This is still the subject of speculation. Given the fact that Trump is extremely mercurial. At any rate in the past Trump has described climate change as a hoax. I learned on Science Friday yesterday that he is appointing Myron Ebell to lead the EPA. Ebell believes human activity does not cause climate change, and also believes the Paris Agreement was unconstitutional. I don't understand the knee jerk reaction Republicans seem to have to green energy. They seem to like to tout Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. In which Rand portrays a world that has exhausted most of it's natural resources. Rand doesn't go to renewable energy as solution, although I do not think solar and wind power were around then. It only makes sense, even if you don't believe in climate change. Fossil fuels are not infinite, it only makes sense to develop renewable energy so we do not find ourselves in Rand's nightmare world.
While I am on the topic of Atlas Shrugged I do not think Donald Trump is Dagny Taggart in this story. He strikes me as closer to her brother. The brother who inherited most of the family money and the family business. He is a destroyer, and it is Dagny who must continually fix his blunders behind the scenes. People often mistake Atlas Shrugged as just being about a bunch of millionares who retreat from the world depriving the world of their grandeur. They often over look that they were the innovators. After all the greatest of them John Galt was not a wealthy man in the real world. What was the primary question driving this book "Who is John Galt?" John Galt was an ingenious man, who in real time worked as a low level railroad worker, not a wealthy man. America's working class needs to stop looking to the indolent rich to save them and start looking towards themselves.
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