Environment

The Badlands National Park, in an apparent effort to stay true to it's name, sent out a series of tweets earlier today about climate change which were most likely intended specifically to ruffle the feathers of the new Trump administration.  The tweets have since been deleted but not before being retweeted thousands of times.

“Today, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is higher than at any time in the last 650,000 years. #climate”

 

In a response filed moments ago by TransCanada, the company said it is currently preparing a follow up application, and will take up President Donald Trump’s invitation to again seek permit for the Keysteon XL pipeline. It further adds that Keystone XL will add more than $3 billion to U.S. GDP and create “thousands” of construction jobs.

Full statement below:

We appreciate the President of the United States inviting us to re-apply for KXL.

 

President Donald Trump has announced plans to completely defund all forms of man-made climate change research, just hours after being sworn into office.  On Trump’s first evening at the White House, the President began the process of dismantling the climate change action plan set-up by former President Barack Obama.

President Donald Trump scrubbed all references to phony mad-made climate change science from the White House website just minutes after being sworn in.  At exactly noon on Friday, Trump took his first steps in tackling the fraudulent notion that humans are responsible for global warming, much to the joy of many leading scientists. Climatedepot.com reports: Climate Depot statement: “Climate skeptics are thrilled that one of the very first visible changes of the transition of power between President Obama and President Trump is the booting of “climate change” from the White House website.

For 30 years the 1,000 square miles surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia have lay largely inhabited and remains one of the most radioactively contaminated areas in the world.  But that's all about to change if a group of German and Chinese investors have their way about it.  According to Ukraine's Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources, Ostap Semerak, 39 separate entities have applied for permission to install 2 gigawatts worth solar panels on the land that would otherwise lie unutilized for centuries to come.  Per Bloomberg: