{"id":4114,"date":"2017-02-01T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T10:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T14:47:44","slug":"myron-bell-and-the-exploding-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4114\/","title":{"rendered":"Myron Ebell and the Exploding Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/london\/2017\/01\/31\/delingpole-trumps-climate-plans-made-medias-heads-explode\/\" target=\"_blank\">written a piece<\/a> on when the media darlings covering climate change went to a Q&amp;A session with\u00a0Myron Ebell, the head of the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency transition team.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ebell had come to tell them about Trump\u2019s plans for the environment and energy, which I won\u2019t repeat here because you know them already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>They hated it. (Especially the bit where Ebell told them that Trump would definitely be pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty) They couldn\u2019t\u00a0<em>believe\u00a0<\/em>what they were hearing. They curled their lips. They laced their questions with the bitterest scorn. But they didn\u2019t really tune into Ebell\u2019s measured, silken, soft-spoken answers because, hell, they knew what he was saying just had to be wrong and they didn\u2019t really understand what he meant anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The reporter who set the tone \u2013 and if nothing else, you\u2019ve got to admire his honesty \u2013 was the one from Channel 4 News who told Ebell: \u201cIt will occur to you that this room is full of people like myself who consider that nothing you say has any basis in fact. So what you\u2019ve been\u00a0telling us is essentially meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ebell replied with some painful home truths. \u201cElections are surprising things\u2026\u201d he began and went on to explain to the mystified audience why and how it was that Brexit happened and Trump happened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Encouraged by Delingpole&#8217;s words I sought out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JvWMfAk47_Q\" target=\"_blank\">entire video<\/a> on YouTube. If you have an hour to spare you should watch it, because it is glorious.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JvWMfAk47_Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Myron Ebell is Cambridge educated and combines his unashamedly free-marketeer and small-government views with unfailing politeness and Zen-like calm, which contrasts wildly with the sneering smugness of the journalists in front of him. His <em>&#8220;Elections are surprising things&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> line is fantastic (he says it at 24:20).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Delingpole has written a piece on when the media darlings covering climate change went to a Q&amp;A session with\u00a0Myron Ebell, the head of the Trump administration\u2019s\u00a0Environmental Protection Agency transition team. Ebell had come to tell them about Trump\u2019s plans &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/4114\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[80,60,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}