From this account at Huffington Post, he single-handedly dismantled the Paris Climate Accord:
Trump’s Climate Change Denial Is Already Complicating the Paris Climate Deal
Donald Trump first shared his analysis of the climate crisis in a now infamous 2012 tweet-rant: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive,” he claimed.
The Republican presidential hopeful has since dialed back the rhetoric, calling that earlier claim a joke. But — as in other areas of critical domestic and international concern — he’s fallen short when pressed for specifics on what a Trump presidency would mean for energy and the climate. It seemed his oft-repeated phrase “trust me, I’ll get the best people“ was as close as the American public was going to get to details.
And he has. And, predictably, the Huffington Post does not like this one bit:
The best Trump could find turns out to be climate denier and staunch fossil fuel backer Kevin Cramer, a two-term Republican congressman from oil- and coal-rich North Dakota. As a newly tapped energy adviser, Cramer recently handed the Trump campaign a four-page policy paper urging the candidate to scrap the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, among other regulations introduced by the EPA to curb pollution from the energy sector.
According to an interview with Cramer, his plan also calls for ramping up energy production using an “all of the above, America-first” approach. The plan recognizes the growing commercial importance of wind and solar, but keeps oil, coal, and gas squarely in the mix.
There is more at the post but it is just the usual Luddite yammering. My only beef with Cramer is that he is not pushing nuclear as much as he should. There are several well-established companies working on new designs for small modular reactors and the safety factor with these is far superior to the current crop of power reactors. Much more efficient too and the waste is a lot less dangerous.
The Paris accord is just a cover for a massive redistribution of money into the hands of kleptocrats under the guise of science.
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