“Resolution 12, noted DeSmog, ‘harkens back to the 1990s fossil fuel industry playbook.’ Yes it does and should. Long Live the Greening Earth Society, which refuted (via CO2 science) the notion that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.”

“Alberta Conservatives Pass Climate Denial Resolution 12 to Celebrate CO2 Pollution,” DeSmog reported. “UCP pledges to abandon the province’s net zero targets, and remove the designation of CO2 as a pollutant.”

Denial? Pollution? Not so fast! The resolution from Alberta’s United Conservative Party recognizes the positive, settled-science side of CO2 and calls for a new debate predicated on

i. Abandoning “Net-Zero” targets,

ii. Removing the designation of CO2 as a pollutant, and

iii. Recognize that CO2 is a foundational nutrient for all life on Earth.”

Fantastic! And consonant with Trump energy policy, as well as the about-face by Argentina on alarmist climate policy.…

Commercial nuclear power (fission) was a government-created industry in the 1950s that continues to hold false promise today. It is by far the most complicated, expensive, and fraught way to boil water.

President Trump seems to recognize the falsity of new nuclear capacity as the Hail Mary of the futile, false goal of “Net Zero”. As reported by E&E News:

Former President Donald Trump expressed significant reservations over American nuclear energy in his recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast, a departure from other Republicans who have entirely backed the zero-carbon energy source.

Trump told Joe Rogan in an interview released Friday that he thought projects to build more of the large nuclear reactors currently on the grid, while “very clean,” have a tendency to be complex and to go over budget.

This repost from May 2019 is reprinted as a remembrance of Trump’s first try at reversing Green New Deal policy. The second try promises to be much more systemic, coordinated, and better explained.

“The golden era of American energy is now underway.” (President Donald Trump, The White House, May 14, 2019)

… under the Green New Deal, they don’t like clean, beautiful natural gas. They don’t like anything. (President Donald Trump, “Remarks on Promoting Energy Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” Hackberry, LA, May 14, 2019)

Who has been the most free-market energy President in U.S. history? In modern times, Ronald Reagan comes to mind. He decontrolled crude oil and petroleum products in his first week of office (January 1981), although Jimmy Carter’s phase-out of such regulation had just six months to go.…

Ed. Note: This post was originally posted on January 19, 2017, with Donald Trump on deck to take the Presidency.

“Good news indeed! Energy cuts are easy cuts compared to the hard budget choices that lie ahead in the transition from statism and stagnation to a vibrant, coordinated, expanding entrepreneurial economy.”

Rome is not burning, but Joe Romm at Climate Progress is. “Will Trump go down in history as the man who pulled the plug on a livable climate?” he writes, with the subtitle, “The fate of humanity is in the hands of a denier who pledged to kill domestic and global climate action and all clean energy research.”

Really, Joe?

But Romm goes on to (usefully) report:

The Australian journalist Graham Readfearn notes that while you can’t find Trump’s original “100 day action plan” for energy and climate on the campaign website anymore, “it was archived by Wayback Machine”.