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Tom Steyer Explains Why Climate Change Is His 'Number One Priority'
townhall.com ^ | 11/21/2019 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 11/21/2019 9:53:16 AM PST by rktman

Billionaire Tom Steyer took a jab at former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for failing to make climate change their number one legislative priority. He argued that he is the only one who has a record on this hot topic issue.

"I'm the only person on this stage who will say climate [change] is the number one priority for me. Vice President Biden won't say it. Sen. Warren won't say it. It's a state of emergency and I would declare a state of emergency on day one," Steyer said. "I would use the emergency powers of the presidency."

The billionaire touted his record fighting climate change, saying he has "spent a decade fighting oil and tech companies, stopping pipelines, stopping fossil fuel plants, ensuring clean energy across the country."

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To: rktman

”And, how did he NOT make the punchable face list? ”

Oh, he is on the list alright.


21 posted on 11/21/2019 10:10:56 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: rktman
Of course he made this statement from the library of his multi million dollar beachfront mansion.
22 posted on 11/21/2019 10:12:01 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (A joke: Brennan,Comey and Lynch walk into a Barr...)
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To: MountainWalker

Yeah, I believe that’s part of the ad his kid has out there. I’ve been fighting dumbassery for 72 years now. And part of the time I didn’t even know it. :-)


23 posted on 11/21/2019 10:12:41 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rktman

It is either because he is an idiot or he thinks he will make money on it. Could be both.


24 posted on 11/21/2019 10:14:04 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: MountainWalker

Yet he invested in overseas coal fired power plants and coal mining


25 posted on 11/21/2019 10:14:06 AM PST by kaktuskid
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To: G Larry
Climate change is about Capitalism. "Climate is amazingly stable.

From ~ 1889 to 2013 temperature has increased from ~288 K to 288.8K (0.3%) If this is true, to me it means that the temperature has been amazingly stable.

Is it possible that all the paved roads and cut down forests are the cause of “global warming”, not CO2?"

26 posted on 11/21/2019 10:14:38 AM PST by yoe
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To: rktman

People won’t have to worry about climate change if they’re dead from being a victim of open borders that lets criminals cross into our country, and climate change won’t matter if you and your family are wiped out by a terrorist attack because of lax national security.


27 posted on 11/21/2019 10:23:57 AM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: rktman

Who and What ?


28 posted on 11/21/2019 10:26:12 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: rktman
"I'm the only person on this stage who will say climate [change] is the number one priority for me. Vice President Biden won't say it. Sen. Warren won't say it. It's a state of emergency and I would declare a state of emergency on day one," Steyer said. "I would use the emergency powers of the presidency."

Hmmm, maybe Mister Steyer is the only person on the stage who is not "in" on the "big con".

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29 posted on 11/21/2019 10:30:59 AM PST by Seaplaner
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To: rktman

[[Tom Steyer Explains Why Climate Change Is His ‘Number One Priority’]]

Because he is, despite being very rich, a low information agendist who doesn’t care about facts because he sees a way to profit off of other people’s hard earned money by investing in climate regulation businesses-

THAT is the bottom line! THAT is why he’s all in on climate change-


30 posted on 11/21/2019 10:31:36 AM PST by Bob434
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To: rktman

TS t.s.


31 posted on 11/21/2019 10:35:59 AM PST by PGalt
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To: rktman

I was just chatting with my daughter 19 almost 20 and was against going to learn how much this doom and gloom that they’ve been taught in the public school system has really gotten through to her little skull! there she seriously thinks this planet is doomed we’re doing it and we only have like 20 years left to live

What is left us are doing with this environmentalist nine cents is depressing children and making them think their planet is going to be uninhabitable

to me that is unforgivable


32 posted on 11/21/2019 10:40:48 AM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: rktman
Calling climate change the number one emergency our country faces will not endear this Steyer guy to too many voters. Including democRATS.

Some on the Left for sure will like what he's saying but ordinary Americans like the good economy Trump has facilitated right now after 8 years of Obama's epic failure. Any Green New Deal legislation will send us back to the Stone Ages.

There is no emergency when it comes to climate change. The Left has been whining about it for 3 or 4 decades now and we're all still around and the world hasn't burnt up in a crisp yet or we're not all underwater.

Even people who believe in human-caused climate change do not want their entire lives upended to appease the radical far Left.

When people realize they will have no airplanes, no cars, no technology, no conveniences of modern life, they will rethink their priorities.

Climate change won't seem so bad to many people when compared to all of the radical non-sensical solutions the Left has come up with to fight this scam by picking our wallets.

33 posted on 11/21/2019 10:42:17 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: rktman

My brilliant sister (Ph D professor of English) has been so brainwashed that she is fully convinced that Global Warming is true and real and threatens the planet.

She won’t listen to reason about it.

Says we have to agree to disagree.

I finally said - I guess time will tell which one of us is right. In the meantime, I hope you like the cold since we won’t be able to heat our homes soon if the Globull alarmists get into power.

If anyone has a link to some climate scientists who have good easy to understand data that refutes this myth - would be welcome.

Not that she will look at it now.

But I have others among my associates and family members who might. Thanks in advance.


34 posted on 11/21/2019 10:56:00 AM PST by Freedom'sWorthIt
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To: Truthoverpower
I about threw up when AO-C said we had taken her right to be a mother and to have children away from her because no one was taking climate change seriously.

Poor thing. I would think it was because no one would want to pass their genes on by "coupling" with someone so stupid.

If these people would not make it sound like the end of the earth, which they do regularly, people might pay more attention.

But as it is, not one wants to listen to whining extremists with wild-eyed fear mongering predictions whilst they have their hands out to take all of your money so they can "solve" the problem.

35 posted on 11/21/2019 10:56:45 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: rktman

Hey Steyer, you stupid m*****f*****, if you dont use pipelines you have to haul it on freight trains, you crazed moron. That’s much more destructive to the environment. How do total ignoramuses become billionaires?


36 posted on 11/21/2019 11:02:26 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Just pose these to her or to the other family members:

1. Define the “correct” temperature range for the planet.

2. Define the “correct” humidity range for the planet.

3. Define the “correct” mean sea level for the planet.

4. Define the “correct” amount of precipitation for the planet.

5. Define the “correct” makeup of the atmosphere.

6. Define the “correct” amount of sea ice at the N/S poles.

7. Define/explain past glaciation and subsequent warming without any input from humans.


37 posted on 11/21/2019 11:04:36 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt
".... If anyone has a link to some climate scientists who have good easy to understand data that refutes this myth - would be welcome....."

Don't waste your time. These people are brainwashed. They don't want to listen to reason.

I used to argue the specifics about global warming with people when I knew some liberals.

But since I have eliminated all liberals from my life completely, it is only necessary to know that climate change is not a real issue.

All the Left really wants to do is to create a socialist revolution and they want to fund the 'solutions" for fake climate change and their socialist revolution by picking your wallet dry.

Everything else about it is not important because it is make believe.

38 posted on 11/21/2019 11:07:16 AM PST by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: Vigilanteman

He should advocate students being banned from driving gas driven cars to save the planet.


39 posted on 11/21/2019 11:14:52 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: rktman

Ask her to stop driving cars.


40 posted on 11/21/2019 11:18:04 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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