Trump Wants To Slash EPA’s Budget To The Lowest Level In 40 Years – Will push for $2.6 billion cut
By MICHAEL BASTASCH President Donald Trump will recommend cutting the EPA budget 31 percent. Trump will release his “skinny budget” Thursday morning, broadly laying out the White House’s budget request. Trump will push for a $2.6 billion cut to EPA’s budget, congressional staffers familiar with the request told NYT. Previous reporting indicated Trump wanted to […]
WaPo: Weather Service made poor decision in overplaying Nor’easter snow predictions
By Jason Samenow The Weather Service, which has a mission to protect life and property, may have felt it was best serving the public by stressing the worst-case scenario for the big cities. But it’s a risky strategy that can cost credibility. Trust is so important in weather prediction because, when it is eroded, the […]
CLAIM: ‘Global warming’ to shrink mammals — Horses down to size of cats
Illustration provided by the Florida Museum of Natural History shows a comparison of a Sifrhippus sandrae, right, with a modern Morgan horse that stands about 5 feet tall at the shoulder. (Florida Museum of Natural History, illustration by Danielle Byerley via AP) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | PUBLISHED: March 15, 2017 at 11:58 am | […]
Flashback: ‘Global warming” could lead to 10ft reptiles
Could global warming lead to 10ft reptiles? Scientists say small plant-eating lizards could grow to the size of Komodo dragons By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON PUBLISHED: 13:08 EDT, 11 July 2013 | UPDATED: 13:10 EDT, 11 July 2013 Fossils of a giant lizard discovered in Burma have led scientists to believe a rise in temperature 40 million […]
Obama-era fuel standards on Trump’s chopping block
Triumphing Trump Targets Draconian Obama Vehicle Emissions Rules
Doctor groups take up ‘global warming’ advocacy – ‘Will tell the public their health is threatened by’ man-made climate
Bradley J. Fikes Contact Reporter – San Diego Union-Tribune Patients should be prepared for future meetings with their doctors to include discussions of global warming. Under a political advocacy campaign launched Wednesday, a coalition of physician groups will tell the public that their health is threatened by catastrophic man-made global warming, also called climate change. Participating doctors will […]
Fmr. UN climate chief Christina Figueres to Vatican – ‘We need to be clear that Fossil Fuels Kill’
Marie Venner | Mar. 14, 2017Eco Catholic 4 PrintemailPDF VATICAN CITY In late January, I had the opportunity to attend a small conference at the Pontifical Lateran University on Catholic actions, financial and otherwise, to resolve the climate crisis. The tagline for the Jan. 27 conference — titled “Laudato Si’ & Catholic Investing: Clean Energy […]
Report: Trump Commands State Department to Slash $10 Billion UN Funding in Half
by PENNY STARR 14 Mar 2017 President Donald Trump has instructed the State Department to slash its $10 billion budget for funding United Nations programs by as much as 50 percent, Foreign Policy is reporting. The article said the move is “signaling an unprecedented retreat by [the] administration from international operations that keep the peace, provide vaccines […]
Cheers! Trump Is Ready to Reduce the Role of Climate Change in Policy Decisions
By Reuters – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to release a wide-ranging executive order to reduce the role that climate change plays in policy decisions, according to a Trump administration official who reviewed a draft of the order. The move could alter how U.S. agencies weigh regulations on a broad array of industries, […]