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Editorial: Harvey should be a warning to Trump that climate change is a global threat
Los Angeles Times ^ | August 30, 2017 | Times Editorial Board

Posted on 08/30/2017 9:32:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

How refreshing it is when the president directs our attention to the words of experts — people who ascertain facts, study the issues, dissect the causes of problems, and put their biases and suppositions aside to figure out solutions.

If Trump himself were to consult the experts — such as, you know, climate scientists — he would learn that global warming is real. He’d also learn that although warming did not cause Hurricane Harvey, it certainly makes such storms stronger, more unpredictable and quicker to intensify.

As difficult as it might be for someone so incapable of introspection and reevaluation, the president needs to understand that he has subscribed to fake science, and that he must alter his course. We remain optimistic that other actors will continue to change their behaviors to help confront the problem. But this would be a far more winnable battle if the world wasn’t also forced to fight ignorance in the White House, and a president content to whistle past the flooded graveyard.

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; journalism; socialism
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1 posted on 08/30/2017 9:32:14 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So Trump musta been the President during the Ice Age and that’s why all the ice melted?


2 posted on 08/30/2017 9:33:48 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article should be a warning that Public Schools are failing.


3 posted on 08/30/2017 9:34:01 AM PDT by Egon
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And what? Give the UN money?


4 posted on 08/30/2017 9:34:42 AM PDT by Sybeck1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess the AGW crowd never had grandmothers that told them the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf and what happened to him. It’s really becoming tiresome to watch them roll out with their cries of alarm with every weather event.


5 posted on 08/30/2017 9:34:52 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
put their biases and suppositions aside .... such as, you know, climate scientists

Preposterous to have these two quotes in the same article.

6 posted on 08/30/2017 9:34:57 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The usual suspects have spoken.


7 posted on 08/30/2017 9:35:42 AM PDT by Liaison (TANSTAAFL)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just like rhe Galveston hurricane circa 1900? Really....


8 posted on 08/30/2017 9:35:50 AM PDT by jersey117 (Sp)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey L.A. SLIMES - tell us - who can PROVE that climate change caused the severity of Harvey !


9 posted on 08/30/2017 9:36:02 AM PDT by Mopp4
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To: T-Bird45

The constitution doesn’t allow you to cry global warming in a crowded theater showing Dancing With Wolves, does it?


10 posted on 08/30/2017 9:36:05 AM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A storm happened. Therefore Climate Change. QED


11 posted on 08/30/2017 9:36:12 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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Yes...because, as everyone knows, there has never been a devastating hurricane that came out of the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. So, be warned Mr. Trump.


12 posted on 08/30/2017 9:39:02 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These People think that there is something that Mankind can do to stop a Hurricane.

There is one thing. Move away from the area that is prone to Hurricanes.

Works for Tornadoes, hot Summers and brutal Winters too.


13 posted on 08/30/2017 9:40:27 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why does “burning money” save us from Climate Change, but burning anything else will kill us?!?


14 posted on 08/30/2017 9:42:43 AM PDT by ExTxMarine (Diversity is tolerance; diverse points of views will not be tolerated!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These people are incapable of embarrassment.


15 posted on 08/30/2017 9:43:29 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Houston has zilch to do with Climate Change or Global warming.

Low and behold, I have yet to see anyone on MSM mention: Abby Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood Director mentioning how HOUSTON, TX has the largest abortion facility in the western hemisphere, .... that must meet an abortion quota for lucrative profits via murdering babies and their sale for body parts.,,,

see link on you tube “Abby Johnson Full one-on-one explosive interview with Tucker Carlson (8/7/2017)”

Global Warming is Crap! so is Climate Change!

Could be the Almighty is getting a little ticked-off?


16 posted on 08/30/2017 9:43:53 AM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now.)
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To: Egon

Bwahahaha!


17 posted on 08/30/2017 9:44:52 AM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone on FR called this last week.
It’s pathetic how far the lefty power-mongers will go.


18 posted on 08/30/2017 9:45:40 AM PDT by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nope.

It’s low flow toilets.

All that water we’ve been saving went to Houston.

Makes as much sense as anything the Democrats have put out.


19 posted on 08/30/2017 9:45:47 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“experts — people who ascertain facts, study the issues, dissect the causes of problems, and put their biases and suppositions aside to figure out solutions. “

Name me one time in human history the mainstream of science has had it right. Most of the time they haven’t just been wrong, they have been astoundingly wrong.

But now, this bunch of experts and scientists, they have it nailed. Aren’t we lucky to be living in the only era of humanity when they finally had it right?/s


20 posted on 08/30/2017 9:46:11 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hhate dogs. Add that up.)
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