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-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Trump ignores Gore's advice, instead picks skeptic to head EPA & dismantle climate agenda
2016-12-08
Also known as a "Fuck you Gore"
Climate Depot's publisher Marc Morano statement on President Elect Donald Trump's selection of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt pick for EPA chief:

"President-Elect Trump's appointment of Scott Pruitt is a breath of fresh air. No longer do we have to suffer under President Obama's ridiculous EPA ‘climate' regulations. It is also refreshing that a Republican President is not throwing the EPA over to the green activists and the media by appointing a weak administrator. Christine Todd Whitman he is not!

Trump's pick of Pruitt finally means that a Republican President is standing up the green establishment! Historically, EPA chiefs have been among the most pro regulatory members of past Republican presidents from Nixon through Ford, Reagan and both Bushes. Trump has broken the cycle!
Putting a muzzle on the tyrannical EPA is always good.
Climate sanity has been restored to the U.S. EPA. No longer do we have to hear otherwise intelligent people in charge in DC blather on about how EPA regulations are necessary to control the Earth's temperature or storminess.

No longer do we have to endure GOP presidents avoiding battle over the green agenda by picking EPA chiefs that were timid at best. We know how bad GOP EPA picks have been in the past because many former GOP EPA chiefs endorsed President Obama's EPA climate regulations.

If climate skeptics were worried about Trump's meeting with Former VP Al Gore earlier this week, the pick of Pruitt is reassuring. Basically Trump listened to what Gore had to say at their New York City meeting and then he exercised his good judgement and did the exact opposite.
I think Trump is doing the same thing with Obama
I hope he's doing the same thing with Romney.
Posted by:DarthVader

#10  Trump is a businessman and knows how to play the game.

Listen to the opposition and make up your own mind and do what needs to be done.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2016-12-08 20:19  

#9  Trump? Gore?

Who knew the Donald had a little bit of Lucy Van Pelt in him.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-12-08 18:52  

#8  You should see the stupid impact statement SpaceX had to write and get approved for their Texas launch pad.
Posted by: 3dc   2016-12-08 15:50  

#7  Interview with Gore only needed a minute to determine if he was serious or a fraud. one quick question. Which is worse:
(a) Storing spent nuclear fuel until we find out what to do with it
(b) Global warming.

Answer (A) and you know they he doesn't take the threat of global warming seriously.
Answer (b) and you don't need him, just double-down on building nuclear plants.

Posted by: rjschwarz   2016-12-08 13:03  

#6  Possibly a tutorial in STFU.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-08 11:50  

#5  As I mentioned the other day, Trump's meeting with Gore was a 'Know Thy Enemy' instructional moment only.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2016-12-08 10:51  

#4  Perhaps it's one of the advantages of having a billionaire in the WH. Bribes and get rich schemes don't seem to work so well.
Posted by: jvalentour   2016-12-08 09:40  

#3  some negative career justice for the perpetrators of climate change regulatory strangulation, Gold King Mine debacle, anti-fracking assholes, etc. is clearly in order. Clear the stables!
Posted by: Frank G   2016-12-08 09:04  

#2  Looks like the bull didn't like his socks.
Posted by: gorb   2016-12-08 08:01  

#1  Send al-Gored back to al-Jazeera
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-12-08 02:24  

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