt to his new circumstances, unlike Trump, as well as a similar vast wealth and childlike naïveté.
In December 2015, in Paris, parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement (UNFCCC, 2015a). Parties agreed to keepthe increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels,and to pursue efforts to stay below 1.5 °C. The agreement officially entered into force on 4 November 2016. Commitment to the Paris Agreement is now stronger than ever; there is an action agenda.
The Obama administration has renewed its commitments to the Paris agreement in the waning days of its tenure,announcing additional commitments to The American Business Act on Climate Pledge. And here's how the Obama administration proposes to reduce greenhouse gases.
Barack Obama's comments on the new media ecosystem: “Ideally, in a democracy, everybody would agree that climate change is the consequence of man-made behavior, because that’s what ninety-nine per cent of scientists tell us,” he said. “And then we would have a debate about how to fix it. That’s how, in the seventies, eighties, and nineties, you had Republicans supporting the Clean Air Act and you had a market-based fix for acid rain rather than a command-and-control approach. So you’d argue about means, but there was a baseline of facts that we could all work off of. And now we just don’t have that.”
And now France and the UN tell Trump that action on climate change is unstoppable.
So, this is a portrait of a man who knows nothing about climate change. His typical word salad has to be read to be believed...
Yes, raised by Martians.
#flimflamman
Update 11/27/16:
On Capitol Hill: Blasting Trump's Climate Denialsim
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works and cofounder of the Senate Climate Action Task Force
Senator Bernie Sanders, leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus
Senator Barbara Boxer, Ranking Member, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, is retiring
Senator Tom Carper will be the new Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works Committee
Historic Senate Action on the climate issue
Update 11/29/16: Mediaworld - Trump realizes that when you step outside those limits, you can manipulate the media at will because their normal ways of doing things are inadequate to the task. You can take any idea, no matter how preposterous, and make half the country believe it. And when journalists push back, it’ll only make your supporters more firm in their loyalty.
Update 12/13/16: Echoes of Galileo in the populist retreat from reason: Trump established his anti-science credentials by declaring climate change a Chinese hoax.
Update 12/22/16: Dr. Peter Carter: A Trump presidency would be the end of the world for the whole world and the end of any future for civilization and the human race.
Update 1/3/17: Rex Tillerson, Exxon's CEO and Trump’s choice to lead the State Department, is frightening
Update 4/2/17: Rice, who previously served as a consultant to XOM, then publicly helped prop up Tillerson's nomination
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