The 'Official' Quit Picking On Trump Thread

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

They were opposed to science or they were/are Science?

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Sweeeeeet!

 

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Did anybody drag anything valid out of our scientists that have been un-gagged by JT?

There was nothing hidden.

 

[MHz]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Maybe this guy will be able to accurately tell you how many snow shovels you will need this winter. Be interesting to what other changes are coming. Trey Gowdy should be made FBI Directory in charge of cleaning things up in DC.

 

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Fun fact. The band Rush was stuck in a storm between Regina and Winnipeg during the Hemispheres tour. They were an hour and a half late and many in Regina gave up waiting and walked before they played. This caused a demand for refunds and the city run arena obliged. Rush lost their cut and it pissed them off and never came back for 25 years because the city wouldn't meet a contract obligation to sign them again. The clause was the city would have to have 50 men with snow shovels standing by in case the tour bus ever got stuck again.

They came back in 2008 in June. 28 years later I think.

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

All those billions the ecotards and the UN were counting on.

 

[pgs]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Good maybe he is really going to try and burn the place down .

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

I'd take all those billions slated for other countries and start pumping them into our poverty areas. And leave the Democrats out of it. They've screwed things up enough.

 

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

All those billions the ecotards and the UN were counting on.

GE lost it's lobby edge.

I'd take all those billions slated for other countries and start pumping them into our poverty areas. And leave the Democrats out of it. They've screwed things up enough.

Louisiana and Alabama?

 

[darkbeaver]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

This guy is going to get lampooned.


Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Donald Trump has selected one of the best-known climate skeptics to lead his U.S. EPA transition team, according to two sources close to the campaign.

Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, is spearheading Trump’s transition plans for EPA, the sources said.

The Trump team has also lined up leaders for its Energy Department and Interior Department teams. Republican energy lobbyist Mike McKenna is heading the DOE team; former Interior Department solicitor David Bernhardt is leading the effort for that agency, according to sources close to the campaign.

Ebell is a well-known and polarizing figure in the energy and environment realm. His participation in the EPA transition signals that the Trump team is looking to drastically reshape the climate policies the agency has pursued under the Obama administration. Ebell’s role is likely to infuriate environmentalists and Democrats but buoy critics of Obama’s climate rules.

Ebell, who was dubbed an “elegant nerd” and a “policy wonk” by Vanity Fair, is known for his prolific writings that question what he calls climate change “alarmism.” He appears frequently in the media and before Congress. He’s also chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition, a group of nonprofits that “question global warming alarmism and oppose energy-rationing policies.”

Ebell appears to relish criticism from the left.

In a biography submitted when he testified before Congress, he listed among his recognitions that he had been featured in a Greenpeace “Field Guide to Climate Criminals,” dubbed a “misleader” on global warming by Rolling Stone and was the subject of a motion to censure in the British House of Commons after Ebell criticized the United Kingdom’s chief scientific adviser for his views on global warming.

More recently, Ebell has called the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan for greenhouse gases illegal and said that Obama joining the Paris climate treaty “is clearly an unconstitutional usurpation of the Senate’s authority.”

He told Vanity Fair in 2007, “There has been a little bit of warming ... but it’s been very modest and well within the range for natural variability, and whether it’s caused by human beings or not, it’s nothing to worry about.”

Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition - Scientific American - Linkis.com

Never heard of him,

You should have an electrician check your wires.

 

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Gay electricians already want to remove his shorts.

 

[Mowich]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

I'd take all those billions slated for other countries and start pumping them into our poverty areas. And leave the Democrats out of it. They've screwed things up enough.

I also think beefing up your infrastructure is a dandy idea, Eagle.

 

[mentalfloss]

Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

Donald Trump’s successful insurgent bid for the White House promised to upend a global power structure that benefited large corporations. Now, several Wall Street financiers and other successful business leaders could be in line to run top posts in his presidential administration.

People close to Mr. Trump have said he is considering Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who became his national campaign finance chairman in May, as his pick for Treasury secretary. If tapped for the job, Mr. Mnuchin...

Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters - WSJ

 

[EagleSmack]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Louisiana and Alabama?

Those are good places to start.

I also think beefing up your infrastructure is a dandy idea, Eagle.

No better place to start than those places as well.

 

[darkbeaver]

Re: Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

I'm in shock, he's betrayed us.

Canada should sieze the oportunity to bond with our hemispheric brothers and sisters.

 

[taxslave]

Re: Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

Nice to have a winning team.

 

[darkbeaver]

Re: Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

For a while it will be about tanks. And snow removal equipment. Some fat left in the distant spring is the hope, as we revolve into winter if you don't carry a winters fat, where's my coal?

 

[petros]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

It means a smart grid like in Canada. It's freaky when lightening kills everything but your fridge and one light in the house. Who decides which breaker in my panel gets the juice?

 

[darkbeaver]

Re: Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic to Lead EPA Transition

Ebell is a well-known and polarizing figure in the energy and environment realm.

thanks for the heads up, never heard of him, I'll be watching for the cork screwer.

 

[petros]

Re: Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

Donald Trump’s Financial Advisory Team Stocked With Wall Streeters

No sh-t Sherlock! Did ya think it's one guy behind a desk?

"Whose baby is that? What's your angle? I'll buy that!"