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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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To: PROCON

We cut back pollution and China increased their pollution.


21 posted on 10/04/2016 8:30:15 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: PROCON
A President Trump could wreck progress on global warming

Don't see how that can be, since the progress on Glowbull Worming has been in the public discovering that it's a scam. Can't imagine how a Trump presidency would reverse that.

22 posted on 10/04/2016 8:32:13 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: goldstategop
Yes, the entire Enemedia is throwing out everything they've got, funny, I thought Hillary was going to run away with the election.

"Why aren't I ahead by 50 points?!"

23 posted on 10/04/2016 8:32:24 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

Wow, the post is trying to sell the public on Trump now. I like it.


24 posted on 10/04/2016 8:33:54 PM PDT by pissant ((Deport 'em all))
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To: dowcaet
I hope these people will be able to come to terms when he’s elected president.

Or not. Scum being miserable isn't really an undesirable outcome.

25 posted on 10/04/2016 8:34:06 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: PROCON

Hot doggie! I hope so!


26 posted on 10/04/2016 8:36:27 PM PDT by ShivaFan
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To: PROCON

What progress? I thought we were a few years away from bursting into flames.


27 posted on 10/04/2016 8:38:13 PM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: PROCON

What global warming? Presumes facts not in evidence.


28 posted on 10/04/2016 8:38:13 PM PDT by Monitor ("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it." - H. L. Mencken)
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To: PROCON

True. GloBULL warming is a communist myth cooked up in the waning days of the Soviet Union as a last-ditch attempt to destroy capitalism. The libtards found out about it when the Soviet archives were released and they decided to run with the idea. It’s 100% made up.

Burning oil and coal is what God intended. Otherwise He would not have designed the Earth to produce it for us to use. (Also, don’t fall for me “fossil fuels” nonsense. Oil and coal are constantly generated naturally deep in the Earth.)


29 posted on 10/04/2016 8:38:35 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: Sasparilla
"'Progress?,' 'Progress?' It’s in the eye of the beholder."

Global warming will end if Trump is elected because it will no longer be a profitable scam.
30 posted on 10/04/2016 8:39:37 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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To: PROCON
Donald Trump could destroy the agreement with a stroke of a pen,

Oh dear God, let it be so!

31 posted on 10/04/2016 8:40:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: PROCON

No one can KNOW the rate of global warming or global cooling. That’s God’s job.


32 posted on 10/04/2016 8:41:08 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (that's)
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To: PROCON

Yet another reason to vote for mr Trump ! Thanks, wapo


33 posted on 10/04/2016 8:41:42 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Bigly desirable.


34 posted on 10/04/2016 8:42:26 PM PDT by jazminerose (oective)
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To: PROCON

That’s the idea


35 posted on 10/04/2016 8:43:17 PM PDT by Mjreagan
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To: PROCON

Good timing, Drudge has an article tonight about the sun going blank again.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/717559/Earth-ICE-AGE-sun-goes-blank-sunspot

No sunspots is not a good thing, it means colder winters if it continues, and I think it will.

This article is a bit inaccurate though, the last mini ice age was about 200 years ago, ended about 1810 or so. the one in the 15th century was just as bad, and ~206 years earlier, in line with a 206 year solar cycle.


36 posted on 10/04/2016 8:43:18 PM PDT by Paleo Pete (Never take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.)
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To: CMailBag
What progress???

What do you mean what progress?

Sheesh, 0bama is trying to lower the sea levels and keep the arctic ice from melting and...and...and keep the polar bears from drowning!

Why are you so heartless!

37 posted on 10/04/2016 8:43:33 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

That’s why I’m voting for him.


38 posted on 10/04/2016 8:46:20 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: PROCON

This, from the Washington Post editorial board?

Most of them still have pimples.


39 posted on 10/04/2016 8:49:49 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Mr. Mojo
The very sad element in the global warming equation is that over 40% of American voters believe in this crap.

A November 8th victory is critically important for us.

40 posted on 10/04/2016 8:50:04 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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