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The Southwest is broiling. Are you paying attention, President Trump?
CNN ^ | June 20, 2017 | By Jill Filipovic

Posted on 06/20/2017 12:36:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Record temperatures. Roads cracking and buckling. Planes that can't take off. Power knocked out. Wildfires raging. These are just some of the trying conditions currently roiling America's West Coast, which is in the midst of a record-breaking heatwave.

Nervous about how these disruptions will negatively impact the economy and even cost human life? You should be. And there's more to come.

Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.

Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.

A delayed flight out of Phoenix will soon be the least of our worries.

If you're stranded in Phoenix right now, or worried about an elderly acquaintance in California, or are without power in the Bay Area, or nervous about a wildfire taking your home, you can thank the long list of politicians who do the bidding of polluting corporations instead of their constituents and protect profit over the environment.

You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement. And you can show your displeasure by refusing to support candidates who don't take climate change seriously, and don't do whatever they can to keep the world inhabitable.

Anything less is global suicide.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; dramaqueen; fakenews; fakescience; globalists; globalwarming; hoax; socialists
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to the rules of feminism, anything and everything that is wrong is due to male chauvinism, and anything and everything can be fixed by enough taxing and spending by the federal government.

:-(


41 posted on 06/20/2017 12:46:01 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
You can thank the President who tore up the Paris climate agreement

Now, THAT'S hysterical.

42 posted on 06/20/2017 12:46:25 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, it does this or close to it every year.


43 posted on 06/20/2017 12:46:39 PM PDT by riri
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans — “

i stopped reading right there


44 posted on 06/20/2017 12:46:44 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen
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To: House Atreides

[Oh noeeee!! We’re ALL gonna die!]

Right now, I’m working on a theory about June bugs and the appearance of Trump. There HAS to be a connection.

Plus, the iceberg that the Titanic hit? It had TRUMP on the side of it. Again, this can NOT be a coincidence.

I have got to get this information to CNN and MSNBC immediately!!


45 posted on 06/20/2017 12:47:15 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Parley Baer

The author is an imbecile...................


46 posted on 06/20/2017 12:48:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
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To: Red Badger

“I was stationed in 29 Palms California in 1973 this time of year.

It’s in the high desert north of Palm Springs.

It was HOT....................”

And yet a hundred miles or less to the north at Mammoth Mountain, snow levels range from 70” at the lodge (9,500 ft elev.) to 225” at the top of the mountain (11,053 ft. elev.). The ski area plans to close this year, August 8th.


47 posted on 06/20/2017 12:48:11 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: meyer
[It seems to happen often in the desert!]

And Trump likes to have dessert! This also can NOT be a coincidence!
48 posted on 06/20/2017 12:48:35 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Before I went to college I spent summers roofing houses here in Louisiana.

One summer, 1983 or 1984, some wise guy on the crew brought an egg on the roof, cracked it open and poured it onto the base sheet we were standing on.

It fried.

This was years before The Donald was elected.


49 posted on 06/20/2017 12:48:37 PM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

June 1994 Lake Havasu city 128 degrees.

100 years before that: 134 degrees in Death VAlley

.......yawn......


50 posted on 06/20/2017 12:48:48 PM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, CNN, is there anyone there who could pass a high school physics test?

Stay away from science. It is not your friend.

Which is why you all are on tv, not in a useful job.


51 posted on 06/20/2017 12:49:21 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Uh, CNN, is there anyone there who could pass a high school physics test?

Stay away from science. It is not your friend.

Which is why you all are on tv, not in a useful job.


52 posted on 06/20/2017 12:49:22 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I live in Arizona. Outside of the cities, it hasn’t gotten hotter. But I’ve only lived here since 1971.


53 posted on 06/20/2017 12:50:18 PM PDT by Mr Rogers
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.

Its called "seasons," and they have been here since before the Republicans.

Entire nations may soon be under water. Mega-cities that are home to hundreds of millions are set to drown, leaving huge numbers of people stranded, constraining already-limited resources, fueling violence and competition over those resources, and creating a whole new category of need: climate refugees.

Sure, in 1,000 years or so. We have plenty of time to build new cities and just stop maintaining the parts of the old cities that will be affected.

54 posted on 06/20/2017 12:50:55 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: SkyDancer

Gee, Arizona had record heat in 1990. And the libs and nutballs want us to give up our air conditioners, plus give them more tax money.


55 posted on 06/20/2017 12:51:37 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Odd that she ignores the late spring/early skiing that is going on in other places in the west. Hmmm, selective reporting. Also, the “decades” of climate change? Who remembers the steady Global COOLING crisis reported in the 70’s? When it looked like that wasn’t happening, they took the same data and switched to WARMING instead.


56 posted on 06/20/2017 12:52:12 PM PDT by JWNM
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
My bride and I have noticed the weather here in the high desert has changed back to what it was like when we were in junior high together......about 45 years ago.
Broiling hot summers,late winter storms, and sporadic winter heavy snows.
57 posted on 06/20/2017 12:52:20 PM PDT by Wizdum (Buckle up! It's going to be one hell of a ride.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Jill Filipovic is quite the drama queen and of course CNN prints it.


58 posted on 06/20/2017 12:52:47 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Travis McGee
Is this the dimbulb that wrote this laughable garbage? Gee, used to be at Cosmo? What a surprise - NOT.


59 posted on 06/20/2017 12:53:11 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Changing weather patterns are the new normal, thanks to decades of trashing the environment and a refusal from many in the party currently controlling Washington, the Republicans -- and their corporate patrons -- to even acknowledge climate change as a reality, let alone do anything about it.

Right, because summer wasn't hot before the evil Republicans refused to get involved in meaningless climate treaties. The level of stupidity in this article hurts my head.
60 posted on 06/20/2017 12:53:32 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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