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A President Trump could wreck progress on global warming
WAPO ^ | Oct. 4, 2016 | Editorial Board

Posted on 10/04/2016 8:21:48 PM PDT by PROCON

IT TOOK global negotiators a quarter-century to strike the Paris climate agreement, an international accord aimed at slowing global warming. The agreement represents the best hope for a world in which no one country acting alone can do enough to fight this global threat. Donald Trump could destroy the agreement with a stroke of a pen, and with it any hope that the world will keep the planet’s temperature within the boundaries scientists say are safe.

The Paris deal represents a major U.S. commitment, but it is not a treaty with the force of law. President Obama submitted the U.S. emissions goal; Mr. Trump could withdraw it just as easily. He also could deeply undercut or eliminate the basis for any future U.S. commitment. Mr. Trump has promised to rescind the Clean Power Plan, which obliges electrical utilities to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions by cutting down on coal burning and increasing their use of natural gas and renewables. The Environmental Protection Agency drew up the plan using authorities that Congress gave it decades ago in the Clean Air Act. Mr. Trump could press the agency to revoke it or water it down.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; bezosblog; donaldtrump; globalwarming; globalwarminghox; manbearpig
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OH NOES!

If Trump is elected, the hoax of man-made global warming and our mission to tax you into poverty for the children is in jeopardy!


1 posted on 10/04/2016 8:21:48 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

What progress??? Is this the Onion??


2 posted on 10/04/2016 8:22:50 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: PROCON
Donald Trump could destroy the agreement with a stroke of a pen

That would be yugely desirable.

3 posted on 10/04/2016 8:22:55 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: CMailBag

The “progress” of having everyone jump to the Globalist tune?


4 posted on 10/04/2016 8:23:25 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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To: PROCON

The Compost is going all out in their hatred of Trump. I hope these people will be able to come to terms when he’s elected president.


5 posted on 10/04/2016 8:24:05 PM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: PROCON

I would be terribly disappointed if he didnt wreck progress on global warming.
Thats pretty much the point of Trump really.


6 posted on 10/04/2016 8:24:54 PM PDT by buwaya
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To: PROCON
LOL! An attack article from Bezos' Blog!

Who'd a thunk it?

7 posted on 10/04/2016 8:24:56 PM PDT by kiryandil (George H. W. Bush: "Read my lips. I'm a Republican.")
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To: Mr. Mojo

We can hope that President Trump will do this.

The EPA has become a tyranny most foul.


8 posted on 10/04/2016 8:25:05 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: PROCON

[an international accord aimed at slowing global warming]

Actually aimed at impoverishing millions instead.


9 posted on 10/04/2016 8:25:31 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: PROCON

I was already supporting him, I don’t need extra reasons.


10 posted on 10/04/2016 8:25:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: PROCON

The America-hating, Democrat fags on the WaPo Editorial Bored are panicking again. Geez. These jerks need a hobby or a second job.


11 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:16 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Forget the media's "endorsements" of Clintoon. They are unfit to be Americans. Vote Trump!)
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To: PROCON

I certainly hope he does just that.

L


12 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:20 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: toddausauras

“Progress?,” “Progress?” It’s in the eye of the beholder.


13 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:41 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I love your rationale! I think the same way.


14 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:41 PM PDT by securityMama (a Mississippian by choice!)
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To: PROCON

Like Trump cares what Jeff Bezos thinks of him.

Looks like Washington Post is getting desperate...


15 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:49 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: CMailBag

Onion would have believed in Global Warming.

this is better. it’s actually NOT sarcasm :)


16 posted on 10/04/2016 8:26:49 PM PDT by dp0622 (IThe only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.

These scumbags helped to manufacture the bogus crisis that has half the population demanding a solution at any cost.

The MSM is the World’s greatest threat.


17 posted on 10/04/2016 8:27:12 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: PROCON

A President Trump could wreck progress on global warming

I sure hope he does and put an end to this boondoggle.


18 posted on 10/04/2016 8:28:55 PM PDT by saintgermaine (The Time Traveler)
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To: Gene Eric

...The MSM is the World’s greatest threat...

Right after Hillary Clinton and fringe lunatic liberals.


19 posted on 10/04/2016 8:29:54 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: dp0622

In other nonews:
Obama causing global flooding by peeing in the ocean!


20 posted on 10/04/2016 8:30:12 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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