Environment

More than 300 climate scientists have urged President Trump to withdraw from the U.N.’s climate change agency, warning that its climate change policies cause serious economic harm and exacerbate poverty — without providing the claimed environmental benefits. In a letter to President Trump, delivered Thursday, MIT professor emeritus Richard Lindzen calls on the United States and other nations to “change course on an outdated international agreement that targets minor greenhouse gases,” starting with carbon dioxide.

Warning: feelings may get hurt...

Source: The Burning Platform

And how you know you voted for the right candidate...

Source: The Burning Platform

While the series of major storms hitting California have begun to subside, residents of San Jose are being warned to keep away from affected homes until water levels decrease to a safe level. Flash floods along the west coast of the US have seen thousands of people forced to leave their homes and a state of emergency declared by California governor Jerry Brown. The majority of mandatory evacuation orders have now been downgraded for areas including Sutter County around the Oroville Dam Spillway, which sparked panic one week ago when it threatened to collapse during the floods.

Via The Daily Bell

 

Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change ... There’s a new climate change prevention plan in town, and unbelievably, it’s coming from some rather senior Republicans, the de facto party of science denial. Two former Secretaries of State – James Baker III and George Shultz – along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., met with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump and Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council this week in Washington D.C. -IFL Science

When Copper was soaring (2 weeks ago) it 'proved' that China's debt binge had worked and that Trumpian reflation was going to secure global economic growth going forward. Now that Dr.Copper is collapsing - we are not hearing so much about the industrial metal's economic forecasting prowess...

Supply concerns, strikes, and demand hope...?