From Legal Insurrection
As “climate change” is removed from the national threat assessment, a Bloomberg opinion piece provides a great list of all the winning Team Trump has had over the past 52 days.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
In a move that makes anyone familiar with the real climate science [thrilled? sic], climate change has been left out of the US intelligence community’s annual assessment of threats to this country.
It’s the first time this has happened in over a decade.
Maine’s supposedly independent Sen. Angus King grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a recent US Senate earing over the readjustment in security priorities with all the pomp and arrogance of New England pseudo-nobility.
Every single one of these reports that we have had has mentioned global climate change as a significant national security threat except this one. Has something happened? Has global climate change been solved? Why is that not in this report, and who made the decision that it should not be in the report, when it’s been in every one of the 11 prior reports?”
Gabbard response was to slap-back, indicating there were other more urgent priorities for her agency to address.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told members of the Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday that for the intelligence community to be aware of the environment that they’re operating on “is a given” and that the report was “focused very directly on the threats that we deem most critical to the United States and our national security.”
“What I focused this annual threat assessment on, and the [intelligence community] focused this threat assessment on, are the most extreme and critical direct threats to our national security,” she explained, responding to pressing questions from Democratic Maine Sen. Angus King.
Gabbard said she did not recall instructing the intelligence community to avoid mentioning climate change in the 31-page report.
Gabbard was outstanding in expressing the proper national security priorities, which do not include worry about a few extra molecules of a life-essential gas. The Earth’s climate in in a constant state of change, and I will also note that we are at a temperature low point when you consider the last 485 million years of planetary history.
Therefore, I am much more worried about terrorists, cyber-threats, unrestrained illegal immigration, and Chinese military capabilities than I am about a potential degree change in a global temperature measurement that is essentially meaningless.
It turns out the only thing in danger of melting down in the current environment are leftists. Perhaps the most spectacularly histrionic response came via a Bloomberg opinion piece, which summarized 52 glorious days of President Donald Trump’s orders redirecting where this nation’s resources, monies, and energies should be spent.
Every agency with any connection to the climate (meaning basically all of them) has been involved, from the Environmental Protection Agency to the Defense Department. International cooperation by NASA scientists, UN diplomats and more has been forbidden, and Trump appointees are meddling in state and local efforts to manage their own environments.
Elon Musk’s crew, intent on dismantling the apparatus of government, has frozen research and funding and put vital expertise on the street.
Trump claims his climate demolition will benefit the country. He and his mouthpieces have argued that ignoring climate will lower energy costs for consumers, help the economy and secure “energy dominance” for the US.
The authors decry the effort as demolishing years of great work in days. My reply:
Truly, 2025 was a “joy” election.
Hot Air’s Beege Welborne has a great assessment of the 52-days of policy success Trump 2.0 has had, as meticulously charted out in a manner that backfires on what the authors (Mark Gongloff and Elaine He) intended to achieve.
They literally have created a chart that tells you what number day of Trump’s administration he did what to what, which took away what, and affecting what, with multiple entries for some days.
Here are a couple of lines:
16 NOAA Nominee to lead the agency was Trump’s “Sharpiegate” enabler Catastrophes 17 State Rescinded $4 billion in pledges to the UN Green Climate Fund International cooperation 52 days of this.
I’ve written a ton about the climate industry churning through tax dollars over the past few years, no more so than the rush to get as much out the door as possible in the remaining months before Trump came in.
That these hardcore advocates are melting down only two months into this administration is telling both how effective the Trump efforts have been and how deep the rot went.
I must admit, I am shocked so much has been accomplished in 52 days. I can’t wait to see where we are at 100!
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