In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve. Both are ugly, stupid – and they are linked, though in ways not immediately apparent.
In the first, the administration provided the rationale for scrapping President Obama’s automobile mileage standards: because Trump’s crew now officially expects the planet to warm by 4C . In the environmental impact statement they say it wouldn’t make much difference to the destruction of the planet if we all keep driving SUVs.
Given that the CAFE regulations themselves gave birth to the SUV perhaps we should get rid of them?
Wow, they managed to shoehorn in both their favourite topics into a mega whinge. Not having read the report I suspect there is some major taken out of context reporting. but hey whatever it’s trumpvso it must be bad.
Surely the relevant question is not how much the world will warm but how much difference the regulations under consideration will make.
The answer being not enough to be measured.
The regulations are therefore pointless because they don’t help solve the problem they are meant to address.
I’m surprised you focused on that bit of the article, rather than the deranged millenarian nonsense in its second part, which claims that Trump has set up a concentration camp for migrant children.
One of the best things about Trump is that he does not neglect to the lying socialist scum of eco-freakery a good and well earned and fully deserved kicking.
Just remind me, what is the latest forecast for when snow will not fall in the UK and the kids will grow up not knowing what the cold white stuff is that falls from the sky?
‘The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil.’
McKibben, world famous scientist and key representative of the doomsday society, doesn’t know he boiling point of water and dirt. Adding 4C, allegedly, doesn’t get us there.
Hyperbole is inappropriate for a scientist.
Trump should have proposed that all private jet flights must be put on a public register and subjected to scrutiny before they will be approved. For the good of the planet you see.
Meanwhile, in the UK, September was the coldest for simply ages.
claims that Trump has set up a concentration camp for migrant children.
The Cholocaust.
Jollygreenman – 2548. Plus or minus about a thousand years.
Chris Miller, really? It didn’t feel cold.
@Matin – According to the Met Office it was colder than 2017, 2016, 2014 & 2013 and only 2015 was colder… given this is the Met Office I’d suggest a healthy dose of salt with it but figures and source below:
2018 = 12.4
2017 = 12.6
2016 = 14.6
2015 = 11.9
2014 = 13.9
2013 = 13.8
before that it doesn’t give a figure, just a “0.7 below average” or similar…
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate/uk/summaries
‘… now officially expects the planet to warm by 4C .’
And in what Planet Earth User Manual do we look to find out if this is too much, too little, or just right?
Creationists believe Planet Earth was created just so, and ever must remain so. Climatedoomists sound just like them… two sets of religious nuts living in their own fantasy world.
McKibben, world famous scientist and key representative of the doomsday society…
Only he isn’t a scientist. He’s a writer, formerly of The New Yorker, now free-lance. His online biography and Wikipedia article are careful not to mention what he got his BA in at Harvard. A wild guess would be something along the lines of English. His only relevant credential (as far as environmentalists are concerned) is that he’s been a card carrying communist/’democratic socialist’ since his days as an undergrad at Harvard.
In his biography he proudly notes that he’s had a species of woodlands gnat named after himself. Evidently self-awareness isn’t one of his strengths.
In the cloud of toxic dust thrown up by the Kavanaugh hearings last week, two new Trump initiatives slipped by with less notice than they deserve.
Hey, perhaps people should concentrate on matters at hand rather than a pantomime involving 36-year old groping claims. Who’s fault is that, then?
Hey, perhaps people should concentrate on matters at hand rather than a pantomime involving 36-year old groping claims. Who’s fault is that, then?
And there is the evil genius of Donald Trump… He gets otherwise upstanding, thoughtful and sober Democratic Senators to go batshit crazy by nominating an obviously unfit drunken sex offender for the Supreme Court. Then he slips all the really evil shit past everyone while they’re having convulsions on the floor.
Genius, I tell you…
Media/journalism really is constantly hitting new lows, yesterday the BBC article on Trumps comments about scary being a young man added that presumably he was only defending White Privileged young males which then segued into how more blacks than whites are incarcerated, they can’t even report simple statements without trying to twist it to an agenda
Wasn’t that announced months ago?
Oh, yes it was
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/02/trump-epa-will-revise-obama-fuel-efficiency-rules-for-autos.html
Chris Miller, really? It didn’t feel cold. seconded
However, October is feeling colder
Sorry, that was a global stat, not a UK one. Still, must be down to gerbil worming, eh?