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Trump's dire climate report hands ammunition to Democrats
Pollutico ^ | 11/23/2018 02:27 PM EST Updated 11/23/2018 05:22 PM EST | MATT DAILY

Posted on 11/23/2018 3:37:57 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Federal scientists warned in a new report Friday that changes in the climate will disrupt the economies of every region in the country in the coming years, with costs threatening to reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually by the middle of this century.

The message, echoing decades of sobering conclusions from the world's leading climate scientists, is at odds with President Donald Trump's repeated scoffing at the idea of global warming. And the administration chose to release it on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day and one of the slowest news days of the year.

But despite the timing, the report is bound to energize the new class of progressive Democrats set to take control of the House in January. Many of them, led by incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, are already pushing for an expansive "Green New Deal" as one of the rallying cries the party would take into the 2020 campaign.

Democrats wasted no time in pouncing on the report.

"Rather than hiding the facts, President Trump should heed the message of our nation’s preeminent climate scientists and experts," said New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone, who is in line to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee. He added: "The days of denial and inaction in the House are over as House Democrats plan to aggressively address climate change and hold the Administration accountable for its backward policies that only make it worse.”

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, who is set to take the gavel at the House Science Committee, said it's time to start addressing the causes of the wildfires, devastating storms, coastal flooding and toxic algae blooms that plagued much of the U.S. this year. "That is why I have made climate change one of my top priorities for the...

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To: Sasparilla

I would love to sell carbon credits to unsuspecting libtards, where do I sign up?


41 posted on 11/23/2018 4:42:03 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: piytar

My theory is that increasing low pressure areas through the heating effect of human activity is like using leverage to create a big effect. It is considering the behavior of weather using the principle of leverage which amplifies results through small changes. This could be the real explanation since CO2 through man’s contribution is a teeny part of the total CO2 input; which nature provides in a major part. It would be laughable if the scientists ignored the heat effects of human activity; especially if that effect had some leverage action not yet understood.


42 posted on 11/23/2018 4:44:12 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: All

Send in the clowns.

If we go back instead of forwards, and assume we get all the weather events we already recorded in the past two centuries, who’s to say the unknown events of the next two centuries will be more of a challenge to the economy?

Because what this dire prediction implies is that the future will be worse than all of those events, including the 1930s dust bowls, major hurricanes that destroyed cities and killed thousands, killer tornado outbreaks, crippling blizzards, huge floods etc. As to wildfires, this is not really a weather prediction question so much as a planning issue, wildfires are going to happen no matter what the climate does, but we can plan to mitigate them (not prevent them from starting in some cases).

The only way to judge these forecasts is to assume a greater impact due to population growth and test out whether we get that greater impact.

The “science” is really junk science, it takes a political agenda and manufactures a phoney science to push that agenda. My guess is that we won’t see anything worse than what we saw in the past two centuries, on a prorated basis every 20 or 30 years going forward. Some of these scientists and a lot of the younger people who listen to them seem to be either unaware or are covering up the fact that huge impact weather events have happened in the past.

I challenge them to show between now and 2118 how many of these extremes are even matched, let alone surpassed:

— the 1936 heat waves

— the 1925 and 1974 great tornado outbreaks

— major hurricane landfalls with death tolls over 1,000

— huge snowfalls such as Blizzard of 78

— flooding on a scale of 1929 Mississippi River

and if we don’t exceed at least some of these, then

THE THEORY IS WRONG (sorry, that’s how science works)


43 posted on 11/23/2018 4:47:09 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (I taught AOC everything she knows, and it only took five minutes)
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To: wjcsux

Yes, the carbon equivalent to Bit-coin. Maybe a Go-Fund-Me strategy to get start-up funding for such a venture would be how to do it.


44 posted on 11/23/2018 4:47:46 PM PST by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is a true story. One of my friends son bought a Lexus coupe from a University of Arizona coed for $400.00 because she didn’t want to drive a car that was destroying the planet. The value of the car was $9500.00 at the time. Her parents bought it for her as a college get around car.


45 posted on 11/23/2018 4:48:10 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fraud.


46 posted on 11/23/2018 5:09:29 PM PST by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah I’m sure it does. Go away jerk face.


47 posted on 11/23/2018 5:11:02 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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48 posted on 11/23/2018 5:13:26 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: rockinqsranch

It’s not just bs anymore. They are costing me 10s of thousands a year so far. I’m beyond angry.


49 posted on 11/23/2018 5:16:44 PM PST by Bulwyf
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If so then why is all the money collected for global baloney going to buy mansions by the sea by the liberals controlling the taxing of carbon credits?


50 posted on 11/23/2018 5:18:05 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; All

Trump should tell these assholes to shut up over here and lecture their mantra to China and India.


51 posted on 11/23/2018 5:31:10 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is there anything sky high taxes can’t fix?


52 posted on 11/23/2018 5:48:09 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: stylin19a

Every si glen one is making a good living off the scam. Tremendous self-interest to keep it going.


53 posted on 11/23/2018 5:49:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just another bayou in the swamp.


54 posted on 11/23/2018 6:02:39 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Pile-of-it-all just keeps plugging up them toilets with the crap it publishes....


55 posted on 11/24/2018 3:38:48 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: upchuck
I made it to SE TN. Finding it cool here now. Oh wait, I think it is Autumn going into winter. My bad.
56 posted on 11/24/2018 5:27:17 AM PST by Big Mack (I love this country.It's the government that scares the crap out of me)
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