President Trump, in a little over a week, has accomplished a lot; one might say he has achieved, in ten days, what Barack Obama failed to do in eight years, that being to fundamentally change the United States of America. Trump-style populism is where it's at now, America First is the order of the day, and he is staffing up the Executive branch accordingly.
One of the things he has done is to pull the United States out of the Paris climate agreement as he did in his first term - but this time he really means it. This act set off a tsunami of whining from climate scolds in the United States and elsewhere, but President Trump ain't having it.
And, as usual, other nations are underestimating his resolve - and the whole situation. "The Daily Sceptic" scribe Tilak Doshi has some thoughts.
According to the UK’s Telegraph, just hours after President Trump issued executive orders to withdraw the US from the Paris climate agreement, Ed Miliband, the British Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, “warned” Mr Trump that the rise of Net Zero is “unstoppable”. The tendentiousness of the Telegraph’s headline is remarkable. Just who is this mere Department Secretary to “warn” the Chief Executive of the world’s leading economic and military power of anything?
Evidently, the British Secretary is deluded enough to take up the mantle of responsibility to warn President Trump of ignorance in energy affairs. But Mr Miliband has company, ranging from leading academics to senior global leaders conferring at last week’s World Economic Forum in Davos. Rather than simply dismissing his antics as another sign of Mad Ed’s silly climate posturing, it behoves us to take his warning at face value.
Is the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement really such a big deal?
Well, it's a big deal for the United States because we aren't required to be a part of this wasteful and unnecessary agreement anymore. The United States has been cutting our carbon emissions for some time now, and it's not because of climate scolds having attacks of verbal steatorrhea in the legacy media. It's because America is making more use of natural gas and because our industrial processes are growing more efficient. No climate scoldery is needed. China and India, if you're concerned about such things, are the culprits here.
European elites, of course, are also concerned that President Trump is hiring staffers and choosing cabinet members who are - you know - loyal. He learned a trick or two from his first administration. Doshi continues:
President Trump’s second term is unlikely to repeat the mistakes of his first one. He has taken a sledgehammer approach to replacing Democrat activists in Government with staff more inclined to his ‘MAGA’ vision. President Trump has long said he believes the biggest mistake he made during his first term was hiring people disloyal to his campaign promises.
Harvard University’s Robert Stavins – a leading academic who has done decades of research and published extensively on international climate negotiations – seems to find it disappointing that “Trump now seems determined to purge the upper ranks for the executive branch of anyone other than loyalists”. As if an incoming President would seek to hire disloyal staff!
Good. That's what we voted him in to do, and in this action and others, Trump has economics on his side.
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Amazing, the very idea that a president - any president - would choose to staff his administration with people who are actually loyal. And President Trump has already demonstrated his loyalty to American prosperity over appeasing World Economic Forum elites, as my friend and colleague Becky Noble writes:
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Becky writes:
This week, that august body known as the World Economic Forum (WEF) is gathering in the ski resort town of Davos, Switzerland. But in the shadow of Trump's inauguration, the mood among the world's elitists is not the usual jovial "we're better than everyone" vibe. In fact, it is downright serious. How serious? During a panel discussion, of which the topic was what else, Donald Trump, Yale University Professor Robert Reed, said to the Euroweenies in attendance that those who are elitist enough to be in Davos need to understand “who’s won, which is Trump, but who’s lost, which is to say us.”
It's not so much that the Euroweenies lost. They did, but that was secondary. The American people won; we are getting what we voted for, what we chose when we reelected President Trump by a wide margin; American prosperity. Oh, we're reducing emissions, because we are growing more efficient and making use of America's natural gas reserves. We could reduce emissions even more by building more nuclear power plants, which by the way would also provide reliable high-density energy to millions of Americans. We do all these things without being subject to the whims of the WEF or the complaints of European climate scolds - or our own homegrown climate scolds, for that matter.
So, goodbye, Paris agreement. America is winning again, and we'll never grow tired of it.
