{"id":356684,"date":"2024-12-21T09:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=356684"},"modified":"2024-12-21T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T08:03:03","slug":"a-christmas-wish-list-for-president-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=356684","title":{"rendered":"A Christmas wish list for President Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"482\" data-attachment-id=\"356685\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=356685\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?fit=2508%2C1672&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2508,1672\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?fit=723%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=723%2C482&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-356685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?resize=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/0Christmas-wish-list-gold-writing.jpg?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/2024\/12\/20\/a-cfact-christmas-wish-list-for-president-trump\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-cfact-christmas-wish-list-for-president-trump&amp;utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-cfact-christmas-wish-list-for-president-trump#\">CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/author\/crucker\/\">Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For young tots across the nation, December \u201cTis the season\u201d to put together a Christmas \u201cwish list\u201d for mom and dad. While no one knows for sure how this tradition began, some suspect it was the Sears and Roebuck Company which was responsible when it began publishing its Christmas Wish Book in 1933.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However it started, now seems like a good time for those of us in the conservative policy world who work on energy and environmental issues to also put together our own Christmas wish list to send off to the incoming Administration. Here are some suggestions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>First<\/em>, get the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord. This misguided pact obligates the United States to eliminate fossil fuels that provide 80% of America\u2019s energy, and raw materials for countless products. It not only&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/12\/05\/why-are-uk-electricity-prices-so-high\/\">hammers our economy<\/a>&nbsp;but allows \u201cdeveloping countries\u201d to be essentially exempt \u2013 including economic and military powerhouse China \u2013 and compels us to pay those developing countries tens of billions annually in \u201creparations\u201d for supposedly causing climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s why Trump 45 withdrew the USA from the pact during his first term. Not surprisingly, President Biden re-subjugated America to it. But Trump47 could end this back-and-forth jockeying. He now has the power not just to pull us out again \u2013 but to do so permanently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How? By placing the Paris Accord squarely before the Senate, to be discussed fervently and voted on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This climate pact embodies exactly why our Founding Fathers wrote treaty language in our Constitution.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/environment\/commentary\/obama-sidesteps-senate-approval-paris-agreement\">President Obama skirted the issue<\/a>&nbsp;of placing it before the Senate by calling Paris an \u201cexecutive agreement,\u201d which he claimed didn\u2019t require Senate \u201cAdvice and Consent.\u201d He refused to submit it for Senate debate, and approval by two-thirds of Senators, because he knew they\u2019d reject it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But that was then. This is now. If Trump puts it before the Senate, it would be history. Good riddance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Second<\/em>, reverse the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/CFACT-amicus-brief-to-US-SCt-in-SLF-v-EPA-Dec-20131.pdf\">Endangerment Finding<\/a>.\u201d This finding was implemented under the Obama Administration. It decrees that carbon dioxide (CO2) \u201cthreatens the public health and welfare of current and future generations\u201d of Americans. It simply ignores reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fossil fuels bestow incredible health and welfare&nbsp;<em>benefits<\/em>. Humans and animals exhale CO2, and plants absorb it to grow. At just 0.04% of the atmosphere, carbon dioxide makes nearly all life on Earth possible. &nbsp;This&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfact.org\/pdf\/CO2-TheGasOfLife.pdf\">miracle molecule<\/a>&nbsp;does not, cannot and never did drive our planet into some kind of \u201cclimate emergency.\u201d Earth\u2019s glacial epochs, Medieval Warm Period,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/story\/what-was-the-little-ice-age\">Little Ice Age<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2024\/12\/03\/climate-change-over-the-past-4000-years\/\">other significant climate shifts<\/a>&nbsp;were far greater than anything seen in recent decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CO2 is not a \u201cdangerous pollutant,\u201d so this \u201cFinding\u201d needs to be reexamined \u2013 and reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, if the Trump Administration could grant just these two wishes, many of us would feel as happy as Ralphie when he got his Red Rider BB gun. But since there\u2019s no limit on Christmas wishes, why not add a few more quick ones?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So&nbsp;<em>third<\/em>, end the Biden Administration\u2019s electric vehicle mandate.&nbsp; This was put in place back in March when the Administration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/03\/20\/epa-emissions-electric-vehicles\">finalized an EPA rule<\/a>&nbsp;essentially that requiring 67% of new light-duty vehicles and 46% of medium-duty vehicles be electric by 2032. Expensive EVs are great for some, but don\u2019t meet most family needs, take hours to recharge, drain electricity from the grid, and pose&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/core.verisk.com\/Insights\/Emerging-Issues\/Articles\/2023\/August\/Week-4\/Electric-Vehicle-Fire-Risk\">serious chemical fire risks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody should be forced to subsidize or buy them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fourth<\/em>, terminate offshore wind. Biden put in place a plan to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/pauldriessen\/2024\/03\/31\/can-clean-energy-schemes-get-any-crazier-n2637166\">generate 30,000 megawatts<\/a>&nbsp;of offshore wind by 2030, as part of his plan to move America toward \u201cnet zero.\u201d That\u2019s 2,500 huge 12-megawatt turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But offshore wind energy is perhaps the most expensive, inefficient,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/pauldriessen\/2024\/06\/30\/mining-the-planet-for-renewable-energy-n2641151\">raw-materials-intensive<\/a>&nbsp;electricity system on Earth. Even in optimal areas, these 850-foot-tall offshore beasts generate electricity only 40% of a year, unpredictably, for a few hours or days at a time. They&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/opinion\/2023\/11\/07\/noaa-action-nj-dead-whales-offshore-wind-turbines\/71435692007\/\">threaten whales<\/a>, harm the fishing industry, and generate massive public opposition. They should be dismantled immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fifth<\/em>, deep-six the Inflation Revitalization Act (IRA). Thanks to this misguided 2022 law, America must now dole out tens of trillions of dollars to rent-seeking companies for wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and transmission lines, from here to eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This Act fuels a destructive \u201cgreen\u201d energy industry that will wreak havoc on croplands, wildlife habitats and scenic areas \u2013 all to produce&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2018\/04\/24\/how-solar-and-wind-are-causing-electricity-prices-to-skyrocket\/\">expensive, intermittent<\/a>, weather-dependent electricity only 20-30% of the year. &nbsp;It needs to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s my Christmas wish list. A bit grandiose to be sure, but \u2018tis the season!&nbsp; And one last thing, this wish list is heartfelt, especially since the previous administration only put coal in our stockings \u2013 coal it didn\u2019t want us to burn for reliable electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This article originally appeared at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/finance\/streettalk\/trump-administration-agenda\/2024\/12\/16\/id\/1191766\/\">NewsMax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For young tots across the nation, December \u201cTis the season\u201d to put together a Christmas \u201cwish list\u201d for mom and dad. 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