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hatrack

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Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:02 PM Jan 2017

Ebell: Expects President Shitstain Likely To Toss Paris Accord In Next Few Days - Independent

A former climate change adviser to Donald Trump has said the US President will pull America out of the landmark Paris agreement and an executive order on the issue could come within “days”.

Myron Ebell, who took charge of Mr Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team, said the President was determined to undo policies pushed by Barack Obama to restrict greenhouse gas emissions. He said the US would "clearly change its course on climate policy" under the new administration and claimed Mr Trump was "pretty clear that the problem or the crisis has been overblown and overstated".

“I expect Donald Trump to be very assiduous in keeping his promises, despite all of the flack he is going to get from his opponents,” he told a briefing in London.

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However, speaking on Monday afternoon at an event hosted by the Global Warming Policy Foundation, which itself is accused of denying the damaging impact of climate change, Mr Ebell responded: "His [Mr Trump's] mandate is pretty clear, and he knows who he got it from. If Rex Tillerson disagrees with the President, who is going to win that debate? "Well I don't know but the President was elected and Rex Tillerson was appointed by the President, so I would guess that the President would be the odds-on favourite to win any disagreement over climate policy."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-paris-climate-change-deal-myron-ebell-us-president-america-pull-out-agreement-a7553676.html

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Ebell: Expects President Shitstain Likely To Toss Paris Accord In Next Few Days - Independent (Original Post) hatrack Jan 2017 OP
YOu can count on every single thing that is good for people, especially Eliot Rosewater Jan 2017 #1

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. YOu can count on every single thing that is good for people, especially
Mon Jan 30, 2017, 08:03 PM
Jan 2017

the majority of people, in every area of life will be destroyed.

This is what everybody wanted though, cant have a woman with a private server, this is better they say.

Right Jill Stein voters?

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