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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

My home town is purchasing its first all electric bus. The cost is $817,000 compared to a diesel at $400,000. They figure to make up the difference in fuel savings in 3 years, and over $120,000 in lower service costs.

I know I know, those figures are a joke. The number one kicker is, they brought a bus out and tested it and it wouldn’t climb a hill on the main bus route. Believe me when I say, a 63 year old man...me... can ride a bike up this hill without stopping.

How do we get the city mayor and councilmen to understand that not only is the electric bus more likely to produce carbon because the power is generated many miles from where it is used. Plus that there is no way that an electric bus is going to save $400K in fuel costs, and that it needs to be recharged every 130 miles for 5 hours will mean that they need 3 electric buses to do the job of 1 diesel.

THESE PEOPLE ARE INSANE.....


61 posted on 10/04/2016 11:00:38 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
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To: PROCON
Better get THIS Clymer out of mothballs.

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AGW has to be in the top 3 most fraudulent scams in the history of mankind. As we both know, it was NOT about "saving the planet". Once the old USSR diminished as a threat to the alleged "free world", another scarecrow had to be erected to herd us into the New World Order corral. AGW won the contest. Although the low/no information 47% obozo worshipers never will catch on, thank God the truth is slowly emerging through the iron curtain of the grant money whores in the so-called "scientific community". East Anglia was the breakthrough and more is coming out all the time. Let me wrap by saying that Algore should not be serving drinks to fellow libturds in his palatial California mansion: He should be SERVING TIME!!!

62 posted on 10/04/2016 11:11:01 PM PDT by Dick Bachert ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: PROCON

From your lips to God’s ear!!


63 posted on 10/05/2016 2:36:16 AM PDT by rejoicing
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To: CMailBag

25 years. A lot of people have made a very good living for a long time from this hoax.


64 posted on 10/05/2016 2:47:21 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: PROCON

“A President Trump could wreck progress on global warming” and....?????


65 posted on 10/05/2016 4:04:50 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: PROCON

Reason #1 to vote for Trump/Pence....


66 posted on 10/05/2016 4:14:24 AM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but Ther RELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
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To: PROCON

WaaaaaaaaaPo continues to flail for traction - perhaps they didn’t see the one where a marked majority of the People don’t believe the science is as settled as the liars claim.


67 posted on 10/05/2016 4:28:49 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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There is always that one guy in the crowd that ruins the ceremony by shouting out, “But the emperor has no clothes!”


68 posted on 10/05/2016 4:49:22 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: PROCON

Key phrase:

“The Environmental Protection Agency drew up the plan using authorities that Congress gave it decades ago in the Clean Air Act.”

Congress doesn’t have the constitutional authority to give an unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy the power to write law. Only CONGRESS may write law.


69 posted on 10/05/2016 7:28:54 AM PDT by sergeantdave (Trump will give us 80% of what we want, while hillary will take 100% of what we have)
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To: sergeantdave
Only CONGRESS may write law.

Absolutely correct, Dave.

We need to return this country to the Rule of Law or we're finished.

70 posted on 10/05/2016 7:55:01 AM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

I cannot believe the WaPo came out with a Trump endorsement this strong.


71 posted on 10/05/2016 8:45:51 AM PDT by Borderline
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To: PROCON
But, but, I thought the politically correct term is now climate change! We're back to global warming, I see?

Tsk, tsk.

72 posted on 10/07/2016 7:14:25 AM PDT by Darnright (If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France)
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