Yeah, I’m pretty sure that was the whole idea. They don’t want an EPA. It’s going to take most of a century for climate change to really fuck shit up, and that’s a long enough time that they don’t care. If they even believe in it in the first place, and don’t ascribe to more biblical interpretations anyway.

It’s all just noise to distract from something else he doesn’t want too much attention on. Probably the personnel shakeups.

It’s like a pickpocket bumping into you in a crowd. He bumps into you and apologizes, something he planned to do the entire time. While he was distracting you with this, he stole your wallet.

Trump does this often, Steve Bannon calls the strategy “flooding the zone” if I remember right.

… how many quail eggs are needed to make a decent sized omelet anyway? A dozen?

Pretty much summed it up.