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The Other Poison Gas Killing Syrians: Carbon Dioxide Emissions
thenation.com ^ | April 18, 2017 | Juan Cole

Posted on 04/20/2017 8:27:21 AM PDT by PROCON

If Trump and his cronies really cared about children killed by noxious gases, they wouldn’t be trying to spew ever more CO2 into the atmosphere.

The gas attack in Syria on April 4 consumed the world’s attention and galvanized the Trump White House, leading to the launch of 59 cruise missiles on a small airport from which the regime of Bashar al-Assad has been bombing the fundamentalist rebels in Idlib province. The pictures of suffering children, Trump said, had touched him. Yet the president and most of his party are committed to increasing the daily release of hundreds of thousands of tons of a far more deadly gas—carbon dioxide. Climate scientist James Hansen has described our current emissions as like setting off 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs each day, every day of the year.

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TOPICS: Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: co2; globalwarming; hyperbole; jameshansen; syria
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To: freedomlover

Our atmosphere that we breathe is made-up of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and then 2% other trace gases.


41 posted on 04/20/2017 12:47:21 PM PDT by PROCON
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If the left really cared about carbon emissions they would support nuclear power.


42 posted on 04/20/2017 1:18:19 PM PDT by BestPresidentEver
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To: PROCON

Oops...breathe out...


43 posted on 04/20/2017 2:28:41 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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