A recommendation: President-elect Trump meets New York Times
Whether Trump’s new-found willingness to rethink campaign promises to quit the fight against global warming is honest will show up in his appointments and policies, said Meyer.
The following month, he doubled down in another tweet. But climate scientists are in near consensus over the negative effects of global warming; and 74 percent of Americans want to reduce pollution, according to a Pew Research Center survey.
The wind farms would essentially block an unspoiled view from one of his two Scottish golf courses.
GREENE: If Donald Trump wanted to expand the use of torture – waterboarding and so forth – could he go and find legal counsel who would – would give him sort of the legal right to do that?
Desperate to recoup current and future Trump-related costs, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has asked for federal aid for the massive expenditures. Now, Jim Mattis is not somebody who, I believe, fits that description.
Trump tweeted Monday, “Prior to the election it was well known that I have interests in properties all over the world”.
The Paris Climate Agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016, and sets a goal of limiting global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels through 2100.
While the United States lost around 71,000 factories between 1993 and 2012, it is unclear if trade agreements were the cause. The BBC reported on such concerns back in May.
Trump, a real estate developer who has never held public office, brushed off fears over conflicts of interest between his job as president and his family’s businesses.
Check out the archived version of the New York Times’ live blog, from the staff meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump.
At the Times, Trump said Breitbart “is just a publication” that “covers subjects on the right” and is “certainly a much more conservative paper, to put it mildly, than The New York Times”.
On Tuesday, he took a softer line on the treaty, saying only, “I’m looking at it very closely”. He also acknowledged that clean air and “crystal clear water” were, in the Times’ words, “vitally important”.
For Leonard Steinhorn, a communications professor at American University, there is good reason to expect more arm-wrestling between Trump and the news business. “It’s one issue that’s interesting because there are few things where there’s more division than climate change”. – On whether he will withdraw from climate change accords.
Since his November 8 election victory, Trump has been meeting with prospective candidates for top positions in his administration.
The President-elect on the campaign trail repeatedly vowed to slash environmental protection regulations burdening USA businesses and said that beyond the consequences to the planet, he is particularly mindful of the economic impact of combating climate change.
Climate researchers would not agree, at least when it comes to the science. He has previously called climate change a “hoax” invented by the Chinese.
“My guess is that it would be hard to stop all ongoing Nasa programs but future programs should definitely be placed with other agencies”, Walker told the Guardian. That seems to raise a lot of questions about what his motives are when he says nice things about foreign officials or even domestic officials.
Fortunately, there are economic and political forces far beyond a President Trump’s control. Trump’s presumptive EPA pick, Myron Ebell, has made his name as a climate change naysayer, so any optimism as to Trump’s policies should probably be kept in check.