President Trump Risks the Planet

[rangerrebew]

President Trump Risks the Planet

By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMARCH 28, 2017
 

That didn’t take long.

Only 10 weeks into his presidency, and at great risk to future generations, Donald Trump has ordered the demolition of most of President Barack Obama’s policies to combat climate change by reducing emissions from fossil fuels.

The assault began with Mr. Trump’s pledge in Detroit to roll back fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks, continued with a stingy budget plan that would end funding for climate-related scientific programs and reached an unhappy apex Tuesday with an executive order that, among things, would rescind the centerpiece of Mr. Obama’s clean power strategy, a rule that would shut down hundreds of old coal-fired power plants and freeze the construction of new ones.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/president-trump-risks-the-planet.html?_r=2

[LMAO]

One of the reasons why the NYT's is circling the drain

[jmyrlefuller]

Did any of Obama's draconian approaches to "the environment" actually HELP?

Our CO₂ and other emissions were already falling, yet their measurements of the gas in the atmosphere (friendly reminder: they measure them from the top of an active volcano) kept rising. Global temperatures were mostly steady after 1998, but then spiked in 2016.

This is a perfect example of why the global-warming/climate-change crowd is wasting their time. All this effort, and all the harm it has done, has done virtually nothing.