Anthropogenic Global Warming ... how hot is it ?

[Shiftless2]

Another win for the "know-nothing brigade"

Trump to repeal EPA finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health​

Joey GarrisonDinah Voyles Pulver

The Trump administration is preparing to rescind an Obama-era scientific finding that has served as the legal underpinning for federal regulations targeting greenhouse gases for more than a decade.

In a major blow to federal efforts to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency will take action on Feb. 12 to repeal what's known as the "endangerment finding," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a Feb. 10 briefing with reporters.

The EPA's endangerment finding, signed in 2009 during the Obama administration, says current and projected concentrations of six key greenhouses gases in the atmosphere "threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations." A related EPA finding, signed in tandem, singles out ....

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[sear]

" Trump to repeal EPA finding" #541​

"Repeal" refers to legislative reversal, not unilateral executive contradiction.
"Finding" is the result of investigative process. Political opposition can reverse policy. It does not revise the rules of logic that produced the finding.

 

[Shiftless2]

"Repeal" refers to legislative reversal, not unilateral executive contradiction.
"Finding" is the result of investigative process. Political opposition can reverse policy. It does not revise the rules of logic that produced the finding.

Agreed - while he can get the EPA to retract the relevant papers and change their official position he can't "repeal" the results.

 

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Trump directs military to strike new deals with coal-fired power plants: ‘Going to be buying a lot of coal’​

President touts 'more reliable power and stronger and more resilient grid power' while criticizing wind energy as 'crazy windmills'​

By Jasmine Baehr Fox News Published February 11, 2026 7:19pm EST

Trump says coal ‘critical to our national security,’ orders military to buy more​

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced an executive order directing the Department of War to pursue new agreements with coal plants to ensure a "more reliable" electric grid. (Pool)
"That’s why I'm also pleased to announce that, in just a moment, I will sign an executive order that directs the Department of War to work directly with coal plants on the new power purchasing agreements, ensuring that we have more reliable power and stronger and more resilient grid power," Trump said.
"And we're going to be buying a lot of coal through the military now, and it's going to be less expensive and actually much more effective than what we have been using for many, many years."

Trump directs military to strike new deals with coal-fired power plants: ‘Going to be buying a lot of coal’

Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Department of War to purchase coal power for military installations, calling coal "essential" to national security.

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[Shiftless2]

The Royal Gazette is Bermuda's daily newspaper and it's unusual for them to post an article that's this long so obviously they thought it's important.

Why is an article in a Bermudian paper important to the US and the rest of the world? Simple - Bermuda is the third largest insurance and reinsurance center in the world (after New York and London) and if natural disasters continue to increase in frequency or magnitude, insurance is going to become much more expensive and harder to obtain.

Companies will be forced to: (i) increase premiums probably substantially, (ii) curtail writings, or (iii) withdraw entirely from certain areas. And since those Bermuda companies provide reinsurance to those companies insuring US properties their actions will directly affect Americans.

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The insurance crisis is about to get even worse​

Mark Gongloff

The Trump Administration will soon make it the official policy of the US government that greenhouse gases don’t endanger Americans’ wellbeing and therefore don’t need federal regulation. Insurance companies, meanwhile, live in a parallel universe where greenhouse gases are heating the atmosphere and intensifying natural disasters, harming human health, destroying property and raising insurance costs.

The US government’s universe is an increasingly lonely fantasy world. You’re trapped in the real one.

The oxymoronically named Environmental Protection Agency will this week formally renounce its 2009 “endangerment finding”, which gives it regulatory power over emissions from cars, power plants, factories and more. This move, which the climate-change deniers running the White House call a “total victory”, is for now mostly symbolic.

But what it symbolises is still troubling: a government putting outdated ideology and corporate profits above the health and financial welfare of the people it governs. In the process, it’s stoking the flames of dual insurance crises that are harming growing numbers of Americans and putting trillions of dollars at risk.

For what it’s worth, it’s also illegal. The Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that the 1963 Clean Air Act required the EPA to regulate planet-heating emissions, a sentiment Congress endorsed in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act and didn’t try to undo in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Environmental groups have vowed to subject the EPA to years of legal brawling before its vision can become reality.

Nor does it make much practical difference. Under administrator Lee Zeldin, the EPA has .....

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[Rigby5]

I am oddly ambivalent because although coal produces twice the CO2 of natural gas, we have only about 50 years of natural gas, and over 500 years worth of coal?