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!

From THE DAILY CALLER

Fiona McLoughlin
Contributor

The Department of the Interior (DOI) announced Thursday it generated over $39 million in revenue from oil and gas lease sales on public lands during the first few months of 2025.

A press release by the agency says these sales are “underscoring the Department’s continued commitment to responsible energy development on public lands and American Energy Dominance.” The revenue also reflects the government’s ongoing focus on supporting job growth, reducing reliance on foreign resources, unleashing domestic energy production and streamlining the permitting and leasing processes.

“This quarter’s lease sales demonstrate Interior’s unwavering commitment to fostering American Energy Dominance, and we are grateful to those who produce energy on federal lands,” DOI Secretary Doug Burgum said in the statement. “By building on the commonsense, pro-growth policies of the Trump administration, we’re ensuring public lands are being used to their fullest potential to support national security, economic strength and livelihood of the American people.”

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) leased 34 parcels, amounting to 25,038 acres, for a total of $39,007,609 in the first quarter of 2025, the press release stated. The bonus bids and rentals from the leases are set to be distributed between the states and federal government. The states where sales occurred include North Dakota, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming. (RELATED: Biden Admin Locks In Skimpiest Offshore Oil And Gas Leasing Schedule In US History As Prices Remain High At The Pump).

Trump admin’s first oil and gas-lease sales nets nearly $40 million for U.S. coffers https://t.co/G4WOVInBD3

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 28, 2025

The sales come amid President Donald Trump’s Executive Order 14154, which is aimed to help “meet the energy needs of U.S. citizens and solidify the nation as a global energy leader long into the future.”

Oil and gas leases are set up with terms of 10 years and can continue for longer if there is “production of oil and gas in paying quantities,” the press release noted. The federal government also receives a 16.67% royalty from the production.

The BLM is set to hold an additional 15 oil and gas lease sales in 2025.

It was a custom, according to some beginning with the mistake of Noah in sending the Dove out of the Ark before the water had abated, to send out some absurd message on 1^st April each year, something misleading.  A message that is not even hopeful, just absurd.

Traditionally, after the gullible begin to nod, the futile task is exposed, perhaps even before the perpetrator shouts ‘April Fools’.

The tradition doesn’t seem to be as popular as it used to be.

Perhaps because every day the mainstream media, even family and friends, now make absurd statements and send us on meaningless errands.

I laughed then I cried, when I heard a newly appointed senior manager at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority advocating for a low carbon economy.

Doesn’t she realize that what is visible from outer space of this massive reef ecosystem, that the Marine Park Authority is tasked with managing, is the sedimentary rock limestone.  This is a vast deposit of carbon because the corals have been successfully hoarding it for some hundreds of thousands of years or at least during the interglacial warm periods. Yes. Hoarding it.  The climate does change.  As global temperatures increase, the biosphere expands, the Great Barrier Reef expands.

The Great Barrier Reef is arguably the largest coral reef system to have ever existed on planet Earth.  A coral reef is layer upon layer of calcium carbonate. It is not pure carbon — it is not graphite or diamond — but it is about 12 percent carbon.  For sure, carbon dioxide is produced and destroyed naturally near the Earth’s surface and by the oceans.  Fixing it is more difficult, and mostly by biotic means the corals have managed this, especially at the Great Barrier Reef.

The joke is on us that every day in The West the managers, administrators and the politicians — those in positions of power — send us on meaningless errands and tell us nonsense, including about this seventh wonder of the world and including about carbon dioxide that is absolutely critical to life on Earth though it is only a tiny fraction of the atmosphere the corals have managed to hoard it.

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Many thanks to everyone who participated in one or more of my Zoom sessions on Saturday – Saturday variously in Houston, Scotland and at the Great Barrier Reef.    I will get a combined summary of the three meetings out, but in the meantime I have been somewhat distracted rereading an excellent new paper not yet published (still being edited) by Ivan Kennedy with myself as a coauthor, and thinking about the many gems in an already published paper by Philip Mulholland, you can find Philip’s work at Research Gate.   While I have been thinking about how to extend the Kiehl and Trenberth (1997) global mean energy budget into something meaningful, Mulholland and Rathbone Wilde (2023) have already got on with the job, even if somewhat imperfectly.

For sure, in every session on Saturday there was some discussion about the limitations of temperature as a meaningful measure of the physical climate system and the importance of water, specifically global moisture.