Posted on 08/21/2015 10:31:30 AM PDT by Red Steel
Donald Trumps winning position among Republican presidential candidates in Iowas CNN/ORC poll should prompt us to pay more attention to what he really says and does. And its not about some controversial comments that provide him with the cover page of a national news magazine, but words which can show us his true opinions on the most important national and global issues. One of these matters is the subject of global warming, and if you agree that it truly exists, you wont be happy to know what Trump has to say.
urnalists from Think Progress took a look at the billionaires Twitter account and discovered that he expressed his views on global warming issues 44 times since 2011 when he established his profile- @realDonaldTrump. One could say its not a significant number if you consider an important public person talking about a global issue. The problem is, however, that all those tweets were spinning around one major topic the weather is cold today, so global warming is a hoax. Quite a simplistic perspective for someone who actually could become the president of the most powerful country in the world.
Trump is a man of action, he is not content with mere words. He is a staunch opponent of wind energy and most recently he has been fighting with the court in Edinburgh (Scotland) where he recently filed a complaint about a wind energy project approval that is very close to his newly built golf course. Unfortunately for him, the complaint was rejected in June 2015 and he can expect the wind farm to be constructed there very soon. As a response, he said he might sell the resort as soon as the turbines are installed. When the whole issue started in 2012, he forecasted that a tourism breakdown in Scotland would be caused by windmills. In his opinion, all tourists would rather flee to Ireland instead.
Trump says windmills are destroying every country they touch and the energy is unreliable and terrible. The fact that wind energy covered 98% of the Scotlands needs in 2014 does not seem to be a convincing argument for him.
Trump is not the only conservative politician who is so reluctant to consider global warming to be a fact. Actually, the whole palette of Republican presidential candidates is going along with such opinions. It is enough to mention here Ted Cruz, who compared himself to Galileo, said that global warming extremists flat-Earthers.
As the subject of climate change is hardly present on the Republican agenda, it might make some worry should they take over the White House in 2016. For the time being, it seems that environmentalists and like-minded people will have to wait and see how Democrats respond and support global warming issues.
Me too! Two of the liberal / left-wing hoaxes shot down by Trump! I love it! I love to hear the liberal heads sputtering in outrage!
There is alot of hot air out there.
Bless you, Mr. Turmp. Only Ted Cruz has had the guts to say that, and none of the media covers him. Maybe they will have to cover that unpleasant truth now, but be prepared for the phony scientists on the government teat to howl like banshees to keep the grants coming.
Trump tells the truth. Again.
TRUMP FOR THE WIN!
This was one position I hadn’t researched yet and would’ve been a deal-breaker for me. Thank goodness.
He’s batting 1000 in my book.
But this source Think Progress states this.....
Even for the U.K., Scotland is a green energy leader. As of September (2014), the country got 29.8 percent of its electricity from renewables, 34.4 percent from nuclear, and only 34.4 percent from fossil fuels. Scotland hopes to generate the equivalent of 100 percent of its electricity from renewables by 2020 and to export non-renewable production from conventional power plants to countries like England.
A looser, then, and now, and always...
Trump is right. Look at California. Hundred of thousands of the shi! and couldn’t do what one coal fired unit. And they kill birds, make noise and are a blight on what was once a beautiful landscape.
The whold global warming is totally wrong.
Nahhh.
Liberal heads will explode when he agrees with my stance on global warming:
I'm for it!
Every time the climate has warmed life has flourished.
Every time we've had a mini-ice age or year without summer, millions of poor people starved.
The Trumpster hits it out of the park, AGAIN...
That That that’s HERETICAL!!!!!!
Light the torches!!!
That’s it!!! He’s gone too far. His campaign is over!!!!
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LOL
He’s saying what we all believe, but I still wonder if he believes what he says or if it’s just a ploy to get support.
Great
Excellent! (but not surprised at all) How fortunate that this man has people’s attention. This may be the first actual education they get in 30 years.
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