EPA Chief Lee Zeldin: ‘Today marks the death of the Green New Scam’ – ‘We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion’ – ‘Overhauling massive rules on the (CO2) endangerment finding’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/lee-zeldin-epa-ends-the-green-new-deal-aa81de06 We’re keeping people and the environment safe while overhauling rules that stifled our full potential. By Lee Zeldin Excerpt: Today is the most consequential day of deregulation in American history. Alongside President Trump, we announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will take 31 actions to advance the president’s day-one executive orders and power the […]
Wash Post: ‘Trump withdraws from two key global climate funds’ – U.S. pulling out a UN climate finance program – Activists freak: ‘U.S. is failing its moral obligation…abandoning the global community’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/08/trump-climate-finance-funds/ “In a letter obtained by The Washington Post, the United States said it is withdrawing from a board overseeing a fund for vulnerable countries hit by climate disasters. That “loss and damage” fund had stemmed from a hard-won diplomatic agreement reached in 2023. Separately, a treasury spokesperson said the United States is pulling out […]
Can U.S. survive without military climate spending?! CNN: ‘Officials & experts warn that Pentagon plans to cut climate programs will hurt national security’ – Sec. Hegseth: ‘The Dept of Defense does not do climate change crap’
Sec. of Pentagon Pete Hegseth responds to CNN: “The Dept of Defense does not do climate change crap. We do training and warfighting.”
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(CNN) As the Pentagon and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency set their sights on climate-related programs at the Defense Department, officials and experts are warning that slashing them could put US troops and military operations at risk, both in the near and long term. …
Dr. Ravi Chaudhary, former assistant secretary of the Air Force for energy, installations and environment, told CNN that climate programs are not just important to giving the US military an edge on adversaries like China, but they also help keep service members and their families safe. …
“Inaction at this point will put our readiness and the lives of our troops and their families at greater risk,” he said. …
Outside of protecting US military installations and personnel, sources also warned that ignoring climate issues could damage the US’ national security interests abroad. ….
“If we say, ‘Hey, we’re not interested in climate change,’ our adversaries or near peer competitors – whatever you want to call them – are more than happy to slide into [partners’ and allies’] DMs and offer funding at our detriment,” the Senate aide said.
Villalón told CNN last week that multiple other climate-related research initiatives had their funding cut off. A Defense Department news release Friday afternoon said the Pentagon was “scrapping its social science research portfolio,” including research focused on “global migration patterns, climate change impacts, and social trends.” The release said the Defense Department expects to save “more than $30 million in the first year through the discontinuation of 91 studies.”
Reality Check:
Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed
Top 10 Catastrophic Climate Predictions That Failed Environmental freaks have warned of global apocalypse for decades By Andrew Stiles March 6, 2025 It’s been almost six years since the delinquent child activist Greta Thunberg promoted a so-called scientist’s warning that “climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels” by 2023. The […]
Reuters now admits total climate fiasco! ‘The pursuit of net zero carbon emissions has been a resounding failure. Despite trillions of dollars spent on renewable energy, hydrocarbons still account for over 80% of the world’s primary energy’
Feb 27 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The pursuit of net zero carbon emissions has been a resounding failure. Despite trillions of dollars spent on renewable energy, hydrocarbons still account for over 80% of the world’s primary energy and a similar share of recent increases in energy consumption, according to The Energy Institute. Coal, oil and natural gas production are at record highs. Emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise inexorably. The financial markets were already losing confidence in the energy transition before Donald Trump returned to the White House. A more realistic approach to climate policy is urgently needed.
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Solar and wind power have grown to a mere 3.5% of primary energy production. The levelised cost of renewable energy – which measures of the net present value of electricity produced over a plant’s lifetime – has declined sharply over the years. But this has not resulted into lower electricity prices. In fact, as the share of the energy mix provided by renewables has risen, electricity prices have tended to increase. That’s because wind and solar power are intermittent. Since storing energy in batteries is uneconomic, traditional sources of power are still needed as backup, which is expensive.
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Targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are measured on territorial production. This incentivises countries to switch from domestic manufacturing to importing energy intensive goods, often from countries such as China and India, whose factories are largely powered by coal-powered electricity. Thus, the reduction in an individual country’s emissions can lead to an increase in global emissions.
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The energy expert Vaclav Smil has likened the costs of the planned energy transition to those incurred by a nation fighting total war for decades on end. … Energy transitions, as Smil has pointed out repeatedly, take a very long time. There have been successful earlier shifts – from wood to coal, coal to oil, and oil to natural gas. Each was accomplished by market forces rather than government fiat.
Bloomberg News: Trump’s EPA to scrap regulating CO2 as a pollutant – ‘Sweeping attack on federal climate regulations’ – Morano: ‘This is the holy grail of the climate agenda’
“This is the holy grail of the climate agenda,” said Marc Morano, who runs the climate-skeptic website ClimateDepot.com. “If you want to permanently cripple the United States climate agenda you have to go at the heart of it. This is the heart of it: the endangerment finding.”
POLITICO: ‘Global action falters’ as ‘climate action is quickly becoming the catchall boogeyman for many Western countries’ – Germany ‘is making a U-turn’ – New Zealand ‘scrapping its climate goals’ & ‘Canada & Australia may soon follow suit’
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/power-switch/2025/02/24/temperatures-rise-as-global-action-falters-00205780 By ARIANNA SKIBELL Climate action is quickly becoming the catchall boogeyman for many Western countries’ economic woes. The trend is bad news for global efforts to preserve a livable planet as rising temperatures continue to wreak havoc across the world. It’s also creating a climate leadership vacuum that other countries, such as China or India, […]
New York Times: ‘NOAA Is Told to Make List of Climate-Related Grants, Setting Off Fears’ – Cuts ‘aimed at demolishing federal government programs that address climate change’
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/climate/noaa-trump-executive-orders.html Christopher Flavelle, Austyn Gaffney and Raymond Zhong report for the New York Times February 10, 2025. Excerpt: “Staff members search for spending on “climate science,” “climate crisis” and “pollution” as one of the world’s premier climate research agencies girds for cuts.” “The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of the world’s leading climate science […]
New Study finds ‘fire deficit’ in North America Forests: ‘Contemporary fire occurrence is still far below historical (1600–1880) levels’ – Fires ‘not unprecedented in comparison’ with the past – Published in journal Nature Communications
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-north-american-fire-deficit The North American Fire Deficit: A fascinating new study with incredible findings By Roger Pielke Jr. Excerpt: An important new paper published this week in Nature Communications looks at the historical record of fire in North America — A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned. Parks et al. […]
Lee Zeldin demands return of $20B ‘parked’ at a financial institution by ‘Biden EPA’ to dole out to climate groups
https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/us-news/lee-zeldin-demands-return-of-20b-parked-at-a-financial-institution-by-biden-epa-to-dole-out-to-climate-groups/ By Victor Nava EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Wednesday that he’s found $20 billion in taxpayer money that the Biden administration “parked” at a financial institution — in an apparent effort to prevent the Trump administration from cutting grants to “far-left activist groups.” Zeldin, 45, explained in a video posted on X that the Biden […]