In an open letter to Donald Trump, climate expert Dr. Duane Thresher has urged the President not to give in to his daughter Ivanka’s misguided views on global warming and her insistence that the U.S. remain in the Paris climate agreement ratified by Barack Obama last August.
“Climate treaties like the Paris Agreement have little to do with climate,” Thresher notes in his letter, which he made available to Breitbart News. “They are about economic competition. As the greatest economy in the history of the world, other countries will do anything to cripple the United States.”
Thresher, who has a PhD in Earth & Environmental Sciences from Columbia University and NASA GISS and worked for years in climate monitoring, says he understands the President’s temptation to listen to his daughter’s advice, but begs him not to give in to that temptation.
“Countries like China will agree to anything in these treaties and simply ignore their obligations while demanding the United States fulfill theirs,” Thresher said, calling belief in global warming a “popular delusion.”
“Countries like China will agree to anything in these treaties and simply ignore their obligations while demanding the United States fulfill theirs,” Thresher said, calling belief in global warming a “popular delusion.”
In his letter, Dr. Thresher also reminded President Trump of his campaign promises that led many Americans to vote for him.
“We who voted for you consider stopping this climate change madness one of your key promises,” Thresher said. “If you renege on it you will lose me and many others as supporters.”
After Trump’s election, in fact, a number of climate change skeptics were emboldened to take more public stands against the politically imposed “scientific consensus” of global warming, welcoming a new era of free debate about a hotly contested issue.
Scientists unconvinced by the party line on climate change applauded Trump’s appointment of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head up the Environmental Protection Agency as an important step away from climate alarmism.
Even if Trump caves and stays in the Paris climate agreement, Thresher says, it won’t win him any friends. “Your opponents are not going to support you; they’ll just taunt you as being a flip-flopper,” he said.
“Climate science is one of the most fascinating sciences there is. To turn it into a lie for political purposes is a crime,” he stated, before urging the President to stand strong in his convictions.
“Make climate science great again,” he wrote.
#1: HomerBohn To: cranky (#0)
Just when we think we've got a winner it turns out his daughter is an air- headed bimbo who believes 'climate change' is a legitimate science!
HomerBohn posted on 2017-04-24 17:41:17 Reply Private Reply
#2: cranky To: HomerBohn (#1)
I really don't think much of his family or in-laws.
Especially as advisors.
cranky posted on 2017-04-24 18:47:36 Reply Private Reply
#3: Tooconservative To: cranky (#0)
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I still consider Trump's pick of Pruitt for EPA to be more significant than letting the Kushners meddle around the WH. And even a doting father doesn't always give in to his little girl and her husband. Trump campaigned hard and made promises and he doesn't seem to be backing away from most of them (DACA being an exception IMO).
Tooconservative posted on 2017-04-25 01:17:00 Reply Private Reply
#4: interpreter To: cranky (#0)
interpreter posted on 2017-04-25 09:44:54 Reply Private Reply
#5: A K A Stone To: interpreter (#4)
That is an even stupider comment then your always wrong "predictions".
A K A Stone posted on 2017-04-25 09:48:29 Reply Private Reply
#6: A K A Stone To: interpreter (#4)
Where did you get the 97 percent stat? I think you pulled it out of your ass.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-04-25 09:49:11 Reply Private Reply
#7: interpreter To: A K A Stone (#6)
You have got to be kidding me. There are literally hundreds of sources that say that, like climatecentral.com for one example.
interpreter posted on 2017-04-25 11:33:01 Reply Private Reply
#8: interpreter To: A K A Stone (#5)
So you're saying 97% of scientist are stupid? Methinks you are the one who is stupid. In fact, you are beyond stupid.
interpreter posted on 2017-04-25 11:40:34 Reply Private Reply
#9: Deckard To: interpreter, A K A Stone (#7)
A bunch of global warming cultists - they probably worship Gaia.
And I think you meant ".org" - climatecentral.com is a dead link and for sale.
Deckard posted on 2017-04-25 12:56:38 Reply Private Reply
#10: cranky To: interpreter (#4)
I've never heard that before.
But I certainly don't believe it.
I don't suppose you could provide some quotes from the 97%, could you?
cranky posted on 2017-04-25 13:36:03 Reply Private Reply
#11: interpreter To: cranky (#10)
What in the world is wrong with you guys? One crazy completely insane so-called "scientist" says something and you believe him and ignore the hundreds of scientist organizations that say the complete opposite of what that he is saying? They don't always mention him by name but they are all saying that he and his ilk are completely whacko. Here are a few examples: American Association for the Advancement of Science American Chemical Society American Geophysical Union American Medical Association American Meteorlogical Society American Physical Society
I could go on for days but I have more important things to do than spend all of my time arguing with you guys and it probably would change your dead-set minds anyhow. And if it were up to you guys we probably all would be dead within just a few decades.
interpreter posted on 2017-04-25 14:26:26 Reply Private Reply
#12: A K A Stone To: interpreter (#8)
I'm also saying you are lying. You just made up 97 the 97 percent number. If you didn't tell me how you came up with it.
A K A Stone posted on 2017-04-25 22:05:18 Reply Private Reply