After an unprecedented, even for Washington, attempt to smear Scott Pruitt for the purpose of forcing President Trump to ask for his resignation, the Climate-Industrial Complex (CIC) finally got President Trump today to accept the resignation of Pruitt, his Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The resources devoted to this effort by the CIC were far beyond anything I have ever seen over many years. The CIC apparently decided some months ago that if they could not prevail in the court of public opinion that their best course of action was to smear Pruitt for any and all alleged sins during his tenure in office. It worked. This is still another example of the CIC’s always sleazy tactics–only much lower than usual even for the CIC.
Did I support Pruitt fully? Of course not. But his major errors were those of being too soft on the CIC. Specifically, he failed to confront the Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding (EF) head-on, without which the CIC would be able to stop most efforts to reduce EPA’s efforts against climate alarmism. Without confronting and winning the fight over the EF a new climate alarmist administration could reverse all of their climate regulatory reductions overnight, thus undermining Trump’s efforts to scale back the potentially disastrous EPA climate regulations. The CIC did something somewhat similar (but unrelated to climate, of course), under the Reagan Administration–and it worked then too.
The Acting Administrator will apparently be Andrew Wheeler, a former lobbyist working for Robert Murray, the President of a coal company and a very strong skeptic with a good understanding of the climate scam. Unfortunately, shortly before he resigned Pruitt decided to regulate CO2 by actions within the fence lines of electric power plants. This makes no sense at all since it depends on the CIC’s bad science claiming that increases in CO2 will have a significant effect on global temperatures. The advantage of this approach to politicians is that it does not require an open fight over the so-called science used by the CIC. But it leaves the door wide open to climate alarmists to keep the scam going or even strengthen it if more sympathetic politicians should regain power. These last one and half years offered a golden opportunity to end the scam once and forever. Pruitt and perhaps Trump appear to have missed this opportunity. The scam will now live to fight another day rather than suffering the defeat it so richly deserves and the nation needs.
In honor of mr wheeler, I am reading senator Inhofe’s the Greatest Hoax. It came out in 2012.
Nobody has been more wonderful than this Senator at fighting the Harmful and ridiculous cause of global warming. Inhofe has a marvelous sense of humor and wonderful leadership. When battling something so pervasive and so unfounded, its a blessing to have both a sense of humor and backbone.
Presidemt Trump is winning his joust with the cic. Part of his success is establishing that liberal media reporting is unreliable Fake news. 72 percent of Americans accept that mainstream reporting contains false information.
This understanding will only serve to help Wheeler. the reported complaints about Pruitt were trivial or false. More of this pathetic garbage will be smeared at Wheeler. It goes with his job.
Wheeler will stay focused on implementing the Presidents gameplan. Wield a machete and keep hacking away at junk science like the Endangerment Finding for life essential trace gas carbon dioxide. This is how to prevail over the CIC.
I doubt Pruitt was brought down by the CIC and its many lies about him.
The President wants to maintain his agenda, so it’s hard to see how the CIC gains from the departure of Pruitt. Trump continues to win.
The April interview with super sleazy Ed Henry did not help. Somebody screwed up scheduling that for Pruitt.
Pruitt was let down by republicans.
Unlike Tillerson Pruitt did not get fired via Twitter. Instead he got to write a resignation letter.
Thanks for your rapid take, Dr Carlin.
Pruitt was pelted with evil hostility. Who needs it? I would fault no one for resigning for the sake of family.
One political mistake may have been to challenge corn-fed ethanol. This alienated the senators from Iowa, not a prudent idea. Pruitt needed all the congressional support he could harvest.
Also odd to appoint a guy banned from banking to spur Superfund. Too much loyalty to a pal.
Will the President step up and find a high quality replacement? In due course, all will be revealed.