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.
The liar author left the decimal out of 9.8 and hoped nobody noticed. His editor will make him correct it.
The liar author left the decimal out of 9.8 and hoped nobody noticed. His editor will make him correct it.
Five, four, three...
Maybe Donald has had an epiphany and has actually moved right of where he used to be.
SETTLED SCIENCE ,
EAT YOU’RE PEAS !
Note that even if anthropogenic global warming had been conclusively proven by the consistent results of repeatable, scientific method-based experiments, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend in the name of finding a remedy for global warming. If the states wanted the feds to find such a remedy the states would need to ratify an appropriate amendment to the Constitution imo.
He DID???!!!! Go Donald.
Good for another BUMP in the polls!
But.....but........but.....he’s a liberal.
You get only one guess.
Fantastic! The media and the GOPe will go NUTS...moving Trump’s support even higher, because he’s right, and because he has the guts to call the Globull Worming thing as scam, which it is.
I’m getting closer and closer to supporting him (still in Cruz’ corner, but the Donald is a winner by nature and experience).
Another home run.
The article has been updated with a source pertaining to wind power usage in Scotland.
I’m finding more reasons to like The Donald every day.
LMAO.....
I had to save that ;)
The two biggest SCAMS in AMERICAN HISTORY. Globull Warming and OGABE’s Birth Certificate.
I love it when he shows up ;-D
Global Warming/Climate Change or whatever it is being called or labeled today is far from any kind of conclusion...the ‘data’ is about as incomplete as you can get. Obama was just throwing folks off course.....so to speak.
And I read it, the problem it that the person reading and citing the article isn’t smart enough to know what he read.
The data only address “household” use, which it later clarifies that “domestic use” is only “41%” of total use. There are plenty of things that are not domestic use. That cell tower allowing you to talk on your cellphone? Commercial use. That supermarket with it’s lights on and refrigeration that allows you to shop there? Commercial use.
So no, it doesn’t actually account for 98% of Scotland’s needs
Since it appears that the entire article was posted and you don’t have to go to the blog unless you choose to do so, is that pimping? More like promotion in my mind; if you like what you read maybe you’ll choose to visit to see what else is there.
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