Posted on 05/05/2016 9:14:04 AM PDT by McGruff
Sen. Ted Cruz dropped out of the presidential race on Tuesday, making it almost certain that Donald Trump will win the GOP nomination and face Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in November. For those who've been in denial that this day could ever come, we figured a refresher course on the real estate developer's musings about climate and energy might be in order.
On the basic science: "I am not a great believer in man-made climate change," Trump told the Washington Post editorial board in March. "If you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don't know if they have global warming."
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 06, 2012 This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 02, 2014 A panel of scientists ranked all the then-presidential candidates' public remarks on climate for the Associated Press last November. Trump got 15 pointsout of 100.
On climate versus weather: When it was "really cold outside" last October, Trump tweeted that we "could use a big fat dose of global warming!"
On the kind of climate change he is worried about: "I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons." Interpretation: unclear.
On the Environmental Protection Agency: "We're going to get rid of so many different things," Trump said in a February debate. "Environmental protectionwe waste all of this money. We're going to bring that back to the states." But only if he can figure out what the EPA is. Trump said he would eliminate some agency called "Department of Environmental. I mean, the DEP is killing us environmentally, it's just killing our businesses."
On clean energy:
Not only are wind farms disgusting looking, but even worse they are bad for people's health bit.ly/I9Dl8k (cont) tl.gd/h46200
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2012 Wind turbines are a scourge to communities and wildlife. They are environmental disasters.
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2012 On clean energy when campaigning in clean-energy-heavy states: Trump told an Iowa voter that he's okay with wind subsidies. "It's an amazing thing when you thinkyou know, where they can, out of nowhere, out of the wind, they make energy."
On the Paris climate accord signed by 175 countries: "One of the dumbest things I've ever heard in politicsin the history of politics as I know it."
GLOBULL WARMING IS BS. A few short years back; a New Ice
Age was being predicted by the EXPERTS.
Trump will score points on this too. The general populace is sick and tired of having this “global warming” baloney shoved down their throats.
Can’t tell you how much we enjoyed the mild winter (finally) here in Upstate NY. First winter I haven’t broke a wiper, too.
The late Paul Harvey once stated he believed in global warming, every day at sunrise.
“Donald Trump Thinks Global Warming Is “Bullshit””
Maybe that’s why they’ve changed to call it “Climate Change” now.
Hell yeah the climate changes. It get cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Been like that since I was young.
So do I. We’re centuries away from too much heat to grow food. We’re one volcano away from too little. The latter is a well-understood and observed phenomenon. The former is a model. Whether a nuclear exchange can be the equivalent of a volcano is yet unobserved, and I’m fine with that, but could we please focus on the one that’s most likely to kill us?
Another reason for this Cruz supporter to be optimistic about Trump. Global warming is BS!!!
Donald Trump is NOT alone in that corner. Not by a long shot. We are not going to be bullied anymore by self-righteous, godless humanists anymore.
Test your knowledge of such - what causes lightning?
Trump is RIGHT! Again!
Donald Trump Thinks Global Warming Is “Bullshit”
That’s because it IS!
Trump should get rid of the EPA and send it to the states
I will wait to see what he says about it in the next 6 months.
there are cycles when the world warms and cycles when the world cools.
Yep! I remember the ice ages. Not personally but I did read about them somewhere.
Because it is.
Oh, hell. Come on in yell “I am Democrat!!” and you can vote. Just make you sure you ‘Hasta la Vista.” or ‘Alloha Snackbar’ when you leave the voting booth.
Preparing for the next ice age starting around 2025 /2030 time frame whan there are no more Sunspots
Ditto
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