I’d love for her to answer the question “do you believe the current warm period is mostly/solely caused by humanity, and, if so, what do you propose to do about it?”
In her recent memoir, presidential candidate Nikki Haley recounted a telling anecdote about her role in pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2017 when she served as the nation’s United Nations ambassador.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pleaded with her not to do it, she said. Prior to joining the Trump Administration, Tillerson was the chief executive of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest non-government owned oil and gas company, and had spent his career overseeing the extraction of the very fossil fuels that made a global climate agreement necessary. He argued that the U.S. needed to stay in the Paris agreement as part of a larger effort to save the country from Trump’s worst instincts.
Haley wouldn’t have it. In With All Due Respect, a book she published in 2019, she writes that Tillerson and other cabinet members who opposed the President’s policies were “dangerous” and “disloyal.”
But, now
Fast forward five years: Haley is now running against her former boss in the Republican presidential primary. Unlike Trump, who maintains that climate change is a “hoax,” Haley says global warming is real and needs to be addressed.
She positions herself as a moderate alternative to frontrunner Trump and the “chaos” that follows him. The American Conservation Coalition Action, a conservative environmental organization, gives the former ambassador its highest ranking among Republican presidential candidates for efforts to address climate change.
However, beyond acknowledging the reality of climate change, there is little daylight between Haley and Trump on climate policy.
Earlier this fall, Haley denigrated the Inflation Reduction Act, the largest investment in reducing carbon emissions in U.S. history, as a “communist manifesto” of “green energy handouts” that she would repeal if elected.
Now, you can Believe in anthropogenic climate change without advocating for the Big Government authoritarian, big taxation policies of the climate cult, but, few do. Since her Nikki for POTUS website has nothing (nor any policies for anything), I had to go to the Washington Post
1. Causes of climate change
Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?Yes. “Is climate change real? Yes, it is,” Haley said during the first GOP presidential primary debate in August 2023. In a 2020 video released by her advocacy group Stand for America, Haley also declared that “man-made climate change is real, but liberal ideas would cost trillions and destroy our economy.”
She’s said, briefly, that Bad Weather is caused by you driving a fossil fueled vehicle. But
3. How to address climate change
Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?Market forces. In 2017, during her time as U.N. ambassador, Haley helped orchestrate President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord, which seeks to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. Haley has also supported efforts by the private sector to develop and deploy carbon capture technologies. “The private sector produces innovative ideas that actually work, like capturing CO2 before it goes into our air [and] reforestation — a.k.a. planting more trees and forests to soak up CO2,” she said in the 2020 video released by Stand for America, her advocacy group.
The problem here is that she might believe in market forces, but, her Belief in ACC would mean she would let federal agencies run wild with their Nanny State policies and sign legislation that enables more Big Government.
So, yeah, she’s squishy, and concerns me. I’m not a single issue voter, and she’s still be better than any Democrat, but, garbage like this could push me towards Trump. Unfortunately.
So many cabinet level officials openly bragged about being part of the Trump administration so that they could “hold Trump back” and actively undermined the initiatives that the American people elected him to do. The simple fact is that one of the huge advantages of the trump administration is awakening Americans to the fact that the Republican party is chock full of people who pretend to be conservative during elections, then govern/regulate/legislate like liberals after the election. No one talked about the “deep state” until the Trump administration when everyone saw just how deep it was.
There is no private sector for climate change. It is all activists and government-imposed “solutions”. A totally private sector solution would never care about a miniscule trace gas in the atmosphere and undetectable levels of global temperatures that may or may not be harmful in a far distant future. The private sector tend to focus on things in the real world. Only a government solution could force people to buy something they do not need (carbon offsets or credits) to solve a problem they cannot tell exists without a government paid scientist telling them about it.
Ms Haley has something Mr Trump doesn’t. I good chance to win. If you think for one minute that Haley is less conservative than Trump, you’re nuts.
Yes, she’s a nicer person and yes, she’s not facing nearly 100 charges and no, she did not attempt to overturn an election. But she’s a legitimate conservative.
Few nuCons today are concerned about anything as mundane as policy.
You really don’t know a fukin thing about anything do you?
Again I ask, what do you think is a “nuCon”?
Haley is a turd in a punch bowl. She has no guiding principles and will do or any anything she needs to keep the money flowing. The election was overturned in November. Stop lying.
Shining a light on Nikki.
All one needs to know.
Haley is just a war-mongering neocon who backs the WEF nonsense, including climate hysteria. She’s Hillary with a different mask.
The New Hampshire Primary Livestream – Charlie Kirk show
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-new-hampshire-primary-livestream.html
Whether the lovely Mrs Haley would ‘do something’ about
global warmingclimate change didn’t seem to sway voters in somewhat liberal New Hampshire, as Donald Trump is winning the primary.she’ll blow which ever
direction the wind takes her
Right now, the wind is taking her in the direction her Democratic party donors are telling her to go. She is paid opposition and the latest Romney-McCain hand picked to lose to a democrat in November.
The primary process is an absurdity and needs total overhaul. Why should the Republican party accept Democratic party loyal voters telling them who their candidate should be?
Solutions include:
1. Selects candidates in state conventions. Stop the farce of primary elections. The Democrats stopped bothering with it after Obama defeated Hillary.
2. Second alternative. If you vote in a party primary, Your vote is automatically cast for that party in the general. That would stop the crossover voting.