Posted on 05/31/2017 4:01:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
WEST PALM BEACH — Preemptive outrage levels rose precipitously among Florida Democrats on Wednesday over reports that President Donald Trump would pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson told reporters in West Palm Beach that U.S. withdrawal from the agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions would be “a huge mistake – 197 countries signed that agreement, albeit a voluntary agreement. What we’re trying to do is save the planet from getting so heated up that there’s no return.”
Nelson and others said Florida is in particular danger from sea level rise. U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, tweeted a picture of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach partially submerged in water and asked, “Is this what POTUS needs to see before sea level rise is real to him?”
U.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, whose district includes Mar-a-Lago, said on Twitter that withdrawing from the Paris accord would be “a stunning denial of science, putting planet in jeopardy & alienating key allies. Big mistake by shortsighted @POTUS.”
U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Delray Beach, piled on as well.
“President Trump’s intention to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement is an irresponsible renouncement of American leadership,” Hastings said in a statement released by his office. “The results of abandoning this international framework will be tragic, destructive, and costly, and will undermine the legitimacy of our country on the global stage.”
Two Democratic candidates for governor also weighed in, with former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham throwing in criticism of Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a leading Trump ally who is expected to run for Nelson’s Senate seat in 2018.
“While the rest of the world moves forward, the United States under Trump and Florida under Rick Scott are in reverse,” said Graham, who opened her gubernatorial campaign in May. “Scott has shown little more than lip service to remedial efforts, and Trump reneging on the Paris Agreement will place our environment, economy and national security at even greater risk. As governor, I’ll stand up to climate denier Donald Trump.”
Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who’s also seeking the Democratic nomination for governor, said: “Florida is the epicenter for climate change — and these decisions will hit us harder than the rest of the United States. When I’m governor, I’ll fight to protect our natural resources and future.”
Nelson said the U.S. “sets the example for the rest of the world” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and its actions influence China and other emerging economies.
“If the United States is not doing its part, they’re not going to do it and that means that ultimately the earth will heat up, and on the east coast and west coast of Florida, sea level rise will start over the course of this century to rise another 2 to 3 feet,” Nelson said. “I don’t think we want that to happen.”
If Trump does withdraw from the agreement, Nelson said, “I’d want the people of Florida to rise up and demand of their elected representatives, at both the state level and the local level, to insist that we abide by the voluntary standards that came out of the Paris accords.”
put it up in the senate to vote and let it crash and burn.
God controls the climate. God controls the climate changes. The Democrats believe that they can fight God and win. Well they have been going against Him on the shedding of innocent blood, a/k/a, the killing of the innocents and the men laying with men as women and the women laying with women as with men, a/k/a homosexuality. This has been happening for so long that the Democrats believe that God doesn’t exist. But one day He will show them who is in control.
They do care about the poor. They do everything in their power to keep them poor also.
“Cohn said Trump is evolving meaning once Trump fully evolves he would do the “right thing” and keep us in it. Thanks Ivanka and Rex.”
Do you need a fainting couch, gibsonguy?
Just how much HAS the sea level risen this century—meaning past 100 years—in Florida?
It doesn’t matter that *some* scientists say the rise in seal level is going to go way up. Until it starts appearing, it’s just hysteria.
Moreover, if we’ve already reached the point of Greenland/Antarctica melting enough to flood Florida, how is the Paris Accord going to help???
Agreed about this being a victory for science. The true science is being covered up to promote this scam. The Paris Agreement has the least bit to do with science. It’s about global control and especially putting the brakes on the continuing prosperity of the industrialized west. It’s a shakedown and the president knows it. When he pulls the US out of this fraudulent plan hopefully it will give other western nations the incentive and backbone to bail out too.
And Venice - did they *build* in the water or just deal with it after ?
Back in 2005 billboards in Orlando pictured George Bush and blamed him for the hurricanes and “global warming”.
Now there is no more “global warming” and no more hurricanes.
Hmmm. What happened to that? Somebody tell that idiot Bill Nelson to comment on that.
I’m still waiting for Fat Al’s 20 meter sea rise that was supposed to wipe out the East, West, and Gulf coast areas no later than 2010 .... no turning back.
I'm pushing 65 and remember when, in the '60s, we were told that we were heading for a mini ice age - 50+ years later that is more likely than the Earth overheating....
Gonna let ya’ll in on a little secret: 99% of the people you will hear complaining about our pullout of the Paris Climate Agreement do not have a CLUE what it’s about, the language within or who ACTUALLY wrote the contents.
Wow! That is weapons grade stupidity!
Million dollars says those yelping the loudest couldn’t tell you three FACTS about the agreement.
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