Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that he will pull the United States out of the Paris climate accord. Me, I’m with the Weather Channel on this move:
But T. Boone Pickens sees things differently. Here’s the statement he posted to his website:
“Without question, America is a nation committed to environmental leadership. All you have to do is look at how much cleaner our country has gotten over the last 10 years through the expanded use of natural gas. But the Paris Climate Accord is another bad deal negotiated by the Obama Administration, and America should applaud President Trump’s decision to exit. We should pursue a new environmental agreement on the global stage that achieves a fair, balanced and achievable commitment by all nations. This will protect American jobs and create yet another opportunity to focus on utilizing everything American when it comes to energy. Let’s build upon the progress we have made by expanding the use of natural gas in any plan going forward. Make America Great Again.”
The first sentence of that statement is nonsensical. Our president just said he is going to bail on the biggest, most important step taken by world leaders to address an environmental disaster that will, in just a few decades, swallow large swaths of Florida’s coastline (just to pick one small result of the climate change that we, as a species, have accelerated). So, yes, there is a question as to whether America is committed to environmental leadership. There are lots of questions.
As for the rest of his statement, I’m not qualified to assess it. I stopped reading after that first sentence.
D Magazine
Plantagenet on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 3:06 pm
The Paris Accords are just another ploy by TPTB to continue do nothing to stop global warming. When you look at the commitments made by signatory nations they add to up BAU, i.e. every increasing CO2 emissions and greater and greater greenhouse warming.
I could see people being so upset if the Paris Accords actually did something about global carbon emissions, but the whole thing is a sham.
Cheers!
Dredd on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 3:13 pm
Everybody makes mistakes (Mistakes Of The Dredd Blog Kind).
rockman on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 3:51 pm
Same old message to T-bone: for Dog’s sake shut the f*ck up and stop trying to help us. LOL.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 5:46 pm
Why would someone whose entire fortune is invested in fossil fuels applaud Trump’s decision? Oh, that’s right, it’s not about his personal wealth, but making America great again.
Planter’s Wart, nice to see you are capable of plagiarizing Pickens’ statement. Most creative.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 7:28 pm
I am burning one couch in my backyard daily.
To celebrate the end of the global warming treaty!
We will have coal fired power again.
And tailing pond flooding again.
And Union Pacific is bringing back steam engines again
And hamburgers will taste good again..
We will have Kodachrome film again.
Sissyfuss on Mon, 5th Jun 2017 10:11 pm
T Boone and D Trump are cut from the same expensive cloth, the self promoting kind. They have both been on a life long quest to secure wealth and fame and have been exceedingly successful. They are not persons that one would want as leaders and their rhetoric is bound in egomaniacal plummage. They are sociopathic and ruthless behind their visages and oh my god, one of them is president!
Dooma on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:25 am
Ol’ King Coal will be the happiest SOB.
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 9:15 am
The market for offshore installation vessels:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-market-for-offshore-installation-vessels/
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:11 pm
According to, Melania Trump, Ivana Trump & Marla Maples, pulling out early and leaving his partners unsatisfied is quite normal for big daddy Cheeto, so nothing new here.
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:23 pm
The interpretation of 4-5 scientific papers and about 75 years are the main points where me and Guy McPherson differ.
Paris climate agreement can’t stop global warming: US scientist
““None of this matters anymore, this is all a show, the Paris Agreement, the Trump administration’s response to it,” McPherson said during an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
“All of these distractions, all of these irrelevant activities are merely a show to keep up from looking at the truth; to keep us from acknowledging that we as individuals are going to die and that our species is going to extinct and both of those are going to happen far faster than expected,” he added.
“So we really don’t need much time analyzing the Trump administration’s response to the Paris Agreement. No United States presidential administration was ever going to honor the agreement because it couldn’t be honored.”
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2017/05/31/523798/US-Trump-Paris-climate-Agreement
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:35 pm
Delhi heatwave: Power demand at all-time high of 6,361 MW
http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/delhi-heat-wave-power-demand-at-all-time-high-of-6-361-mw/story-afccCg9GLYW2OTOrKsk96N.html
Odisha: Heat wave, water scarcity claim 34 lives; mercury rises to 47 degree
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/odisha-heat-wave-water-scarcity/1/971101.html
Heat wave hits Iran causing power outages, chaos
“TEHRAN, June 4 (Xinhua) — The highest recorded temperature in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-and-Baluchestan province has caused severe living conditions for the people, Press TV reported on Sunday.”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/04/c_136339156.htm
When it gets this hot in white people parts of the world – within a decade – they will lay down and die.
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:44 pm
Dooma, for the US, only when the cheap fracked gas runs out and the wind stops blowing.
Shale gas, not EPA rules, has pushed decline in coal-generated electricity, study confirms
“Data shows benchmark gas prices (‘Henry Hub’ prices) in the past four years to be cheaper than coal from Appalachia for over 88% of the months. Even the cheapest coal, in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, competes poorly in generating power in the great population centers east of the Mississippi once rail transport of $0.03 per ton-mile is considered.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161007105548.htm
Natural gas and wind are the lowest-cost generation technologies for much of the U. S.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161211213150.htm
Not sure about the rest of the cancer
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 12:56 pm
Historic Heat Wave Sweeps Asia, the Middle East and Europe
“The last week of May 2017 and first week of June brought one the most extraordinary heatwaves in world history to Asia, the Middle East and Europe. The mercury shot up to an astonishing 53.5°C (128.3°F) at Turbat, Pakistan on May 28, making it Earth’s hottest temperature ever recorded in the month of May—and one of Earth’s top-five hottest reliably-measured temperatures on record, for any month. Both Pakistan and Oman tied their all-time national heat records for any month during the heat wave, and all-time national heat records for the month of May were set in Iran, Norway and Austria.”
https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/historic-heat-wave-sweeps-asia-middle-east-and-europe
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 6:45 pm
LMAO
Rex Tillerson gets frosty welcome in New Zealand – complete with single finger salutes
Wellington failed to put on the charm for the secretary of state, with the US media surprised to see people giving his motorcade the ‘bird’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/rex-tillerson-gets-frosty-welcome-in-new-zealand-complete-with-single-finger-salutes?CMP=share_btn_fb
Davy on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 7:26 pm
What would you expect from the anti-American Anglosphere, flowers?
Apneaman on Tue, 6th Jun 2017 11:11 pm
Oh yeah Davy, there has always been such a rabid anti American bent in New Zealand. Fucking retard.
BTW, good on ya and the other denier fuck heads from your stupid state – drown in the water or your own stupidity. No difference.
The day after withdrawing from Paris, Trump declared a flooding disaster in Missouri
The state, hit hard by global warming-intensified flooding, has elected numerous climate-denying politicians
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/06/the-day-after-withdrawing-from-paris-trump-declared-a-flooding-disaster-in-missouri
Remember that internationally famous picture of the dead Syrian refugee kid on the beach a couple years ago? I could see a thousand dead Missouri climate babies and I wouldn’t give two fucks. Trump’s cull babies. A whole nation of em lined up to be sacrificed on the Cancer’s alter. See, me and Cheeto have something in common after all, except, unlike trump, I can do nothing to protect them.
DerHundistlos on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 12:48 am
Poor Rex- couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
makati1 on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 12:55 am
Ap, that Missouri redneck also forgets that he sits very close to the New Madrid Fault that is way overdue to blow. The last time it happened, the area was very sparsely populated but it still rang church bells in DC and backed up the mighty Mississippi River. Denial is not recognized by physics or nature.
GregT on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 1:36 am
Cut him some slack Mak. Like so many of his delusional kindred, he’s well on the way to imploding in on himself. The guy is a complete whack job.
makati1 on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 4:52 am
GregT, I agree, but his Missouri mule stubbornness is fun to annoy. He keeps trying to defend an impossible position of being so sure that his choice of where to live is so much better than wherever I might chose to live. I’m going to Hong Kong tomorrow to shop and site-see for a day. This is my 4th visit to China. I will probably not be here to pull his chain. I am sure someone else will.
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:03 am
What’s the matter Ape did I hit a cord. LOL. Anglos are so predictable. The luvs to throw the shit but they are gut shot when they get it back. Anglo dumbasses are upset because none of them ever amounted to shit. This is especially true of Canada that is a nothing country with assholes that find their identity by backstabbing Americans.
Flooding disaster are every year thing here Ape. It is normal where big rivers combine. I noticed you didn’t call me a denier because if you did you would be a liar. I will call you a moron because you obsessively rant death, hate, and destruction. Who cares dumbass about all your climate change drivel and upset over denialist. It is not going to change things. Your rarely if ever say anything that can be done about it. All you want is people to feel guilty, ashamed, and defeated. You do this constantly and repetitively like you can make digital pain occur. It is kinda funny because I think your dumbass think the more you talk about it with the cancer emphasis and all the other superlatives this is going to make people curl up in bed in fear. I think you are the one curling up in bed at night.
I know you would like to see Missouri babies dead per your comment. No one on this board hates Americans more except maybe your friend makati and mouse. It is my hope NK fires off a nuke and the dumbass thing veers off course and lands on the southwest coast of Canada. You know they tried to hit Seattle but something went wrong. That would be funny in an ape way. That would be poetic Cheeto justice in an ape way with some cancer coating.
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:08 am
Ooh, makati, trying to scare me with earthquake talk. I guess my comment hit the spot with you the other day indicating your P’s is at the top of the list of countries in danger of climate change. I also see you talking earthquakes now probably because that is another fear of yours. Sure I know about New Madrid. I have several books on it. Too bad for you I am in a relatively safe zone being in an Ozark area that sits on stone far enough away that I should not experience damage like those on alluvial or loamy soils.
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:18 am
Greg, I wanted to ask you yesterday and I got busy. You responded to my comment with glowing praise of yourself. You know all the wonderful things you do and how dynamic a person you are. You crow about yourself like makati. Why if this is true are you such a prick? Why do you prick people with attacks especially Americans? Could it be something deeper is wrong with you like a personality disorder.
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:22 am
“I’m going to Hong Kong tomorrow to shop and site-see for a day.”
Makati, you friggen asshole. Flying to China to shop what a friggen climate denier asswipe. Yea, go hang with the other cancer monkeys in China. Did you hear that Ape. Oh, and detective Greg from Hawaii 5 O are you going to call your best friend makati a hypocrite like you did to planter when he went to Egypt? LMFAO I call Greg Hawaii 5 O because he flew to Hawaii just a few years ago all the while he was complaining about climate change. He called out Plant a few months ago as a hypocrite because of his Egypt trip. What is it Greg is makati a hypocrite or not or are your determinations based on nationalism and friendship?
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:24 am
This is fun and it shows me that I am getting under the skin of assholes. Just like old times two dumbass Canadians and their side kick the old man from the P’s attacking me. I love when I get under assholes skin. Makes my day in fact. Thanks Apnea, Greg the T, and makati!
makati1 on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:57 am
Davy, my round trip to HK will actually burn about 12-15 gallons of jet fuel. Better check stats and facts before you bray!
http://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/question192.htm
makati1 on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 5:59 am
BTW: Davy, I am not going to the U$ this year so I am actually saving about 24 times that much. LMAO
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 6:17 am
What a dumbass who cuts down westerners then acts like one. LMFAO again this morning. makati makes a big effort to justify his dirty trip to dirty HK with the dirty cancer monkeys Chinese. And what is the best part of this is makati is going shopping. Greg will get up soon and defend makati in some way then a little later cancer ape will say nothing because, you know, he could never say anything bad about his buddy makati who rants and raves so much anti-American bile.
“BTW: Davy, I am not going to the U$ this year so I am actually saving about 24 times that much. LMAO”
Thank GEEZUS, don’t ever come back again makati. That would make me really happy.
makati1 on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 7:33 am
Davy, do you wipe that orifice after you use it? LMAO
GregT on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 10:26 am
“Thank GEEZUS, don’t ever come back again makati. That would make me really happy.”
What difference does it make to you Davy? Mak lived in the US for the first 45 years of your life, and you’ve never met him.
Grasping at straws to attack anybody that you perceive to be a threat to your fragile little ego. (flag)
Pathetic.
Davy on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 11:39 am
The prick is backs. Let makati fight his own battles greg. You stick your nose in too many places like pricks do. I think that is an ego thing.
GregT on Wed, 7th Jun 2017 9:26 pm
Whoever it was who said you were delusional and transparent, hit the nail on the head Davy.
With each and every post that you make, your emotional insecurities and psychological issues become clearer for everyone else to see.
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 5:15 am
Greg, your psychological advice is unconsciously illustrating your own psychological and personality issues. The personality issues of being a braggart because of your achievements. You have some achievements but nothing to crow about. You act so intelligent but say very little because most of it is personal attacks or half-baked intellectual regurgitations. You attack people and then talk you and yours up. You pat assholes on the back because its supports your asshole mentality. You protect makati because he supports your delusional view of the world. You know the friendly and supportive bias of “we da board gang” and what we say is gospel. There are a few gang bangers here so you think you are the majority of right. lol. The worst thing about you is your hypocrisy. Your self-righteous holier than thou west coast Canadian dumbass talk but doesn’t walk hypocrisy. This is best expresses by a sick anti-Americanism of which the west coast of Canada is a spawn. You have really gone downhill with the anger and hate since we met here. Something is wrong with you since you retired. Reflect on that before you offer others advice.
GregT on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 7:42 am
“This is best expresses by a sick anti-Americanism of which the west coast of Canada is a spawn.”
Nutbar.
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 7:59 am
Prick, glad you got the message. Now go walk the dog.
Cloggie on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 8:51 am
Greg, Davy, makati… perhaps 7 days moratorium on personal insults?
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 9:59 am
Clog, you are the wrong one to talk insults becuase you trade them daily with ape 365. You might talk to the prick from BC greg who starts these things then keeps them going. I try to avoid the fucknut but I will not put up with his shit if he starts pricking. Makati is a lost cause. He has made it clear pricking is part of his message.
Cloggie on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 10:17 am
Clog, you are the wrong one to talk insults
I’m not insulting anyone.
you trade them daily with ape 365
It is true that every now and then I need to discipline the TalmudTurd, but most of my post are not about her.
onlooker on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 10:26 am
Sorry, I think I stumbled on on a race relations forum or political debate chatroom, can anyone direct me to a good peak oil site? haha
GregT on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 11:31 am
Not a personal attack per se Cloggie, but rather an observation. I have made every attempt to calmly explain my position for close to 3 years now, and I am still being accused of believing something that I clearly do not. It’s long past the point of being a rational discussion. The guy needs serious professional help.
GregT on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 11:53 am
Davy,
“The prick is backs. Let makati fight his own battles greg.”
This is a discussion board, a place where people exchange opinions and ideas. Not a battleground. If you feel the need to do battle for your tax farmers, go join the military.
Cloggie on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:20 pm
Not a personal attack per se Cloggie, but rather an observation.
I’m neutral here. It saddens me that those who contributed most over the years go at each others throat, while we are all waiting for Goddot, um… peak oil.
See me as the grey old headmaster trying to stop a school yard brawl.lol
ALCIADA-MOLE on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:29 pm
I don’t like it when old white guys fight either. this is what I was taught by Ron Paul that it would make governent stronger.
What true for state level fighting is treu on the personal level
Only whitout fight the old white women (non-jewish) will stop tax farming me.
Oterwise her excuse is “to keep the peace” due to old guys fightign.
ALCIADA-MOLE on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:36 pm
actually, i’m all for verbal fights. if it’s too abusive then i’m against it. if it escalates into physical fights then i tell them to go away because with a weapon on my hip, i can’t afford to be pulled into or witness physical skirmishes.
what wrong with attending a lemon party like old men do instead of fighting?
i hate it when people fight just to get laid and as a mean to expan personal powa.
i’ve seen guys fighting and get laid at teh same time. i’ve also seen guys fight and get stuff.
Anonymouse on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:48 pm
“See me as the grey old headmaster trying to stop a school yard brawl.lol”
Actually, we see you as a fraud, and dissembler and an exceedingly dense individual. More like a headcase, certainly not a ‘headmaster’. No one assigned, or asked for your, ahem, help or input stopping anything. Not that you could do anything along those lines even if you wanted to. Like all your other assertions, this latest howler of yours has no evidence, or history to give it any credibility whatsoever, lol. Hasn’t stopped you before I know, so no suprise either.
If you feel the need to ‘stop’ anything here, you could start by stopping your endless fact-free assertions.
Like your husband, the exceptioanlist, you hold (yourself) in very high esteem, at least in your own mind, such as it is.
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:56 pm
Greg, go whine somewhere else. You are beyond justified. You make attacks you call discussions. When your attacks come back at you you whine. You are pathetic. Leave me alone and I will leave you alone. You can’t handle that becuase you have to prick people. It is simple ignore me and I ignore you if not I can do this all day long. Got it!
Cloggie on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 12:57 pm
Actually, we see you as a fraud, and dissembler and an exceedingly dense individual.
Speak for yourself, diesel trucker driver.
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 1:20 pm
Mouse, you are such a dork. Can’t you talk like a normal person and behave as an adult?
GregT on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 3:57 pm
Let’s see Davy boy.
So far, in this thread alone, you have attacked myself, Apneaman, Cloggie, Anonymouse, makati, the Anglosphere, and both the countries of New Zealand and Canada.
You have called others ‘Anglo dumbasses’, assholes, backstabbers, liars, morons, pricks, hypocrites, braggarts, gang bangers, self-righteous, spawn, fucknuts, pathetic, and dorks.
And you have the audacity to tell others to talk ‘like normal people’ and to ‘behave like adults’?
Unbelievable.
Davy on Thu, 8th Jun 2017 4:38 pm
Keeping up the pricking I see greg. I knew you couldn’t resist. All you have to do is leave it alone but your personality issues prevent that. I attack those who attack me. Why not self reflect becuase you are the root cause of the attacks on this thread. IOW you started it. What a hypocritical self-righteous liar.