Trump’s turnaround time — does Watt support this?

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By Robert Bradley Jr. — January 22, 2025

“Many full-time climate activists like Mark Trexler need to be actual work The private sector produces goods and services that people want, rather than participating in a redistribution of wealth and a net loss of resources. A huge change is coming to us…”

Mark Trexler of the (alarmist) Climate Risk Red Team (see appendix below) compiled a list of Trump-related action items for a consumer-first, America-first climate and energy policy. Trexler, who is worried about Trump, posted this helpful list that can now be compared to the executive orders Trump is now issuing from Washington, D.C.:

While I’ve heard a lot about the Heritage Foundation’s Plan 2025 blueprint for a second Trump administration, I’ve never seen a simple listing of the specifics proposed. Please note that this is a partial list, limited to climate change, and is only one of many such lists being developed. That said, the impact will be quite significant.

Accelerate the review process of cross-border energy projects
Appoint more judges who may be unfriendly to climate action
Cut funding to international climate groups
Delaying tougher fuel economy standards
Eliminate climate change provisions from future trade deals
Eliminate climate resilience requirements for housing schemes
Eliminate subsidies for renewable energy projects
Cancel international climate change adaptation plan
Eliminate the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
Cancel Clean Energy Demonstration Office
Ending 'moratorium' on new U.S. LNG export authorizations
Expand grazing and forestry activities on federal lands
Expanding oil and gas exploration on federal lands and waters
Expand research on advanced fossil fuel technologies
Financing international oil and gas projects
Increase biofuel production by relaxing ethanol production regulations
Increase funding for fossil fuel technology startups
Increase training programs for coal and oil workers
Limiting climate adaptation at military installations
Enforcement of regulations restricting environmental marketing
Renewable Energy Directive Limiting Military Installations
Limit shareholder proposals related to climate change
Limiting the state’s power to block energy infrastructure projects
Oppose broadcasting rules that promote climate change messages
Preventing forced climate risk disclosures
Prevent mandatory environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures
Promote U.S. energy exports
Reassessing coal mining regulations to facilitate greater mining
Reduce climate finance to developing countries
Research on reducing climate health impacts
Reduce export controls on coal and petroleum products
Reduce funding for climate change adaptation programs
Reducing intelligence focus on climate change as a national security threat
Remove climate public service announcements from broadcasting regulations
Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act
Roll back climate-oriented consumer protection regulations
Scale back climate research, focus on weather forecasting
Simplify the hydropower project review process
Stop integrating climate risks into monetary policy
Stop linking climate change to public health risks
Simplifying environmental impact assessments for energy projects
Support bilateral energy agreements with fossil fuel producing countries
Support fracking (fracking) and coal mining
Support states in lifting zero-emission vehicle mandates
Adjusting IRS regulations to make it more difficult to obtain IRA tax benefits
Weakening energy efficiency standards for home appliances
Withdraw from international climate agreement

I counted 47 pieces. Is there more? This was a mistake imposed by the previous government, not a mistake abolished/weakened by reform candidates. Free market energy should be for the masses, not the batteries of government wind, solar and the climate-industrial complex.

Executive orders to date

this new york times Today is a list of Trump’s ten actions on day one:

• Letting the United States withdraw from the Paris Agreement is almost an agreement for all countries to jointly combat climate change.
• Declaring a national energy emergency, the first in U.S. history, could unleash new powers to suspend certain environmental rules or speed up the approval of certain mining projects.
• seeks to overturn Mr. Biden’s ban on offshore drilling in 625 million acres of federal waters.
• Begins to repeal Biden-era regulations on exhaust pollution from cars and light trucks that encouraged automakers to build more electric vehicles.
• Eliminate energy efficiency regulations for dishwashers, shower heads and gas stoves.
• Opening up the Alaska wilderness to more oil and gas drilling.
• Restarting a review of new liquefied natural gas export terminals that the Biden administration had paused.
• Stop leasing federal waters for offshore wind farms.
• Eliminate government-wide environmental justice programs designed to protect poor communities from excessive pollution.
• Review all federal regulations that impose “undue burdens” on the development or use of various energy sources, particularly coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power, hydropower and biofuels.

Final comments

Is it time for the Mark Trexlers of the world to recalibrate? Decades of climate mitigation policies have produced waste and a lot of trash talk (“deniers”) but not much change in global emissions. The saturation effect (the gradual weakening of the forcing power of CO2 as atmospheric PPM increases) has made climate activism a losing cause beyond shouting.

Many full-time climate activists need to get actual work The private sector produces goods and services that people want, rather than participating in a redistribution of wealth and a net loss of resources. A great change is coming…

Appendix: Alarmist Jobs

Mark Trexler describes his expertise as follows:

After more than 20 years of researching social and business climate risks, I have come to the following conclusions:

1) We significantly underestimated the social and business environment risks in the near, medium and long term
2) It’s really hard for us to understand the potential future impacts of climate change
3) Knowledge management is a key skill for achieving actionable climate knowledge
4) Decision support tools such as what-if auditing, scenario planning and ex-ante analysis are crucial

I developed the first carbon offsetting methodology (1989), conducted the first research on nature-based solutions (1991), founded the first dedicated climate risk consulting firm in the United States (1991), Managed the first corporate carbon footprint (1993), implemented many of the earliest carbon offsets (1992+), made the first company climate neutral (1996), built the first supply and demand carbon pricing model (1996 ) and began developing the Climate Network in 2010 as a collective climate change intelligence.

I have founded successful start-ups, managed global climate advisory teams, served as lead author and chapter editor for the IPCC, and served as climate risk director at global risk firm DNV in Oslo.

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