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Al Roker: Climate change is not ignorable. Stop debating what is staring us all in our faces.
NBC News ^ | 09/19/2019 | Al Roker

Posted on 09/19/2019 12:41:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Climate change affects everybody. It doesn't care if you're black or white, rich or poor, male or female. Climate change affects everybody, and the notion that we can ignore it is just foolhardy. We are talking about the fate of our planet.

We're seeing global temperatures rise at an alarming rate. We're seeing the world's oceans warming at an alarming rate. We're seeing a growing number of climate refugees — even though that term isn't yet broadly recognized in international law — whether they are on the South Pacific island of Kiribati, on the North slopes of Alaska or in the Sahara. We have farmers dealing with changing soil and growing conditions. We have folks who are running out of clean running water because of drought.

There's not one part of the globe that's not being affected by this. Both on a national level and on a global level, there's nothing more pressing.

The average person understands this; the average person knows that there's something going on. And, the average American is looking for more leadership from elected officials on the federal level. In frustration, they're turning to their state and local officials, and saying, We want action. And so states and local governments are picking up the slack and enacting local and statewide ordinances to combat climate change.

I am optimistic — carefully optimistic — that we can make changes. Part of that is because I have found people to be receptive, when they have an open mind and don't come to these issues from an ideological viewpoint, that it can't be happening.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alroker; climatechange; fakenews; fakescience; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; msnbc; nbc; nobrainscollectively
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1 posted on 09/19/2019 12:41:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

We know something about Al Roker personally from this statement of his in the article:

I’m personally an avowed carnivore, but even I’m looking at how to reduce that carbon footprint of what I eat. I try to cut back on single use plastics: At work, I have a water bottle, a metal straw, and keep metal utensils around so I’m not using plastic. Or, when that’s not possible, I’m using bamboo wood products, which are more environmentally friendly. Like everyone, I’m trying to find those little things that I can do as an individual, to help the sustainability of the planet as a whole.


2 posted on 09/19/2019 12:42:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

George Carlin rips the environmentalists:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjmtSkl53h4

Carlin’s comments on plastic are perfect.


3 posted on 09/19/2019 12:44:25 PM PDT by cgbg (Democracy dies in darkness when Bezos bans books.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Al’s SUNY Oswego B.A.in Communications is staring me right in the face.

I took Earth Science in High School which makes me more qualified to comment on climate change then Al.


4 posted on 09/19/2019 12:45:51 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: SeekAndFind
And what are Al Rokers’ credentials with respect to climate change?
5 posted on 09/19/2019 12:46:01 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: SeekAndFind

Notice how followers of the climate change cult have gone fascist?

“Shut the f*** up! The discussion’s over! The bickering stops, and it stops right now!!!”

Al Roker has gone postal.


6 posted on 09/19/2019 12:46:09 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: SeekAndFind

We’re supposed to be seeing boiling seas, massive flooding, extinct penguins and polar bears, temperatures AVERAGING 125F... according to your godling Algore.

That “Average American” knows what’s going on, Al; it’s a three-shell game with the data and fast-and-loose with the truth. We’re just keeping our wallets shut to ya.


7 posted on 09/19/2019 12:46:10 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: SeekAndFind; SkyPilot; Roman_War_Criminal; null and void; metmom

[Climate change affects everybody. It doesn’t care if you’re black or white, rich or poor, male or female. Climate change affects everybody, and the notion that we can ignore it is just foolhardy. We are talking about the fate of our planet.]

Got news for you, TV Guide Guy on ‘Seinfeld’.

The Great Tribulation and Armageddon are coming.

Put that in your Global Warming.


8 posted on 09/19/2019 12:46:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Here's the problem all you Dumb a** scientists.

What is the temperature of the earth supposed to be at any point in time and at any point on earth.

And there is NOTHING in time gone by that will tell us what it should be.

It's not science at all.

9 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:00 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

You mean Al “blue glasses” Roker. He’s an entertainer and we must admit a successful one.


10 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:04 PM PDT by cymbeline
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To: SeekAndFind

Would send me a picture of a carbon footprint please. I have never seen one. Thanks.

Please also send me a copy of your plan to change the climate that God created.


11 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:08 PM PDT by sport
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To: SeekAndFind

Was he wearing a tin foil hat or just drugged out of his mind?


12 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:10 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: SeekAndFind

So much wing-nut outreach...

So little time...

These people are mentally ill.

The ranks right up there with all the other dire predictions that never come true.

In the 70s they were promoting the idea the people on planet earth were gong to starve to death en mass.

This has been the coldest year I can remember in Los Angeles.

At night now, I actually have to put a blanket on.

Usually this time of the year, it’s hot for all 24 hours. That can last deep into October too. Not this year.

Is the water level going down yet?


13 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (This space for rent.)
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you can fool some of the people all the time, but not all of the people some of the time... or something like that... Al, no one is saying climate change does not happen...

you are an idiot.

we are saying, man has little to do with it.


14 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:41 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: SeekAndFind
With climate change, we've taken some steps. You can look at the Paris Accords from 2016; that was a great start. And no matter where we are from a federal standpoint — currently, we've withdrawn from the agreement — there are a number of states and local governments who have said that they're going to abide by the agreements and going to make a difference

Is he a mostly wrong with his predictions weatherman or a international policy expert and scientist?

15 posted on 09/19/2019 12:47:59 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank God I am above average and am immune to the unmitigated BS that liberals spew.


16 posted on 09/19/2019 12:48:33 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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It couldn't be that Al Roker has just been made head of the network "Let's sell Climate Change" committee, and is out to CYA?

Nah, I believe him, since network news never lies and doesn't have a Communist agenda...

17 posted on 09/19/2019 12:48:57 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Al Roker needs to watch a little less CNN and a little more Tony Heller.

Just sayin’.


18 posted on 09/19/2019 12:49:47 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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Where’s the proof other than he said, she said? Don’t give me the U.N. as proof. Let’s have some real proof.

Climate changes all the time. Climate has been changing since long before mankind existed.

Mankind doesn’t cause the climate to change, nor can mankind do anything about the climate other than something stupid that would more than likely hurt people Wile E. Coyote style especially if the left is in charge.


19 posted on 09/19/2019 12:49:56 PM PDT by rockinqsranch ("Democratic" party sold out to the ICP. It is now the Communist Party USA.)
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"Climate change made me do it."

20 posted on 09/19/2019 12:50:39 PM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. conclusive)
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