US is a leader and a country of vision and cannot afford to be loner on some issues of of values to Humanity.Trump needs to think over on this aspects of our country's standing in the word.G-20 has provided us some information relating to this matter. The congress should also take some active action not to let our country be treated as a loaner by our President.
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Oh great! The US has become a pariah state, and Donald Trump a pariah president. Meanwhile China and Russia make "good trade deals' with Europe.
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Quite ironic that for 8 years, the entire GOP and RW media lambasted Obama for withdrawing from world leadership.
In the meantime, Trump withdraws from TPP and Paris Climate, essentially outsources the N Korea problem to China, talks about dropping out of NAFTA, doesn't press any infrastructure plan.
All ceding leadership to China, Japan, S. Korea and EU nations. What could have been an American 21st century will now belong to others.
In the meantime, Trump withdraws from TPP and Paris Climate, essentially outsources the N Korea problem to China, talks about dropping out of NAFTA, doesn't press any infrastructure plan.
All ceding leadership to China, Japan, S. Korea and EU nations. What could have been an American 21st century will now belong to others.
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“The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.”
Very disappointed that the G20 caved into Trump's insistence to include language about fossil fuels in the G20's climate change plan -- it allowsthe U.S. a free pass to continue polluting, and profiting from it. This opens the door to lower standards for other participants, despite their vows of fidelity to the Climate Accord.
At least France's Macron fought strenuously against this language.
Trump and May's cozy discussion of their own bilateral trade agreement worked for Trump, as the U.K.'s biggest export is heavy crude oil. And the U.K. wants the U.S. to continue maintaining their nuclear missiles (although they could have asked France). May did not criticize Trump for his climate change position as they'll be polluting the world together.
The Far Right anti-globalization, anti-immigrant anarchists actions were deplorable, forming sort of an in-house ISIS.
Their violence accomplished nothing, except to better prepare for future outbreaks. They want to step backward in time, like Trump, and not embrace the reality of today's world.
Macron invited U.S. environmental scientists to work in France, since they lacked support at home. Trump should invite the G20's extreme right, protectionist anarchists to the U.S., where they could find a "home" with other isolationists.
Very disappointed that the G20 caved into Trump's insistence to include language about fossil fuels in the G20's climate change plan -- it allowsthe U.S. a free pass to continue polluting, and profiting from it. This opens the door to lower standards for other participants, despite their vows of fidelity to the Climate Accord.
At least France's Macron fought strenuously against this language.
Trump and May's cozy discussion of their own bilateral trade agreement worked for Trump, as the U.K.'s biggest export is heavy crude oil. And the U.K. wants the U.S. to continue maintaining their nuclear missiles (although they could have asked France). May did not criticize Trump for his climate change position as they'll be polluting the world together.
The Far Right anti-globalization, anti-immigrant anarchists actions were deplorable, forming sort of an in-house ISIS.
Their violence accomplished nothing, except to better prepare for future outbreaks. They want to step backward in time, like Trump, and not embrace the reality of today's world.
Macron invited U.S. environmental scientists to work in France, since they lacked support at home. Trump should invite the G20's extreme right, protectionist anarchists to the U.S., where they could find a "home" with other isolationists.
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Hey world leaders ignore the guy in the White House. Not even considering climate change, every three solar panels I install reduce my household electric bill 10%. When I get to thirty panels my only use of the fossil fuel supplied grid will be as a backup (after I exhaust my battery storage). I pledge to help you other nations in your goal of reducing emissions WITH or WITHOUT the support of my own government and the ill-elected person at the top. A.L.E.C. and the Koch Brother's won't prevail in the long run. I promise you that.
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Fine let the 19 race each other to the economic precipice. The USA will be just fine.
There's a comment from an article today ("For embattled President...") that is striking: “ 'This week’s trip gave the country a very clear sense of the president’s foreign policy philosophy and reiterated the long-term objective of restoring America’s greatness on the world stage,' said Jason Miller, a former Trump campaign aide who still advises the president and his staff informally." If Trump is restoring American greatness, it should be noted that such greatness is largely a voice heard OFF the world stage, not on it. We seem to be treating the shifting ensemble that pursues a global vision as a threat more than as an opportunity. By avoiding or minimizing multilateral commitments, our role in the world is likely to become freer - and less influential.
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As usual, Trump is awkward and ill at ease in a meeting with leaders who would be his peers if he were qualified to be a member of this group. He knows he's not, which is one reason for his attempts to worm his way into a first name relationship with "Justin" and others. He tries to elevate his own shaky status by a supercilious reference to Chancellor Merkel handling the meeting "so professionally." This is exactly how so many male bosses have always subly devalued the women who do the work behind the scenes. The message is that "I'm in charge, but let's give a big hand to the little lady." It's another subtle but real misogynist put-down. But Merkel is not the little lady behind the scenes. She is as big a power player or bigger than Trump. If he had respected Mrs Merkel he would have said "we are all indebted to Chancellor Merkel for her leadership under difficult circumstances." Fortunately Trump's effort to put Chancellor Merkel in her place cannot succeed because he has earned so little respect on the world stage.
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Let's be very clear here. In the global big picture the status of chancellor of Germany is on the scale of a Rolodex™ business card to the POTUS. No one outside of the EU and the MSM gives Merkel a second thought.
Leader of the free world? Puh-leez.
Leader of the free world? Puh-leez.
Another brilliant analysis by Margaret Jay, one of my favorite commenters!
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That "so professionally" remark got under my skin, but I had not really put the finger on why. Your comment is right on the mark -- a yuge bull's eye! Trump, the quintessential incompetent, has no credibility to assess the performance of she who is arguably the most respected world leader these days.
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The very fact that other countries are carrying on without Trump in anything should be alarming, but to carry on without him in terms of making their own countries green while the U.S. is not on a retrogressive course, should be even more alarming.
Not only will other countries now be the leaders in attempting to save the planet, but economically they will benefit since clean energy is cheaper and is the wave of the future. Even U.S. citizens wil buy more goods from other countries if they are green. That genie is out of the bottle. You can't put it back.
But perhaps the U.S. has been the world leader for too long now, and the rest of the world is recognizing that much of the U.S. dominance was not earned in a world-friendly manner, such as by deposing leaders who were not business friendly to U.S. concerns.
Trump, like the bull in a china-shop whose horns are studded with diamonds and whose skin is plasterd with dollar bills, is what was needed to give the world the courage to confront what is now the undeniable U.S. first policy, which before, was all too often under the guise of altruism.
Not only will other countries now be the leaders in attempting to save the planet, but economically they will benefit since clean energy is cheaper and is the wave of the future. Even U.S. citizens wil buy more goods from other countries if they are green. That genie is out of the bottle. You can't put it back.
But perhaps the U.S. has been the world leader for too long now, and the rest of the world is recognizing that much of the U.S. dominance was not earned in a world-friendly manner, such as by deposing leaders who were not business friendly to U.S. concerns.
Trump, like the bull in a china-shop whose horns are studded with diamonds and whose skin is plasterd with dollar bills, is what was needed to give the world the courage to confront what is now the undeniable U.S. first policy, which before, was all too often under the guise of altruism.
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Let someone else lead for awhile. Frankly, the Europeans have managed to come close to bankrupting America over and lever again with their idiotic wars of racist ideology. After WW2 we should have let Germany keep France, let Russia keep Germany and collaborators beside France, that would be Finland, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Poland...and the Vatican). We could have kept Italy (well, not the Vatican, that was part of NAZ Germany well after the war), and let China take its revenge on Japan, including the faux-god Emperor (who 'knew nothing"). Ok, so Russia would have possibly beat us to the moon. So what? You know why the U.S. has never gone back? There's nothing there.
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Surreal.
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If Ivanka Trump wants to put "America First" like her father, she should be championing women issues at home instead of abroad. How two-faced can you be?
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It is insulting to see Western nations continually hold themselves accountable for reducing their greenhouse gas emissions while ignoring the unsustainable population growth taking place in developing countries.
A recent article by the NY Times makes me wonder if political correctness has prevented the issue of unabated population control as being front and center with climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/opinion/sunday/remember-the-populatio...
A recent article by the NY Times makes me wonder if political correctness has prevented the issue of unabated population control as being front and center with climate change.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/opinion/sunday/remember-the-populatio...
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Just this one thing is enough to do everything possible and legal to get rid of the ignoramus that is desecrating the purpose and mission of being the President of the United States.
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Frank, we have paid dearly and got nothing but disrespect from our friends. We have provided military shelter at a great cost in money and lives and still no respect. Our former President gave them the Paris accord that punished America and paid for others inactivity. Enough Frank, they can pay their own way!
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It's a miracle that companies like Apple and Tesla - American innovation leaders - came into being before this administration. Welcome to the Dark Ages 2.0. Let's hope it only lasts for another 3.5 years, or less.
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Once installed, renewable energy is nearly free. And most of the energy you need can come from your own roof. The sun can power most of your electrical needs, even your car. It is the smart way to go even without global warming.
But the fossil fuel corporations want everything you do to be dependent on them. They don't want you to create your own energy on your roof. They want you to have to keep paying them, and fighting wars for oil, and breathing particulates that come from burning their product.
This is proven by the utility attacks on net metering (selling energy back to the grid) with government regulations (They only hate government regulations they didn't write.)
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/climate/rooftop-solar-panels-tax-c...
The effort is financed by the Koch Brothers, and spearheaded by their organization, ALEC, which writes "model legislation" that is sold to legislators around the country. Prefab democracy!
The fossil fuel industry is writing regulations that keep you from creating energy and selling into the energy market, and all of the "free market" extremists think that's a great idea. Go figure.
The future is in a distributed grid, where everyone puts in a little and takes out a little. But while other countries move forward, we are clinging to 19th century technology that lets a few global oil corporations take a piece of everything you do.
But the fossil fuel corporations want everything you do to be dependent on them. They don't want you to create your own energy on your roof. They want you to have to keep paying them, and fighting wars for oil, and breathing particulates that come from burning their product.
This is proven by the utility attacks on net metering (selling energy back to the grid) with government regulations (They only hate government regulations they didn't write.)
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/climate/rooftop-solar-panels-tax-c...
The effort is financed by the Koch Brothers, and spearheaded by their organization, ALEC, which writes "model legislation" that is sold to legislators around the country. Prefab democracy!
The fossil fuel industry is writing regulations that keep you from creating energy and selling into the energy market, and all of the "free market" extremists think that's a great idea. Go figure.
The future is in a distributed grid, where everyone puts in a little and takes out a little. But while other countries move forward, we are clinging to 19th century technology that lets a few global oil corporations take a piece of everything you do.
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Oh, they will take possession of the sun and charge you to use it
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Somehow solar advocates, who add negligible value to grid electricity when consumption is highest (6PM), feel entitled to use the utility's poles and wires for free. But because building and maintaining infrastructure isn't free, the expense is passed along to customers unable to afford a private home with a solar array on the roof.
If "the future is in a distributed grid", why don't these visionaries just disconnect from the big bad utility? The reasons are twofold: 1) their solar panels don't generate much electricity, and 2) they don't generate it when it's needed. Like supply-siders who brag of making their own way in the world, words fail when they're reminded of the many ways their journey has been subsidized by others.
After 50 years and $30 billion in subsidies, solar generates less than 1% of U.S. electricity, and can claim the dubious honor of failing to close a single U.S. coal plant. The sooner we stop financing the naive fantasy it offers a solution to climate change, the better.
If "the future is in a distributed grid", why don't these visionaries just disconnect from the big bad utility? The reasons are twofold: 1) their solar panels don't generate much electricity, and 2) they don't generate it when it's needed. Like supply-siders who brag of making their own way in the world, words fail when they're reminded of the many ways their journey has been subsidized by others.
After 50 years and $30 billion in subsidies, solar generates less than 1% of U.S. electricity, and can claim the dubious honor of failing to close a single U.S. coal plant. The sooner we stop financing the naive fantasy it offers a solution to climate change, the better.
Why has the world got their shorts in a knot? According to the accord, it will not go into effect until 2020.
Under the provisions of the accord, the US cannot formally withdraw until 2020 because countries can only officially leave after three years of the agreement coming into effect and must give a one-year notice prior to withdrawing.
READ MORE: The Paris climate agreement and why it matters
This means that the US can only submit its paperwork for withdrawal in November 2019. The formal withdrawal would not take effect until November 2020, after the next US presidential election.
The administration has pledged to review the situation and make a final decision before 2020.
Under the provisions of the accord, the US cannot formally withdraw until 2020 because countries can only officially leave after three years of the agreement coming into effect and must give a one-year notice prior to withdrawing.
READ MORE: The Paris climate agreement and why it matters
This means that the US can only submit its paperwork for withdrawal in November 2019. The formal withdrawal would not take effect until November 2020, after the next US presidential election.
The administration has pledged to review the situation and make a final decision before 2020.
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Technically, you may be correct if your description of withdrawal terms is correct. However in reality, Trump will begin now to block policies that would have enabled the US to begin compliance by 2020.
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I reported facts, you reported speculation. He cannot withdraw until 2020. Google it and accept the facts.
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What he said was factual. Why so defensive? That projects weakness
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So happy President Trump is keeping his word. And equally happy that those countries supporting the Paris Accord are able to carry on without our welfare.
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The market dictates what nation can come up with the solution to air pollution and water contaminants. If China is willing to continue to pollute their nation, they will not have the workers to produce their exports. Obviously, U.S. cities will have to take the lead and block industries that will continue to pollute our air and water. It is inevitable that China will realize that saving the environment is in their own interest. But with the U.S. out, China can become the leader in resolving environmental problems making us play second fiddle. How long do we keep this administration in power? They will cost us more than just money, jobs and the lead in solving environmental problems. Earth takes a long time to repair itself, we pollute today and future generations will not be spared.
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Yes, it is odd that too many Americans don't consider optimistic futures for their offspring.
Partly this is a result of an inferior education system in many areas, not to mention lack of caring.
Partly this is a result of an inferior education system in many areas, not to mention lack of caring.
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I love my country, but America does not deserve to be thought of as the leader of the free world after electing Trump and seeing him in action on the world stage. Sad. Merkel and Marcon you give this American hope.
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Well we aren't anymore. We neither lead in innovation or morality. I'm thankful there are other countries willing to take up that mantle.
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Favorite line: "Mr. Trump met with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain on Saturday... He said that they had had “tremendous talks” on trade and were working on a “very powerful” trade deal for a post-“Brexit” Britain that could be completed “very, very quickly.”... It is not clear what Mr. Trump meant, since the two sides cannot sign such an agreement until after Britain leaves the European Union, in March 2019 at the soonest."
Do the authors mean, "as opposed to the POTUS's usual clarity on tremendous and very powerful things happening around him?" It's the pleasure he takes at his impunity and imbecility that I find so enervating.
Do the authors mean, "as opposed to the POTUS's usual clarity on tremendous and very powerful things happening around him?" It's the pleasure he takes at his impunity and imbecility that I find so enervating.
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Trump rarely actually says anything. He just makes long lists of adjectives and adverbs. Many of his sentences don't even have a verb.
Hyperbole without substance is his way of promising nothing while sounding like he is promising everything.
Hyperbole without substance is his way of promising nothing while sounding like he is promising everything.
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"A little hyperbole never hurts," he wrote. "People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular ... It's an innocent form of exaggeration - and a very effective form of promotion." (Truthful hyperbole).
Trump, in the Art of the Deal
Trump, in the Art of the Deal
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In addition NYT, please include writers who still have the courage to resist and demonstrate this in their articles. Most of your articles currently about politics in general and particularly about the administration, (WH), are very soft and colluding. Stand up for America, for it's people and for democracy for heaven sake...have you forgotten the 1930's?
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NYT...you've sold your soul to the devil. Thought you might hold on to resisting threats from the administration. Now you're part of the problem and not the solution. A free press would NOT describe the NYT's anymore.
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"It is not clear what Mr. Trump meant, since the two sides cannot sign such an agreement until after Britain leaves the European Union, in March 2019 at the soonest."
It can never be clear what trump means since his comments seem always off the cuff, not thought out, and certainly not the statements of an informed participant. Which is all that is extraordinary about anything the man says.
It can never be clear what trump means since his comments seem always off the cuff, not thought out, and certainly not the statements of an informed participant. Which is all that is extraordinary about anything the man says.
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"...the summit meeting had to be a bitter disappointment for the chancellor."
I strongly disagree. That it was Trump and not Clinton representing the US here is a blow to the world (as indeed is his entire presidency), not to Merkel. The big loser here is not she, nor Germany: it is the US under Trump's "leadership."
Making America great again? I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. When Trump took office, America was already great, in the sense that is was the world's one and only superpower. In only a few months, he has already gone a long way towards losing that status.
I strongly disagree. That it was Trump and not Clinton representing the US here is a blow to the world (as indeed is his entire presidency), not to Merkel. The big loser here is not she, nor Germany: it is the US under Trump's "leadership."
Making America great again? I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. When Trump took office, America was already great, in the sense that is was the world's one and only superpower. In only a few months, he has already gone a long way towards losing that status.
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Yours is a superb analysis of the current and unfortunate situation.
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Who knows what it may take to get the POTUS to acknowledge that the climate is changing and that human-related activity plays major roles. I wonder if one could take item by item and show him, if a preponderance of successful conversations would change him or is he unable to come to rationality. One must note that the naysayers on climate change have some powerful arguments, which in dealing with Trump, would have to be addressed.
Please contribute an analysis of their "powerful arguments."
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In spite of Trump's rhetoric and scaling back of a few environmental regulations, the US had and continues to do a great deal of work in improving the environment, and paid/pays for it with developing new environmental technologies, self-imposing tremendous amount of environmental costs. The rest of the world talks a lot and does zilch. May be now they will start walking the walk. All these people who are embarrassed that we are the odd one out, have some inner strength.
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Does anyone know if there is a way for the various cities and other entities which have pledged to support the Paris Accords and reduce their carbon footprints to work in a formal way with the G-19?
Is there a way they can form a group that would strengthen efforts and recognize efforts to comply with the Paris Accords?
Is there a way they can form a group that would strengthen efforts and recognize efforts to comply with the Paris Accords?
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It is a shame that this President can't see that by clinging to his "America First" rhetoric that all he's doing is making America fall behind. This isn't 1914. He's a full century behind the curve, and the rest of the world has caught up in far more ways than he understands. His ignorance and his arrogant clinging to his ignorance is going to cripple this country for decades to come.
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So world leaders are going to pay the extortionate demands of third world nations in order for them to curtail some of their pollution. All without US taxpayers' money, sounds like a win for US taxpayers.
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No, the REAL" world-leaders are demanding that the nations who started polluting the earth (starting in 1776) start paying for the clean-up. The FAKE world leaders do not want to pay for their sins.
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Tired: Yeah, having to pay for trillions in infrastructure repair from weather disasters caused by climate change is a real bargain.
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Dear Tired of Hypocrisy,
Know what would be a real win for taxpayers? If my big gubmint-hating red state aknowledged climatologists predictions of "warmer and wetter" and more "extreme storms" for our region and quit building in floodplains and then hitting up Uncle Sam for FEMA bail-outs when, surprise, they get flooded. Just call me "tired of hypocrisy."
Know what would be a real win for taxpayers? If my big gubmint-hating red state aknowledged climatologists predictions of "warmer and wetter" and more "extreme storms" for our region and quit building in floodplains and then hitting up Uncle Sam for FEMA bail-outs when, surprise, they get flooded. Just call me "tired of hypocrisy."
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India is lying. If India said they are participating then they are excluding their massive plans to build new coal burning power plants.
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I see 19 lemmings screaming maniacally in over 19 languages racing blindly toward a cliff. Only one, a proud American by the name of Donald Trump, has stopped and turned back from disaster. Thank you President Trump. You have saved us.
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Ken studied at trump university.
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ken: China has some of the most polluted cities in the world with respect to air quality, most of it related to burning coal. They are willingly engaged in correcting that for their own survival. India too - they are lagging in their timeline to change because they can't move faster, but they have the same problem. Please explain the "disaster" that Trump has turned back from by not supporting cleaner energy policies. The net result will be cleaner air, not dirtier air, and hopefully a slower increase in warming. What has Trump saved us from? Thinking? Responsible action? A cleaner world for all? Moderation of the ill effects of global warming?
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Those that the gods wish to destroy, they make mad first. I certify you and the Donald.
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There is a very telling photo from the G20 Conference where Trump is sitting alone at the table where other world leaders are talking and mingling behind him. Perhaps Trump will go down in history as the Great Isolationalist.
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Actually, he's the only one that seems to be aware of the camera. He's posing. Everyone else is discussing their mutual business.
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Let's get on top of ending the dumping of pulling plastic waste into the oceans and start pulling out the waste that's already there.
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We can all see now that "America First" means the first to be mocked, scorned and ignored by the rest of the civilized world.
Thanks, 45. You "win". We lose.
Thanks, 45. You "win". We lose.
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We win, winning... get used to it! Let them invest, we are already leading the world in this instance. These Countries need to take some responsibility for their own actions. The US does need these COuntries to lead by example and the US certainly does not need to pay these other Countries for the promise to take action in 10 or 20 years. What is wrong with you? Can you comprehend what is written in this accord? There is nothing it in that obligates anyone other than the USA to substantially contribute cash while at the same time substantially tying the feat of our homegrown manufacturing all in the hopes that in 10 to 20 years these other offending Nations will follow suit.
I guess "what's wrong" with me is that I believe in science, that our planet facing unprecedented, man-made threats, that climate change will bring about catastrophic social, political and geopolitical upheavals like we've never seen before. Whatever measly amount of money the US had committed to help small nations reduce their carbon footprint (Am I using terms you don't quite understand?) will pale in comparison to the loss of economic output that will be a result of a warming globe. Investing in our future is what smart business people do. Facing facts honestly is what smart citizenry urges its political leaders to do.
The G-20, now more prominently called the Orgy of Violence, is a tremendous embarrassment to Merkel and her stature as a leader.
Not at all. While the tv cameras focused on and the reporters talked about the demonstrations and violence by some of the protestors, outside, Merkel was busy off-camera, solidfying her place as the leader of the Western European democracies.
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I believe anything that President Obama touched, this man will derail just because he can. Big playpen and take away the phone.
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global orgs are for show. What has the G20 ever done? How's the UN doing keeping world peace? And as usual, the country stuck with the bill is the USA. So even without considering the validity of ACGW, it isn't a fair agreement. And nothing stops individual citizens & orgs from becoming more energy efficient.
Beyond that, the globe warming data is weak. Climate scientists claim we have a good global temp record going back to 1880. That's simply not true. The contiguous US, which makes up about 5% of global land mass had 1000 temp stations in 1900. Africa, with 20% of land mass -- had lt 50, mostly along the coast. Today, Africa has about 500 stations, the US about 9k. Clearly, from a sample size standpoint, the US has much better sample and a much greater likelihood of producing reliable temp recordings. To make things worse in Africa, we don't know if stations use or used common methods to collect data. And we know stations in Africa are NOT randomly distributed. They are still primarily on or near the coast. Yet their data counts almost 4x of the US. Same situation has existed for S. America, the Poles, Russia, much of Asia. Today Europe and US combined account for about 10% of the land mass and have 70% of stations.
Of interest, the US showed no warming trend during the 20th century and many areas cooled. So, the most reliable data set (US) shows no warming, but the highly unreliable Global set does -- which do you trust?
Beyond that, the globe warming data is weak. Climate scientists claim we have a good global temp record going back to 1880. That's simply not true. The contiguous US, which makes up about 5% of global land mass had 1000 temp stations in 1900. Africa, with 20% of land mass -- had lt 50, mostly along the coast. Today, Africa has about 500 stations, the US about 9k. Clearly, from a sample size standpoint, the US has much better sample and a much greater likelihood of producing reliable temp recordings. To make things worse in Africa, we don't know if stations use or used common methods to collect data. And we know stations in Africa are NOT randomly distributed. They are still primarily on or near the coast. Yet their data counts almost 4x of the US. Same situation has existed for S. America, the Poles, Russia, much of Asia. Today Europe and US combined account for about 10% of the land mass and have 70% of stations.
Of interest, the US showed no warming trend during the 20th century and many areas cooled. So, the most reliable data set (US) shows no warming, but the highly unreliable Global set does -- which do you trust?
ralphie: You are ignoring the satellite data, which has recently been corrected in a new paper and shows close agreement now with land-based measurements. The satellites cover the entire world, not just the US. There are other major indicators of global warming too. The Great Barrier Reef shows major portions that become bleached (dying or dead) because of seawater warming. This was expected by researchers but not for another 30 years or so. Takes a long time for the ocean to respond to air warming, so it must have been steadily occurring over a long period. Who do I trust? I trust the global climate science community to provide the best evidence since they have the best expertise in this field. There is a strong consensus that recent global warming is occurring and that increased emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are the reason. Always good to be a skeptic though, but a good skeptic keeps an open mind to good evidence too.
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What's the source of all your "data"? It's easy to throw numbers around. I trust the data reported on by 99% of global climate scientists over yours all day long.
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Your info comes from a discredited source. Fake news.
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The G20 is, itself, an affirmation of capitalist economies, which have quite obviously been the major cause of the vast environmental degradation we witness daily. The irony of the climate-change remediation efforts is inescapable, particularly since they are quite likely too little, too late. In that context, the participation or non-participation of the U.S. is somewhat irrelevant. If the G20 were to lock itself into a large closet and come out with economics divorced from Milton Friedman and the Chicago school, then I might say, "well done." The rest of this is more or less a concession to image, driven by the media's simplistic obsession with personalities —Merkel vs. Trump, etc., etc.
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Let's just put Trump where he belongs, in jail. The whole world is watching and if we are a nation of laws Trump should be wearing stripes.
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What is he guilty of? Putting America first. Hillary is who should be in jail for failure to handle classified material correctly. Imagine giving top secret documents to Anthony Weiner thru his wife's email.
Change is hard to accept, but the world as we have known it since WWII has changed. Perestroika left the question of Russia's future open. Now after 25 years it is apparent that Russia will be drawn into bilateral agreements with the West that will beneneficial to both sides. The Eastern European countries along with the former Soviet republics will join in. The G20 which was already on the brink of declaring a globalist hegemony in its favor will have to scramble to adjust. Trump has taken the ball away from them by reducing the G20 to a sideshow while he and Putin made their deal. The realignment of interests will not be easy, however, because the Mueller investigation and every intelligence agency , and all the Democrats and Neocons will do everything in their power to prevent it. It will be mortal combat, but Trump is prepared for it. Stay tuned.
The US has been isolated for decades by European countries that provided lip service to military commitments, sanctions and trade deals and on the side did whatever they felt like. There has never been a unified Europe unless the US picked up the burden of the relationship.
Merkel and Macron are small players on the world stage with outsize opinions of themselves. Trump has walked away from the Paris accord because the burden was on the US to carry it. Every country can set their own climate goals and step up to them if they really care about the environment and just as important refrain from outsourcing their dirty industries to China.
The reality however is that India and China will decimate the global climate as they develop and there is nothing the West can do to stop it. Those countries will increase fossil fuel consumption by many multiples over the next decades. This appears to be inevitable and everyone is just arguing on the deck of the Titanic. Now, don't you hope that climate change is a hoax?
Merkel and Macron are small players on the world stage with outsize opinions of themselves. Trump has walked away from the Paris accord because the burden was on the US to carry it. Every country can set their own climate goals and step up to them if they really care about the environment and just as important refrain from outsourcing their dirty industries to China.
The reality however is that India and China will decimate the global climate as they develop and there is nothing the West can do to stop it. Those countries will increase fossil fuel consumption by many multiples over the next decades. This appears to be inevitable and everyone is just arguing on the deck of the Titanic. Now, don't you hope that climate change is a hoax?
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So what is Jared Kushner doing at this table? Getting ideas for real estate deals?? unelected, grossly unqualified and supremely conflicted.
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He will soon be fitted for a jumpsuit.
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Bad things are happening in Argentina. The Middle East is pretty messed up what would they be like when they aren't selling oil? Is the G20 even considering this? Or is there more money to made being green for the few?
Why are the Times' stories about the anti-G-20 demonstrations almost exclusively about violence and numbers of protestors, with at best only a brief quote or sentence about why they so vehemently oppose the G-20? Sure, the violence is newsworthy, but I can't get any serious information about why the protestors feel so strongly about the G-20.
Sadly, this reminds me of mainstream media coverage of protests against US involvement in Vietnam. All about the protests while refusing to describe the issues sparking them. I expect such superficial & sensationalizing coverage from tv, but had hoped the Times would address this more maturely and responsibly.
Sadly, this reminds me of mainstream media coverage of protests against US involvement in Vietnam. All about the protests while refusing to describe the issues sparking them. I expect such superficial & sensationalizing coverage from tv, but had hoped the Times would address this more maturely and responsibly.
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Good. The Paris Accord is a great deal for the world's biggest polluters and not great for America, where real reduction in pollutants is already happening. We're already doing more than our share and don't need a symbolic agreement to prove it.
Not only should we not be going abroad seeking foreign monsters to slay, we shouldn't be signing on to bad deals for us with no enforcement mechanisms for those who will break them.
We can lead the world on our own, from the front, without agreements with anyone.
Not only should we not be going abroad seeking foreign monsters to slay, we shouldn't be signing on to bad deals for us with no enforcement mechanisms for those who will break them.
We can lead the world on our own, from the front, without agreements with anyone.
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Did you forget that we live on one planet and not on one by ourselves? You might want to be an isolationist but the planet is indeed interconnected.
Did you forget that we live on one planet and not on one by ourselves? You might want to be an isolationist but the planet is indeed interconnected.
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Leadership is not a tool used by this administration. In it's place we have a go it alone position. Both skills are useful but in this particular situation I believe I would rather us be in front of the pack as opposed to a "not our problem" approach. What ever we are doing to reduce emissions and improve the quality of our environment was and is a direct result of previous government approaches and mandates. I would feel, and I think the world would feel safer and more comfortable, with us as assuming a leadership position as opposed to a go it alone position.
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We are actually (fact) the world's biggest polluters, and oh no, mot another FACT, but The Prince of Darkness is stripping the EPA and our country of doing any "leading" on saving the earth... No. To the RepubliCon minions, science and the environment are "liberal" causes which are all a lie. Be assured, we are NOT leading in this case.
I agree that redirecting the funds to a non-profit for women entrepreneurs is not the best use of the funds, but the President is likely attempting to address specific provisions in the Paris Accord without dragging along all of its global bureaucratic overhead.
My question is, why is "gender equality", which has been translated by the UN as including "Abortion on Demand", part of the Accord de Paris?
My question is, why is "gender equality", which has been translated by the UN as including "Abortion on Demand", part of the Accord de Paris?
China has been discontinuing 100s of coal fire power plants and is aggressively pursuing the rapidly growing green energy products market. Trump is talking about how he's going to bring back coal production contrary to the modern capitalistic trends, and is trying protect 1950s markets in the US and thereby leaving the US choking in the dust of other nations in the 21st Century.
China is actively doing dramatically more to deal with climate change than the US is under Trump.
China is actively doing dramatically more to deal with climate change than the US is under Trump.
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The US is pretty isolated these days. My vote is that the G-20 should proceed to limit US involvement (or in fact kick it out of the club) until such time that the US administration decides that things outside of its borders really matter to it. If the US really wants isolation, I say let them see how it is to be exactly that once the next G20 rolls around. I think that would be an interesting experiment!
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The addition of fossil CO2 to the atmosphere, safely sequestered by Nature for hundreds of millions of years, is a existential threat to civilization. It is time for the rest of the world to impose economic sanctions against the US. Under Trump and Koch, the US is far more a threat to world order in the coming century than North Korea, Al Baghdadi or Iran.
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The US is a threat to the clean air, water, climate change and health of the globe. It has become increasingly unhealthy to live in the land I love.
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Go live in Beijing if you want to see real pollution. Their Co2 emissions are double the U.S. and their air quality shows it.
The U.S. has already started moving toward non polluting energy and will continue to do that because it makes sense. Writing a check for 3 billion dollars to a group that has yet to take any real action when that money could go toward homeowner rebates for solar roof panels in the south where most homes run air conditioners makes no sense if you really want to reduce emissions and have an impact on climate and energy. It seems like most people just want to blame Trump for everything which is starting to wear thin outside of the NYTimes echo chamber.
The U.S. has already started moving toward non polluting energy and will continue to do that because it makes sense. Writing a check for 3 billion dollars to a group that has yet to take any real action when that money could go toward homeowner rebates for solar roof panels in the south where most homes run air conditioners makes no sense if you really want to reduce emissions and have an impact on climate and energy. It seems like most people just want to blame Trump for everything which is starting to wear thin outside of the NYTimes echo chamber.
The protests in Hamburg won't hurt Angela Merkel. As the new leader of the free world, she is to be strongly admired for her stand for what is right and decent, whereas Trump is becoming more and more a reactionary cipher. More power to Ms. Merkel as she continues down the path of sanity.
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We will start more wars, we will have our special forces and intelligence agencies working hard to destabilize emerging nations, so as to increase the flow of refugees to Europe and prevent those nations from developing. Simultaneously we will be declaring how great we are, and how they should emulate us.
It’s closer to economic hegemony as foreign policy;
corporations seek ‘opportunities’, markets, resources, and control of regions…
foreign policy is crafted to serve those ends. …
pretty language suggesting otherwise is advertising.
I’m curious what you think anyone there in the past did to alleviate the situation rather than exacerbate the same.
It’s closer to economic hegemony as foreign policy;
corporations seek ‘opportunities’, markets, resources, and control of regions…
foreign policy is crafted to serve those ends. …
pretty language suggesting otherwise is advertising.
I’m curious what you think anyone there in the past did to alleviate the situation rather than exacerbate the same.
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On the global warming issue, time is crucial. Our current standard of living is based on fossil fuel energy and the world needs to evolve away from fossil fuels to avoid catastrophe. World use of these fuels is a major contributing factor to global warming. The evidence is overwhelming. So should we be concerned that warming is harmful to the civilization? Yes, because the warming planet is increasing the risk of thawing the Arctic permafrost and releasing billions of tons of heat trapping (global warming) gasses. This risk is real because the release of gasses from thawing permafrost and frozen methane on the ocean bottom can cause global warming to runaway and create miserable conditions for life. Everyone knows the consequences for the food supply, wilding weather, ocean acidification, and economic stability, etc.
So the sooner we deploy technology solutions to stop using fossil fuels, the better. Economic history shows that for a replacement technology to be successful it must create even a better quality of life, i.e., a mass flourishing, to be accepted by markets. These technologies are coming in the form of electric cars, mass transit, solar cell panels, and windmills. My plea is to realize that the US needs to take market leadership in the new technologies. Cheap space-based solar power is being investigated in Japan and Germany. The idea and practical know-how for doing this has been described by James Powell, the inventor of superconducting Maglev
So the sooner we deploy technology solutions to stop using fossil fuels, the better. Economic history shows that for a replacement technology to be successful it must create even a better quality of life, i.e., a mass flourishing, to be accepted by markets. These technologies are coming in the form of electric cars, mass transit, solar cell panels, and windmills. My plea is to realize that the US needs to take market leadership in the new technologies. Cheap space-based solar power is being investigated in Japan and Germany. The idea and practical know-how for doing this has been described by James Powell, the inventor of superconducting Maglev
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Oops, I said space solar is being investigated in Japan and Germany. This is NOT correct. I should have said, Japan and China.
This is an opportunity that should not be missed. In James Powell's recent book, "Silent Earth" and his soon to be published "Spaceship Earth", he makes a brilliant case for this approach.
I don't think that many understand that for the World to have a decent standard of living humanity will need to generate a lot more electricity.
Today’s world primary energy consumption is 150,000 Billion Kilowatt hours (KWH), annually, 20,000 KWH for each person on Earth. In 2050, it will increase to 250,000 Billion Kilowatt hours, 30,000 KWH for each of the 9 Billion people alive then.
It will be impossible to generate that much electricity with wind & solar because of the amount of land area required for each KWH. We should try to collect energy from every technology, Ocean Thermal has potential but given we need to reach non-fossil energy capacity that is cheaper than fossil fuel by mid century we should try to carry out Powell's proposal. He projects, electricity at 2 cents per KWH. It will create a new economic index. Clearly we need this form of energy to flourish, rather than perish.
Dr. Powell sent his proposal for developing the space solar technology to the President. The launch system is modular so the risks to test the technology is very low.
VP Pence recently proposed a more vigorous NASA effort. This would be an outstanding mission.
This is an opportunity that should not be missed. In James Powell's recent book, "Silent Earth" and his soon to be published "Spaceship Earth", he makes a brilliant case for this approach.
I don't think that many understand that for the World to have a decent standard of living humanity will need to generate a lot more electricity.
Today’s world primary energy consumption is 150,000 Billion Kilowatt hours (KWH), annually, 20,000 KWH for each person on Earth. In 2050, it will increase to 250,000 Billion Kilowatt hours, 30,000 KWH for each of the 9 Billion people alive then.
It will be impossible to generate that much electricity with wind & solar because of the amount of land area required for each KWH. We should try to collect energy from every technology, Ocean Thermal has potential but given we need to reach non-fossil energy capacity that is cheaper than fossil fuel by mid century we should try to carry out Powell's proposal. He projects, electricity at 2 cents per KWH. It will create a new economic index. Clearly we need this form of energy to flourish, rather than perish.
Dr. Powell sent his proposal for developing the space solar technology to the President. The launch system is modular so the risks to test the technology is very low.
VP Pence recently proposed a more vigorous NASA effort. This would be an outstanding mission.
Unfortunately the media are concentrating on Mr. Trump and the "black block" riots. However, the actions recommended by the Paris treaty do not show any positive effects on the emission of CO2 and other gases. Ms Merkel is talking a lot but has not succeeded to reduce the climate critical gas emissions in Germany despite a lot of actions which increased the cost of energy, car prices and building construction for German citizens. The climate goals for 2020 will not be achieved. The reduction of emissions by cars is a fake based on tricky specifications. Industries which require great amounts of energy are moved out to other countries. Ms Merkel wants to cooperate with China selling its coal technology to developing countries etc
It is time to check the results and not to praise the plans. More money should be spent on worldwide climate reporting and analysis technology!
Unfortunately Mr Trump wants to cut research money. The rest of the world does not spend on down to earth climate research either.
The climate scientists try to get money for desaster reports and computer models which have not enough real data in order to produce meaningfull forecasts.
Mr Trump is right to stop the climate BAU in US. However, a reset and new action is required.
It is time to check the results and not to praise the plans. More money should be spent on worldwide climate reporting and analysis technology!
Unfortunately Mr Trump wants to cut research money. The rest of the world does not spend on down to earth climate research either.
The climate scientists try to get money for desaster reports and computer models which have not enough real data in order to produce meaningfull forecasts.
Mr Trump is right to stop the climate BAU in US. However, a reset and new action is required.
There was a Time when America would Lead. Mr. Trump has No interest in Leading World Nations. He makes that quite clear with his America First Stance.
We all Want America to Prosper, We can not Prosper if the world doesn't prosper too.
We all Want America to Prosper, We can not Prosper if the world doesn't prosper too.
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Trump wisdom:
“Nothing’s easy,” Mr. Trump said of the gathering on Saturday....
Hours later, at the start of a high-stakes meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Trump vowed to confront the threat posed by North Korea “one way or the other,” ....
“It may take longer than I’d like, it may take longer than you’d like, but there will be success in the end, one way or the other,” Mr. Trump said. “Something has to be done about it.”
Okay, we'll get right on it, Don. Good lord, what an embarrassment for the USA. Given a chance to vote for the most feared and despised nation in the world, might the USA beat NK and all others? I think probably so.
Trump wisdom:
“Nothing’s easy,” Mr. Trump said of the gathering on Saturday....
Hours later, at the start of a high-stakes meeting with President Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Trump vowed to confront the threat posed by North Korea “one way or the other,” ....
“It may take longer than I’d like, it may take longer than you’d like, but there will be success in the end, one way or the other,” Mr. Trump said. “Something has to be done about it.”
Okay, we'll get right on it, Don. Good lord, what an embarrassment for the USA. Given a chance to vote for the most feared and despised nation in the world, might the USA beat NK and all others? I think probably so.
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Interesting photo that accompanies the article.
While the other world leaders seated at the table are looking straight ahead at, presumably, a figure or object of interest standing (or placed) before them, Donald Trump is staring upward and outward, in a child-like gaze, in a look of bewilderment and befuddlement.
He appears to have zero interest in what is happening, does not know what has transpired, and is incapable of knowing what is happening. He is mentally present in an orbit of himself.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, that G-20 summit photo is priceless.
While the other world leaders seated at the table are looking straight ahead at, presumably, a figure or object of interest standing (or placed) before them, Donald Trump is staring upward and outward, in a child-like gaze, in a look of bewilderment and befuddlement.
He appears to have zero interest in what is happening, does not know what has transpired, and is incapable of knowing what is happening. He is mentally present in an orbit of himself.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, that G-20 summit photo is priceless.
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Trump wants to make sure he is prominently in the photo and cares not that he is blocking the view of those on the other side of him. ... And, who is that at this end of the table?
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What the Trump administration has done, is cutting off the US from Trillions and Trillions of dollars of future revenue by trying to crush Clean Tech and moving the US away from it. The Best Analogy I can think of is the US and Teddy Roosevelt trying to kill Ford's Model T and the production of the new automobile, because the Koch Brothers owned a lot of horse and buggy factories.
Even Norway, who is sitting on all the North Sea oil, has committed to be fossil fuel free by 2020. Germany is already 80% there. And China who everyone is trying to vilify loves what Trump is doing, because they are the largest manufacturer and exporter of solar cells. Because they know, that is where the future is headed.
Even Norway, who is sitting on all the North Sea oil, has committed to be fossil fuel free by 2020. Germany is already 80% there. And China who everyone is trying to vilify loves what Trump is doing, because they are the largest manufacturer and exporter of solar cells. Because they know, that is where the future is headed.
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So which country is going to pick up the $10's of billions that Obama was trying to give away? Betting there are not many takers on that.
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I've notice the Paris Accord opposition repeatedly mention the continued growth of Chinese and Indian emissions as justification for U.S. withdrawal. This is faulty reasoning. You're not going to get China and India to agree to any deal that places them on an equivalent playing field as the United States and Europe. We've polluted far more for far longer than either nation. There's also a more practical reason they can't reduce emissions as quickly.
Their energy infrastructure is relatively new. You're not going to find private industries abandoning expensive hardware in countries that already suffer energy coverage problems. New investment should be made in renewable or nuclear but you have to allow time for the existing infrastructure to depreciate.
Finally, rejection of the Paris Accord is a retreat from U.S. global hegemony. We've just created a power vacuum on climate change that Germany is struggling to fill. Someone is going to step in to fill the void. Whoever steps up will control the debate and likely win the spoils of the vast economic market emerging around climate change.
Yes, the United States receives unequal treatment under the Paris Accord but it's not a bad deal.
Their energy infrastructure is relatively new. You're not going to find private industries abandoning expensive hardware in countries that already suffer energy coverage problems. New investment should be made in renewable or nuclear but you have to allow time for the existing infrastructure to depreciate.
Finally, rejection of the Paris Accord is a retreat from U.S. global hegemony. We've just created a power vacuum on climate change that Germany is struggling to fill. Someone is going to step in to fill the void. Whoever steps up will control the debate and likely win the spoils of the vast economic market emerging around climate change.
Yes, the United States receives unequal treatment under the Paris Accord but it's not a bad deal.
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Trump "would order the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to a new international public-private partnership to aid midsize businesses run by women, a group that his daughter Ivanka Trump helped create." How many women will benefit from this initiative?
In May Trump cut aid for family planning that would hurt millions of women across the globe who embrace birth control. Melinda Gates said contraceptives were 'anti-poverty innovation'. But First daughter got her way. It shows how mind-bloggling Trump's dynastic rule is.
In May Trump cut aid for family planning that would hurt millions of women across the globe who embrace birth control. Melinda Gates said contraceptives were 'anti-poverty innovation'. But First daughter got her way. It shows how mind-bloggling Trump's dynastic rule is.
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What have they got to lose in the first place? The only one paying for this GLOBAL INITIATIVE was the USA. At least he is not agreeing to pay other wealthy States who are not required to pay into any fund or curtail their footprints.
However, I'll bet he would be very interested in speaking with them about a fair distribution of the efforts. He never said he was not interested in participating in a Global Initiative to curtail the human footprint. He simply said, by in large we out pace all of the others as it stands and that there is no reason we should have to pay more than our share.
Same for all the crushing fair trade pacts that are not in any way favorable to the USA.
#MAGA
However, I'll bet he would be very interested in speaking with them about a fair distribution of the efforts. He never said he was not interested in participating in a Global Initiative to curtail the human footprint. He simply said, by in large we out pace all of the others as it stands and that there is no reason we should have to pay more than our share.
Same for all the crushing fair trade pacts that are not in any way favorable to the USA.
#MAGA
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If embracing birth control when and where it is needed creates a business model to trade in death and parts sales we need to rethink our standards.
Improving our earthly environment should have the same thought go into it.
The imagined problems of 200 years from now really should not out way today's carnage.
Improving our earthly environment should have the same thought go into it.
The imagined problems of 200 years from now really should not out way today's carnage.
Trump is like a kid who is invited to the birthday party of someone he doesn't like, but the whole class was invited, and he went because of the cake and goodie bags. His treat was a private meeting with his bromance-buddy Putin, and a chance to air his all too tired and trite story about himself on a world stage. He is an embarrassment not only to the office of the Presidency, but to world leaders everywhere. Even the Poles and Germans had the good sense to protest him. Too bad he didn't come down with a case of dysentery and been unable to travel. Just as by-the-way, saw a photo of Melania at a microphone. Would be interested if the First Lady of Mystery had anything of substance to say. I know she doesn't like holding his hand, but is it because the man is repugnant, or does she have some mettle?
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So sad. The end of American leadership in the world. We cant be following a psychotic toddler, and if Trump ever comes to the UK he'll need troops to protect him from us
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Actually, the return of American leadership in the world. How can you quantify the USA as leaders if the have to buy the position. That's not leadership, that's pay to play. In the real world partnerships are designed to benefit all. These arrangements are doing nothing but weakening the US's ability to maintain it's position as a Global Power. China and India had to make zero concessions in this deal and were looking at receiving significant annual cash payments from the US. Why should the USA pay for China to correct their footprint. China is a very wealthy Nation and well capable of managing this without being subsidized by the USA. If anything, Trump should slam sanctions on them and other Nations who do not comply. Sanctions can be in the form of Tariff's for products imported into the USA. With any luck that will drive the price up and force US companies to bring mfg back to the US.
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Trump can't lead himself let alone anyone else and his cabinet is the most unqualified sychophants the world has seen coming out of a government that wasn't an authoritarian dictatorship.
If tweeting insults about American women, journalist and minorities is leadership then yes trump is # 1.
If trashing our democratic institutions to our foreign enemies and other dictators is leadership skills then yes we are #1. If bullying and acting like a world class jerk is leadership skills then trump is your hero but the rest of the world knows he is a dangerous and vastly unqualified imbecile.
Trump can't lead himself let alone anyone else and his cabinet is the most unqualified sychophants the world has seen coming out of a government that wasn't an authoritarian dictatorship.
If tweeting insults about American women, journalist and minorities is leadership then yes trump is # 1.
If trashing our democratic institutions to our foreign enemies and other dictators is leadership skills then yes we are #1. If bullying and acting like a world class jerk is leadership skills then trump is your hero but the rest of the world knows he is a dangerous and vastly unqualified imbecile.
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Two points here. And none of it is stuff I like but seems a new reality.
First, great pic accompanying article. The smug shot of Kushner makes you easily picture the thought-bubble, "Don't you wish you were me?"
No.
Then, this article immediately follows an article on the complete bombing of Mosul, by ISIL and coalition since the US/Iraq war. That's a Republican war created by Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld.
We have a US President about to set the same fate for US on climate change. Does he think the world won't notice? Who becomes the official hoax?
Can presidents and their administration be sued, if this is all a con? (That Trump never had any ideas towards achieving solutions. That he financially gained more than he gave? Is this what we should expect for being the benchmark for democratically elected political parties?)
Trumps no architect; he's a developer. He's less likely to give back more than he can take.
People place greater uproar when they're personally robbed. USA, you are being robbed.
Time to change your relationship, with matters like your president and the environment. We all need to take some personal responsibility.
This is now a global community. Or, do you really think this is an "alternative fact"?
First, great pic accompanying article. The smug shot of Kushner makes you easily picture the thought-bubble, "Don't you wish you were me?"
No.
Then, this article immediately follows an article on the complete bombing of Mosul, by ISIL and coalition since the US/Iraq war. That's a Republican war created by Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld.
We have a US President about to set the same fate for US on climate change. Does he think the world won't notice? Who becomes the official hoax?
Can presidents and their administration be sued, if this is all a con? (That Trump never had any ideas towards achieving solutions. That he financially gained more than he gave? Is this what we should expect for being the benchmark for democratically elected political parties?)
Trumps no architect; he's a developer. He's less likely to give back more than he can take.
People place greater uproar when they're personally robbed. USA, you are being robbed.
Time to change your relationship, with matters like your president and the environment. We all need to take some personal responsibility.
This is now a global community. Or, do you really think this is an "alternative fact"?
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The war was well on its way to being won when Bush/Cheney left office. ISIS didn't even exist. Obama announced the date certain US forces were withdrawing, giving terrorists a planning horizon. Obama withdrew on his pre-planned time table despite the fact that military leadership advised against bot announcing the withdrawal date and then following it. He fired the military leadership that disagreed with him in private.
Obama threw away the blood and treasure Americans had spent fighting terrorism and moving the war away from the American homeland. And then he snookered people like you into re-electing him by telling you the war on terror was over.
Leading from behind and appeasing the enemy is not a recipe for success. It has been tried before and leads to war.
Obama threw away the blood and treasure Americans had spent fighting terrorism and moving the war away from the American homeland. And then he snookered people like you into re-electing him by telling you the war on terror was over.
Leading from behind and appeasing the enemy is not a recipe for success. It has been tried before and leads to war.
Wow. Hamburg Germany. Who would have thought the chancellor would allow this kind of spectacle to take place. I don't see how she can be elected again. Mr. Putin must have been laughing all the way. Good Job, Mr. Trump. Meeting with Russia and China is all that mattered. The rest of these people are not important.
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The EU economy is bigger than the US. All tRump did was display his buffoonery in person to those who had only seen it on TV previously.
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Really? The only world leaders who have any importance are Putin and Xi Jinping? And Trump, for god's sake! The rest of them are "unimportant?" What was the "good job" that Trump did? Was it the bootlicking he did to Putin or having his unqualified daughter sit in for him? Trump was largely ignored by the real world leaders. And you think he did a good job? Amazing!
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The personification of the "Ugly American" at work. Very sad.
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Is there anything Trump cannot cheapen, sour, spoil, and ruin?
To be the fly in the dessert that will clean up the air, and then, in his supreme arrogance, to appoint his daughter to sit in for him, in direct violation of multiple US laws, not to mention decorum and decency. And then, Uday Hussein Trump, whose only "talent" besides being a rude, uncouth imbecile, is killing endangered species and waving their body parts around, insults, idiotically, anyone who QUESTIONS his father's illegal decision to "appoint" his daughter as his stand-in at THE major international summit conference.
Trump isn't just an embarrassment, and a disaster. He is a catastrophe for democracy, for the United States, and for the world.
Congress must remove him before it's too late...
To be the fly in the dessert that will clean up the air, and then, in his supreme arrogance, to appoint his daughter to sit in for him, in direct violation of multiple US laws, not to mention decorum and decency. And then, Uday Hussein Trump, whose only "talent" besides being a rude, uncouth imbecile, is killing endangered species and waving their body parts around, insults, idiotically, anyone who QUESTIONS his father's illegal decision to "appoint" his daughter as his stand-in at THE major international summit conference.
Trump isn't just an embarrassment, and a disaster. He is a catastrophe for democracy, for the United States, and for the world.
Congress must remove him before it's too late...
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World leaders move forward,
trump moves backwards.
Who voted for trump
the chump?
trump moves backwards.
Who voted for trump
the chump?
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Joe Smally -- I did Bubba - to do exactly what he is doing. You don't like it, too bad. Vote more often next time.
And those world leaders all basically have their hand out. Looking to the US. Too bad. The Paris Accord is a bad deal for us based on bad science.
And those world leaders all basically have their hand out. Looking to the US. Too bad. The Paris Accord is a bad deal for us based on bad science.
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He voted for Hillary multiple times. What more could he have done?
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World leaders move forward on (fill in the blank) without U.S.
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I consider myself a citizen of the state of California at this point. Not by choice, but forced to by a "president" with visions of 1950 dancing in his head. No thanks! We will forge ahead without the Dimwit in Chief.
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A very strong and proud stance. You would have been right at home with that same stance in South Carolina in 1861.
We are US citizens and should disagree with the President when we feel he or she is acting or governing in an inappropriate manner. The election is over and as as former President Obama said: "Elections have consequences."
We are US citizens and should disagree with the President when we feel he or she is acting or governing in an inappropriate manner. The election is over and as as former President Obama said: "Elections have consequences."
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I agree with you Todd...I am a native Californian born and raised in the Bay area...Was excited to be back in CA to see the First Woman elected President. Our "illegal" votes gave her the popular vote..Still not good enough...Our house looked like the living dead the day after...6 months later back in Toronto I talk to my mom and she says 'oh, was there an election?" They just go on with their lives and do what they need to do. When my Canadian friends ask me how could we? I tell them don't look at me...i very proudly state that I am from California(the Left Coast)...WE didn't vote for him...
Love Californians- you crowd into one of the most ecologically unstable areas of the US, you don't have enough Estee and resources to sustain yourself and you want to go it alone? I can't wait to see wait Colorado charges you for water when you go.
It's surreal to watch the self-centered, ignorant, incompetent fool masquerading as our President dismantle the United States' world leadership at lightning speed. And not in a good way.
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Ever eager to undo or one-up policies of his black predecessor, Trump is now leading from his own behind.
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Dear Donald Trump,...dude, the solution to North Korea requires a global solution...pressure from other countries to help the United States address this looming threat. Isolationism won't work. Kinda like that climate change thing. You know, the force that is destroying our planet while you are ridiculously body slamming CNN. Get Duh, complex issues like nuclear disarmament and health care require complex partnerships and not just with your friends.
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Good, they can pay for it......
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Just think, Trump will now be able to have some dirty water with his Russian Dressing. My, the NY Times and MSM won't know what to say next.
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Down here in Texas temperatures have hovered between 90 & the low 100s nearly every day since the end of May. We had a cool spell last week, with lows in the mere upper 80s, but we bounced back to around 95 for several days, & temps are projected to go back into the low 100s & stay there.
Of course, we haven't even reached the hottest month of August, but if the past few summers are any indication, it's going to be brutal. With next to no rain, the earth here is scorching. Thrifty homeowners are xeriscaping their yards, replacing water-thirsty grass with rocks & cacti, because we have to ration water.
So much for the notion that God blesses the fanatically right-wing (an idea that our science-denying lieutenant governor enjoys comforting himself with.) People stay indoors all day, which can't be good for general productivity or health, & goodness knows how much pollution our millions of air conditioners are spewing into the air. But hey, most women can't get an abortion now, we have one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, & we can shoot pigs from hot air balloons with machine guns.
That's the tradeoff our gerrymandered legislature is willing to make to please their religious zealot donors, who claim the dinosaurs on Noah's Ark died because they were too young to breed.
One good thing about climate change here is that, as Texas continues to turn into a massive desert, there is plenty more sand for people to keep sticking their heads into!
Of course, we haven't even reached the hottest month of August, but if the past few summers are any indication, it's going to be brutal. With next to no rain, the earth here is scorching. Thrifty homeowners are xeriscaping their yards, replacing water-thirsty grass with rocks & cacti, because we have to ration water.
So much for the notion that God blesses the fanatically right-wing (an idea that our science-denying lieutenant governor enjoys comforting himself with.) People stay indoors all day, which can't be good for general productivity or health, & goodness knows how much pollution our millions of air conditioners are spewing into the air. But hey, most women can't get an abortion now, we have one of the highest maternal death rates in the world, & we can shoot pigs from hot air balloons with machine guns.
That's the tradeoff our gerrymandered legislature is willing to make to please their religious zealot donors, who claim the dinosaurs on Noah's Ark died because they were too young to breed.
One good thing about climate change here is that, as Texas continues to turn into a massive desert, there is plenty more sand for people to keep sticking their heads into!
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An incredibly sad and accurate read.
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Allison -- near as I can recall, it's always hot during the summers in Texas. Now, I checked on Climate at a Glance -- the NOAA website with US and global historical temp data -- and you've had a couple of hot recent July and August years -- but for the most part the avg temp varies year to year. Any warming you experience is probably due to the Urban Heat Island effect as most large US towns and cities have grown quite dramatically -- building more roads, high rises, restaurants, etc., and cutting down trees. Austin's population is almost a million now, the metro area 2 million. Back in 1900 Austin had 22,000 people.
Yes, and back in 1900 the world had less than 2 billion people in it. When I was born there were just over 3 billion. In my lifetime we have added 4 billion. In one short generation we have added twice as many people to this planet than were added over its first two millenia. Overpopulation and human pollution are killing life on the planet, but you just keep on looking for excuses, Ralphie! I certainly hope that you don't have any kids or grandkids, for their sake, because the planet isn't going to be very hospitable to upcoming generations.
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The usual Trump bashing and, not unexpectedly,not one word about Mayor DeBlasio's trip to Germany to join his fellow anarchists rioting in the streets of Hamburg. This coming a few days after the murder of the female cop and during the graduation ceremony of the newest class of NYC police officers. The man is an absolute disgrace and it would have been wonderful to see the nations law enforcement officers in town for her funeral once again turn their backs on this pathetic man.
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We don't have a noble leader: we have a selfish man who may have stole the election with the help of you know who.
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Trump probably believes the earth is flat too. He is education deficient and chose equally ignorant people for the EPA. For them science is fake news. They will learn otherwise and soon. Meanwhile why dont they at least READ some real climate news! Science is here to stay and they aren't.
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the issue is over population, the effect is a mild effect on climate change coupled with the normal earth cycles.
The best thing the world can do is reduce the world population
I have recommendations on where to start...
The best thing the world can do is reduce the world population
I have recommendations on where to start...
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It is not a victory for 19 societies to ignore the realities of 2017 and commit to the imaginings of 2117. It is the same trick on the populous that has been used since the Pharaohs.
The greater good is always good for the greater and not for the population at large. Ms. Merkel, Xi Jinping, Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Al Gore et al will give up nothing and perhaps reap benefits from others sacrifice and claim praise for doing so.
It's not news, but it is disconcerting that each generation has dolts who blindly follow the herd and facilitate these thieves.
Bravo Donald.
The greater good is always good for the greater and not for the population at large. Ms. Merkel, Xi Jinping, Barack Obama, Emmanuel Macron, Al Gore et al will give up nothing and perhaps reap benefits from others sacrifice and claim praise for doing so.
It's not news, but it is disconcerting that each generation has dolts who blindly follow the herd and facilitate these thieves.
Bravo Donald.
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What this headline says to me is that with Trump as president the United States is no longer a world leader. Yes, Trump has the power that goes with being president, but because of the way he conducts himself on the world stage, his uncouth, unbecoming, bullying behavior, and his utter ignorance of policy specifics, Trump has disgraces our nation on the world stage twice now. Trump has managed in less than six months to make the US the world's laughingstock. Not great, to be sure.
DD
Manhattan
DD
Manhattan
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This is just another blip in a series of blips. Trump is a disaster for the US and the world, but there are many leaders worldwide both now and in recent years who have been the same. Those who start wars, those who perpetuate the dark ages, those who plunder their nations for their own benefit. But Trump will pass, as others have, and real leaders will rise up. The pity is not just how much work will have to be done to fix the damage, but that we dont seem to see it each time.
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Once again the Times is in hyperventilation mode. The US will in all likelihood meet the goals set out in the treaty regardless.
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The world has finally been put on notice by an administration that has America's best interest in mind, that America will no longer foot the bill for bloodsucking globalists who want to confiscate our cash and our freedom. After 8 horrid years of an American president flipping Americans the bird, I say it's about time.
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What was so "horrid" about the Obama years? Was it how it pulled us out of Bush's recession? Or how the stock market soared? Was it how he got bin-Ladin? Was it all the jobs that were created? I don't understand what was so terribly awful...unless, of course, you mean President Obama did all that and a whole lot more while having the nerve to be black.
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Nice headline. Probably the least important part of the whole conference yet a headline designed once again to cast aspersions on the Trump Administration.
International newspapers report Trump had a pretty successful conference with the US front and centre in all issues. That America first stuff. Let's see: a widely hailed speech in Poland that sets the course for western civilization and sends a strong message to the Brussels elite to get their act together, a reaffirmation of NATO and article five, a relationship initiated with Putin and re-affirmed with Xi, leaders of the two countries vastly more important than a sputtering EU, promises of an advantageous trade agreement with a post Brexit UK that just might have helped stabilize the U.K. Government... What else? Oh, the concrete development of Ivanka Trump's initiative to help women entrepreneurs around the globe.
Too bad I can't read about this in the NY Times. Instead I get breathless headlines that Don Jr. had a twenty minute meeting with a Russian lawyer way back when. Or constantly reminded to get the "California Today" newsletter the NY Times promotes as a swipe at the current Administration. You know there's treason going on out there, right?
I keep my subscription because of the excellent NYT Cooking which is no longer free. I must admit though even here the NY Times shows strong bias. Eggplant. No one eats eggplant outside of NYC or LA.
International newspapers report Trump had a pretty successful conference with the US front and centre in all issues. That America first stuff. Let's see: a widely hailed speech in Poland that sets the course for western civilization and sends a strong message to the Brussels elite to get their act together, a reaffirmation of NATO and article five, a relationship initiated with Putin and re-affirmed with Xi, leaders of the two countries vastly more important than a sputtering EU, promises of an advantageous trade agreement with a post Brexit UK that just might have helped stabilize the U.K. Government... What else? Oh, the concrete development of Ivanka Trump's initiative to help women entrepreneurs around the globe.
Too bad I can't read about this in the NY Times. Instead I get breathless headlines that Don Jr. had a twenty minute meeting with a Russian lawyer way back when. Or constantly reminded to get the "California Today" newsletter the NY Times promotes as a swipe at the current Administration. You know there's treason going on out there, right?
I keep my subscription because of the excellent NYT Cooking which is no longer free. I must admit though even here the NY Times shows strong bias. Eggplant. No one eats eggplant outside of NYC or LA.
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That's not how things read in the Canadian papers. Whose news are you reading?
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We hope you join us again in 3.5 years.
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This is what leading from behind really means.
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Two points here. And none of it is stuff I'd like to think.
First, great pic accompanying article. The smug shot of Kushner can easily picture the thought-bubble, "Don't you wish you were me?"
Then, this article immediately comes after an article on the complete bombing of Mosul, by ISIL and coalition since the US/Iraq war. That's a Republican war under Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld.
We have a US President about to set the same fate for US on climate change. Does he think the world won't notice? Who becomes the official hoax?
Can presidents and their administration be sued, if this is all a con? (That Trump never had any ideas towards achieving solutions. That he financially gained more than he gave? Is this what we expect is the benchmark for democratically elected political parties?)
People place greater uproar when they're personally robbed. USA, you are being robbed.
Time to change your relationship with the environment. We all need to take responsibility.
First, great pic accompanying article. The smug shot of Kushner can easily picture the thought-bubble, "Don't you wish you were me?"
Then, this article immediately comes after an article on the complete bombing of Mosul, by ISIL and coalition since the US/Iraq war. That's a Republican war under Cheney/Bush/Rumsfeld.
We have a US President about to set the same fate for US on climate change. Does he think the world won't notice? Who becomes the official hoax?
Can presidents and their administration be sued, if this is all a con? (That Trump never had any ideas towards achieving solutions. That he financially gained more than he gave? Is this what we expect is the benchmark for democratically elected political parties?)
People place greater uproar when they're personally robbed. USA, you are being robbed.
Time to change your relationship with the environment. We all need to take responsibility.
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Haven't you learned anything? When you underestimate Trump, you lose.
We all definitely underestimated the idiocy of Trump and his supporters.
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Trump appears to be becoming increasingly irrelevant at home and abroad . Remember his line that the world is laughing at us. Maybe they are now. Or maybe they pity us and worry what this clown might do.
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I am tired of "winning."
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Trump: Making America Irrelevant.
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No, making himself irrelevant. States and other leaders will take the lead while president punkin plays on Twitter.
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The feeling I get is that in every one of those 19 countries, their oil & coal barons must have been pushing its elected leaders the same way that ours do -- but ours is the only country venal enough to concede to them. It makes me unhappy to think that this is the official image that my country now presents to the world.
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This isn't news anymore. Trump is irrelevant.
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I am so pleased that we are out of the accord. The fake news began with the fake reporting of temperatures that has been reported for years.
Glad you are our President, Mr Trump....you are doing a good job despite the efforts of MSM and the Dems (one in the same) to lie, obstruct and make themselves look rather more foolish than they normally do.
Glad you are our President, Mr Trump....you are doing a good job despite the efforts of MSM and the Dems (one in the same) to lie, obstruct and make themselves look rather more foolish than they normally do.
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Putin is smiling. Sad. Believe me.
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A hoax and the perps have no end game. The sun causes climate change. Not you. not me. Not carbon dioxide.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/joylyxgksrle4k0/It%27s%20not%20the%20heat....p...
I think they want to transfer your wealth to the presidents for life in Africa and Latin America.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/joylyxgksrle4k0/It%27s%20not%20the%20heat....p...
I think they want to transfer your wealth to the presidents for life in Africa and Latin America.
Moving forward without us? We lead the world in reducing pollution of all kinds. They are light years away from us and we do it without talking about it. Europe just wants our taxpayer money to spend as they always spend more than they have like our states and cities run by Democrats. President Trump is dead right to make the American Taxpayer first here and you need to support America first and stop being fake news.
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Trump is diminishing our country and retreating us from a world leader on all fronts, to an isolationists island unto our own, a sad day in American history.
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The Paris Accord is a non-binding agreement wherein signatories get to make up their own rules. The vast majority are corrupt, authoritarian regimes. Japan, a prosperous free democratic society, is already back tracking by announcing it wiill replace nuclear plants with coal plants. It is a charade.
It is G-1 Plus 19: US GDP per capita, $56,000; EU, $32,000; Russia, $9000; China, $8000.
It is G-1 Plus 19: US GDP per capita, $56,000; EU, $32,000; Russia, $9000; China, $8000.
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Have you ever watched a functioning illiterate read the newspaper? Some are so good, their eyes track just as a reader's would, their posture makes you think they are completely involved with their reading activity, yet they can't even read the word "the". They are incredible actors, until you ask them a question about what they were reading.
Trump's actions often remind me of that behavior. I don't think he comprehends half of what is going on, he just pretends -- then sticks to his campaign promise script because that's all he knows.
Trump's actions often remind me of that behavior. I don't think he comprehends half of what is going on, he just pretends -- then sticks to his campaign promise script because that's all he knows.
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We have a planetary Emergency..Vox News reported 90 %of Americans do not know there is a 90% agreement of scientists that humans are causing the Emergency..and Trump fights all our allies on the number 1 issue we must deal with
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They can sign all they want, but they have a history of not living up to their goals.
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God speed you great leaders of the world in your efforts to save this great gift from God.
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Yes, let them move forward and spend their own money, it's time the world invest in themselves rather than the US taxpayer flipping the bill for the everyone else's socialist Utopian dream !
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Obama signed into a bad climate change deal. It cost the US more then any nation and doesn't guarantee lower CO2 emmisions. Obama signed into bad trade deals too. Personally I don't like Trump but I am with him on the trade deals and the climate deal. We can do better.
And I can see why Merkel misses Clinton but I don't. It spared me seeing the Clinton Foundation taking in trillions and having the press insist there is nothing to see here.
And I can see why Merkel misses Clinton but I don't. It spared me seeing the Clinton Foundation taking in trillions and having the press insist there is nothing to see here.
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Correction: "World Leaders Move Forward On Talking About Climate Action as a Substitute for Doing Anything About It..."
COP21, or Convention of Parties 21, will fail to reduce global carbon emissions by one ounce, just as miserably as COPs 1-20 have before it since 1992. Apparently unaware of that fact, the Times and most readers bemoan President Trump's decision to back out of this meaningless accord as though it er, means something.
The Chinese, who had committed to building 21 carbon-free new nuclear plants before they joined the rest of the world for a Paris vacation, at least were justified in burning jet fuel to get there. Here in the U.S. we're closing nuclear plants, while emitting 3x the CO2 per capita of the Chinese and 5x that of Indians.
The problem of climate change is, more than any other party, our own to solve - and with highly-promoted "renewables" up against an impenetrable wall of intermittency, COP21 is only leading the rest of the world backwards.
COP21, or Convention of Parties 21, will fail to reduce global carbon emissions by one ounce, just as miserably as COPs 1-20 have before it since 1992. Apparently unaware of that fact, the Times and most readers bemoan President Trump's decision to back out of this meaningless accord as though it er, means something.
The Chinese, who had committed to building 21 carbon-free new nuclear plants before they joined the rest of the world for a Paris vacation, at least were justified in burning jet fuel to get there. Here in the U.S. we're closing nuclear plants, while emitting 3x the CO2 per capita of the Chinese and 5x that of Indians.
The problem of climate change is, more than any other party, our own to solve - and with highly-promoted "renewables" up against an impenetrable wall of intermittency, COP21 is only leading the rest of the world backwards.
Part of the Trump budget deal includes selling off the US Strategic Energy reserve to help balance the budget.
We appear to be selling it off at a relatively low point in oil prices when the world is awash in oil and technology allows us to get it any time we want or need it. It seems to me we can safely store it in the ground until prices or supply requires action. Selling this public asset at bargain prices to pay off debt when borrowing costs are at the lowest levels in most of our lifetimes seems foolish. I suspect the next time oil prices spike and supply is low the nation will be clamoring to refill it with high priced oil.
Obviously driving the price of oil down also destroys the market for alternate energy. Instead of selling off our reserves and putting tariffs on foreign goods, how about a carbon tax to help balance the budget while carbon based energy prices are at historically low prices?
We appear to be selling it off at a relatively low point in oil prices when the world is awash in oil and technology allows us to get it any time we want or need it. It seems to me we can safely store it in the ground until prices or supply requires action. Selling this public asset at bargain prices to pay off debt when borrowing costs are at the lowest levels in most of our lifetimes seems foolish. I suspect the next time oil prices spike and supply is low the nation will be clamoring to refill it with high priced oil.
Obviously driving the price of oil down also destroys the market for alternate energy. Instead of selling off our reserves and putting tariffs on foreign goods, how about a carbon tax to help balance the budget while carbon based energy prices are at historically low prices?
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"Mr. Trump would order the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to a new international public-private partnership to aid midsize businesses run by women, a group that his daughter Ivanka Trump helped create."
- anything shady here? and this is the same guy who complained about the Clinton foundation?
- anything shady here? and this is the same guy who complained about the Clinton foundation?
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What would we try to make sense of anything trump says at these meetings. He has absolutely no clues about what the issues are, he keep saying thinks like " I think we can make something big happen, I don't know " or other meaningless sentences. Can we just accept the fact that for the time he is in the white house, we have an average business man reading statements written for him and who has no long term views on current affairs
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What infuriates and embarrasses me most is the idea rhat one man claims the power to decide such an important issue in the name of 300 million people. I am sure there are many Americans who agree with him, and I acknowledge that such presidential power has grown in increments over the course of several administrations both left and right. This moment in our history, if nothing else, demonstrates the folly of so much power in the hands of one person. It is a reminder that the proper function of the executive branch should be to initiate policy and to encourage legislation - not to issue proclamations. If the presidents initiatives regarding climate control had passed through congress and become law, then at least the record would reveal to the world how much of America was in agreement or disagreement with him. As it is, only our resistance and rebellion can demonstrate such.
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I'm not sure whether your comment was aimed at President Trump or President Obama. Obama signed onto the Paris accord without any congressional or legislative actions and President Trump withdrew from it in the same way.
It is the exercise of the power that concerns you or the exercise of those powers by Trump.
It is the exercise of the power that concerns you or the exercise of those powers by Trump.
"I used to be an anarchist, but there were too many rules," is a joke that shows that anarchy is not about chaos and disorder. But this article says:
"...anarchists who saw the G-20 as a perfect platform for their rejection of capitalism and order."
Anarchy means "no king." It doesn't mean "rejection of order." The most common element of anarchists is their belief that state violence does not create order. Anarchism is the voluntary creation of order through discussion and consensus.
For anarchists the mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders, attacks on indigenous people in their treaty lands for opposing pipelines, the corruption of the 75th precinct in Brooklyn (see The Seven Five), the town of Ferguson shaking down poor minority residents (see the Justice Department report), Trump, the War in Iraq, the theft of millions of homes by global bankers with fraudulent paper work, the backing of dictators who let corporations to steal their resources,, etc., are just a few of the examples from history of how state violence creates disorder and injustice at least as often as it's opposite.
And those that try to discredit anarchy, by saying that life without political subjugation is "rejection of order" are lying about what anarchism means in an attempt to equate their political violence with public safety.
I'm not an anarchist, but the constant attempts by global corporate mass media to paint anarchy as synonymous to chaos and disorder is propaganda.
"...anarchists who saw the G-20 as a perfect platform for their rejection of capitalism and order."
Anarchy means "no king." It doesn't mean "rejection of order." The most common element of anarchists is their belief that state violence does not create order. Anarchism is the voluntary creation of order through discussion and consensus.
For anarchists the mass incarceration of non-violent drug offenders, attacks on indigenous people in their treaty lands for opposing pipelines, the corruption of the 75th precinct in Brooklyn (see The Seven Five), the town of Ferguson shaking down poor minority residents (see the Justice Department report), Trump, the War in Iraq, the theft of millions of homes by global bankers with fraudulent paper work, the backing of dictators who let corporations to steal their resources,, etc., are just a few of the examples from history of how state violence creates disorder and injustice at least as often as it's opposite.
And those that try to discredit anarchy, by saying that life without political subjugation is "rejection of order" are lying about what anarchism means in an attempt to equate their political violence with public safety.
I'm not an anarchist, but the constant attempts by global corporate mass media to paint anarchy as synonymous to chaos and disorder is propaganda.
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The Paris accord said that the USA would reduce emission by 26% over 2005,level and would do so by 2025. China and India would increase emissions until 2030. The USA would contribute $3B a year to a anti-pollution fund. China, Russia and India would contribute $0. Certainly not fair to the USA. If Paris accord was really aimed to reduce man made polluting it would be easy to have every nation reduce pollutions by the same percent. Before criticizing, it would be nice to have the facts.
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The US pulling out of the climate accords may be a blessing. For American cities and many States -- yes there are many red states in that mix-- will continue to enact renewable energy standards consistent with their policies. Gov. Brown's drive to have a climate summit in CA is a step in that direction.
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What I find difficult to understand is why DT, who is so wealth conscious, sees no risks in Global Warming.
He owns I gather numerous sea shore golf courses and the risk that these will be the first to go under with rising sea levels seems like a good reason to work on reducing Global Warming.
He owns I gather numerous sea shore golf courses and the risk that these will be the first to go under with rising sea levels seems like a good reason to work on reducing Global Warming.
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If we do not reduce dependency on fossil fuels--which remain as civilization's primary and very finite energy source--G20 is going to approach G (0) over the next few decades.
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It is not "the stark divide between the United States and the rest", it is the stark divide between the President of the United States and the rest. Different thing altogether.
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The rest of the world assumes that Trump will be a one term President and that his influence will evaporate completely when the next presidential nomination process kicks in. That is a very short span of time as far as climate accords are concerned. Merkel exploits freely for her German election agenda what is not that consequential development on the part of the US. In short, Trump is offering himself and the US to be taken advantage of by Germany (let alone, PRC). Macron looks more straightforward and business-like, because he has just won election and expects to be there for 10 years.
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"Mr. Trump would order the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to a new international public-private partnership to aid midsize businesses run by women, a group that his daughter Ivanka Trump helped create."
Public-private? How much is public and how much a private for profit enterprise. How much more tax payers money will be siphoned off to family members?
And from foreign-aid? Foreign Aid is payment for a slew of things - something more valuable is always wanted in return, be it allegiance, bases, dirty laundry operations etc.
Public-private? How much is public and how much a private for profit enterprise. How much more tax payers money will be siphoned off to family members?
And from foreign-aid? Foreign Aid is payment for a slew of things - something more valuable is always wanted in return, be it allegiance, bases, dirty laundry operations etc.
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So the G-20 is now in effect the G-19. Stay with it world even without us.
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The Paris accords are unquestionably slanted against US interests. It seems the definition of "leadership" on these pages is that the US must bear the economic burden of climate change and passively accept the priorities that are set by other countries in those countries own interests. At the same time, little is said about the massive dumping of plastics by China and its neighbors into the oceans, the depletion of fisheries by the Japanese, nor the economic war against large US industries - Apple, Alphabet and others - undertaken but the EU. It is a shame that the current animus directed at POTUS aligns with those whose interests are not beneficial to the US.
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"It seems the definition of "leadership" on these pages is that the US must bear the economic burden of climate change and passively accept the priorities" ...
That's right, when you consider that the U.S. has more emissions of CO2 per capita than any other country in the world, with a mere 4% of the world's population. Taking population out of the mix, the U.S. is the second-largest polluter in the world, right behind China. Ever hear of externalities?
That's right, when you consider that the U.S. has more emissions of CO2 per capita than any other country in the world, with a mere 4% of the world's population. Taking population out of the mix, the U.S. is the second-largest polluter in the world, right behind China. Ever hear of externalities?
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A lot of what you say I agree with. In the end though it will be about the world not just the US.
Do you understand that the Paris Accords are not a treaty, meaning everything in it is voluntary - goals each country sets and tries to achieve for a cleaner plane for ALL. Do you know that? Our President doesn't.
As for aligning with anti-US interests, how do YOU feel about POTUS aligning himself with Putin and against US Security organizations. Russia tries to influence our elections and Trump believes Putin! Pretty darn sad!
As for aligning with anti-US interests, how do YOU feel about POTUS aligning himself with Putin and against US Security organizations. Russia tries to influence our elections and Trump believes Putin! Pretty darn sad!
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"Ivanka Trump briefly sat in for her father, President Trump, during a session on Saturday at the Group of 20 summit meeting in Hamburg, "
Can my Aunt Flo sit in next time she's as unqualified as Ivanka Trump.
Can my Aunt Flo sit in next time she's as unqualified as Ivanka Trump.
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I doubt that Ivanka is any less qualified than her father.
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I had several aunts similar to your Aunt Flo. I liked them and miss them, especially Aunt Betty. They are all dead. I guess I should not worry, as she, Ivanka that is, has everything under control. We, AmeriKans that is, just don't know how lucky we are to have Ivanka and Jared working for us. And we will be a better country, we just don't know it yet. For the life of me cannot figure out how this will all end, but something tells me, that it will not be good.
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Interesting photo with this article.
Trump looks like a turkey looking for the corn pan.
Kushner looks like the fox guarding the hen house.
Trump looks like a turkey looking for the corn pan.
Kushner looks like the fox guarding the hen house.
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I just replied to a commenter who called into question the consensus on human contributions to global warming and climate change. I provided the link to a recent refutation of the commenter's position that is based on six independent studies on the topic of consensus and thought I would provide it here in a general comment for those who might wish to read the paper or its conclusions and retain a good reference on the subject for any future discussions with others. (Disclaimer: I am not an author and have no personal stake or relationship with any author.)
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002/meta#erl...
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 11, Number 4
13 April 2016
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
John Cook et al
Brief excerpt from the Abstract:
"The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper."
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/4/048002/meta#erl...
Environmental Research Letters, Volume 11, Number 4
13 April 2016
Consensus on consensus: a synthesis of consensus estimates on human-caused global warming
John Cook et al
Brief excerpt from the Abstract:
"The consensus that humans are causing recent global warming is shared by 90%–100% of publishing climate scientists according to six independent studies by co-authors of this paper."
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Rather cool here in Westchester this morning.
Clearly no "greenhouse" here.
You need to get a grip.
Clearly no "greenhouse" here.
You need to get a grip.
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The G-19. I like the sound of that.
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If any other countries want to reduce carbon emissions, and thereby cut production, the U.S. will benefit by increasing production to fill the void. We need the jobs. Trump is the best for pulling us out of the unfair Paris Accord. I am so happy I voted for Trump. I will definitely vote for him in 2020.
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And I am so happy that I did not vote for Trump because I can look in the mirror and still like and respect what I see. Please tell me exactly what is so "unfair" about the Paris Accord. When did you read it? What do you dislike about it? How will the U.S. "fill the void" of carbon emissions...by making more of them? By polluting our air and water? What do you plan to drink once our water is toxic? What are these jobs that you think will magically happen now that we are not part of the Paris Accord? Please help me out here because I cannot follow your logic.
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US companies will follow the Paris Accords - they are not as foolish as you and Mr Trump and want to continue to sell to those countries. It's called BUSINESS sense and they have it - you and Mr Trump do not!
As for 'creating jobs' - 21st century jobs will be in NEW energy sources. No one is building new coal mines and those jobs are gone!
Go ahead and vote for this loser on 2020, I bet most people will be smarter than you. Most were in 2016 - 3 million MORE voted for Hillary Clinton.
As for 'creating jobs' - 21st century jobs will be in NEW energy sources. No one is building new coal mines and those jobs are gone!
Go ahead and vote for this loser on 2020, I bet most people will be smarter than you. Most were in 2016 - 3 million MORE voted for Hillary Clinton.
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And what did the summit actually accomplish? "A policy blueprint and goals for next meeting". In other words just a lot of talk and no action. And Obama committed 3 billion dollars to this group in 2014 and its 2017 and they are still working on the blueprint? Sounds like a waste of time and money.
U.S. states are already committed to replacing coal plants with renewable energy because it just makes sense. Let's use that 3 billion dollars to do something like create incentives for install solar panel roofs as appropriate and upgrade transportation infrastructure to get people less dependent on cars and more walking around in their communities like NYC and even plant more trees. I try to use the train to travel to NYC but it is sooooo inefficient.
U.S. states are already committed to replacing coal plants with renewable energy because it just makes sense. Let's use that 3 billion dollars to do something like create incentives for install solar panel roofs as appropriate and upgrade transportation infrastructure to get people less dependent on cars and more walking around in their communities like NYC and even plant more trees. I try to use the train to travel to NYC but it is sooooo inefficient.
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I take some solace in seeing that mayors of big cities and a number of states here in the United States are moving forward to meet the goals of the Paris Accord regardless of Trump's complete abdication of leadership in this vital issue.
I abhor everything Trump and the enabling GOP have come to stand for. Doing little or nothing is not called for at this time. History will be harsh on their culpable ignorance.
I abhor everything Trump and the enabling GOP have come to stand for. Doing little or nothing is not called for at this time. History will be harsh on their culpable ignorance.
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It was good that common sense prevailed and that the US withdrew from a very unfair agreement in which the US was penalized in many ways while other countries were not. It is also good that all countries continue to address climate change concerns. Maybe now we cal reset the agreement so that it is fair to ALL.
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In which ways was this NON-BINDING accord unfair to the US.
You can't say. Neither can President Trump. All he know is that President Obama signed it. That's all he needs to be against it. Same for you?
You can't say. Neither can President Trump. All he know is that President Obama signed it. That's all he needs to be against it. Same for you?
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Right, at 5% of the population, we use 25% of the energy. Things are so unfair for the poor USA! Gimme a break.
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The costs attributed to the USA were much higher, the restrictions much greater, and the penalties much higher - all you have to do is read the agreement.
Who cares what Trump says about Merkel. "You have been amazing, you have done an amazing job"-Imagine Merkel would say that to Trump. What a great diplomatic condescending view from above in typical Trump manner.
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It makes you wonder - when he sits there at that table with all of those leaders - does he doubt himself in the least? Does Bannon? Do any of them?
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It really doesn't matter if he doubts himself. He doesn't really have the slightest idea of what's going on around him.
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Soon, it won't be necessary for us to waste money sending officials to these meetings because we have no reason to. America has become the outsider, isolating itself from the rest of the G20 countries. Our golfing president can stay home and just do that and save us the money and embarrassment of sending him to these meetings.
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Mr. Trump? You mean, President Trump? I know it's hard to say it, snowflakes, but like it or not, he IS your President. The US will never conform to any policy or agreement enacted outside our borders in which neither we the people, nor our elected representatives explicitly approved per the Constitution of the United States.
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60% of America disaproves of Trump.
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Those who "don't conform" are ipso facto the "the outsiders and the out-laws." Think about that and the costs of doing it all on your own.
Have you ever read the Constitution? We have a representative form of government. "We the people" approve of our leaders (Congress, President) to make decisions for us. The Paris Climate Accords were signed by our President at the time, President Obama. Also, calling people names, such as "snowflake" which is apparently a derogatory term substituted for the old school yard bully taunt "cry baby" isn't exactly going to win over folks to your side of the debate about climate change. People who are concerned not only about the current administration's decision to pull out of the Accords but also many other decisions concerning global and American environment are not cry babies, but rather citizens who are active in their communities, concerned about the Earth, and devoted to making life better for their families. And our concern is reflected in protests, lobbying, and resistance to what our current Administration is doing. That isn't being a cry baby (unless you're willing to admit your protests during the previous Administration was being a snowflake), it's being an activist participating in the Constitutional right to influence our representative form of government.
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Regarding Mr. Trump, there is a real reason why so many people are afraid of clowns.
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Donald Trump, Mr. Trump, President Trump, Supreme Leader Trump - how folks refer to him is somewhat irrelevant - he's still the same man regardless of what he is called and the majority of the country does not support this man. Immature name calling on your part may make you feel better but it doesn't change that fact. Out of curiosity, are you protesting the slew of executive orders signed by this president that have not been explicitly approved by we the people or our elected representatives?
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Just watched Putin's take on Trump. He said Trump is different than the man we see on TV, understanding quickly what was being discussed, [ie, he is not as stupid as he seems]. For Putin to say this means he was surprised to discover that Trump could actually think and communicate.
Why then do we only get to see the brutish inarticulate oaf?
I find everything about this president disturbing in so many ways.
Why then do we only get to see the brutish inarticulate oaf?
I find everything about this president disturbing in so many ways.
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What makes you think Putin would say what he thinks. He's the original poker player. Do you think he would admit he has his opponents murdered?
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I assume he was flattering Trump to advance his agenda.
On the other hand, how could Trump possibly be as clueless as he acts and still function on even a basic level of existence?
On the other hand, how could Trump possibly be as clueless as he acts and still function on even a basic level of existence?
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Good for them, sad for us.
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The worst blindman is the one that does not want to see. POTUS seems to be angry at everything that is not under his control. Nature will have its way, in the end. Period.
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Unfortunately, he will not be here to deal with it. He will go to his grave believing he was right and that he "won."
The violent anti-G/20 street protests in Hamburg reminds me of similar protests in the Western Hemisphere against the FTTA in the 90s.
Globalization/flat world is out, nationalism is in.
The last time nationalism became a dominant political ideology in the 30s, it gave rise to militarism in Japan, Nazism in Germany, Stalinism in the Soviet Union, Fascism in Italy and WWII.
In this new century, nationalism has propelled the election of Donald Trump in the USA. Not a good omen for the world full of global/regional conflicts and Islamic terrorism.
Globalization/flat world is out, nationalism is in.
The last time nationalism became a dominant political ideology in the 30s, it gave rise to militarism in Japan, Nazism in Germany, Stalinism in the Soviet Union, Fascism in Italy and WWII.
In this new century, nationalism has propelled the election of Donald Trump in the USA. Not a good omen for the world full of global/regional conflicts and Islamic terrorism.
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Trump took the U.S. out of the Paris accord because it was negotiated in part by Barack Obama. It is the perfect example of Occam's Razor: the simplest explanation is the most likely. Trump has been exacting revenge for Obama's sarcasm toward Trump at a White House correspondents dinner a few years ago. He has seethed ever since.
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You forgot he hates windmills. Here's a good take on that (for a laugh):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbTmXsfiYk
Also, his supporters are hipped on hating climate reality and thinking reality isn't real.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pbTmXsfiYk
Also, his supporters are hipped on hating climate reality and thinking reality isn't real.
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Bingo!! MR.trumps motto is get even which is what he has been doing since his election. He is just getting even. Sad.
It's one thing for Donald Trump, the person, to be the fool, to have most world leaders laugh at him and treat him like some character in a sit-com. Or act polite, then as soon as he's gone, think or say: What an imbecile! But Donald Trump is the leader of our nation. And we are NOT a nation of fools. It is embarrassing to see him in Hamburg with his simpleton facial expressions, his grade-school vocabulary and his ignorance of every issue. In old-time stage productions, when an actor or comedian was failing at his job, they would bring out the hook. We need a hook!
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It's rather difficult to assert that "we are NOT a nation of fools" when the depressing reality is that we elected one as POTUS. Trump's character and talents were abundant and obvious on the campaign trail - as was the character of the entire GOP "clown car." Trump is the product of a long history of foolish behavior on the part of Americans beginning with Reagan and the rise of the neocons.
Ephraim of Baltimore. You have a point. But let's not forget that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. In solidly red states, yes, I must agree with you. Voters there continue to elect Republican leadership that then proceeds to work against their best interest regarding economics and health care. Then again, the Republicans play to their racism, bigotry and hate of immigrants. I guess those issues are more important to red-state voters than anything else.
American taxpayer, to pay $100 billion every year in ,,Paris Agreement''...
Think again...or do more research, what Paris Agreement mean...
We really need that money here...
Think again...or do more research, what Paris Agreement mean...
We really need that money here...
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Yep, we could be creating jobs in clean renewable energy technology, the wave of the world's future, instead of saving a few jobs with dirty, outdated coal.
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That's rich coming from someone living in a state that will be among the 1st to suffer climates adverse impact. Sad.
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It's all about the money. Not the future of our children, our grandchildren, or our planet. You said it perfectly.
Trump is a tired and unhealthy old man who doesn't have the stamina or intelligence to represent the US on the world stage. He can barely walk and looks like a cadaver held together by hairspray and suntan. Sad.
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I suggest the title be something closer to, "...without Trump"
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It is not all bad that Merkel et.al. will be using their taxpayer money for the lefts new religion called "Climate Change"
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There is no "left" in global science.
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The ONLY thing alleged President Trump cares about is the 50 trillion dollars listed on WHITEHOUSE.GOV sitting in natural gas and oil reserves on Federal and State lands.
This is a TOTAL sellout of the United States for Koch and friends.
Read em and weep
This is a TOTAL sellout of the United States for Koch and friends.
Read em and weep
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Good for them. Let them finance this SCAM. There is NO global warming, over 10,000 scientist have testified to this. It is a lie to line their pockets with our money. Thank God we got out!
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Before you make an outlandish claims such as "There is NO global warming, over 10,000 scientist have testified to this," you might want to provide a link to some sort of reputable publication or site. Otherwise, you might be accused of dissembling.
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God is sad that the country that has so much has turned incredibly naive and selfish and only wants more.
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Over 10,000 scientists...? Please provide a link or else you sound like the so-called fake president...speaking in generalities with no PROOF.
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The stupidity, ignorance, and mean-spiritedness of Trump, his sons, and his daughters will take this beloved country of ours to the bottom of the barrel. When will the Republicans put country before themselves and their party?
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There is a particularly good analysis from outside the U.S. in the Australian Broadcasting Corp website. I will try to link it, but don't know if the link will transfer in the NYT.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-09/did-trumps-g20-performance-indicat...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-09/did-trumps-g20-performance-indicat...
Thanks, Trump, for making us the PARIAH OF THE WORLD while hastening global disaster. You really HAVE accomplished a lot in 6 months!
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It truly is sad to watch America vanish in the eyes of the world. Australian political journalist Chris Ulmann summed it up very well.
https://www.facebook.com/InsidersABC/posts/1289973564447482
https://www.facebook.com/InsidersABC/posts/1289973564447482
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Jared Kushner looking smug in this picture with world leaders. False pretenses Mr. Kushner. You are no statesman, nighter is your father in-law.
You are both wasting time sitting around doing nothing of of value.
You are both wasting time sitting around doing nothing of of value.
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I think that there's pretty much a general consensus that this is perhaps the worst president and presidential administration in our nation's history. And to think that our primary adversary, Russia, had a significant role to play in producing that outcome makes it that much worse.
Never have we had a president so clueless and uninformed on the important issues of the day. He is an embarrassment to all that our nation has stood for since its inception.
God help us.
Never have we had a president so clueless and uninformed on the important issues of the day. He is an embarrassment to all that our nation has stood for since its inception.
God help us.
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And also to think that voters bought Trump's bloviation. It's equally as bad as Russian interference.
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Mike B. A consensus among you and your progressive friends perhaps. But don't think for a minute there is a consensus in the US.
Why don't American republicans care or love their grandchildren?
What do they tell them IF their grandchildren are smart enough to ask about the health of the planet or recycling or alternate forms of energy?
Do they tell them the world is flat too, or that President Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim?
Chances are with Betty DeVos at the helm they will remain stupid.
What do they tell them IF their grandchildren are smart enough to ask about the health of the planet or recycling or alternate forms of energy?
Do they tell them the world is flat too, or that President Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim?
Chances are with Betty DeVos at the helm they will remain stupid.
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You pose the key questions and portray the grim sad picture of America Great (not) Again. It is in fact all so warped that it must flame out sooner rather than later. That's the physics that gives many of us hope.
There is no stark divide between the United States and the rest of the world regarding man-made climate changes; the only one denying them is an idiot called Donald Trump, who seems willfully blind to the evidence, a hopeless renegade being replaced by the various states of the Union, particularly California, a vigorous defender of Mother Nature. Trump's denial is particularly egregious, given that the U.S. is one of the largest polluters on Earth....even though the poorest countries suffer the most from the increased frequency and severity of droughts, wild fires and floods, without the resources rich nations take for granted to ease the situation (at least for the time being).
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America has also contributed the most by far to the cumulative co2 content of the upper atmosphere that now threatens the very planet itself. We who have benefitted the most from the degradation of the planet owe the most. Yet so trumpian we are now failing to own up to our debts selfishly doubling down on take take and me me me. The same can be said about our rejection of refugees from drug gang ravaged central america as the worlds leading funder of illegal drugs. And now a new travesty against freedom in the trump era, disparagement of free press.
Exclude US from G20; then create G19+states and invite instead California et cetra.
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Putting “America First” has certainly changed our status in the world!
Thanks a bunch Donnie to you, your stunningly ignorant team and family for our new splendid isolation. The world that used to look to up the US now looks askance or away. That was easy! But the sideline is the price for all this “Greatness” and constant “winning”, right? Oh, and of course thank you GOP! Without your assistance, your brains of mush, ears of tin and hearts of stone the US could never become this pathetic reality show.
But it will be nice and warm.
Thanks a bunch Donnie to you, your stunningly ignorant team and family for our new splendid isolation. The world that used to look to up the US now looks askance or away. That was easy! But the sideline is the price for all this “Greatness” and constant “winning”, right? Oh, and of course thank you GOP! Without your assistance, your brains of mush, ears of tin and hearts of stone the US could never become this pathetic reality show.
But it will be nice and warm.
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"Climate Change is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated in the history of man," mumbled Mr. Trump adding "George Soros and Hillary Clinton started the conspiracy decades ago and bought off tens of thousands of scientists (all over the world) over the years."
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It is hard to comprehend how we have allowed the halls of power in our great country to be manned by deniers of climate change.
Both the climate scientists, as well as the following cited real estate finance economists, state with certainty the immense loss of value pending for waterfront property, including that icon of conspicuous consumption, Mr. Trump's own Mar-a-lago:
Excerpts:
"But many economists say that this reckoning needs to happen much faster and that home buyers urgently need to be better informed. Some analysts say the economic impact of a collapse in the waterfront property market could surpass that of the bursting dot-com and real estate bubbles of 2000 and 2008."
"In April, Sean Becketti, the chief economist for Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giant, issued a dire prediction. It is only a matter of time, he wrote, before sea level rise and storm surges become so unbearable along the coast that people will leave, ditching their mortgages and potentially triggering another housing meltdown — except this time, it would be unlikely that these housing prices would ever recover."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/science/global-warming-coastal-real-e...
Both the climate scientists, as well as the following cited real estate finance economists, state with certainty the immense loss of value pending for waterfront property, including that icon of conspicuous consumption, Mr. Trump's own Mar-a-lago:
Excerpts:
"But many economists say that this reckoning needs to happen much faster and that home buyers urgently need to be better informed. Some analysts say the economic impact of a collapse in the waterfront property market could surpass that of the bursting dot-com and real estate bubbles of 2000 and 2008."
"In April, Sean Becketti, the chief economist for Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage giant, issued a dire prediction. It is only a matter of time, he wrote, before sea level rise and storm surges become so unbearable along the coast that people will leave, ditching their mortgages and potentially triggering another housing meltdown — except this time, it would be unlikely that these housing prices would ever recover."
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/science/global-warming-coastal-real-e...
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"World Leaders Move Forward Without U.S."
40% of America will rejoice at this news (until they start losing their jobs and their healthcare is rated inadequate).
But, if you think you're an exceptional nation who can ignore the rest of the world and keep your head in the sand as you are governed by a minority-elected President, this'll sure make you happy.
40% of America will rejoice at this news (until they start losing their jobs and their healthcare is rated inadequate).
But, if you think you're an exceptional nation who can ignore the rest of the world and keep your head in the sand as you are governed by a minority-elected President, this'll sure make you happy.
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tragic US anti-leadership. tragic. period.
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How many have read the Treaty? It comes at great cost to the American taxpayer. Of course it is far more fun and fashionable bashing President Trump.
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Your assertion is patently untrue.
The treaty sets goals that will unleash America's greatness for capitalizing on the future of sustainable green energy which like the steam engine, electricity, and computers america seized instead of stubbornly clinging to horses, gas lamps and slave labor.
Every accord is reversible, how arrogant to think otherwise.
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In just 6 months, Trump has managed to destroy America's status as the #1 world leader and global power - pushing us off to the sidelines while other nations in the world are taking the lead on dealing with climate change, green energy, jobs, education, science, technology, health care, etc.
Thanks to Trump - the guy who plays our POTUS on TV - the U.S. has become the crazy drunk uncle at the international table - the one who everyone ignores, and only invited in the first place because the old guy has money.
And just how is this "making America great again"?!?
Looks more like making America a third-rate, irrelevant backwater. SAD.
Thanks to Trump - the guy who plays our POTUS on TV - the U.S. has become the crazy drunk uncle at the international table - the one who everyone ignores, and only invited in the first place because the old guy has money.
And just how is this "making America great again"?!?
Looks more like making America a third-rate, irrelevant backwater. SAD.
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In so many different issues America feel like a third world country that hasn't really evolved at all in 200 years. Once again it is clearly shown how backwards you are thinking. Deliverance could be a movie about the Trump administration.
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We need to stop entertaining intellectual curiosity items about this guy and hold him to account for doing everything from obstructing investigations to enriching himself by refusing to divest interests. His henchmen keep trying to normalize the abnormality of his behavior. Nothing about his time in office has been normal and nothing about him has changed. He is grossly incompetent and proves it daily. He is using the office to enrich himself and his spawn, and proves it daily.
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True leadership does not cow in the face of unprincipled opposition. So called "climate change" is the cause celeb among the pajama boy leftist elite crowd, most of whom use private Lear jets to travel from town to town and then caravan to their daily protests in a queue of SUV's. Mr. Trump bravely and properly labeled it the movement the Chinese hoax that it most likely is. He has fulfilled yet another campaign promise. Elections have consequence. Deal with it.
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I wonder, how might the US media react if the leader of Germany, China, Russia, Britain, or France brought his/her daughter AND son-in-law to the table as coequals to world leaders and foreign secretaries? I really can't think of anything more un-American, and I mean it. Our country was founded in order to avoid this exact type of entanglement. Kushner's smirk in that photo makes me ill. This so-called presidency can't end soon enough.
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To think that the U.S. would abandon leadership on the global arena at the height of it's power - I'm sure it will baffle future historian. It's as if the Roman Empire during Caesar all of a sudden said: ok I'm done with it, I'll let you barbarians take over the show. Only the barbarian is now Caesar in the White House and the Civilization seems to be in old Europe.
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Reality check these world leaders never seen wealth by own countrys since beginning time. Mean while the waste on arms weapons mass destruction futile when planet is being poluted by waste . If all countrys made what they consume an keep own waste world be better off .USA is leading consumer an also produces most waste an polution . Techolgys like hyper loop isnt being devolope because its not polticlly corect would kill use of oil an natural gas.
from the article:
"Her standing has also suffered as Germans have been shocked by violent protests by a small bloc of anarchists who saw the G-20 as a perfect platform for their rejection of capitalism and order."
2 points:
1. Do the "anarchists" really reject order, or do they simply reject control of the world by Giant Banks? Not everyone wants to sing "Deutsche Bank Über Alles ".
2. Germans man have been "shocked" by the violence, but if this demonstration had been in New York City, the Militarized and Hyper Nervous NYPD would have certainly shot down the protesters en masse.
If anyone doubts this, look up the 2011 "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations in NYC's in Zuccotti Park, and see the how the NYPD brutally attacked unarmed and totally passive demonstrators legally sitting on the ground in a public park. But, of course, Goldman Sachs actually has NYPD cops on their payroll. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/nypd-for-hire-cops...
"Her standing has also suffered as Germans have been shocked by violent protests by a small bloc of anarchists who saw the G-20 as a perfect platform for their rejection of capitalism and order."
2 points:
1. Do the "anarchists" really reject order, or do they simply reject control of the world by Giant Banks? Not everyone wants to sing "Deutsche Bank Über Alles ".
2. Germans man have been "shocked" by the violence, but if this demonstration had been in New York City, the Militarized and Hyper Nervous NYPD would have certainly shot down the protesters en masse.
If anyone doubts this, look up the 2011 "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrations in NYC's in Zuccotti Park, and see the how the NYPD brutally attacked unarmed and totally passive demonstrators legally sitting on the ground in a public park. But, of course, Goldman Sachs actually has NYPD cops on their payroll. See:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/dec/17/nypd-for-hire-cops...
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When "leaders' fail us, Individual responsibility matters - now more than ever
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I was ready for Trump to speed the decline of American influence with isolationist policy.
But his maliciousness, ineptitude, corruption, and desperately naked ego blend into a special humiliating sauce.
Trump brand accelerant-- will it be last ingredient into the bubbling couldron before it goes boom? Tune in next week!
But his maliciousness, ineptitude, corruption, and desperately naked ego blend into a special humiliating sauce.
Trump brand accelerant-- will it be last ingredient into the bubbling couldron before it goes boom? Tune in next week!
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For decades we,the US lived with the threat of nuclear war with the USSR. We lived with the knowledge that American cities were targeted by The USSR with intercontinental missiles. Nikita Kruschev once said "we will bury you" Why are we concerned with N. Korea?
If Donald was too tired, Couldn't Ivanka just sign for him? At this point, Putin could sign in Trump's place!
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Our president moves from hurting our country (our economy and our democracy) possibly beyond repair to hurting the rest of the civilized world. Why did this barker, who should be working for a carnival, turn out to have no heart or soul? Hang in Merkel, Macron--the world's grand democracies are far from perfect, but at least Germany & France still have them.
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Gee, didn't we have to bail out the great democracies for most of the 20th century? After they decided wars were a great expression of democratic principles?
I'm sure that Germany will fully and faithfully implement the Paris Accord, just as is has all its NATO defense spending commitments. Also, Russia is sure to respect Paris as much as it does the Budapest agreement guaranteeing Ukraine's sovereignty.
It's difficult to know if his kids aren't there to cover for incipient Alzheimer's, or if it's just he can't remember stuff he never knew. Anyway, Ivanka is an improvement.
Mr Musk of the US has decided to build the worlds biggest battery, Down Under.
An Indian company has decided to buy an Australian steel works with plans to use empty mine pits near the sea to invest in hydro power for the plant and the national network.
Quality Australian steel will be guaranteed export.
There will be no sackings.
A French company is continuing to build wind farms next to the battery.
The farmers love it and the small towns love it.
Australia discussed with the French the construction Down Under of the most advanced non-nuclear submarine conceived.
The boats will use US software.
The news from the US is not positive.
The US has bragging rights for many great things.
Ditto above Australia is open to the world unlike your president.
To be acerbic the UK and the US helped create the world they want to retreat from.
Perhaps it's time for a leader to look closely and inwardly to the manifest needs of it's citizens. I include North Korea.
America and the UK frankly need to address internal issues such as poverty, race and identity. The Gini curve is a good metric.
If the US and the UK exclusively concentrated for five or ten years on internal issues the world would not collapse.
Take a break and sort out your internal matters.
America has NATO and ANZUS to give you a hand.
Come back with a clear head.
Avoid reacting to being bullied.
North Korea is best ignored for the moment.
NK has no allies.
NK is a small boil on the bum of the world.
ineternally
An Indian company has decided to buy an Australian steel works with plans to use empty mine pits near the sea to invest in hydro power for the plant and the national network.
Quality Australian steel will be guaranteed export.
There will be no sackings.
A French company is continuing to build wind farms next to the battery.
The farmers love it and the small towns love it.
Australia discussed with the French the construction Down Under of the most advanced non-nuclear submarine conceived.
The boats will use US software.
The news from the US is not positive.
The US has bragging rights for many great things.
Ditto above Australia is open to the world unlike your president.
To be acerbic the UK and the US helped create the world they want to retreat from.
Perhaps it's time for a leader to look closely and inwardly to the manifest needs of it's citizens. I include North Korea.
America and the UK frankly need to address internal issues such as poverty, race and identity. The Gini curve is a good metric.
If the US and the UK exclusively concentrated for five or ten years on internal issues the world would not collapse.
Take a break and sort out your internal matters.
America has NATO and ANZUS to give you a hand.
Come back with a clear head.
Avoid reacting to being bullied.
North Korea is best ignored for the moment.
NK has no allies.
NK is a small boil on the bum of the world.
ineternally
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@Ron--
Watch out--boils can become deadly if their poisons get into one's blood stream. I don't like the look of this boil.
Watch out--boils can become deadly if their poisons get into one's blood stream. I don't like the look of this boil.
It's easy to hide from ignorance when the arguments of climate change do not exist...! All you need is to look around and see what's happening, too soon and too late to change or reverse your believe in what is appropriate for the whole world, and our country will find itself in an unfortunate and discordant situation.
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Republicans accused former President Obama of leading from behind, Trump is actually doing it.
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“The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.”
Very disappointed that the G20 caved into Trump's insistence to include language about fossil fuels in the G20's climate change plan -- it allowsthe U.S. a free pass to continue polluting, and profiting from it. This opens the door to lower standards for other participants, despite their vows of fidelity to the Climate Accord.
At least France's Macron fought strenuously against this language.
Trump and May's cozy discussion of their own bilateral trade agreement worked for Trump, as the U.K.'s biggest export is heavy crude oil. And the U.K. wants the U.S. to continue maintaining their nuclear missiles (although they could have asked France). May did not criticize Trump for his climate change position as they'll be polluting the world together.
The Far Right anti-globalization, anti-immigrant anarchists actions were deplorable, forming sort of an in-house ISIS.
Their violence accomplished nothing, except to better prepare for future outbreaks. They want to step backward in time, like Trump, and not embrace the reality of today's world.
Macron invited U.S. environmental scientists to work in France, since they lacked support at home. Trump should invite the G20's extreme right, protectionist anarchists to the U.S., where they could find a "home" with other isolationists.
Very disappointed that the G20 caved into Trump's insistence to include language about fossil fuels in the G20's climate change plan -- it allowsthe U.S. a free pass to continue polluting, and profiting from it. This opens the door to lower standards for other participants, despite their vows of fidelity to the Climate Accord.
At least France's Macron fought strenuously against this language.
Trump and May's cozy discussion of their own bilateral trade agreement worked for Trump, as the U.K.'s biggest export is heavy crude oil. And the U.K. wants the U.S. to continue maintaining their nuclear missiles (although they could have asked France). May did not criticize Trump for his climate change position as they'll be polluting the world together.
The Far Right anti-globalization, anti-immigrant anarchists actions were deplorable, forming sort of an in-house ISIS.
Their violence accomplished nothing, except to better prepare for future outbreaks. They want to step backward in time, like Trump, and not embrace the reality of today's world.
Macron invited U.S. environmental scientists to work in France, since they lacked support at home. Trump should invite the G20's extreme right, protectionist anarchists to the U.S., where they could find a "home" with other isolationists.
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Perhaps this is all simply part of a grand Trumpian scheme to develop exclusive members only resorts and golf courses on Mars once we've thoroughly ruined our present home? Too bad the rest of the G-20 doesn't want to play along...maybe they like Earth and want to make things better.
www.thewaryouknow.com
www.thewaryouknow.com
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Sayonara, pax Americana. We've become a moral and economic outcast among our allies. "Make America a Pariah State" is the effective outcome of DTs policies. What to do, what to do. Well, clearly, Mr. Trump is most vulnerable on Russiagate and has said so in many different ways. So . . . contact your two senators by calling the Congressional switchboard: (202) 224-3121 An voice will ask for your ZIP code and you'll be routed to your senators and then a congressional aide will answer and record your concerns, passing them on. It takes only five minutes. Using your indoor voice, request their complete support for an immediate, full, open, and bi-partisan hearing into the alleged Russian influences. We all deserve to know the truth. AND be sure to urge that Mr. Trump's tax returns be subpoenaed. You can also ask Dem senators to post strong position statements on their web pages and GOP senators why they are waiting to cure a malignancy at the heart of our government. Do this often. Look at it as your political workout. Democracy sometimes demands effort. It does now, so please do your part.
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Even many NASCAR fans realize that the United States withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement is the equivalent of a lead driver in a race pulling out of a pack of drafting race cars - you are immediately going fall to the back of the pack! Getting back to the front or lead is a whole another story, which may or may not happen.
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I guess republicans don't have grandchildren they actually care about and if they do tell them lies about the flat earth and "we have enough money to live in our own bubble" theories .
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There you go again NYT's. Trump has not said he is against Climate control, in fact he has said he is for it. He just does not want abad deal where certain other countries i.e. China are not restricted while US is and we pay the bill. It's called a bad deal and Trump had the guts to call it. When the other countries are willing to pay their own way and not expect us to pay and be more restricted than others, he will sign a (good) deal for this Country. How about stop being misleading?
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Jimmy Carter reportedly sent Mr. Trump a bouquet thanking him for being the Worst President in American History.
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A 500 million year proxy record demonstrated that the surface temperature of the earth WILL rise significantly.
To 70 F as the rolling 365 day average. This is like dinosaur age hot.
Global Cooperation is necessary to protect all humanity from
this inexorable rise in temperature.
However, the Paris accord does not address the root cause nor rally all sane nations to produce the required solution to moderate the temperature.
The root cause will be massive solar activity starting in 2040 and the required solution is geo engineering the atmosphere will cooling agents.
The Paris accord IF NOT retasked, will be humanities ultimate folly.
To 70 F as the rolling 365 day average. This is like dinosaur age hot.
Global Cooperation is necessary to protect all humanity from
this inexorable rise in temperature.
However, the Paris accord does not address the root cause nor rally all sane nations to produce the required solution to moderate the temperature.
The root cause will be massive solar activity starting in 2040 and the required solution is geo engineering the atmosphere will cooling agents.
The Paris accord IF NOT retasked, will be humanities ultimate folly.
Why should not the rest of the world move on as we in the United States of American have our adolescence conservative libertarian tantrum?
I certainly hope the rest of the world does not hold it's breath while we have our childish fit.
Let the adults of the world move forward.
Michael Bain
Glorieta, New Mexico
I certainly hope the rest of the world does not hold it's breath while we have our childish fit.
Let the adults of the world move forward.
Michael Bain
Glorieta, New Mexico
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The "Not My President" meme has nothing on Trump.
Trump says to well more than half of all Americans "Not My Citizens!"
And to the world, Trump says "Not My Problem!"
Trump says to well more than half of all Americans "Not My Citizens!"
And to the world, Trump says "Not My Problem!"
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Again, Trump makes America look like a chicken without a head, running around aimlessly. The best chance we had was when Ivanka was allowed to sit in his chair during the "bring your daughter to work and let her make global policy" portion of the meeting.
All the world should breathe more securely now that Russia will help America build a cyber-security apparatus so that "election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded" - a great achievement according to a man who denies Russia had any involvement in our election because Putin "vehemently" denied it.
As someone said, Trump is 'Putin America First Again'. Yes, MAGA=PAFA.
All the world should breathe more securely now that Russia will help America build a cyber-security apparatus so that "election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded" - a great achievement according to a man who denies Russia had any involvement in our election because Putin "vehemently" denied it.
As someone said, Trump is 'Putin America First Again'. Yes, MAGA=PAFA.
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What incredible progress by Trump. We refuse to stop global warming and China can sell chicken in the US without country of origin labeling.
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World goes 19:1 against america.
Trump spends entire G20 with face like thunder
Macron jokes that Trump is never there when you want to address points with him (Ivanka there instead)
Merkel explicitly disagrees with Trump
And the NYT thinks somehow this is a bad meeting for Merkel? Seriously? The German opposition parties thoroughly approve of her disagreeing with Trump, confronting Erdogan and all the rest.
And you cover the G20 without the slightest mention that Trump was walked over by the others?
What threats are you buckling under? Given up on daring to report honestly if Trump tells you otherwise?
Trump spends entire G20 with face like thunder
Macron jokes that Trump is never there when you want to address points with him (Ivanka there instead)
Merkel explicitly disagrees with Trump
And the NYT thinks somehow this is a bad meeting for Merkel? Seriously? The German opposition parties thoroughly approve of her disagreeing with Trump, confronting Erdogan and all the rest.
And you cover the G20 without the slightest mention that Trump was walked over by the others?
What threats are you buckling under? Given up on daring to report honestly if Trump tells you otherwise?
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Ronald Reagan showed the Republican Party what a bunch of suckers the American people can be, and that a con man of questionable talent could make a fortune with corny platitudes.
The Republican Party became The Republican Party Inc., and governing was transformed into a profitable business.
If people think things are bad now, the Republicans are about to finish what they started under "W".
"I love the poorly educated".
- Donald Trump
The Republican Party became The Republican Party Inc., and governing was transformed into a profitable business.
If people think things are bad now, the Republicans are about to finish what they started under "W".
"I love the poorly educated".
- Donald Trump
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Climate change?
Trump has bigger fish to fry.
This dual US/Russian cyber patrol is a front to help secure Trumps 2018 bid again but this time crossing their t's and dotting their i's so there is plenty of plausible deniability to the American people in the end.
Trump has bigger fish to fry.
This dual US/Russian cyber patrol is a front to help secure Trumps 2018 bid again but this time crossing their t's and dotting their i's so there is plenty of plausible deniability to the American people in the end.
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First the Paris accord is by design an unenforceable joke
Second America will continue to lower emissions without having to pay $3 billion to countries that have no guidelines or rules how to spend the money
Third china and India still can increase co2 emission til 2030
And lastly here is the boilerplate for every climate initiative:
White majority countries tax themselves into poverty and give the money to non white majority countries that misuse the money
The issue is not climatic the change the issue is over population
Second America will continue to lower emissions without having to pay $3 billion to countries that have no guidelines or rules how to spend the money
Third china and India still can increase co2 emission til 2030
And lastly here is the boilerplate for every climate initiative:
White majority countries tax themselves into poverty and give the money to non white majority countries that misuse the money
The issue is not climatic the change the issue is over population
I am sure everyone seated during this discussion looked with very quizzicallly raised brows at our friends from China. We need not be member in a group in which we have and will lead the way. The others need this self assuring groupness to imagine a wierd sense of accomplishment by virtue only of mere statement.
Jared looks pretty self satisfied, and smug to boot. Isn't he under investigation by the FBI? Does he still have a security clearance?
Trump ruined an opportunity to play a real President, a leader, by inserting Ivanka in his place - that had to impress the G19. Who needs the US? Ivanka sells knock offs but she is pretty and complicit.
Ivan seemed very satisfied during and after the meeting. My guess is that Tillerson/Exxon along with Putin the man got everything they wanted. Tillerson's says his wife convinced him to take the position by saying "God is not thru with you". I expect him to resign soon once the deal is done and sanctions lifted. Go in disgrace my man.
The long con continues. This time the GOP is trapped in a no win position with little wiggle room. Complicit? Yep.
Should I cancel my voter registration? I live in a red state where voter rolls are periodically purged. Just wondering.
Trump ruined an opportunity to play a real President, a leader, by inserting Ivanka in his place - that had to impress the G19. Who needs the US? Ivanka sells knock offs but she is pretty and complicit.
Ivan seemed very satisfied during and after the meeting. My guess is that Tillerson/Exxon along with Putin the man got everything they wanted. Tillerson's says his wife convinced him to take the position by saying "God is not thru with you". I expect him to resign soon once the deal is done and sanctions lifted. Go in disgrace my man.
The long con continues. This time the GOP is trapped in a no win position with little wiggle room. Complicit? Yep.
Should I cancel my voter registration? I live in a red state where voter rolls are periodically purged. Just wondering.
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This summer has been so cool that I have not had much of a chance to swim at the local town pool/
Clearly, there is no "greenhouse" in Westchester County.
Clearly, there is no "greenhouse" in Westchester County.
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Here where I live, climatologists predicted "warmer and wetter" with more extreme storms. We've had two record-breaking floods in less than 5 years, shutting down all urban north/south transportation for days, people unable to get to work or home, and millions in FEMA federal assistance approved by Denier-in-Chief Trump. Mean temperatures keep climbing here;we no longer have winters. Nice to know your magic little county has been spared climate change, though. Guess we should all move there.
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If a picture is worth 1000 words, then view the world's leaders having shifted their stances, gazing toward common future goals while Trump scowls into the past with his back turned to everyone else.
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This reminds me of the Kyoto Protocol debacle. We backed out...climate numbers are better...and the USA wasn't fleeced. If people are truly serious about climate change they will see this for what it is.
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Trump assumes naively that his praise is a real accolade for world leaders. The man is delusional. If his only impact were on public opinion, it would be bad enough. But at home, his worker ants are busy deconstructing the Republic. Against the US media backdrop constructed to frame Trump, Angela Merkel looks like a socialist. She's a Christian Democrat, and knows more about civilized government and diplomacy than the Trump collective ever will,
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Take a lesson. The world leaders are treating Trump as generally irrelevant. So should we. Thank you Jerry Brown.
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"... the clean energy marketplace created by the Paris Agreement estimated to be worth over 20 trillion dollars.”
No more need be said on the issue. Though it is notable, that the 20 trillion will not come from capitalist enterprise, but from already-indebted-government spending -- of printed money.
“His budget, 'released in April but largely ignored on Capitol Hill', would include deep cuts to the United States Agency for International Development ..."
No more need be said on the issue. Though it is notable, that Capitol Hill is bankrupted, and has been for over 30 years.
No more need be said on the issue. Though it is notable, that the 20 trillion will not come from capitalist enterprise, but from already-indebted-government spending -- of printed money.
“His budget, 'released in April but largely ignored on Capitol Hill', would include deep cuts to the United States Agency for International Development ..."
No more need be said on the issue. Though it is notable, that Capitol Hill is bankrupted, and has been for over 30 years.
Most, if not all, of the G20 nations also deliver more/better healthcare at lower cost to their citizens. Coincidence?
I think not.
DJT and his GOP brethren control all of the federal government and most of the state governorships yet they will be at the helm of the greatest retreat of the US from the global world order in modern history.
The effects of this isolationism are on the way and it simply makes it easier for Dems to retake both houses and the WH. And it cannot come soon enough!
I think not.
DJT and his GOP brethren control all of the federal government and most of the state governorships yet they will be at the helm of the greatest retreat of the US from the global world order in modern history.
The effects of this isolationism are on the way and it simply makes it easier for Dems to retake both houses and the WH. And it cannot come soon enough!
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Melvin,
Do your homework. Why do you think most people that can afford the trip come here for healthcare? Spent many years working for companies in Europe and Japan. The cost is higher and the care is less. Would love to see you wait weeks for MRI.
Do your homework. Why do you think most people that can afford the trip come here for healthcare? Spent many years working for companies in Europe and Japan. The cost is higher and the care is less. Would love to see you wait weeks for MRI.
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@ Bobsopinion: So? Americans now spend weeks waiting to get an appointment with a PCP, who gives them a recommendation to see a specialist, of which there are none to be found, because they don't accept ACA insurance, so they never get their MRI at all. This is a normal occurrence in this country. Millions are still under- or uninsured and never get proper medical care. People can't get dental work or glasses because those things aren't covered by most health insurance policies, and you have to buy even more unaffordable insurance to have them covered.
I spent a decade living in Germany, where my health insurance costs were never more than 200 euros a month and I always got excellent treatment, promptly and affordably. Including dental and vision. Your anecdotal "evidence" is as good as mine, and they cancel each other out.
I spent a decade living in Germany, where my health insurance costs were never more than 200 euros a month and I always got excellent treatment, promptly and affordably. Including dental and vision. Your anecdotal "evidence" is as good as mine, and they cancel each other out.
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you also didn't have the high military budget that protected countries like Germany and the rest of the world. You also didn't have the quality of care and high welfare costs. Our healthcare system was destroyed by poor planning of ACA that has caused double digit inflation.
Everyone thinks China and Asia are the wave of the future, but it is an American alliance with Russia, which has been left out and marginalized since Perestroika, that will determine the course of history. It might seem counterintuitive and even detrimental to US interests, but Trump sees the logic of such an alliance as a counterbalance to the hegemony of the Euro countries and to the rise of China and Asia (leaving out Japan) which till now has been unchallenged. The potential of Russia is vast and largely untapped. Better to exploit it for our own purposes than let the moribund G20 run the show. I believe it is too late and not even desirable to stop this trend.
China’s coal-to-chemical industry could produce CO2 emissions in excess of 400 million tonnes a year by the end of the decade — a more than fourfold increase from the 90 million emitted in 2015.
http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/04/25/china-coal-to-chemical-carbo...
http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2017/04/25/china-coal-to-chemical-carbo...
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The Paris Accord is a bad political document. It allows China and India to expand CO2 emissions for 30 years USA had to cut emissions by 25%, and we'd get to fund $3 billion to fund / waste tax dollars in places that little impact on global warming.
It appears reading these comments readers feel a bad deal is better than no deal.
It appears reading these comments readers feel a bad deal is better than no deal.
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Hard to understand unless you allow for the fact that since the Industrial Revolution started a few countries have been the leading manufactures America far out in front. The USA leads the world in pollution created and will never be surpassed, only in 2007 did China outstrip us on annual pollution created but not on a per capita basis, China still has 400 million people living in poverty, India has more. The Paris Accord allowed that development was needed in ‘developing nations’ for a time but all to start reductions to occur to targets set. China is already ahead of the targets created in time dimension.
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Well, your alternative "facts" are wrong. The Paris accord is non binding providing a frame work and goals for the reducing CO2 emissions. Since fossil fuels are finite, the underlying basis of the agreement is needed anyhow.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/2/15727984/deceptions-...
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/2/15727984/deceptions-...
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pete has given no evidence that "the Paris Accord is a bad political document" or that it is a "waste" or that it involves "places that little impact on global warming".
It appears from reading his comment that he feels fiction is better than fact.
It appears from reading his comment that he feels fiction is better than fact.
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Peaceful demonstrations against G-20, good.
G-20 moving "forward," good.
Leaving legally non-binding Paris Climate deal that Obama Administration failed to submit for Senate ratification as a genuine Treaty, mostly because the accord enabled trade competitors to continue expanding their rate of pollution for decades, while simultaneously hamstringing the US economically, so the, whatever you want to call it, had no chance of actually passing into law: bad.
And, oh, yeah, as if it needed saying around these parts, Donald Trump, bad.
Got it. Thanks.
G-20 moving "forward," good.
Leaving legally non-binding Paris Climate deal that Obama Administration failed to submit for Senate ratification as a genuine Treaty, mostly because the accord enabled trade competitors to continue expanding their rate of pollution for decades, while simultaneously hamstringing the US economically, so the, whatever you want to call it, had no chance of actually passing into law: bad.
And, oh, yeah, as if it needed saying around these parts, Donald Trump, bad.
Got it. Thanks.
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So let's keep leading the way on polluting, instead of leading the way to a sustainable future? Is that your argument?
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Trump could walk on water, find a cure for cancer and bring about world peace and his critics would complain. They'd say he couldn't swim, was planning to make money on the cancer cure and that the Palestinians hadn't gotten a big enough piece of Jerusalem.
Sigh.
Anti-Trumpists would prefer that the US lose in every negotiation with foreign countries than see Trump succeed at improving the economy for Americans.
Sigh.
Anti-Trumpists would prefer that the US lose in every negotiation with foreign countries than see Trump succeed at improving the economy for Americans.
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How convenient for you to forget that a good deal of the CO2 already in the atmosphere came from the 60 years when the US was the worlds first and foremost industrial source of it.
We now have both a developed economy and the means to replace a great deal of fossil fuel usage. Other economies do not have. Unfortunately we elected a fake president to lead us at this critical juncture.
We now have both a developed economy and the means to replace a great deal of fossil fuel usage. Other economies do not have. Unfortunately we elected a fake president to lead us at this critical juncture.
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The "97%" Myth is based on two publications—the first by Doran and Zimmerman (2000) the second by Cook et al. (2013"). The first was a U.Illinois thesis by Maggie Zimmerman and Peter Doran, who claimed "97% of climate scientists agree" They sent an Internet survey to 10,257 people and received 3146 replies. Only 5% identified themselves as "climate scientists." Only 2 questions: (1) "When compared with pre-1800 levels, do you think that global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remain relatively constant?" and (2) "Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperature?" Of the 3146 replies, they arbitrarily selected 79 responses, of whom 77 replied "yes." which was then elevated to "97% of all scientists"... should have been 77 divided by 3146, which equals 2%.
The Cook et al. (2013) paper was based on counting abstracts of climate papers. However, Legates et al. (2013*) point out that "the author's own analysis shows that only 0.5% of all 11,944 abstracts, and 1.6% of the 4014 abstracts expressing a position, endorsed anthropogenic warming as they had defined it."
Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Don Easterbrook
The Cook et al. (2013) paper was based on counting abstracts of climate papers. However, Legates et al. (2013*) point out that "the author's own analysis shows that only 0.5% of all 11,944 abstracts, and 1.6% of the 4014 abstracts expressing a position, endorsed anthropogenic warming as they had defined it."
Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming, Don Easterbrook
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You are forgetting that 115% of reporters believe in global warming. They did the math themselves. Al Gore told them so.
It is also news worthy that climate scientists discount the heat island effect on weather and climate. So the fact that in the winter cities pump billions of BTUs of heat into the local environment is ignored and its effect discounted and in the summer billions of BTUs of heat are exhausted by air conditioning systems is ignored.
Attributing changes in global temperature to CO2 makes the world in general responsible rather than the residents of urban areas.
It is also news worthy that climate scientists discount the heat island effect on weather and climate. So the fact that in the winter cities pump billions of BTUs of heat into the local environment is ignored and its effect discounted and in the summer billions of BTUs of heat are exhausted by air conditioning systems is ignored.
Attributing changes in global temperature to CO2 makes the world in general responsible rather than the residents of urban areas.
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You seem to base your view strictly on a "internet survey" which had a low response. Others, while acknowledging inaccuracy of the 97% figure (which they say was obtained in a different manner), say that the support among climate experts for anthropogenic global warming is between 80% and 90%. Still a very scary number.
See: www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2016/12/14/fact-checking-the-97-consensus-...
See: www.forbes.com/sites/uhenergy/2016/12/14/fact-checking-the-97-consensus-...
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Jimmywalter....give it up, it's over. It isn't just climatologists that study and confirm a dangerous and unnaturally rapid warming planet, it's global biologists, geologists, botanists, zoologists, agriculturalists, hydrologists, foresters, oceanographers, etc. who deal with the real world as part of their everyday work. Not to mention infrastructure engineers, whose work involves public safety, and in whom denial of climate change would cause levees to breach, roads fall apart, bridges to fail, etc. Even Exxon's own scientists confirmed anthropogenic climate change over40 years ago. The Pentagon has identified climate change as a national security threat. Trump Administration Secretary of State Tillerson and Secretary of Defense Watt acknowledge the reality of climate change.
So just give it up already. Your little island of denial is shrinking fast, but given that it continues to give harbor to unconscionable profiteers, it endangers us all.
So just give it up already. Your little island of denial is shrinking fast, but given that it continues to give harbor to unconscionable profiteers, it endangers us all.
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So, to put it in a nutshell, Mr. Trump failed miserably on his first attempt at bargaining at the world table.
Is anyone surprised?
Is anyone surprised?
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No...President Trump succeeded in putting America first. Europe is all but lost to Marxists and islamic extremists.
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One positive note from the G-20 summit, the United States has its first woman president as Ivanka Trump Kushner took over for dear old dad. It is uncertain what her job title is, going forward. Also unknown is the overall reaction by the other 19 members as the leader of the nation with the world's largest economy decided go AWOL and skip the gathering. Sad.
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I am so happy Trump skipped the G-20 summit because his job is to make America Great Again, not Europe. We will always be there to protect our Allies in times of need, but we don't want our Oresident sitting around warring a bunch of time when there is much work to do back home in the U.S.
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What a great job.
What would happen if you told your boss, "I think I'll skip that meeting and send my daughter instead."
I'm pretty sure I'd get fired.
We are Trumps boss. "You're fired!"
By the way, the best ad to ruin against Trump would have been a compilation of the thousands of times he said, "You're fired!." As I predicted, the Democrats never ran that ad.
What would happen if you told your boss, "I think I'll skip that meeting and send my daughter instead."
I'm pretty sure I'd get fired.
We are Trumps boss. "You're fired!"
By the way, the best ad to ruin against Trump would have been a compilation of the thousands of times he said, "You're fired!." As I predicted, the Democrats never ran that ad.
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Regretfully, profit change is more important in this USA than climate change. Gross.
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Yes, jobs are more important
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Ivanka, Daddy's stand-in, is going to help foreign women develop businesses. Of course she's doing nothing to help women in the US. Maybe because such help in this country would involve going to Duque and Oklahoma City, instead of the photo-op foreign lands where she'll be teaching women how to be photogenic and wear stylish clothes.
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Don't worry, President Ivanka Trump will straighten it all out, together with her Vice President, Donald Jr. Secretary of State Kushner will handle the direct negotiations. It'll be just grand.
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You are right. It will be grand. Trust the them. Such a nice family. Are you jealous?
I have finally come to understand the meaning of that favorite GOP saw called "American Exceptionalism".
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The world moves forward.
The U.S. moves backward.
The 20st century was the American century.
In the 21st century the U.S. will become irrelevant.
The U.S. moves backward.
The 20st century was the American century.
In the 21st century the U.S. will become irrelevant.
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During the next thirteen years, China is on track to add more CO2 to the atmosphere than all of humanity has added since the beginning of the industrial revolution. The strategy of Obama was to let China move forward economically by hobbling the US economy.
There is space in the world economy for every country to be prosperous and successful. In the leftist mind, countries that are free and capitalistic need to be constrained in order to make totalitarian governments advance.
The world is happier and safer with a wealthy American economy than one with artificially high energy costs.
There is space in the world economy for every country to be prosperous and successful. In the leftist mind, countries that are free and capitalistic need to be constrained in order to make totalitarian governments advance.
The world is happier and safer with a wealthy American economy than one with artificially high energy costs.
The most important point a moderator can raise in a debate has now become:
"Former US President Barack Obama has said that the Paris Agreement on climate 'can still give our children a fighting chance', 'even with the temporary absence of American leadership'. (1) Do you agree with Mr. Obama's statement, (2) do you believe that there is currently a 'temporary absence of American leadership', and how so, and (3) will you maintain or will you reverse the US's withdrawal from the agreement under the current President?"
"Former US President Barack Obama has said that the Paris Agreement on climate 'can still give our children a fighting chance', 'even with the temporary absence of American leadership'. (1) Do you agree with Mr. Obama's statement, (2) do you believe that there is currently a 'temporary absence of American leadership', and how so, and (3) will you maintain or will you reverse the US's withdrawal from the agreement under the current President?"
During the first two years of the Obama administration, Democrats had no concerns about global warming or Islamic terrorism. Instead they focused their attention on ensuring universal health insurance, not even universal health care. When Obama ran for office and was elected, he did promise that he would stop the rising of the seas, so it is not as if he hadn't ever heard of global warming. In 2008, 85% of the population, including the 40 million who were uninsured, were satisfied with their access to health care as well as their access to health insurance.
Obamacare, which Democrats though would be popular but instead cost them hundreds of elective offices, is a bust and unsustainable.
Rather than dealing with terrorism as a threat to US security, Obama switched to global warming as the most serious threat to the world. It's deflection.
Obamacare, which Democrats though would be popular but instead cost them hundreds of elective offices, is a bust and unsustainable.
Rather than dealing with terrorism as a threat to US security, Obama switched to global warming as the most serious threat to the world. It's deflection.
Trump is very self-centred ... his interests are dominated by his extensive money laundering schemes a la Russia. He has his dirty fingerprints all over them. Trump is seriously compromised.
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Our future is bleak. We have a vain man as President, who is proud of his ignorance, and who is easily manipulated by ideologues and crony capitalists who want to feast on the country's economy and people.
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Calling Trump vain is astonishingly polite. Our president is psychiatrically very ill. Some would call it psychopathy, others malignant narcissism. I go with the former as he has, time and again, exhibited no capacity for empathy and no conscience. He is psychiatrically incapable of leading this country.
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Alert! The man you describe was replaced in January. [Note, cronyism is not an element of capitalism, it is an element of socialism. You can accurately use the term crony or crony socialist. Crony capitalism doesn't exist.]
Yu have listed all the the qualities of Barack Obama.
Until we have a new president with intelligence, the world will move on without us. Let's hope the catching up isn't beyond our capability.
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DJ: I concur, almost. Thing us, the world knows the old saying: fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. America has given the "free world" leaders like GHW Bush, GW Bush, and now Trump. Obama did a lot to slow the rejection of America, but who will trust our judgment after Trump?
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@DJ. But will they let us catch up? Why should they let bad sports and bullies mess up the future?
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The next step of Mr. Trump would be to dismiss anti-smoking policy to back American tobacco companies.
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I just read an account of the assessment of Trump's performance at the G-20 with reference to the Paris climate accord by a Spanish language newspaper . With disbelief it was reported how Trump has isolated his country voluntarily from the rest of the world. He is seen as a great fool by the rest of the world. Just six months into his presidency and our international reputation has gone into the toilet.
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Since Spain ruined their economy by converting to renewable energy, it is easy to see how they would love it if America reduced our competitive advantage by similarly converting to renewable energy. As a member of the EU countries with the most unstable economies, the PIGS [Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain] Spain's opinion of the American President is hardly relevant.
Spain exists by virtue of the support of Germany.
Spain exists by virtue of the support of Germany.
and yet again I find myself hoping some outside good would see it time for regime change in the US. I know I feel helpless from the inside, though I will spend my days trying. What a sad legacy for what we could be, to spiral down the drain like this
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The legacy of Obama is that his followers now see American government as a third world government, similar to Indonesia where he spent his formative years. If El Presidente cannot get the Congress to agree with him, he whips out his phone and pen and issues an imperial order. If the Supreme Court disagrees with him, he ignores them. If the bill written by Congress and signed into law by him disfavors his friends, allies, cronies or probability of re-election, he grants waivers, gives money never appropriated by his friends, cancels portions, etc.
He declares the war on terror has been won, while his Secretary of State is financing the overthrow of Libya, and the weapons are being diverted to ISIS. After destabilizing the government so that Blumenthal can profit for the chaos, the rocket launchers purchased by the CIA are used to assassinate the Ambassador on 9/11/2012. Despite Hillary having sent an email to her daughter saying that the attack was a planned terrorist action on her secret server, the administration spends the next couple of months advancing the false narrative that the assassination was a spontaneous event, despite the improbability that spontaneous protesters would have a couple of rocket launchers.
The end result of eight years of rule by a man who is culturally a third world dictator is that his followers believe that the appropriate response to a president who they dislike personally is "regime change" from some "outside good."
He declares the war on terror has been won, while his Secretary of State is financing the overthrow of Libya, and the weapons are being diverted to ISIS. After destabilizing the government so that Blumenthal can profit for the chaos, the rocket launchers purchased by the CIA are used to assassinate the Ambassador on 9/11/2012. Despite Hillary having sent an email to her daughter saying that the attack was a planned terrorist action on her secret server, the administration spends the next couple of months advancing the false narrative that the assassination was a spontaneous event, despite the improbability that spontaneous protesters would have a couple of rocket launchers.
The end result of eight years of rule by a man who is culturally a third world dictator is that his followers believe that the appropriate response to a president who they dislike personally is "regime change" from some "outside good."
Below is copied from the article. Basically... Ivanka helped create a part private company to "help women in developing countries," and Trump's "America First" program cuts foreign aid dollars in order to "create US jobs." so... Trump is proposing to divert $50 million from foreign aid to benefit the part private company of his daughter's that helps developing countries. Are we making sense yet? No, didn't think so.
Also on Saturday, American officials said that Mr. Trump would order the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to a new international public-private partnership to aid midsize businesses run by women, a group that his daughter Ivanka Trump helped create.
The partnership aims to “help women in developing countries gain increased access to the finance, markets and networks necessary to start and grow a business,” a spokesman for Ms. Trump said.
The contribution comes as Mr. Trump’s administration weighs a drastic scaling-back of foreign aid as part of his “America First” campaign pledge to target federal funding to create jobs at home.
Also on Saturday, American officials said that Mr. Trump would order the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to a new international public-private partnership to aid midsize businesses run by women, a group that his daughter Ivanka Trump helped create.
The partnership aims to “help women in developing countries gain increased access to the finance, markets and networks necessary to start and grow a business,” a spokesman for Ms. Trump said.
The contribution comes as Mr. Trump’s administration weighs a drastic scaling-back of foreign aid as part of his “America First” campaign pledge to target federal funding to create jobs at home.
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No better way to steal money from the government than a public private partnership.
If Trump reduces spending on foreign aid paid to the autocratic leaders of the third world, that is a bad decision. If he decides to take $50 million and direct it to micro financing for women in the third world, that is a bad decision.
Women raising chickens and weaving fabrics and baskets in the third world and being allowed to keep the income rather than being exploited by the wealthy elite in their country is a threat to jobs in the US. No, it is a threat to the profitability of the Clinton cronies who are currently exploiting the poor in third world countries. Look at what the Clintons did with the billions that were donated to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Clinton cronies got the contracts to build roads and a manufacturing center and made billions. Haiti expats are claiming they cannot return because the country is in worse condition than before the earthquake, the UN having introduced cholera to the water supply.
There are no simple solutions to poverty in third world countries. IMO, giving $100-200 to each of 350,000 poor people so they can start their own cottage industries is more likely to have a positive effect than giving $10 million each to five dictators or NGOs. But there is less gravy for the cronies.
Women raising chickens and weaving fabrics and baskets in the third world and being allowed to keep the income rather than being exploited by the wealthy elite in their country is a threat to jobs in the US. No, it is a threat to the profitability of the Clinton cronies who are currently exploiting the poor in third world countries. Look at what the Clintons did with the billions that were donated to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. Clinton cronies got the contracts to build roads and a manufacturing center and made billions. Haiti expats are claiming they cannot return because the country is in worse condition than before the earthquake, the UN having introduced cholera to the water supply.
There are no simple solutions to poverty in third world countries. IMO, giving $100-200 to each of 350,000 poor people so they can start their own cottage industries is more likely to have a positive effect than giving $10 million each to five dictators or NGOs. But there is less gravy for the cronies.
Are we supposed to believe that Mr. Trump's take on climate is fundamentally different from Mr. Modi's? India is busy with building coal power plants with their associated CO2 emissions and signed the Paris Agreement because it might get access to climate funds and it didn't committ them to anything. China's position is not all that different, having undertaken to stop increasing their emissions in 2030. It is time the NYT move from advocacy on climate policy to serious journalism, which includes critical and factual reporting. The crusade against Mr. Trump is getting a bit too obvious. Not that I think that the US isn't worthy of a better president.
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Actually both China and India are not busy building coal plants. The. NYT ran a story abut this on June 2. You can also check out the story in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/coal-power-plants-gr...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/22/coal-power-plants-gr...
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China is sponsoring a one road one belt expansion in Asia to enhance their political and economic power. They are running something similar to the Marshall Plan except rather than financing it themselves, they are going to have their client states borrow money from the international community to build roads, power plants [primarily coal fired] and other manufacturing infrastructure. In 10-15 years expect a major financial meltdown. In the meantime, the China sponsored coal plants in China and along the one road one belt Asian economies, they are on track to add as much CO2 to the atmosphere as mankind has added to the atmosphere since the beginning of the industrial revolution. By the year 2030. at which point China has promised that its contribution to greenhouse gases will stop increasing.
The deal Obama negotiated with China, with the US promising to reduce emissions and increase energy cost to American consumers and manufacturers while China increases its international power was not in the best interests of America or the world. It is not a fabulous plan for the world to encourage and facilitate Chinese imperialism.
If CO2 represents an existential threat to humanity, the deal Obama struck with China, which was memorialized in the Paris accords guarantees apocalypse. Same as the "deal" with India. The $100 billion per year the UN expects to collect from the industrialized world to give to the autocratic leaders of the third world, is gravy for India and China.
The deal Obama negotiated with China, with the US promising to reduce emissions and increase energy cost to American consumers and manufacturers while China increases its international power was not in the best interests of America or the world. It is not a fabulous plan for the world to encourage and facilitate Chinese imperialism.
If CO2 represents an existential threat to humanity, the deal Obama struck with China, which was memorialized in the Paris accords guarantees apocalypse. Same as the "deal" with India. The $100 billion per year the UN expects to collect from the industrialized world to give to the autocratic leaders of the third world, is gravy for India and China.
Thankfully other rational leaders, nations, coalitions, EU, G20, US states, cities, metro areas have the initiative and knowledge to bypass his path of destruction.
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In the Paris Climate accord, China was to do nothing for 13 years. How does that help the planet? U.S. middle class taxpayers were supposed to send billions of dollars to India who was allowed to double their coal plants while we closed ours. How does that help the planet? The Paris Climate accord was just another one of Mr. Obama's spread the wealth schemes. Mr. Obama never had any negotiating experience and never made a deal as President that was good for America, it was always good for others.
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China reached "peak coal" in 2013. Since then, consumption has declined by 300 million tons per year, or five times the annual output of all of Kentucky's coal mines. Air pollution is driving China's efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. With the US out of Paris, China now has a path forward to export its clean energy technologies globally without a major competitor. China leads the world in installed wind and solar installations, and these efforts have driven prices down 50-70% in the last five years. Not having a seat at the table going forward means that American businesses will be at a competitive disadvantage. Further, while a few coal jobs may be created in the US, these are dwarfed by the growth of wind and solar jobs here, and the world is committed to a non-fossil direction (e.g, volvo has announced electric only cars starting in 2019, France and Norway has pledged zero fossil from 2030), meaning that the US won't be able to export any of our fossil-based technology, further limiting economic growth.
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@Pete NJ
Hard to understand unless you allow for the fact that since the Industrial Revolution started a few countries have been the leading manufactures America far out in front. The USA leads the world in pollution created and will never be surpassed, only in 2007 did China outstrip us on annual pollution created but it still has 400 million people living in poverty, India has more. The Paris accord allowed that development was needed in ‘developing nations’ for a time but all to start reductions to occur to targets set. China is already ahead of the targets created. Obama knew such concision necessary to bring others aboard, EU including GB agreed. That help? Its a big world.
Hard to understand unless you allow for the fact that since the Industrial Revolution started a few countries have been the leading manufactures America far out in front. The USA leads the world in pollution created and will never be surpassed, only in 2007 did China outstrip us on annual pollution created but it still has 400 million people living in poverty, India has more. The Paris accord allowed that development was needed in ‘developing nations’ for a time but all to start reductions to occur to targets set. China is already ahead of the targets created. Obama knew such concision necessary to bring others aboard, EU including GB agreed. That help? Its a big world.
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Under the Paris accord, China was not expected to do nothing, they were expected to continue starting up a new coal fired electricity generator every week. Much faster than the US could shut down coal fired plants because we didn't have that many. Between the additional coal fired plants China is building and the ones they are sponsoring in their one road one belt program in Asia, they are on track to add more CO2 to the atmosphere than mankind has added since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Fortunately for the earth, they are building the plants without emission controls, so the particulate matter will create a blanket that will reflect oncoming solar warmth and counterbalance the greenhouse effect. It will cause pristine air quality to be seriously compromised, and the people will have shortened lives and increased health problems. But the Chinese do not have universal health insurance, children are expected to pay for their elders care. Early deaths of the non productive elderly in china counts as a favorable impact to the Chinese communist leadership.
Fortunately for the earth, they are building the plants without emission controls, so the particulate matter will create a blanket that will reflect oncoming solar warmth and counterbalance the greenhouse effect. It will cause pristine air quality to be seriously compromised, and the people will have shortened lives and increased health problems. But the Chinese do not have universal health insurance, children are expected to pay for their elders care. Early deaths of the non productive elderly in china counts as a favorable impact to the Chinese communist leadership.
Thank goodness for the Democratic governors who have vowed to help their states stand by the Paris accords. Governor Brown was Europe this week setting up a climate meeting to be held in San Francisco. We will just bypass the "middle man" in Washington and continue going forward into a future of cleaner energy.
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As part of the Paris accord, Obama promised the US would contribute $35-40 billion toward the $100 billion per year to be paid to the autocratic leaders of the third world. How much do you think the Democrat governors are going to chip in for it?
Of all the GOP's retrograde, selfish, and self-destructive priorities, this one baffles me most. Even if you repeal every government regulation, privatize every institution, and get a tax break on every underserved person to whom you deny healthcare and education, you can't escape climate change. The air we breathe has no borders. In 20 years, in 50 years, the earth will have become uninhabitable for millions-- and possibly for them and their descendents. No 401k is going to save them from that.
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Here's a novel idea... Let's take a page out of the playbook you obviously ascribe to, and insist the rest of the world "PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE".
If what you say is true, why does Al Gore have a carbon footprint that is 50 times that of the average American family? Could it be he is more interested in the hundreds of millions of dollars by which his wealth has increased since he lost the election in 2000 than he is interested in the wellbeing of humanity?
Have at it - it won't change a thing. "Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one." And we are first again. Enough of the madness. We only emit 3%of the total volume of CO2/yr. Nature emits 97%. The tail does not wag the dog. And no, you cannot compound ours over the years and not natures. That's not science. CO2 is not a climate control knob.
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Thanks for the Charles Mackay quote, most apt.
Another quote of his that's appropriate; "Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation"
Time will tell who called it right.
Another quote of his that's appropriate; "Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation"
Time will tell who called it right.
Nature both emits and absorbs mankind no so good at the latter. Worth a try.
The rest of the world is not moving forward on climate change without the U.S. They are moving forward without Trump. It annoys me no end to see the U.S. be painted with Trump's defiant ignorance and disregard for humanity.
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What have you done in your home, workplace or transplantation to lower your emissions? Forget TUMPTRUMP and get on with the task as some locals ans states are begaining to do. His administration will not help but its a big country!
The whole thing was a disaster. The protests were horrible and Trump along with Putin overshadowed the entire agenda which was only a footnote to his entry on to the world stage. At the same time Merkel looked like a fool who can't even keep her own country in order. The forces of history are changing and it is quite likely that the G20 will fade in significance as Trump's world vision for better or worse takes over. Obama pitifully tried to leave a legacy and failed. Trump shows how it is done.
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Nonsense. President Obama's legacy of success will continue and he will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. Mr. Trump, however, will be the incompetent, ignorant, and low character president wannabe who's greatest skill is negotiating plumbing contracts that he doesn't honor.
Nonsense. President Obama's legacy of success will continue and he will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents. Mr. Trump, however, will be the incompetent, ignorant, and low character president wannabe who's greatest skill is negotiating plumbing contracts that he doesn't honor.
Keep drinking the Kool Aid; it's good for you. Trump's "world vision," and that of his supporters, is one that most intelligent Americans and most intelligent people around the globe, strenuously reject.
The Paris Agreement forces the U.S. to cut carbon emissions but gives India and China free reign to burn as much coal as they please.
Of the 195 nations that signed the agreement, only a few are cutting carbon emissions. Most countries, for example North Korea, can do as they please and are in line to receive mitigation payments from developed nations. No wonder that they signed on!
Of the 195 nations that signed the agreement, only a few are cutting carbon emissions. Most countries, for example North Korea, can do as they please and are in line to receive mitigation payments from developed nations. No wonder that they signed on!
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This is incorrect. See my reply to the Sussex, NJ person.
The USA under the courageous leadership of President Trump was the only nation not to embrace a new carbon tax and massive redistribution of wealth under the guise and word trickery of "climate change." Fulfilling his promise to Make America Great Again. Europe will continue with its slow rot.
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States and major American cities who want to remain competitive in a world of rapidly changing technology will press forward with innovation. We will not let Trump and his circle hold us back. It's just a pity we won't have the resources and will of the Federal government behind us to support our effort to keep the USA competitive.
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Once again we see the political elite class enrich themselves with another "crisis".
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Trump's view on climate make me ashamed to be an American! And I love my country so much! He'll be gone one day, and we can move forward and rejoin the rest of the world. He disgraced America almost daily.
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It is obvious by reports that not only is Donald Trump in way over his head, as a 71 year old who has a limited cognitive capacity, he had to have his daughter sit in for him, which is unprecedented and embarrassing.
Donald Trump is an ineffectual and weak man, and Hillary Clinton would have stood head over heels above Trump in the capacity as a world leader, Trump is nothing more than an embarrassment.
Donald Trump is an ineffectual and weak man, and Hillary Clinton would have stood head over heels above Trump in the capacity as a world leader, Trump is nothing more than an embarrassment.
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Is there a site where we can easily find info on how to reclaim our European citizenship? In a short 7 months, we are no longer the nation we were and are no longer seen by the rest of the world as one to admire. That will be your legacy Donald and Company.
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Romy, go on. Head on out. You won't be missed. I think the USA will do fine without the likes of you and your "not my president" friends. You may find that the EU may not want you back though.
2017 will be remembered in history as a turning point, when the great American Empire starts to decline, with the election of Donald Trump by his less educated, low information, racist and xenophobic base, which is more than 50% of the US population. In other words, stupidity and selfishness find their representative. As an immigrant to this country, I don't care which country is stronger, but I care the environment I live, both natural and social. It is not getting better.
My point is US has lost its leadership, credibility and goodwill in the world, and it will be extremely difficult to get it back if at all.
My point is US has lost its leadership, credibility and goodwill in the world, and it will be extremely difficult to get it back if at all.
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Trump offered an upturned palm facing upward/ wrist exposed hand to Putin whose hand came down from a higher dominating position, for the handshake. Interesting body language. Trump sat in a deferential pose like a misbehaving student in the Principal's office. It was obvious who had all the leverage. What on earth does Putin know that Trump is so deferential to him? I mean he is so nasty about so many fellow Americans yet respectful to an autocrat adversary.
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Why wouldn't Trump withdraw from the Paris Accord? The GOP legislators and fossil fuel industry lobbyists and campaign donors confronted him with an argument which convinced Trump to do so.
Who could possibly challenge the soundness of the following argument?
~There is no global climate change.
~Even if there were such change, it is not due to human activity;
~and even if it were due to human agency, there is nothing we now can do about it;
~and even if there was something we mere mortals could do about it, it would cost too much to intervene;
~and even if it would not cost too much to intervene, why should we bother?
It costs us absolutely nothing to just sit here and be flooded, swelter and fry. It is far more cost effective just to sit here and endure the flooding, sweltering and frying as best and for as long as we can.
Obviously, there is no need to pay any attention to those alarmist scientists and their rantings about some purported global climate change.
Besides, we are in the End Times anyway and we have known for millennia that the long scheduled Wrath would one day descend upon us.
Well, here and now the Wrath descends!
And not too long ago a snowball was displayed in the Senate Chamber by Senator James Inhofe. Take that, you who believe in global warming!
Trust the evidence of your own eyes! A snowball was brought into the Senate Chamber! The global-climate-change hypothesis stands thoroughly falsified!
Hence, the Paris Accord is superfluous.
Who could possibly challenge the soundness of the following argument?
~There is no global climate change.
~Even if there were such change, it is not due to human activity;
~and even if it were due to human agency, there is nothing we now can do about it;
~and even if there was something we mere mortals could do about it, it would cost too much to intervene;
~and even if it would not cost too much to intervene, why should we bother?
It costs us absolutely nothing to just sit here and be flooded, swelter and fry. It is far more cost effective just to sit here and endure the flooding, sweltering and frying as best and for as long as we can.
Obviously, there is no need to pay any attention to those alarmist scientists and their rantings about some purported global climate change.
Besides, we are in the End Times anyway and we have known for millennia that the long scheduled Wrath would one day descend upon us.
Well, here and now the Wrath descends!
And not too long ago a snowball was displayed in the Senate Chamber by Senator James Inhofe. Take that, you who believe in global warming!
Trust the evidence of your own eyes! A snowball was brought into the Senate Chamber! The global-climate-change hypothesis stands thoroughly falsified!
Hence, the Paris Accord is superfluous.
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"And not too long ago a snowball was displayed in the Senate Chamber by Senator James Inhofe. Take that, you who believe in global warming!"
And don't forget Senator Inhofe's reassurance that his God will take care of any problems. He, God, is looking out for us so don't worry.
And don't forget Senator Inhofe's reassurance that his God will take care of any problems. He, God, is looking out for us so don't worry.
There is no "difference" between the other nations of the G-20 and the United States on Climate Change. The difference is between intelligent, rational human beings and Trump and his followers.
Trump must have felt very out of place among other world leaders. He did not belong there.
Trump must have felt very out of place among other world leaders. He did not belong there.
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Trump and Pruitt are trying to hold back a tsunami of change. They will gum up some of it for awhile, but they cannot really win.
Pruitt is vacillating and seems unable to even decide what path he will take on several key fronts, and there are sure to be major lawsuits coming from the states (like CA, CN, MA, NY, WA) that have sued before, when Pruitt attempts any of the big steps -- like attempting to undo the endangerment finding,
Pruitt is vacillating and seems unable to even decide what path he will take on several key fronts, and there are sure to be major lawsuits coming from the states (like CA, CN, MA, NY, WA) that have sued before, when Pruitt attempts any of the big steps -- like attempting to undo the endangerment finding,
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Is there no limit to the damage Trump is willing to inflict on this country and the planet? He's like a runaway virus, appointing cabinet members who despise the organizations they are in charge of, nominating a supreme court justice who will set back jurisprudence a hundred years, flagrantly abusing nepotism by handing over vital positions to his uncredentialed daughter and son-in-law, playing footsie with Putin, an enemy of our nation, disputing climate change against incontrovertible evidence. This president is exceptional. Exceptionally inept and dangerous.
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"Nothing’s easy,” Mr. Trump said of the gathering on Saturday as he complimented its host, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, who has toiled to bridge the gap between the United States and other nations, for handling the challenge “so professionally.”
The challenge of course was Trump.
The challenge of course was Trump.
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Trump does not speak for the majority of the people of the US. (see election numbers Nov. 2016) he speaks for big oil and big gas. The US citizens will move forward without him on climate change by demanding responsible change. Renwables are the future and we will have them.
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The country that once led the world will now be left behind and left very much alone. We cannot continue, sure in our belief, that we can exist apart from the world rather than as a part of it.
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There's an interesting tidbit buried at the end of this story: Trump asking the State Department to redirect $50 million from its foreign-aid budget to Ivanka Trump’s new fund for women entrepreneurs.
It's time for an update on the creative ways this family skims other people's money for its own charities.
It's time for an update on the creative ways this family skims other people's money for its own charities.
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So many of us are embarrassed by these myriad events surrounding this President, it would be well worth starting a petition - a well written succint apology from the population of the United States - for the actions and statements of this administration that do not at all reflect our views, our opinions, our solutions to world issues. We must find a way to speak as one, and an apology accessible to the American public to sign is my entry. Please, someone with power, and knowhow, run with this.
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Joe -- you progressives by the moment. Here's what you do. You want to drive the bus, instead of undercutting the bus driver, you do the work and learn how to drive the bus. Then you get people to vote you in as bus driver. But you lost the election. Get over it. This -- "I'm so embarrassed by my not=president" that I hide in my room or cry all the time and want to apologize to the world..." that's embarrassing.
I think I'll write the G-20 leaders and tell them we love Trump and apologize for the zealots who apparently don't believe in our election process and think if they lose they can pout and cry and beat their heads against the concrete and eventually the bad man will go away.
I think I'll write the G-20 leaders and tell them we love Trump and apologize for the zealots who apparently don't believe in our election process and think if they lose they can pout and cry and beat their heads against the concrete and eventually the bad man will go away.
ITA agree with you.
The phrase 'now I've seen it all' has become redundant.
Unless, of course, I get to sit at the table during the next G20 meeting - then I well and truly will have seen it all.
What does Ivanka bring to that discussion, exactly?
Unless, of course, I get to sit at the table during the next G20 meeting - then I well and truly will have seen it all.
What does Ivanka bring to that discussion, exactly?
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It then nods toward fossil fuels, saying: “The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.”
Do other countries want to use fossil fuels that much? It seems they are mostly trying to move towards solar, possibly wind. even China and India are moving towards solar, although both have a long way to go, they're making the effort. More than we are. He is bent on helping his Big Fuel buddies more than anything.
Do other countries want to use fossil fuels that much? It seems they are mostly trying to move towards solar, possibly wind. even China and India are moving towards solar, although both have a long way to go, they're making the effort. More than we are. He is bent on helping his Big Fuel buddies more than anything.
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What a shame that one person can cause such turmoil and is being allowed to get away with it. Shame on our Republican representatives who have traded their souls for tax-cuts and repeal of the ACA. Our standing in the world is, and always has been, a point of pride for this nation. So sad to see it all taken away by the childish, uninformed bravado of one man...
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No, he has support in Congress. But, it is sad that we have come to this.
America's President splits away from the G20 and allows a bobble head to take his place at the table showing his disdain. Earlier, he rejected the Paris accords, whined and complained about NATO and international trade agreements. We now live in the only major Western power that rejects climate science, refusing to act rationally in the face of it. I fear American exceptionalism is about to take a turn for the worse. History does each lessons, and isolationism has, historically, lead nations to fail, or to war. Which ever path Trump has set us on, it will not end well for us
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This was a great day for the people of West Virginia! To know the president will do anything for the sake of coal
And the joy of knowing Exxon has the just and true representation it deserves!
All of the GOP voters must be so proud.
And on top of the efforts to diminish Medicare.
Happy days, dreams fulfilled! Promises kept.
And the joy of knowing Exxon has the just and true representation it deserves!
All of the GOP voters must be so proud.
And on top of the efforts to diminish Medicare.
Happy days, dreams fulfilled! Promises kept.
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I find it offensive that Trump in his ignorance is trying to regress this country into an isolationism that makes us a smaller and less influential country on the world stage, and which will not bode well for our economic and world stature in the future.
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What I wonder at is how did Trump manage in the discussions in these G-20 meetings that were over his head. Did he just sit and watch or did he dare jump in with what must have been improper and embarrassing interventions? Speeches are written by ghost authors, he just needs to read them more or less fluently. But how did the man manage on his own without advisors when handling the discussions? Does he have the capacity to hold these discussions or where participants looking at each other trying to hold back laughter, or just looking down and pretend they were taking notes. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall--although it must have been unbearable to watch even for a fly.
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I am horrified at Trump and his supporters wanting to be friends with Putin and Russia! I am horrified that our education system is in the hands of someone who wants to destroy our public schools. I am horrified that our EPA is being dismantled and that regulations against financial misdeeds are being destroyed. Are our leaders really going to let this happen to America? It is going to take someone with tremendous courage to stop this madness and save our country from these mad men. What can a single, very concerned citizen do to help bring about the sanity that we must have back in our government?
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It's amazing how quickly American leadership isappeared. 70 plus years of American leadership dissipated by Trump in six months. That's probably Trump's biggest failure right there. His presidency is going to be seen as a turning point in the loss of U.S. leadership and the rise of China to fill the vacuum. And to think the Republicans hold themselves out as the more patriotic of the two parties. They and their so-called president are responsible for the loss of US world leadership.
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..., well, with all the intellectual might of the United States, it is strange that the nation is now handing the "climate for profit baton" to China.
The US seems otherwise so adept in turning values into profitable franchises - e.g. healthcare, warfare, education etc. (one should note that these franchises rarely are "profitable for the people", but certainly so for the sponsors).
Apparently the sponsorship oligarchy has decreed that climate management science is not sufficiently rewarding, or that it does not compete (or coexist) favorably with the other franchises.
Brave new world, indeed ...
The US seems otherwise so adept in turning values into profitable franchises - e.g. healthcare, warfare, education etc. (one should note that these franchises rarely are "profitable for the people", but certainly so for the sponsors).
Apparently the sponsorship oligarchy has decreed that climate management science is not sufficiently rewarding, or that it does not compete (or coexist) favorably with the other franchises.
Brave new world, indeed ...
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Enough has been said about the G-20-everyone in the world knew about Trump long before the meetings-so no surprises.
The rest of the world should now turn to negotiating climate change protocols with the 19 nations and forget about America.
The rest of the world has already begun to make trade deals-finding new trading partners-breaking new ground in their moves to skirt the coming Trump trade wars. Already, nations are no longer afraid of what Trump may bring-on the contrary-nations are very vibrant now to deal away from America and Trump. It is a new day in the global trade picture-and America will find itself wondering why they are not finding countries anxious to become a trade partner.
The rest of the world should now turn to negotiating climate change protocols with the 19 nations and forget about America.
The rest of the world has already begun to make trade deals-finding new trading partners-breaking new ground in their moves to skirt the coming Trump trade wars. Already, nations are no longer afraid of what Trump may bring-on the contrary-nations are very vibrant now to deal away from America and Trump. It is a new day in the global trade picture-and America will find itself wondering why they are not finding countries anxious to become a trade partner.
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It was just a few years ago that the excuse was that the US was foolish to tackle climate change without the cooperation of the other countries. Now the world is working to combat climate change and our new excuse is jobs. If the people believe everything excuse that the fossil fuel industry puts out (like the tobacco industry) we will soon all be dead. Renewable energy is the future both economically and environmentally. Our country should embrace progress.
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People seem to forget that a very large percentage of the CO2 emissions of other countries is related to manufacturing goods for our insatiable appetite for "stuff". We weren't just outsourcing our jobs but just as importantly we were outsourcing our pollution. Countries like China might have been happy to take it in the name of money but that doesn't mean it still doesn't ultimately belong to us.
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Talk the talk and walk the walk are different things. Let's see if the G19 managed to meet their pledge and if the US actually did worse than what we pledged at Paris. I am for Trump withdrawing from the accord. International agreements have the nasty habit of not meeting their goals and everybody wants the US to do more to cover their shortfalls because we are world leader.
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China and Russia have never trusted each other and will never work together. They have nothing in common. Under Putin and Trump an understanding and a reasonable course of dealing are much more likely between the USA and Russia. After Brexit is finalized, England under May will follow. It is a tidal change in history that many will resist, but it had to happen sooner or later.
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True, China and Russia always had half of their armies stationed at each others borders. But both are very willing to make deals with the EU instead of the US.
Japan leaded the way, soon more of the TPP countries will follow and the EU is Russia's largest client of natural gas.
EU to Trump, if you want to push your America first policy outside your US borders, we will get on fine without you, even when it means no more McDonalds, coca cola and Heinz ketchup.
Japan leaded the way, soon more of the TPP countries will follow and the EU is Russia's largest client of natural gas.
EU to Trump, if you want to push your America first policy outside your US borders, we will get on fine without you, even when it means no more McDonalds, coca cola and Heinz ketchup.
One cue they should take from Trump is to stop pretending industrial wind power is "saving" the planet by desecrating it on a scale never before seen.
Germany's Energiewende is declared a success but it has ruined the character of the German countryside, and actually increased CO2 emissions due to the need for backup power plants. Wind power is intermittent and always will be. The landscape, seascape and wildlife toll of machines up to 700 feet tall is rarely accounted for in glowing progress reports. Its as if these monstrosities are invisible to some people. Inaudible, also (noise pollution is routinely ignored or downplayed).
Solar PV should be getting far more subsidies than wind power, since it can at least carry a small footprint when sited on roofs, roadsides, etc.
Germany's Energiewende is declared a success but it has ruined the character of the German countryside, and actually increased CO2 emissions due to the need for backup power plants. Wind power is intermittent and always will be. The landscape, seascape and wildlife toll of machines up to 700 feet tall is rarely accounted for in glowing progress reports. Its as if these monstrosities are invisible to some people. Inaudible, also (noise pollution is routinely ignored or downplayed).
Solar PV should be getting far more subsidies than wind power, since it can at least carry a small footprint when sited on roofs, roadsides, etc.
I urge you to visit my country where you will find most roofs of private houses filled with solar panels.
I myself don't get any energy bills, in fact the energy company pays me while I have enough energy to warm my house, cook my food, take hot showers and even fill the batteries of my car.
My initial investment of $6000 I already have earned back twice over and that is in a climate on par with Seattle, just think what solar energy can do for the Southern and sunny states.
I myself don't get any energy bills, in fact the energy company pays me while I have enough energy to warm my house, cook my food, take hot showers and even fill the batteries of my car.
My initial investment of $6000 I already have earned back twice over and that is in a climate on par with Seattle, just think what solar energy can do for the Southern and sunny states.
The US is bound by the Paris Accord anyhow now, and for the three coming years, so concretely Trump can only start changing course when and if he gets re-elected.
I feared that with America withdrawing (and being responsible for the second biggest carbon emissions in the world, just after China), other countries would waver too. I'm happy to see that they didn't.
Maybe they knew that this is merely campaign rhetoric from Trump to his base, in order to keep them fired up, but will never believe that the nation with the world's highest ranking universities would all of a sudden abandon science and fall back into darkness ... ?
I feared that with America withdrawing (and being responsible for the second biggest carbon emissions in the world, just after China), other countries would waver too. I'm happy to see that they didn't.
Maybe they knew that this is merely campaign rhetoric from Trump to his base, in order to keep them fired up, but will never believe that the nation with the world's highest ranking universities would all of a sudden abandon science and fall back into darkness ... ?
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Trump is missing an opportunity.
He should propose a new agreement called Paris Plus.
This agreement would deal with more than CO2, and also include SO2, NOX, heavy metals, PCBs, etc. put into the air, water, and land. It might also include overall environmental policies. The Yale Index might provide a good starting point/template.
Any country that falls below the standard established in leading areas such as the U.S, Europe, and Japan could face a pollution surcharge on all exported products.
Such a surcharge would please both environmentalists and Trump supporters. After all, our outsourced products are cheaper because of lax environmental regulations as well as low wages.
Paris Plus. Come on, President Trump. Lead the way!
He should propose a new agreement called Paris Plus.
This agreement would deal with more than CO2, and also include SO2, NOX, heavy metals, PCBs, etc. put into the air, water, and land. It might also include overall environmental policies. The Yale Index might provide a good starting point/template.
Any country that falls below the standard established in leading areas such as the U.S, Europe, and Japan could face a pollution surcharge on all exported products.
Such a surcharge would please both environmentalists and Trump supporters. After all, our outsourced products are cheaper because of lax environmental regulations as well as low wages.
Paris Plus. Come on, President Trump. Lead the way!
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As second largest poluter, right behind China, that would effectively ruin the USA. He should have staid in the original accord, where countries could set their own goals and there would be no sanctions if those goals were not reached.
It would have cost the USA nothing to stay in it, by stepping out it made a pariah nation of itself.
It would have cost the USA nothing to stay in it, by stepping out it made a pariah nation of itself.
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Hi Rob:
I believe your assertion is incorrect. It may be true, on an aggregate basis, for CO2. But I'm advocating a more comprehensive measure of environmental performance that looks at a wide range of pollutants and even environmental policies.
Check out the Yale EPI rankings. The U.S. is 26th, solidly in the middle of developed countries and ahead of Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, and Japan. Note that China lags considerably.
http://epi.yale.edu/country-rankings
I believe your assertion is incorrect. It may be true, on an aggregate basis, for CO2. But I'm advocating a more comprehensive measure of environmental performance that looks at a wide range of pollutants and even environmental policies.
Check out the Yale EPI rankings. The U.S. is 26th, solidly in the middle of developed countries and ahead of Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy, and Japan. Note that China lags considerably.
http://epi.yale.edu/country-rankings
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It is fine for the others to move forward without the participation of the United States.
This was probably what Trump intended when he withdrew from the Paris Accords.
It fits perfectly with Trump's promise to put America first, and the other countries will likely lag in economic production while the U.S. surpasses them.
This was probably what Trump intended when he withdrew from the Paris Accords.
It fits perfectly with Trump's promise to put America first, and the other countries will likely lag in economic production while the U.S. surpasses them.
Other than not entering the TPP , which had more protections for employees than other trade pacts, has Trump taken any actions to support "anti-Globalization"?
Big hat, no cattle.
Big hat, no cattle.
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Like everything else, Trump probably has no real idea how Brexit works and what the rules would be.
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More like that Trump knows exactly how to negotiate and there is nothing that the EU can do to stop informal negotiations going on. It is you who does not understand that Brexit does not stop the UK from going about it's business.
The EU under the Fourth German Reich has only benefited Germany which has massive trade surpluses with it's EU partners. Many of the EU countries are on the borderline and could quickly go the same way Greece has. Hows that working out being in the EU for them?
The EU under the Fourth German Reich has only benefited Germany which has massive trade surpluses with it's EU partners. Many of the EU countries are on the borderline and could quickly go the same way Greece has. Hows that working out being in the EU for them?
Just remember, before you help Trump Make America Last while making it small and mean, that the military and insurance industries agree.
Climate change is a ***threat multiplier***
Evidence coming to your backyard, if it hasn't already. Things are changing, and you don't need science, just an open and observant attitude, to notice it.
Climate change is a ***threat multiplier***
Evidence coming to your backyard, if it hasn't already. Things are changing, and you don't need science, just an open and observant attitude, to notice it.
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To call it "science" is a bit of a stretch. We know very well that it is difficult even to predict next week's weather. I DO believe that the climate is changing and that the globe is getting warmer. But most of the people complaining about the Republicans' lack of knowledge of science, know very little themselves. Here is a scientific source to which you can go while you are taking a break from abusing Republicans. IF you are interested, that is.
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-...
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-...
Just traveled through rural areas of Utah and Nevada and was amazed to see wind and solar panel farms in deserts and valleys. Farmers and ranchers get it. Time to let big oil and big coal know this is a transition worth making.
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Why do you describe the desecration of our last wide open spaces as progress? Industrial wind power is highly invasive, yet "environmentalists" pretend it's a friend of nature just because it appears to be fighting carbon emissions (it really isn't; look at its construction process).
The Spring Valley wind project that blights the view from Great Basin national park should never have been built. Along with spoiling iconic views, it killed far more bats than Pattern Energy promised, and had to be shut down for awhile. They located it too close to bat roosts but there really is no 'green" place to put machines that large.
Similarly, the sprawling Ivanpah solar mirror facility is literally frying birds in mid-air and covers far too much desert land. Solar PV can be put on existing man-made structures for a much smaller footprint and is much greener, along with much smaller localized wind turbines.
The Spring Valley wind project that blights the view from Great Basin national park should never have been built. Along with spoiling iconic views, it killed far more bats than Pattern Energy promised, and had to be shut down for awhile. They located it too close to bat roosts but there really is no 'green" place to put machines that large.
Similarly, the sprawling Ivanpah solar mirror facility is literally frying birds in mid-air and covers far too much desert land. Solar PV can be put on existing man-made structures for a much smaller footprint and is much greener, along with much smaller localized wind turbines.
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farmers get it in the Midwest too. When farms are an important source of energy in the Midwest. They're also an important source of income for farmers. For example, one of my cousins pays his property taxes on the farm with the income from the wind turbans. He's also still able to farm the land.
My country is famous for her windmills and (among other things, wooden shoes :-) ).
Fact is that we have used wind energy for centuries to claim back land from the sea, long before the industrial revolution and even steam engines.
For our country is is not an experimental new source, but a tried and proven technology and also all the roofs of private houses are now filled with solar panels, instead of buying a new car we just spend some $6000 per house on solar panels and I personally have recovered my investment twice already.
Fact is that we have used wind energy for centuries to claim back land from the sea, long before the industrial revolution and even steam engines.
For our country is is not an experimental new source, but a tried and proven technology and also all the roofs of private houses are now filled with solar panels, instead of buying a new car we just spend some $6000 per house on solar panels and I personally have recovered my investment twice already.
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No qualifier needed. "World Leaders Move Forward Without U.S."
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No, US moves forward without "World Leaders". Trump will pull away, Merkel, the German embarrassment will be voted out of office aided by the realization and acceptance of Trump's successes and "World Leaders" will begin to fall in behind President Donald J Trump.
The key words are "world leaders". Trump relinquished the leadership this country performed in the short time he has attempted his disastrous "administration".
Focus of essay might have been "US States and Cities take up the slack on Climate Change so Federal Government can leave more in budget for health care and other social programs."
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The only definition of "a midsize business" that I could find, is apparently one that generates between $10 million and $1 billion in revenue.
I find it hard to believe that a business in sector , run by a woman or otherwise, is likely to be unequally struggling and needs international help.
I find it hard to believe that a business in sector , run by a woman or otherwise, is likely to be unequally struggling and needs international help.
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The Republican Party - helping those least in need.
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Violence in Hamburg was initiated and provoked by the police. The vast majority of violence against persons was police violence (Maybe I'm old fashioned - I value a person higher than a Mercedes). This violence, which the authorities prepared the way for with an extended disinformation campaign before the actual events (there was a constant drip of information fed to the German media months ahead of time concerning the alleged violent plans of protesters), was perpetrated in order to protect a meeting of the worst war criminals, authoritarians and mass murderers in the world. It is quite instructive to note how the liberal state and media close ranks around the Putins, Trumps, Modis and Erdogans against the protesting public.
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There was a group of anarchists along with masses of peaceful protesters. Richard Engel did a fine report. I'm not sure this is the whole show (it seems to segue into something else) but the opener is indeed eye opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J0azm7vNgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0J0azm7vNgU
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The riots were predicable, and not because of the police force, but by some crazy global anarchists. More attention should have gone to the peaceful demonstrators, who attended the nite the ‘Global Citizen’ (https://www.globalcitizen.org/de/festival/hamburg/) concert to support more than $700 million of commitments, set to reach 133 mill. people. This came about after Global Citizens took more than 750,000 actions to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, all in the goal of ending extreme poverty. Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau as well as rock stars, Shakira, Cold Play, Herbert Grönemeyer and others entertained the very friendly crowd. Ivanka Trump & Jared Kuschner were nowhere to be found at this concert to help Mr. Trudeau & the rock stars to support the less fortunate.
More concern should go to all those Hamburger residents whom were truly inconvenienced and threatened by nutjob anarchists. The elderly could not leave their homes and certainly some parents were not allowing their children into the streets. Last, but not least, no report states that any of the Trump family members went to pay their thanx to those Hamburger police and fire dept. personnel who put their lives on the line to protect not only the Trumps, but other G-20 dignitaries...Sad!
More concern should go to all those Hamburger residents whom were truly inconvenienced and threatened by nutjob anarchists. The elderly could not leave their homes and certainly some parents were not allowing their children into the streets. Last, but not least, no report states that any of the Trump family members went to pay their thanx to those Hamburger police and fire dept. personnel who put their lives on the line to protect not only the Trumps, but other G-20 dignitaries...Sad!
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Sure sure, those police incited people to thrown petrol bombs on them from the rooftops of buildings while they hid their identities with masks. True cowards.
Maybe those around the table may first want to stop shamelessly exploiting the natural riches of the countries you mention, economic conditions in african countries like Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Tchad.
Does the Côte d’Ivoire or their neighbor, Senegal have the rights to fish their own waters??
The conditions in the country’s you mention, along with those on the northern coast eg Libya have need their counties back.
Clinton and her globalist pals have had no interest in alleviating any of the suffering they created. Look at Haiti and tell me how good they’ve been.
Does the Côte d’Ivoire or their neighbor, Senegal have the rights to fish their own waters??
The conditions in the country’s you mention, along with those on the northern coast eg Libya have need their counties back.
Clinton and her globalist pals have had no interest in alleviating any of the suffering they created. Look at Haiti and tell me how good they’ve been.
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Trump is no Ted Kennedy. And we can rely on Teddy's words to see us through this apocalyptic mess, "the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die". Trump will be gone and the forgotten soon enough.
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Thanks for Ted Kennedy's fine words. But Trump will not be gone soon enough.
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Trump, one day, will be included in studies of the definition of a poorly executed administration.
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Unless Trump is impeached and replaced with something far worse...
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Everything is reversible. That tells you how crazy these people are. And our grandchildren will hate is for building all those ugly wind farms that don't produce enough for the cost and they RUIN the beautiful mountain and ocean views. And kill birds! How can environmentalists sleep at night?
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I hope you are being sarcastic. Have you visited the environment around oil wells? checked the water there? Mountaintop mining? Those standard-issues claims aren't even true.
And the fossil bosses are the ones getting rid of jobs and not providing health care for their employees.
And the fossil bosses are the ones getting rid of jobs and not providing health care for their employees.
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I can tell you as a conservationist, I hate windfarms. They kill many migrating birds. and birds of prey. And bats. There needs to be some design change in the part that catches the wind. There has to be something that is as or more efficient and not as dangerous.
Patrick! Open your eyes and ears. Those ugly windfarms are prettier than ICBMs. Those ugly solar farms out in the desert are producing so much electricity the state can't store it all and is paying Arizona to take it. There's an increase in serious earthquakes in Oklahoma caused by fracking the oil shale there, way down below the crust. Sinkholes in Florida are eating houses and roadways and the coastal mansions are more and more flooded by a rising sea during storms. You're being suckered by oil.
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At next years meeting in Buenos Aires Argentina, what topics will the G - 19 discuss?
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Too funny.
Hands down the comment of the day (I refuse to abbreviate 'laugh out loud' but be assured, that's exactly what happened).
And what's very, very, very (gotta love that word) SAD! is that it's probably true.
Hands down the comment of the day (I refuse to abbreviate 'laugh out loud' but be assured, that's exactly what happened).
And what's very, very, very (gotta love that word) SAD! is that it's probably true.
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Profound and perhaps true-the G-19. Why invite Trump when he has little to offer other than continue his rants about the media, the election and the crowd size at his coronation?
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Probably how the world will be bailing out the US.
Don't like your subhead for this article: The move laid bare the stark divide between the United States and the rest of the world’s major economies.
The divide is between TRUMP and the rest of the world's major economies. Real American's stand with the rest of the world, will ignore Trump, and work to meet the Paris Accord goals.
The divide is between TRUMP and the rest of the world's major economies. Real American's stand with the rest of the world, will ignore Trump, and work to meet the Paris Accord goals.
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Just hope your optimism is warranted. Out of 300 million people, there sure has to be some sensible ones, although these have seemingly little sway. If more Americans are willing to findout what the US is doing, really doing, around the world, all decent US citizens would no doubt be shocked and shamed. Being in the business of killing people for profit will never be a lasting proposition, but it seems like the US government is totally beholden to the Masters of War. If only the US would take Bob Dylan's song of the same title as national anthem, and also make that a reality, think of what a fine future we would all have!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exm7FN-t3PY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exm7FN-t3PY
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On Mount Desert Island Maine, We are embracing the Paris Accord through our grass-roots organization,A Climate To Thrive(ACTT). our Mission is to have the island community energy independent by 2030. We are facilitating the rapid expansion of solar power along with many other energy programs.
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true, true, true! I hope the rest of the realizes that too
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Trump did something so brilliant the CIA could never have imagined: he went straight to the horse's mouth for the truth (instead of relying on cyber analysts who merely guess). Now that we know the truth, that Russia didn't meddle in our election, we can move forward aligning America's interests with those of our new ally, Mother Russia. This has the added benefit of ensuring that even in a real estate downturn, the Russian investors in Trump properties will not call their loans and precipitate a collapse in our markets! A brilliant coup for our president and a great way to rally the base.
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Don't forget the oil: At the Trump-Putin-Tillerson confab the cards were put on the table: Russia gives Trump (a modest) win for the U.S. in Syria with the promise of Trump lifting sanctions for Russia. Tillerson can then retire from State and resume pursuing the Exxon-Russian $500 billion dollar oil extraction deal. Putin wins what he wanted originally--more money and unchecked power, and Trump's mission as the useful foil delivers ROI. Climate accord be damned; full speed ahead.
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No sanctions are being lifted. Trump is smart in supplying energy needs to Europe and Asia. The USA will be a major player in the old and gas markets. No more will the middle east countries be able to try to use oil embargoes to enrich themselves and ruin the west.
Trump won't need a war with Russia as the USA will do what POTUS Reagan did and win by using the economy
Trump won't need a war with Russia as the USA will do what POTUS Reagan did and win by using the economy
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Obama, when he went after Russia in Ukraine (contributing to the overthrow of Yanukovych), in Syria ("Assad must go"), and sanctioned Russia, did not see the danger of a possible alliance between Russia and China. Both of these two countries joined in vetoing the US resolution on North Korea.
When a country is as huge as Russia, and has immediate control of 1900 nuclear tipped missiles, you treat it with respect and not like some small fry that you can bully with impunity.
Trump knows this. Obama did not, and neither do most readers of this newspaper.
Not to say that Trump is "Mr. wisdom". He is foolish about many things. But he is right about Russia.
When a country is as huge as Russia, and has immediate control of 1900 nuclear tipped missiles, you treat it with respect and not like some small fry that you can bully with impunity.
Trump knows this. Obama did not, and neither do most readers of this newspaper.
Not to say that Trump is "Mr. wisdom". He is foolish about many things. But he is right about Russia.
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It's astonishing that abandoning leadership in a massive - and inevitable - clean energy economy on behalf of a small cabal of fossil billionaires... is just one of massive Trump's blunders.
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Maybe that is why the biggest winners (Mid-East and Russian oil produces making trillions more than the US) should pay for the cleanup.
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Somehow I doubt that the traffic jams in New York city, with each car emitting CO2 while it idles, are caused by billionaires going here and there. They are all creating CO2 and none of them are billionaires.
When I was in the UK in the 60's it was rare for people to own a car. Meanwhile Americans were driving Humongous cars. I knew steel mill workers who owned two cars.
It is easy enough to dump on billionaires. But when we buy that big car or turn up the AC we are contributing to global warming. It is always easy to find a scapegoat, and not look in the mirror and see that beard on our own goat face.
When I was in the UK in the 60's it was rare for people to own a car. Meanwhile Americans were driving Humongous cars. I knew steel mill workers who owned two cars.
It is easy enough to dump on billionaires. But when we buy that big car or turn up the AC we are contributing to global warming. It is always easy to find a scapegoat, and not look in the mirror and see that beard on our own goat face.
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His billionaire buddies are wringing their hands in glee, looking forward to the new oil wells, and surface coal and uranium mines they will build on federal lands reduced from National Monuments and Parks and the Hawaii Ocean Reserve and Arctic Wilderness. It was my understanding that Canada is the country we import most of oil oil from and that we are close to energy self-sufficiency. Is this true?
My only consolation about what's happening in my country is that other world leaders and citizens are not as ignorant as our sad President and his uninformed supporters.
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"Ignorant"? How informed are *you*?
Please tell us what the proper amount of CO2 is, who gets to determine it, and why.
Please tell us what the proper "global average" temperature is, who gets to determine that, and why.
Please tell us what the proper sea level is, who gets to determine that, and why.
Please explain what determines basic climate (w/o using the term "climate change" or "CO2").
Please explain what makes for our winds and ocean currents and how they operate in different levels of the atmosphere and in the different latitudes.
Please tell us what the proper amount of CO2 is, who gets to determine it, and why.
Please tell us what the proper "global average" temperature is, who gets to determine that, and why.
Please tell us what the proper sea level is, who gets to determine that, and why.
Please explain what determines basic climate (w/o using the term "climate change" or "CO2").
Please explain what makes for our winds and ocean currents and how they operate in different levels of the atmosphere and in the different latitudes.
Old sport, I am a highly informed Trump supporter, and the Paris "accord" is a fraudulent agreement. It appears that you are the uninformed one.
Pardon the pun, but we will be left in the dust...literally....SAD
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So Ms. Merkel first promises some one million Middle East refugees to come to the EU but then in Brussels they send them all back to Turkey who then threatens NATO to stay far away from Ankara; then the EU bribes the African powers to keep their people from the Mediterranean resulting in some 2000 drowning while telling Italy and Greece to stop survivors from going north and carry out all cost without getting a dime from Brussels. Meanwhile the EU is raising taxes of its members so refugee issues are paid for, etc., etc. And we expect Trump to be a nice guy? Europe is falling apart from the inside out. Dangerous.
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Seems to be doing just fine from where I live. Don't know about you, but taxes coming down here.
The major problem EU faces language barrier and lack of fiscal integration. Hopefully we'll see progress on the later in next few years.
The major problem EU faces language barrier and lack of fiscal integration. Hopefully we'll see progress on the later in next few years.
The France-German leadership has been restored with the victory of Macron, no opposition anymore from the Brits and a new common enemy called Trump. Europe is moving forward to a closer union and is definitely not falling apart.
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Mr. Trump is a disgrace. In fact, he is disgusting. Everyone is out of step except Donald Trump. Actually, "others" are running the show. Trump is incapably of a creative political thought. The United States was a wonderful country for many years. Now the decline is taking place for all to see. Sad. Pitiful. Might be good for the top 1 per cent, temporarily. They will die, as we all shall, but their children and our children will live on. Good luck, kids.
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I am always thankful for all the electric cars on the road as I drive around in my big SUV on the way to my big suburban house.
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Why do you need an electric car?
Petrol or diesel is better.
Believe me. I know....
Petrol or diesel is better.
Believe me. I know....
I laugh at those stuck in traffic jams on their way to the gym.
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Some have to compensate for their little fingers.
What an embarrassment. I'm so tired of winning.
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That's because you only play solitaire.
Lie down and get it over with! Russian proverb.....
Those countries don't get it yet.
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Get what. You think they're all wrong and the Great and Powerful Oz is the only right one among them?
New version of American exceptionalism
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Good for them. The US has been the biggest CO2 polluter and now is shirking its responsibilities in the name of non-existent jobs promised by an ignorant man. Morally reprehensible and utterly distasteful. This is US democracy at its lowest point and I wonder if it will bounce back.
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China is the worlds biggest polluter. China’s emissions are expected to grow nearly 32 percent through 2040.
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CO2 is not pollution.
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CO2 is not pollution old sport.
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It's inconceivable that the American government would be unable to guarantee the safety of Angela Merkel's husband when she visits the United States, as happened with the First Lady.
Even if it's true, as this newspaper reported, that parts of Hamburg resembled a "war zone".
Inexcusable.
Even if it's true, as this newspaper reported, that parts of Hamburg resembled a "war zone".
Inexcusable.
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- especially - as we all know - no American leader has ever been killed or attacked!
'Sad'.
'Sad'.
It is unlikely the Paris accord will survive the US withdrawal. More honest reporting would have conveyed that to NYT's readers. Rather than an outlier, the Trump administration is a leader - it is leading the major economies away from this ill-conceived agreement. Our grandchildren will be grateful.
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If the Paris Agreement is ill-conceived, it is because it is toothless--and insufficient to halt global warming below two deg. C. even if the promises its members made are kept.
We have already fiddled too long while the climate burns. Holding warming to under two deg. C. will now be virtually impossible, and our grandchildren will curse us for that. We had better do everything we can now to hold it under four deg. C. lest very few of our grandchildren be left to have any thought of us at all.
We have already fiddled too long while the climate burns. Holding warming to under two deg. C. will now be virtually impossible, and our grandchildren will curse us for that. We had better do everything we can now to hold it under four deg. C. lest very few of our grandchildren be left to have any thought of us at all.
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You are very wrong.
The agreement will go ahead and has been strengthened because only the pariah (Trump) has rejected it. He is so despised that his opposition to the deal makes more people support it.
The agreement will go ahead and has been strengthened because only the pariah (Trump) has rejected it. He is so despised that his opposition to the deal makes more people support it.
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Funny, I read the article as stating that each the other 19 countries in the G-20 had made a point of reconfirminh their commitment to the Paris Accord. What are the other major economies to which you refer?
While President Trump and his administration attempt to cast doubt on the soundness of climate science and misrepresent the overwhelming consensus on the reality of climate change and the human contribution to it, the other nations of the world are moving in the other direction and quickly. The nearly 200 signatories to the Paris Climate Accord have confidence in the findings and recommendations of climate scientists and in the economists who have estimated the steep costs of uncontrolled climate change as well as the economic benefits of addressing the problem.
Meanwhile our President and his advisors ignore the science and even the recommendations of our own Department of Defense. This administration is seemingly trying to turn back the clock a half century or more for the short term benefit of a few. The rest of the world is not buying it and we, recently leaders of the Free World, are in danger of becoming irrelevant and a pariah among nations.
Meanwhile our President and his advisors ignore the science and even the recommendations of our own Department of Defense. This administration is seemingly trying to turn back the clock a half century or more for the short term benefit of a few. The rest of the world is not buying it and we, recently leaders of the Free World, are in danger of becoming irrelevant and a pariah among nations.
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What science? If you can find any experimental proof for the carbon-dioxide hypothesis, post it here.
"The move laid bare the stark divide between the United States and the rest of the world’s major economies."
No. The move laid bare the stark divide between Der Furor and his band of climate deniers and the rest of the world's major economies.
No. The move laid bare the stark divide between Der Furor and his band of climate deniers and the rest of the world's major economies.
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"Der Furor". Excellent. Can I use that?
The US used to be the world's largest democracy, it is no longer a democracy.
P.S.: The same was true for Rome 2000 years ago, and Greece before that.
P.S.: The same was true for Rome 2000 years ago, and Greece before that.
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Making America Great Again seems to return us to the 1950s -- only without the marginal tax rates. But the rest of the world is continuing in the 21st Century. without us. We are falling behind under Trump and the Republicans.
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With the other countries moving forward, I think we can now refer to the group as the G-19.
If you cede your place at the table, you're probably on the menu.
If you cede your place at the table, you're probably on the menu.
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I'll bet Trump has vast investments in fossil fuels and power companies.
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Perhaps he has yuuuuuge investments in that beautiful "clean coal" he reminds us of, along with those 50,000 coal jobs He created.
One more win under his belt....
One more win under his belt....
Trump plans to make China great.
Of course. He owns all the land they drill on. :)
According to the World Health Organization;
http://www.who.int/gho/phe/outdoor_air_pollution/exposure/en/
...and numerous other scientific organizations that have analyzed the quality of environmental factors such clean air and water, the United States ranks within the top 5 countries as having the cleanest air on our planet. China and India are among the worst. The US has already enacted sweeping regulatory reforms for our fossil fuel industry that have kept our ecosystems clean. Downgrading our fossil fuel industry even more would simply result in global oil companies relocating projects and sending jobs overseas.
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump said, “The era of economic surrender is over – and a new national pride is sweeping across our land.
Foreign nations got rich at America’s expense – and many special interests profited from this great global theft of American wealth.
Since taking the oath of office, our government has adopted a new philosophy: AMERICA FIRST – and believe me, it’s about time. The era of economic surrender is over – and a new national pride is sweeping across our land. You see it, I see it, we all see it.
Industry confidence has soared to the highest level ever recorded.
We have also sent a clear message to the world that we will not allow other nations to take advantage of us any longer."
http://www.who.int/gho/phe/outdoor_air_pollution/exposure/en/
...and numerous other scientific organizations that have analyzed the quality of environmental factors such clean air and water, the United States ranks within the top 5 countries as having the cleanest air on our planet. China and India are among the worst. The US has already enacted sweeping regulatory reforms for our fossil fuel industry that have kept our ecosystems clean. Downgrading our fossil fuel industry even more would simply result in global oil companies relocating projects and sending jobs overseas.
During Friday’s Weekly Address, President Trump said, “The era of economic surrender is over – and a new national pride is sweeping across our land.
Foreign nations got rich at America’s expense – and many special interests profited from this great global theft of American wealth.
Since taking the oath of office, our government has adopted a new philosophy: AMERICA FIRST – and believe me, it’s about time. The era of economic surrender is over – and a new national pride is sweeping across our land. You see it, I see it, we all see it.
Industry confidence has soared to the highest level ever recorded.
We have also sent a clear message to the world that we will not allow other nations to take advantage of us any longer."
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This may have been true under the Obama administration but Trump and his cabinet have deregulated all of the EPA protections that were previously in place before Trump. Also, Trump has defunded many of the agencies that were put in place to protect air, water, the Great Lakes, national parks etc. So, at this moment the air and water might be okay butby the time Trump is through we'll be right back to the days of pollution, smog, unclean water, and sickness.
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Ryan, How laughable, the world taking advantage of the USA. How about the decades of American economic and financial exploitation of the world. It engendered the multinational corporation and the global economy, you realize, which it has steadfastly endeavored to hoist onto nation states through trade agreements, no matter the harmful consequences to national cultures, social traditions and ways of life. Perhaps America is simply not as competitive as it once was; it doesn't possess a terrible well educated populace, for starters. Trump loves it this way too. Why has he budgeted more billions for the military but not for education? He has told the uneducated he loves them; of course, their adulation of him gives him an enormous kick. It is ironic that Trump wants to make America great again, all the while promoting backward policies. The world will soon not take notice of America, except perhaps its greatest exports such as fast food and pop culture!
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And guess why the Us has that ranking? Many years of positive work setting reasonable EPA standards.
I've got a great idea, let's put a bought and paid for Oil and Gas lawyer in charge of the EPA so he can gut it all. Like everything else with Trump I'm sure we will rise to a new low.
Let's see if maybe we can get our clean air rating down to the level of a third world country! We've got just the man to do it !
I've got a great idea, let's put a bought and paid for Oil and Gas lawyer in charge of the EPA so he can gut it all. Like everything else with Trump I'm sure we will rise to a new low.
Let's see if maybe we can get our clean air rating down to the level of a third world country! We've got just the man to do it !
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I must say I'm getting increasingly tired of the Times' coverage. This article wasn't bad, but it didn't include nearly enough about the substance of the G20 talks more generally. The Guardian's lead article was much more informative. The Times focused on Trump mostly, which is a more hot button news topic, but frankly also more provincial. We really need our mainstream media to cover what really is happening in the world and even our own country, and not always through the lens of the controversy-du-jour.
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I couldn't agree more. Trump is not the center of the universe. For journalism school graduates he has the same appeal as a freeway car wreck; they can't take their eyes off him. If there's any brilliance in this man's strategies it lies in his understanding of this irrepressible fascination with violence and self-regard of mainstream editors at newspapers. So long as they wait for the next insult joke from a rich narcissist they will continue to ignore the work being done by functional institutions.
The only substance possible was defiantly negated by the fluff of Kushner and the puff of his betrothed. It's not hidden. Donald has eyes for Vlad only. It's like where is Bullwinkle? Natasha and Boris are running the show.
Americans can watch and get a show like The Americans but not that Putin is and was sinister enough to plant Trump right where he can pull the strings.
The checks and balances of the courts is notable by its absence - unable to address a hacked election.
Highly probable that Putin had just the key states poll result transmission diverted. The Republican party so happy to have won and to own the keys to the reelection machinery.
Beyond sad that so much of America respects and admires someone who won by cheating.
Very sad state of affairs.
How will this Niagara Falls of governmental decline be abated? Reversed?
Americans can watch and get a show like The Americans but not that Putin is and was sinister enough to plant Trump right where he can pull the strings.
The checks and balances of the courts is notable by its absence - unable to address a hacked election.
Highly probable that Putin had just the key states poll result transmission diverted. The Republican party so happy to have won and to own the keys to the reelection machinery.
Beyond sad that so much of America respects and admires someone who won by cheating.
Very sad state of affairs.
How will this Niagara Falls of governmental decline be abated? Reversed?
Americans should be ashamed, citizens should be angry.
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Ashamed of what? For not jumping off the cliff with everyone else?
The rioting in Hamburg is a disgrace to Germany.
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I feel exactly the opposite. Germans protesting the amoral and anti productive POTUS Trump is something that should be not only supported but cheered on strongly and continued until POTUS Trump and his anti-science administration is gone from office. We are a global society now and what we do here in the USA has substantial impacts on the world. POTUS Trump's climate change denial and anti-science stance in general does not represent a strong, informed America...he represents ignorance and greed. We and the world expect and demand better. Where is the leadership from America? Temporarily out to lunch.
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The British made similar comments about the Boston Tea Party.
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Godspeed, Robert Mueller.
Godspeed.
Godspeed.
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Brief and perfect
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You're hanging your hopes on Robert Mueller's fishing expedition finding something incriminating?
Definition of fishing expedition: an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence.
Witch-hunts for the purpose of character assassination will accomplish absolutely nothing and is lawless legal proceeding and a crime within itself.
Definition of fishing expedition: an investigation that does not stick to a stated objective but hopes to uncover incriminating or newsworthy evidence.
Witch-hunts for the purpose of character assassination will accomplish absolutely nothing and is lawless legal proceeding and a crime within itself.
except this is not a witch hunt, unless you consider trump a witch...
Infatuation with Obama and hatred of Trump have caused many to embrace the Paris Climate Accords. But that agreement is a very bad one for the environment.
Between 2008-2015 the US reduced its CO2 emissions by 12% despite population increase. Meanwhile, during that same period China increased its CO2 emission by more than 100%. The result is that China now emits twice as much as the US. China is world's worst emitter, emitting almost 1/3 of total world emissions.
The US continues to reduce while China continues to increase. China is heavily reliant on the dirties fuels and processes. China consumes about 1/2 the total world consumption of coal.
The Paris Accords were a triumph for Chinese negotiators. They got the world to agree to authorize them to continue increasing their emissions for many years more while the US and Europe must continue to decrease their emissions. The result will be that total worldwide emissions are authorized to continue to increase despite more US and European reductions.
Unless China ceases relentlessly increasing its emissions, the world environment is doomed despite continued reductions by the US and Europe. The Paris Accords authorize China to continue increasing its emissions. The Paris Accords will doom the planet. China must be more responsible or it will be responsible for destroying the environment.
Between 2008-2015 the US reduced its CO2 emissions by 12% despite population increase. Meanwhile, during that same period China increased its CO2 emission by more than 100%. The result is that China now emits twice as much as the US. China is world's worst emitter, emitting almost 1/3 of total world emissions.
The US continues to reduce while China continues to increase. China is heavily reliant on the dirties fuels and processes. China consumes about 1/2 the total world consumption of coal.
The Paris Accords were a triumph for Chinese negotiators. They got the world to agree to authorize them to continue increasing their emissions for many years more while the US and Europe must continue to decrease their emissions. The result will be that total worldwide emissions are authorized to continue to increase despite more US and European reductions.
Unless China ceases relentlessly increasing its emissions, the world environment is doomed despite continued reductions by the US and Europe. The Paris Accords authorize China to continue increasing its emissions. The Paris Accords will doom the planet. China must be more responsible or it will be responsible for destroying the environment.
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This comment is just plain wrong. The Paris agreement was a necessary first step and was agreed by the world. It is stupid to regress into accusations and false claims while sending our civilization to hell in a handbasket and demonizing others.
You will live to regret having ignored the issues, as evidence piles up that it is a real problem needing real solutions.
Not acting right because someone else is doing something wrong is just plain stupid. And, in fact, the Chinese are eating our breakfast becoming the leader in clean energy technology.
Where is America's will to lead? Why is the best jobs program going being sabotaged because of these false labels?
You will live to regret having ignored the issues, as evidence piles up that it is a real problem needing real solutions.
Not acting right because someone else is doing something wrong is just plain stupid. And, in fact, the Chinese are eating our breakfast becoming the leader in clean energy technology.
Where is America's will to lead? Why is the best jobs program going being sabotaged because of these false labels?
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It is easy to blame China of being the greatest CO2 emitter when it’s also got the world’s greatest population. So when we look at CO2 production by countries per capita which I believe is only fair, the US still produces more than twice as much as China (to be fair, US is far from worst in this comparison - with Qatar or Kuwait being even further ahead). So even if China continues to increase and US decrease for some time, they still wouldn’t be even. I think it’s very hypocritical of the developed countries to mentor the others while they benefit economically from their developed industry accusing others of essentially trying to do the same.
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Historically, US has emitted way way way more CO2 than any other country. What about that? At some point US have to pay the cost. Also, if we see currently, we as a country emits twice per capita carbon than China.
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It sounds to me like the climate agreement is interfering with gas sales and Trump and the GOP are fighting tooth and nail to keep the world dependent on big oil.
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Trump mugging for the cameras, not photogenic.
His presence at the G-20 summit was a total disaster. The US creditability is shattered and I would be embarras to be a Republican.
His presence at the G-20 summit was a total disaster. The US creditability is shattered and I would be embarras to be a Republican.
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Sure, but gee whiz, his daughter sat in on a segment for him. How about that?
"World Leaders Move Forward on Climate, Without U.S."
Should read "World Leaders Move Forward on Climate, Without Trump."
Should read "World Leaders Move Forward on Climate, Without Trump."
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It has become apparent that trump can't stand on his own. His children and others were responsible for the day to day operations of the trump business and dad was/is a figurehead who needs them. Now his sons run the trump business and ivanka and jared are propping him up and carrying out the day to day of being president. Trump himself is a fiction, a reality tv star who got elected by people who think he's real. Of course, even now all of the trump children work to promote the trump name and business.
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Trump has but this country as a world leader in the same position of his Presidential office . Compromise !
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Well, the fact is Trump's supporters and most of the GOP do not care whether the Russians worked the system to get Trump elected. There is almost zero doubt that they did. It isn't awfully different than the machinations Netanyahu made on the GOP's behalf against Obama. So ... okay, foreign governments meddle in American elections.
I hope the foreign friends & supporters of the next Democratic candidates take note, and join this new twist in American elections. Above all, I hope Americans can realize that this is the way it should be, if you love democracy. If we are a world leader, then the world should be allowed a voice.
Ironically, we don't see much of the world rushing to the Kremlin's choice. Perhaps a few right-wing govts such as Poland (now) or the Phillipines like Trump .. but that's about it.
I hope the foreign friends & supporters of the next Democratic candidates take note, and join this new twist in American elections. Above all, I hope Americans can realize that this is the way it should be, if you love democracy. If we are a world leader, then the world should be allowed a voice.
Ironically, we don't see much of the world rushing to the Kremlin's choice. Perhaps a few right-wing govts such as Poland (now) or the Phillipines like Trump .. but that's about it.
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World leaders are leaving the United States in the dust on climate change. Asian nations are moving ahead under Chinese leadership on trade as the US has unilaterally withdrawn from TPP negotiation. Canada is opening economic corridors to Asia and Europe as the US blusters on about the"unfairness" of NAFTA. As the US withdraws fro helping Africa develop, China steps swiftly and deftly into the breach.
This is how we're making America great again, by behaving like a whining classroom of underperforming schoolboys. Ours is the behavior of losers who turn our backs on others determined to win. They don't need us and they'll carry on just fine without us. If we ever manage to recapture our historic global primacy, the challenge will take decades.
This is how we're making America great again, by behaving like a whining classroom of underperforming schoolboys. Ours is the behavior of losers who turn our backs on others determined to win. They don't need us and they'll carry on just fine without us. If we ever manage to recapture our historic global primacy, the challenge will take decades.
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Mr Trump is about to learn about "tied aid."
Who,knew foreign aid could be so complicated?
Who,knew foreign aid could be so complicated?
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That is great. They control the climate, and we provide to them affordable energy.
Hamburg has apparently a climate control center, visited by presidential spouses. Does the center have levers or buttons? Or maybe it is all gestures and mind control these days.
But then, when they take a break from controlling the climate, by the way a hard and thankless job since everyone wants a different kind of climate, like with music from a jukebox in a bar,
when they are done with controlling the climate they also need to drive to work, stay warm, turn on lights, etc. Which is where the US gets into the picture, selling them all the actual energy they need at a good price and without any conditions.
To each and everyone what they do best.
Hamburg has apparently a climate control center, visited by presidential spouses. Does the center have levers or buttons? Or maybe it is all gestures and mind control these days.
But then, when they take a break from controlling the climate, by the way a hard and thankless job since everyone wants a different kind of climate, like with music from a jukebox in a bar,
when they are done with controlling the climate they also need to drive to work, stay warm, turn on lights, etc. Which is where the US gets into the picture, selling them all the actual energy they need at a good price and without any conditions.
To each and everyone what they do best.
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"...when they take a break from controlling the climate, by the way a hard and thankless job since everyone wants a different kind of climate..."
Fairly typical denier obfuscation. What thinking people want is for humans to STOP controlling the climate with their prodigious greenhouse gas emissions.
"... they also need to drive to work, stay warm, turn on lights, etc."
All of which could be done with energy from various renewable sources.
Fairly typical denier obfuscation. What thinking people want is for humans to STOP controlling the climate with their prodigious greenhouse gas emissions.
"... they also need to drive to work, stay warm, turn on lights, etc."
All of which could be done with energy from various renewable sources.
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Nobody controls the climate. It controls us.
We are the US, not him, nor the GOP. We have voices, we have knowledge. We believe in science, we believe in the environment. We have voices. We are not enamored of an Overbearing,Overpowering leader of another country whose self indulgent,self important being impresses only one similar person in our country. We have voices and We have our press. Don't ever underestimate their importance in a free world.
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Give Angela Merkle credit; she managed to save off a disaster for, as Mr. Trump calls it, Western Civilization.
On Climate, Americans, their states and cities need, as California's Jerry Brown clearly intends, a Climate 1000 Points of Light. It is within the powers of our States to legislate clean air and water, levy a carbon tax (as none other than George Shultz has proposed) and take other steps to meet the goals of the Paris Accords.
My state of Florida, governed by climate denying Rick Scott, looks to suffer the soonest from climate change; its coastal cities appear set to stuff the Governor and act on their own to mitigate inevitable flooding. States and cities can sign compacts with the Paris mechanism but it is most important that governments below the federal level make a compact among themselves for a common program and be prepared to defend state and local measures in the courts from the assaults of well heeled polluters.
On Climate, Americans, their states and cities need, as California's Jerry Brown clearly intends, a Climate 1000 Points of Light. It is within the powers of our States to legislate clean air and water, levy a carbon tax (as none other than George Shultz has proposed) and take other steps to meet the goals of the Paris Accords.
My state of Florida, governed by climate denying Rick Scott, looks to suffer the soonest from climate change; its coastal cities appear set to stuff the Governor and act on their own to mitigate inevitable flooding. States and cities can sign compacts with the Paris mechanism but it is most important that governments below the federal level make a compact among themselves for a common program and be prepared to defend state and local measures in the courts from the assaults of well heeled polluters.
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Frank-are you living under a mushroom? "inevitable flooding"? South Beach is consistently flooded. People walk on grassy areas and the ground squishes beneath their feet. There has been discussion of raising the streets and perhaps that has already been started.
Here in Key West, a higher than usual tide, forces water up through street drains causing flooding. On one of the beaches, a hut renting beach equipment has had to move as the ground disappears out from under it. Flooding is not inevitable, it is here. How long will it be until Orlando has beach front property?
Here in Key West, a higher than usual tide, forces water up through street drains causing flooding. On one of the beaches, a hut renting beach equipment has had to move as the ground disappears out from under it. Flooding is not inevitable, it is here. How long will it be until Orlando has beach front property?
My state already has clean water and air.
CO2 is NOT pollution old sport.
I judge results based on actions, not words.
Name another country that has reduced CO2 emissions 12% per unit of GDP since 2005 like the US has.
Talk is cheap. Merkel's Germany has seen CO2 emissions INCREASE in each of the past two years.
Name another country that has reduced CO2 emissions 12% per unit of GDP since 2005 like the US has.
Talk is cheap. Merkel's Germany has seen CO2 emissions INCREASE in each of the past two years.
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The US is still emitting twice the CO2/capita of China and India combined. We are in no position to scold other countries.
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From a spectacularly high per capita base. Only countries such as Saudi The Uae Australia and Canada are anywhere near.
so e.g U.K. is around 1/2 of the US.
just saying......
so e.g U.K. is around 1/2 of the US.
just saying......
Sources would help you to be convincing. What are they, please?
Did no read the article earlier this week in the New York Times regarding the number of new coal burning plants that are coming on line worldwide? Right now the United States has a little over 600 coal burning power plants. According to the New York Times article China is in the process of building 700 brand new coal burning power plants. 900 brand-new coal burning power plants are being built elsewhere around the world. The New York Times article stated that with this increase in coal burning capacity it will be impossible for the standards in the Paris accord to be met. So the leaders of the G 20 can sit in hamburg and sign whatever papers and agreements they want. It's all hypocrisy elsewhere in the world. Trump was the only one who called out this hypocrisy by pulling the United States out of the Paris accord...and unenforceable document that that few countries intend to abide by. By the way the number of US coal burning power plants has declined by about 125. Maybe the liberal invective needs to be spewed at China and India and all the other places in the world that are actually increasing their use of coal as a source of power
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Natural gas killed coal - very simple
'Staggering' is the only word that comes to mind given the contempt Trump has shown for global co-operation in this G-20 meeting. His daughter lacks any credential entitling her to sit alongside Angela Merkel and Theresa May in place of the POTUS. Come to think of it - neither does he.
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How about we initiate a process where Americans can publicly reject Trump and tell the world that he doesn't speak for us. It will be invaluable once the tribunals are convened to prosecute the sin of complacency.
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We already have processes like that. By commenting here, you're making use of one of them. There's also making your opinion known to your local, state, and Federal elected officials - I prefer calling since I may get to talk with someone. Sustained peaceful demonstration can be pretty visible, too. I know it's not easy, but we can make ourselves heard if we keep working at it.
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The stark divide between the whole world and Donald Trump, not the US.
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The only thing that matters in this era in the US is the bottom line.
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After trump withdrew us from the Climate Accord, we need to change our national animal from the Eagle to the Neanderthal.
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Jared K in front right of that picture... ugh!! The Donald is clearly grooming Ivanka for 2020 or beyond. Dems, get it together!
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The sense of humiliation only grows with each passing day. Now Americans have a sense of what it feels like to be a citizen of a country with a corrupt and dysfunctional government (usually reserved for third world countries.
It's a good time to read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 again.
It's a good time to read Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 again.
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Before they burn all the copies.
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The U.S Shouldn't give India and other countries billions why they are allowed to pollute and take American Jobs ! Third World Countries demanded money or they would not agree to the accord the Paris Accord was away of robbing the U.S to give to third world polluters!
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I am sorry Dee, but you are wrong. What you say is factually incorrect and intellectually misleading too.
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When was the last time you toiled in a textile factory in India for 20 cents an hour bigmouth?
Nepotism at its finest. If that were my country I'd be protesting in the streets!
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To heal the world climate requires everyone, every country...all of us.
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The greenhouse effect is a lie.
A fairy tale of capitalism. Not fair competition. So many people think.
A fairy tale of capitalism. Not fair competition. So many people think.
To every American who voted for Trump, or stayed home rather than vote for either candidate, shame on you. This disaster of a president and his administration is destroying our country and our planet in real time.
Future generations will look back in horror at this period in our history, and ask How could you have elected him?"
We are in big trouble.
Future generations will look back in horror at this period in our history, and ask How could you have elected him?"
We are in big trouble.
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SaveThe Artic, the way that America elected Trump was by way of lies and brainwashing from the right for 20 years, of people who are too busy or too stupid to think for themselves and figure out what the truth really is. I am appalled that we have allowed the garbage, lies and brainwashing that has come out of the right for 20 years! We are paying the price for FOX, Limbaugh, and Alex Jones, et al. Now, how can we convince most Americans that Liberal is not a dirty word, and that Democrats are the only ones who really do things for the citizens of our country? We would be sitting in high cotton if the Supreme Court had not taken the presidential election away from Al Gore!
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The most shameful of all are those who voted for a Third Party candidate....in order to keep themselves politically "pure". Do you ever hear anyone proud of the fact that they voted for Ralph Nader or Jill Stein? Me neither.
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The 19 countries who are "moving forward" without the USA did not even utter a word about who is going to pony up the $100Billion that Obama put us on the hook for without first going to Congress to get the taxpayer funds approved. Not one mention of China, who will do nothing for 13 years or India who wants $400Billion in contributions before doing anything. The USA has been and will continue to be the world leader in innovative solutions with or without the other nations. They want OUR wealth to fix THEIR problems as if we have none of our own. Pledge all you want, but until the 2 billion autos burning fossil fuels are off the roads, The Paris Accords, which will lower the mean temperature of the planet by two tenths of one degree over 30 years, are A COMPLETE WASTE of trillions of dollars!!!!
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How long do you plan on living in Florida? Better invest in some scuba gear. It would definitely benefit the US if several states were submerged, methinks....
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I've got news for you Harold ... the U.S. has more emissions of CO2 per capita than any other country in the world, with a mere 4% of the world's population. Taking population out of the mix, the U.S. is the second-largest polluter in the world, right behind China. Ever hear of externalities? If/when an epiphany strikes you, let us know.
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Yes...especially California, Oregon, Washington, and New York.
Trump well represents the Neanderthal voters in the Republican Party. What can you say about a man who wants to make coal king again. Well if Obama was leading from behind then Trump has topped him by not even being a member of the parade. Out of Climate change, out of TPP, and out of Obama care; one horrible idea after another, Let's let out a rebel yell America.
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But wait...based on yesterday's reporting I thought Trump was "isolated", actually "isolated on everything from trade to climate change", on America's "own private island". Is that where Ivanka's $50 million women's initiative will take place?
And Merkel was taking over the world leadership role yesterday, along with Xi. What happened? How can she become the leader of the free world if she can't keep the First Lady of the United States safe? Or if her re-election is in jeopardy, even though Hamburg is the only city in Germany capable of supporting the crush of journalists and all those lobbyists, according to Schauble.
But at least we can all breathe a sigh of relief that she got a "victory" on the wording of the communique while the city was in lockdown. That was a close one. All that "toiling" was worth it, in the end, even though it appears Trump got most of what he wanted. And she taught Erdogan a valuable lesson about democracy, so we can expect him to release all those detained journalists as soon as he gets back to Turkey.
And is Juncker on board with all this? Or is he still going to "take up arms if need be"?
And finally, are the economists still "on edge"?
And Merkel was taking over the world leadership role yesterday, along with Xi. What happened? How can she become the leader of the free world if she can't keep the First Lady of the United States safe? Or if her re-election is in jeopardy, even though Hamburg is the only city in Germany capable of supporting the crush of journalists and all those lobbyists, according to Schauble.
But at least we can all breathe a sigh of relief that she got a "victory" on the wording of the communique while the city was in lockdown. That was a close one. All that "toiling" was worth it, in the end, even though it appears Trump got most of what he wanted. And she taught Erdogan a valuable lesson about democracy, so we can expect him to release all those detained journalists as soon as he gets back to Turkey.
And is Juncker on board with all this? Or is he still going to "take up arms if need be"?
And finally, are the economists still "on edge"?
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We could have offered the world sane leadership that might have ensured a safe and sane world for future generations (you know our kids and grand kids). Instead an ignorant con man was elected and we are becoming a sick joke and an impediment to peace and prosperity. Sad.
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Bravo! The Europeans have had the courage to stand up to him, something the politicians here in the U.S. seem unable or unwilling to do!
It's our loss, but maybe it will make a few heads turn...We can hope.
It's our loss, but maybe it will make a few heads turn...We can hope.
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you could also say that he has the courage to stand up to the Europeans. Since when do Germany and France set our agenda?
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Not participating, not leading in a effort to have energy without hazards of climate change is akin to not participating in the space race , the race to the moon!! .Donalds trump and fossil fuel encouragement path This is not the way to make America great again but how to make America a has been .
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It is foolish and bad general form to cast these meetings as "win-lose".
The US elected an amateur to its hallowed high office -- and that merely reflects who we are and how we run our nation.
The US elected an amateur to its hallowed high office -- and that merely reflects who we are and how we run our nation.
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Don't follow leaders.
Watch your parking meters.
Watch your parking meters.
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So what's wrong with doing more than "our share" to help save the planet? If we are so exceptional, we should act like it.
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Apparently we're no longer "exceptional". Government "of the people, by the people and for the people" only works if the people are interested, educated and bother to learn the issues and vote.
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The problem is that the US has already put out cumulatively more CO2 than anyone else on the planet, and that CO2 is still in the atmosphere and the oceans. We put that CO2 into the atmosphere in the procrss of improving our country by bulding infrastructure, cities, and a society that works.
Now developing countries want their chance at building their societies. We can let them do so the way we did: by putting out gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere, or we can help them financially to avoid the CO2.
In a way, the better deal for us is to pay these developing countries now, instead of having to paying later for rising sea levels, climate refugees from the tropics, and ridiculous summer temperatures.
Now developing countries want their chance at building their societies. We can let them do so the way we did: by putting out gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere, or we can help them financially to avoid the CO2.
In a way, the better deal for us is to pay these developing countries now, instead of having to paying later for rising sea levels, climate refugees from the tropics, and ridiculous summer temperatures.
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To the World Leaders of the G20: The People of the United States do not stand with the President Donald J Trump, reneging our responsibilities for and contributions to climate change. The People of the United States share deep concern about the future of Planet Earth and wish to be in the forefront of protecting the global habitat for future generations of Homo Sapiens and all life on Earth.
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It is evident by the pictures that Trump is as lost as a school boy on day one of grade 1. The world will more ahead without us and when we wake up there will be a new world order and it won't be lead by the US.
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The US is becoming a laughing stock and Trump is being revealed as more of a buffoon every day. We have a President that kowtows to Putin but shuns longtime allies.
I will say that I admire many world leaders for openly dismissing Trump – most citizens of the US are doing the same.
I will say that I admire many world leaders for openly dismissing Trump – most citizens of the US are doing the same.
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Does anyone require further proof that we are truly EXCEPTIONAL?
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The G-20 logo of a square knot should have been replaced with a granny knot to symbolize the new American, Russian and G 18 countries' relationships - all pretense and all 'bound to unravel.'
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trump is the same sort of blustering strongman as putin and erdogan. I am deeply ashamed of the government of this nation and of humanity for being so easily lead, in this nation, russia, turkey, and others over the world. there are good individuals, the species is only as smart or good as its dumbest and worst members. We would be better off being ruled by sponges or ferns.
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It is not a stark divide between the U.Sl and the rest of the world. It is a stark divide between Mr. Trump and the rest of the world. A majority of Americans endorse the Paris accord. Only Mr. Trump and he alone does not.
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Trump can renegotiate the climate accord with Bannon and Kushner. The rest of the world has moved on. Now he threatens a trade war and a real war with North Korea. He is so untrustworthy, it may take 2 administrations after he is gone to restore America's credibility and reputation. Sad!
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Wasn't it just a few weeks ago that DJT was crowing about how the rest of the world will no longer be laughing at us?
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It seems that very few have read the fine print of the Paris agreement. Each country signed to a different NDC (Nationally declared contribution ). China, the world’s biggest polluter agreed to continue to increase emissions up to 2030 and to level off thereafter. India, not far behind wants $100 billion a year from developed countries to help fight climate change. Both claim that this is justified because they are ‘developing nations’!! The US and Australia had agreed to go back to 1994 emission levels!!
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If Trumps concern was that the US was in a bad position because other countries were misrepresenting their commitment to Climate Change agreements, then...sure... I could understand that. But Trump doesn't even believe that Climate Change is occurring. Thats what is driving him. I really don't think we will get any substantive agreement until we see some some really serious and potentially irreversible effects form Climate Change.
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What's the per capita pollution? You're speaking about countries that, together, make up 1/4 of the world's population
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You missed a lot in your breakdown. First, India is behind China and the U.S. by significantly CO2 emissions. China emits the highest percentage of CO2 as a nation. The nation, also, hold 1.4B residents. Their percentage of world's CO2 emissions is at 29.4% of the world's total. That's 2.868% per 100M citizens. It's certainly a problem. India is much, much less. With 6.8% of the world's CO2 emissions, with just under 1.3B residents, the emissions per 100M residents is at .537%. China emits 434% more on a proportional basis by population than India. It ain't close.
Where does the U.S. stand here. A developed nation, the U.S. may be a higher CO2 emitter by proportion compared to India and China. Let's examine to see if that may be true. The U.S. is responsible for 14.3% of the world's CO2 emissions. With a population of 320M, the U.S. is proportional emitting 4.469% of the earth's CO2 per 100M residents. Proportionally, the U.S. is emitting 55.8% more CO2 than China and 7,322% more than India.
Two statistical approaches have to be taken into account. imagine a nation like Saudi Arabia with 31M people. Compare that without taking into account population in the CO2 emission percentage. China and India would look disasterous. Saudi Arabia appears quite low in emissions compared to China but by proportion, the are a much higher emitter. Never compare a nation of 1B plus to a nation of 1M claiming the larger nation is a terrible polluter. It could be true be true but it may not.
Where does the U.S. stand here. A developed nation, the U.S. may be a higher CO2 emitter by proportion compared to India and China. Let's examine to see if that may be true. The U.S. is responsible for 14.3% of the world's CO2 emissions. With a population of 320M, the U.S. is proportional emitting 4.469% of the earth's CO2 per 100M residents. Proportionally, the U.S. is emitting 55.8% more CO2 than China and 7,322% more than India.
Two statistical approaches have to be taken into account. imagine a nation like Saudi Arabia with 31M people. Compare that without taking into account population in the CO2 emission percentage. China and India would look disasterous. Saudi Arabia appears quite low in emissions compared to China but by proportion, the are a much higher emitter. Never compare a nation of 1B plus to a nation of 1M claiming the larger nation is a terrible polluter. It could be true be true but it may not.
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$100 trillion in climate policy is more than en exercise in public opinion. The CAGW hypotheses is apocryphal and unproven. It is the worst sort of scientism. Political leaders who impose or accept taxes or regulations on fossil fuels will be seen as fools. Climate change is a false premise for regulating or taxing carbon dioxide emissions. Nature converts CO2 to calcite (limestone). Climate change may or may not be occurring, but is is surely NOT caused by human fossil fuels use. Changes in temperature cause changes in ambient CO2, with an estimated 800 year time lag. Fossil fuels emit only 3% of total CO2 emissions. 95% comes from rotting vegetation. All the ambient CO2 in the atmosphere is promptly converted in the oceans to calcite (limestone) and other carbonates, mostly through biological paths. CO2 + CaO => CaCO3 (exothermic). The conversion rate increases with increasing CO2 partial pressure. A dynamic equilibrium-seeking mechanism. 99.84% of all carbon on earth is already sequestered as sediments in the lithosphere. The lithosphere is a massive hungry carbon sink that converts ambient CO2 to carbonate almost as soon as it is emitted.
Full implementation of the Paris Treaty is now estimated to cost $100 trillion by 2030--$13,333 per human being. Nearly two-thirds of humanity's cumulative savings over history. And will not affect climate at all.
Full implementation of the Paris Treaty is now estimated to cost $100 trillion by 2030--$13,333 per human being. Nearly two-thirds of humanity's cumulative savings over history. And will not affect climate at all.
You're numbers are absolutely faulty. First, studies have shown the climate of the planet is warming. That is not in dispute. The science also shows carbon emissions are contributing. All the costs you cite fail to account for the positive economic affects of clean energy. From new jobs to cheap fuel.
President Obama's fuel efficiency rules which Trump needlessly and foolishly blocked would have put billions of dollars into consumer's pockets in fuel savings and ended our need to import Middle East oil.
And what's the alternative? Let's say 97% of scientist are wrong. We still would have cleaned up the planet and moved away from pollution causing fossil fuels. And we'd be a leader in what will be new technologies and industries. Instead, India and China are leading. China already took our solar panel industry from us thanks to another GOP administration. And they are shutting coal powered factories at record speeds. India just planted 6 million trees in 12 hours and vows to eliminate gas powered vehicles from its streets within 15 years. Other countries are also eliminating gas fueled vehicles from their streets.
The U.S.? Our dingbat of a president is going in the opposite direction. Not because he knows what he's doing but because it makes a good sound bite. He doesn't care that miners are never getting those jobs back. It's shameful and what's even sadder are the comments we see here by folks like you who think working to clean our air and waters is evil.
President Obama's fuel efficiency rules which Trump needlessly and foolishly blocked would have put billions of dollars into consumer's pockets in fuel savings and ended our need to import Middle East oil.
And what's the alternative? Let's say 97% of scientist are wrong. We still would have cleaned up the planet and moved away from pollution causing fossil fuels. And we'd be a leader in what will be new technologies and industries. Instead, India and China are leading. China already took our solar panel industry from us thanks to another GOP administration. And they are shutting coal powered factories at record speeds. India just planted 6 million trees in 12 hours and vows to eliminate gas powered vehicles from its streets within 15 years. Other countries are also eliminating gas fueled vehicles from their streets.
The U.S.? Our dingbat of a president is going in the opposite direction. Not because he knows what he's doing but because it makes a good sound bite. He doesn't care that miners are never getting those jobs back. It's shameful and what's even sadder are the comments we see here by folks like you who think working to clean our air and waters is evil.
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Miner49er
If your comment is supposed to be correct, how do you explain the OBSERVABLE that the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has risen from a 500,000 year background that never exceeded 300 parts per million (ppm) to the present over 400 ppm? That has been reported by multiple sources, including Caltech-JPL.
If your analysis is correct, that CO2 is immediately converted to calcium carbonate, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere should NEVER go up. But it is observed that it HAS, specifically in the last 200 years or so (corresponding to the industrial revolution). My Caltech degree in Chemistry says you are wrong. Totally wrong.
By the way, the more your exothermic reaction proceeds, the more heat it RELEASES. Even that part of your analysis goes the wrong way for your logic to hold up.
If your comment is supposed to be correct, how do you explain the OBSERVABLE that the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere has risen from a 500,000 year background that never exceeded 300 parts per million (ppm) to the present over 400 ppm? That has been reported by multiple sources, including Caltech-JPL.
If your analysis is correct, that CO2 is immediately converted to calcium carbonate, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere should NEVER go up. But it is observed that it HAS, specifically in the last 200 years or so (corresponding to the industrial revolution). My Caltech degree in Chemistry says you are wrong. Totally wrong.
By the way, the more your exothermic reaction proceeds, the more heat it RELEASES. Even that part of your analysis goes the wrong way for your logic to hold up.
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The bleaching of coral reefs is a direct result of the increase in the human-induced increase in the acidity of the ocean water.
trump's use of language seems to be on the level of a fourteen year old. He doesn't display the skill I think is necessary to have effective debate to move a position forward among adversaries. I'm not sure he even has clearly defined positions, which seems to be a consensus from reading the news coverage.
His election as president speaks poorly to the general level of education in this country. I recognize that it was also a result of intense frustration felt by the large number of "average" Americans who feel that government is not concerned with their problems, and trump's middle school logic resonated with them. But still. This is embarassing to have this man represent us.
His election as president speaks poorly to the general level of education in this country. I recognize that it was also a result of intense frustration felt by the large number of "average" Americans who feel that government is not concerned with their problems, and trump's middle school logic resonated with them. But still. This is embarassing to have this man represent us.
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Hey! Don't insult 14-year-olds.
That statement is offensive to 14 year olds. They are much smarter than DJT.
Honestly, in 20, 30, 50 years what will future generations say about our absolute political failure in combating an issue that could possibly, completely and irreparably, change the environment, and their way of life?
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They will say "I cant believe those fools actually believed that minimal amounts of human CO2 emissions would destroy the planet. Thank God America had the sense to elect President Trump who led the world away from the fraudulent Paris climte accord." That's pretty much what they will say.
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Democracy faces an unprecedented challenge in America during Donald Trump's presidency.
A dark horse mercurial presidential candidate -- considered by the ruling elite and millions of voters to be unfit/unqualified -- wins the election outside the control of the two main political parties.
More alarmingly, the elected candidate acts on highly controversial topics. Some promises becoming the law of the land will adversely affect the existing economic system and undermine the country's global superpower status.
The question is: what to do about Donald Trump's presidency? passive resistance, wait for the next election or take some kind of direct action against the most controversial decisions?
A dark horse mercurial presidential candidate -- considered by the ruling elite and millions of voters to be unfit/unqualified -- wins the election outside the control of the two main political parties.
More alarmingly, the elected candidate acts on highly controversial topics. Some promises becoming the law of the land will adversely affect the existing economic system and undermine the country's global superpower status.
The question is: what to do about Donald Trump's presidency? passive resistance, wait for the next election or take some kind of direct action against the most controversial decisions?
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“The United States of America states it will endeavor to work closely with other countries to help them access and use fossil fuels more cleanly and efficiently.”
There is no such thing as clean coal and clean fossil fuels of any kind. It is time for the U.S. to move forward, away from destructive practices.
There is no such thing as clean coal and clean fossil fuels of any kind. It is time for the U.S. to move forward, away from destructive practices.
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Someday Trump will leave of will be kicked out, but the damage he has done and will have done to US will be difficult to recover from. The process has started.
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America's continued use of fossil fuels and insistence on pushing them like drugs on poorer countries will have immense global economic consequences. This is capitalism run amok and corresponds to the growing movement by electric utilities and their lobbyists at the State and federal levels to rollback net metering and rooftop solar installations to preserve their monopoly on power generation by existing coal and natural gas fired plants. The G19 would be well within its rights to impose a carbon tariff on all US exports based on its use and export of fossil fuels over and above Paris accord targets.
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We have a dangerously delusional egomaniac as president. He is uniting the civilized, industrial world against our USA.
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This is simply an illusion of power perpetuated by the people that use "voters" to pay for their own interests. It started with pyramids. Now it is stadiums and skyscrapers. There is no interest in helping humanity nor Earth.
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Unfortunate that the US was ignored in moving forward with Paris accord on the environment. It is a clear message to US, irrespective of what the US has done in the past, it cannot keep milking the past contributions for future gains. The G20 statement to US is either lead or get out. Trump simply treated. G20 meeting as a ritual that the has to perform. He considered it a waste of time, that took away his valuable time to watch the cable TV.
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In fairness to Ivanka, she has got about as much experience in affairs of state as her father, and that wasn’t a barrier to him becoming President. So why would he see it as a barrier or a problem. The chances are that she is also as just as well briefed. No idea what her IQ is like, but there is a good chance that she might actually understand the briefings better as well….
And she is a lot better looking. I know who I would rather have sat at my table.
And she is a lot better looking. I know who I would rather have sat at my table.
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You really lost all credibility with that last sentence.
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You will probably think otherwise after reading the article in provided link.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ivanka-trumps-terrible-book-h...
http://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/ivanka-trumps-terrible-book-h...
“This is a clear indication that the U.S. has isolated itself on climate change once again, and is falling back while all other major economies step up and compete in the clean energy marketplace created by the Paris Agreement estimated to be worth over 20 trillion dollars,”
Trump, you just shot us in the foot again with your conservative mumbo-jumbo about over regulation of business opportunity.
What do you call 20 Trillion dollars?
Trump, you just shot us in the foot again with your conservative mumbo-jumbo about over regulation of business opportunity.
What do you call 20 Trillion dollars?
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Can there be a more stark example of President Trump's anti-Earth and anti-human leadership than his rejection of and opposition to accepting human caused global climate disruption? He and his Republican supporters will be held accountable and ultimately cast aside as the rest of the world tries to come to grips with the environmental disasters that await us all.
It is infuriating that our country which should be using its scientific and technological knowledge and skills to mitigate climate change, has instead been forced to yield to our president's abuse of power and bombastic rhetoric.
It is infuriating that our country which should be using its scientific and technological knowledge and skills to mitigate climate change, has instead been forced to yield to our president's abuse of power and bombastic rhetoric.
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Related industries will go to other countries as trump makes us slide from leadership.
It's up to voters to stop him if they want us to lead once more.
It's up to voters to stop him if they want us to lead once more.
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We have the fire power if they don't like it, show us what you can do. Seems to be the the administrations plan.
Nationalize the coal and oil industries. That is the only way to prevent the Koch brothers, Don Blankenship, and the rest of the energy monopolists from bribing the U.S. politicians into being their puppets.
There is no convincing argument that a few families and privately held corporations should be allowed to control the planet's natural resources and dictate the welfare, and possibly the doom, of billions of human beings and the fate of the planet itself.
There is no convincing argument that a few families and privately held corporations should be allowed to control the planet's natural resources and dictate the welfare, and possibly the doom, of billions of human beings and the fate of the planet itself.
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Better yet, outlaw fossil fuels altogether. That will spur innovation. You'll see oil companies convert to renewables overnight.
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So how do you propose to accomplish these goals when you can't get a dog catcher elected? But seriously how?
@ Joe G: Ridding the country of the scourge of gerrymandering will be a good start to getting rid of theocrats who are trying to drag us back to the dark ages.
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Trump was the lone climate change dissenter while the First Lady was unable to attend the spouses climate-laboratory tour due reportedly to protesters rendering her unable to leave her residence. Sadly fitting.
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America has been dragging the chain on so many issues for so many years: Climate, pollution, fair wages, quality of life, crime, education - The overall image from Trump is "Stick to the script". It's quite obvious that Trump and co. don't add anything at all to a range of ancient, outdated platforms run and monitored by the Tea Party/Koch bloc. The entire process is the same old collection of anachronisms, occasionally interrupted by tweets, tantrums, campaign revival meetings, and golf.
This isn't populism. It's the original product in a different, noisier package, and the product dates back to the 1940s. The actual, unmistakable madness is that it's ALL delusional, and rooted in the least impressive (and least productive) biases and prejudices of the right's brown sky dream factories. If future failure runs on fossil fuels, faker fossils running on greed aren't exactly unpredictable. All else follows.
This isn't populism. It's the original product in a different, noisier package, and the product dates back to the 1940s. The actual, unmistakable madness is that it's ALL delusional, and rooted in the least impressive (and least productive) biases and prejudices of the right's brown sky dream factories. If future failure runs on fossil fuels, faker fossils running on greed aren't exactly unpredictable. All else follows.
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And when some of the world's major industrialized countries, trying to reach their Paris Accord goals, begin to pass regulations to control pollution by banning polluting American cars, trucks and products, what will happen to US unemployment then? Doesn't even have to be Europe, Russia or China - think about Mexico and Canada doing this - soon. Yeah, let's save 50K coal worker jobs today and lose 10x that number in heavy industry and autos in a decade. Brilliant.
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The situation that the US can't make a car as efficient and reliable as a Prius or raise travel efficiency with high speed rail is going to be a huge factor in the path to downfall that Trump wants us on. Frankly for the country that put 12 people on the moon ahead of schedule two generations ago, the complacency wrapped in jingoism is a massive embarrassment.
The deal would have cost Americans thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars.
Although the United States is already protects the environment more then any other industrial country we were being required to make the most cuts and even pay for pollution reduction in other countries.
We should only participate in deals that have the same requirements for all countries and require compliance by all participants.
Although the United States is already protects the environment more then any other industrial country we were being required to make the most cuts and even pay for pollution reduction in other countries.
We should only participate in deals that have the same requirements for all countries and require compliance by all participants.
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I don't really think your grandchildren are going to care about the fairness of the deal, or the numbers of jobs lost or gained. They simply won't have a viable world to live in and they will blame us for turning our backs on the crisis precisely at the moment when we could have made the biggest difference. America should lead the way because it is well positioned to do so, and because it has historically been the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world. Carbon pollution is cumulative and we have made the largest deposit of pollutants over the years by a wide margin.
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We would have net more jobs building new renewable energy plants and upgrading other infrastructure to support their use.
Personally I don't buy the argument that since we have already done something and other countries have done less doesn't really excuse any nation or individuals from causing harm to others with their externalities when alternative methods of energy production exist.
Additionally, whether or not you think its better to tolerate older and more polluting technologies than to replace them with newer, cleaner, and increasingly more efficient energy sources, we at least won't have to continually import or purchase the materials needed for energy production with renewable sources hence reducing our vulnerability to market forces and those who control them. Once the capital cost of setting up a wind farm has been covered, the maintenance cost has got to be or will be way lower than the cost of any raw material.
Personally I don't buy the argument that since we have already done something and other countries have done less doesn't really excuse any nation or individuals from causing harm to others with their externalities when alternative methods of energy production exist.
Additionally, whether or not you think its better to tolerate older and more polluting technologies than to replace them with newer, cleaner, and increasingly more efficient energy sources, we at least won't have to continually import or purchase the materials needed for energy production with renewable sources hence reducing our vulnerability to market forces and those who control them. Once the capital cost of setting up a wind farm has been covered, the maintenance cost has got to be or will be way lower than the cost of any raw material.
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Absolutely totally spot on correct.
Why do we need this Paris accord, other than to fleece the American taxpayers. Our CO2 emissions have declined to I believe 2002 levels, and much earlier if you take into consideration population growth. Wind is becoming a major factor in the plain states, solar is growing, and much cleaner natural gas is replacing coal. Houses and appliances are built with incredible efficiency.
Thank you, President Trump, for keeping us out of this boondoggle.
Thank you, President Trump, for keeping us out of this boondoggle.
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Much is being done and will be done for simple economic reasons. However, much more could be done.
The comparison is to automotive safety and fuel economy. Both would doubtless have improved if never pushed by government, but they improved more and faster when pushed, with the constant complaints of industry as proof they were moving faster than they otherwise would have.
The comparison is to automotive safety and fuel economy. Both would doubtless have improved if never pushed by government, but they improved more and faster when pushed, with the constant complaints of industry as proof they were moving faster than they otherwise would have.
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Listen to the scientists and not Trump. If you have children and grandchildren they're the ones who will be affected by what we do now. For instance don't you think Superstorm Sandy was somewhat the result of climate change? I do
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Full moon, high tide, and a weird weather pattern that pushed the system to the west instead of the east. Absolutely nothing to do with climate change.
The leadership of Trump and his oil industry minions is much like what happened to the American auto industry in that long ago, Engineers had sway over the affairs of the industry until the marketing and business people abandoned good engineering for style and finances. The auto industry has become so technically incompetent that foreign manufacturers have actually moved into America and built their factories to satisfy the practical needs of the consumers who want gas saving cheaper and smaller vehicles. Detroit is still making trucks and putting SUV bodies on rough truck chassis' to make more money while pawning off inferior motor products on the public.
The same happened when Trump was elected by a feverish frenzied excitement promoting pie in the sky by a businessman whose only knowledge is real estate and has no clue about matters of a technical nature. He chose to surround himself with fossil fuel industry personnel and chose to promote an old dying form of energy generation. He is technically incompetent and ignores the enormous potential of alternative energy generation and electric motivation, today on the anniversary of Nicola Tesla's birthday.
China and other nations are already racing ahead in other forms of energy leaving us in the coal dust.
I only hope Trump is out after one term and forward looking progressive leaders assume the mantle of leadership with an eye to engineers to rebuild the economy. President Obama made a good start.
The same happened when Trump was elected by a feverish frenzied excitement promoting pie in the sky by a businessman whose only knowledge is real estate and has no clue about matters of a technical nature. He chose to surround himself with fossil fuel industry personnel and chose to promote an old dying form of energy generation. He is technically incompetent and ignores the enormous potential of alternative energy generation and electric motivation, today on the anniversary of Nicola Tesla's birthday.
China and other nations are already racing ahead in other forms of energy leaving us in the coal dust.
I only hope Trump is out after one term and forward looking progressive leaders assume the mantle of leadership with an eye to engineers to rebuild the economy. President Obama made a good start.
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Stop repeating the Trump Lie that he is a businessman!
He's simply a salesman, and from the looks of it, not a very good one. Without the Electoral College he is a loser by three million votes.
He's simply a salesman, and from the looks of it, not a very good one. Without the Electoral College he is a loser by three million votes.
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With or without any or all of them, the climate moves forward nonetheless.
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The USA is longer a world leader, much less the leader of the free world. For all of the hypocrisy and hubris we sometimes historically demonstrated regarding democracy, human rights, welcoming immigrants, environmentalism and so many other important principles, we still stood for them and stood up for them to some important extents.
Now? "Make America Great Again" means we veer between isolationism and being a laughing stock. Or, it really means, make Russia great again.
Now? "Make America Great Again" means we veer between isolationism and being a laughing stock. Or, it really means, make Russia great again.
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I am waiting for Angela Merkel to make a statement on behalf of the world's leaders: "We are forced to acknowledge the obvious--that the world's major superpower is run by a madman who knows almost nothing about the issues he is forced to confront."
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Even the people complaining in this comments section mostly don't realize how serious this is.
We are living on borrowed time, and the payments are coming due.
Our hospitable earth is rejecting its apex predator and the predatory abuse is ruining its once welcoming presence in our lives.
We are living on borrowed time, and the payments are coming due.
Our hospitable earth is rejecting its apex predator and the predatory abuse is ruining its once welcoming presence in our lives.
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I'm beginning to think that mother earth is correct and that we do not deserve her.
Can you just imagine the outrage if Hillary or Obama had performed anything like this stooge?
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I have confidence in AMERICAN democracy, it's messy, chaotic and noisy but it is also self correcting, the us will lead climate change initiatives again and will be a world leader in good governance, anti nepotism and anti corruption, investing in clean energy and education where science and facts trump over fake news and idealogical stupidity
This one term president like Russia and Putin will be consigned to the history books as an aberration,
That's why it is so important to have a college education and not be relegated to structural joblessness due to technology, progress and globalisation and not able to climb the value chain
This one term president like Russia and Putin will be consigned to the history books as an aberration,
That's why it is so important to have a college education and not be relegated to structural joblessness due to technology, progress and globalisation and not able to climb the value chain
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I think you left out a few important words at the beginning of your post: "I had a dream that..."
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As far as Trump goes it's all about the optics.
Ivanka in the pink dress in the front row next to Angela Merkel - disgusting.
What do they think the G20 is - a family jaunt, a Euro-tour with a bit of chatter thrown in? The word is a critical stage and all the Trumps do is distract from what matters.
Ivanka in the pink dress in the front row next to Angela Merkel - disgusting.
What do they think the G20 is - a family jaunt, a Euro-tour with a bit of chatter thrown in? The word is a critical stage and all the Trumps do is distract from what matters.
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Indeed a family jaunt, courtesy of the taxpayer, with nothing of substance offered by Trump or his junior presidents.
Distracting from what matters indeed. However, you must remember He has the attention span of a gnat.
Distracting from what matters indeed. However, you must remember He has the attention span of a gnat.
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More like a tax write off.
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With Donnie Sr at the helm we will RULE the 20th century! Hopefully someone that likes us will rule the 21st, but we will own the past!
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alvnjms
Perfect comment.
Trump always takes credit for stuff other people have done. We did rule the 20th Century., thanks to Trump's predecessors.
Perfect comment.
Trump always takes credit for stuff other people have done. We did rule the 20th Century., thanks to Trump's predecessors.
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I agree! Codgers of the world, unite!
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We now have incontrovertible evidence that the USA is an "exceptional" country!
We can go on now with our "USA, USA" chanting until the cows come home. Whoopee!
We can go on now with our "USA, USA" chanting until the cows come home. Whoopee!
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His base wanted someone who would stand up to anyone and everyone. Well they got it. It's just the rest of the world that will suffer from this eye-poking stupidity.
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Actually not. Even in the short run, the rest of the world will benefit from the technology advances and spinoffs that addressing climate change entails.
It has always amazed me that conservatives/reactionaries in the US business community have not seized up on the best of all possible reasons to embrace climate change: Someone is going to make a boatload of money.
It has always amazed me that conservatives/reactionaries in the US business community have not seized up on the best of all possible reasons to embrace climate change: Someone is going to make a boatload of money.
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The coal made a lot of money in its day. Then the oil industry made a lot of money. The next big thing to provide energy to power the world will make a lot of money too. It was great to own coal and oil, and now it would be great to own the next big thing.
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Correct, and it won't be the U.S. America last and isolated. Thank you trump!
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Governments really don't care about the pollution or abuse of resources problem, they never have throughout history. This is just a PR gesture. If anything will happen it will come from bottom up not top down. Stop buying gas burning vehicles, Stop overusing energy in your home or creating so much waste from your abundant lifestyles? How much more electricity is used now for computers for instance? How many millions of cellphones are thrown away every year? Computers? Cars? Just for the sake of having the newest model. In the end we are the consumers, we are creating the pollution not Donald Trump or Vlad Putin or any of these other strange leaders. All revolutions start from the bottom up.
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"If anything will happen it will come from bottom up not top down."
Rural electrification. The interstate highway system. Top down has its contributions too, enabling the bottom up to happen. It is called infrastructure.
Rural electrification. The interstate highway system. Top down has its contributions too, enabling the bottom up to happen. It is called infrastructure.
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Thank you very much. I've always thought "bottoms up" was the way to go. I still wish I had my old flip phone instead of my IPhone 5. As soon as a good affordable electric car is available I'd be all in as long as it helps with pollution. An interesting fact is California which leads the nation in pollution. I think 6 of the top ten pollution cities in the country are in California. Hopefully more consumers will follow your lead. Thanks again
My computer is 10 years old. It works well and I like it. I have FIOS. My car is 15 years old. I dont have an I Phone. I turn off lights if I am not in a room. I hate plastic and prefer to store food in glass jars or containers. I use a water filter and not plastic bottled water at home. I laugh and cringe at the same time when I see people taking dozens of individually bottled waters home and their cars have stickers on them like "Save the Earth" or "Love not Hate" etc.. Even at the park I use the same container for my water when I work out. I try to use a fan instead of the AC unless it is unhealthy or truly hot like sweaty hot out. I take home uneaten food from restaurants instead of just having them take it away. I redo old furniture instead of buying always new stuff. I learned alot of this from my frugal parents. It is easy. Imagine if every one gave it a try. Then the US would really lead the world. Dont leave it up to these "leaders" . They have their own agenda's and games they play.
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and this U.S. Administration variously describes the DPRK as an "isolated-island-unto-itself".
which makes for interesting "company" that DJT and the Republican't Party find themselves sharing.
less than one-quarter of eligible voters,
along with the archaic 18th-Century E/C,
put these folks in positions of high-power - -
the sooner the three-quarters wake up and participate,
the better the entire universe will be.
until then:
shudder-shudder
what choice will thee make?
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Progress takes far many more years than the time Trump will be President. Americans will learn the hard way to not make another voting mistake like electing Trump. There will be sufficient time when Trump disembarks to recalibrate the needs to minimize climate change and expand the economy through manufacturing of new means of energy and fossil fuels will be relegated to the dung heaps of history. Keep the faith everyone. When Trump voters lose really tangible things, they won't make the same mistake again.
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I beg to differ with you on your last sentence. Many voters have short memories, so, they may in high probability vote for another "Trump" thus making the mistake again.
One only look at the GOP majority in Congress that has little interest in what the people want.
One only look at the GOP majority in Congress that has little interest in what the people want.
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doubtful - after the bush debacle - it did not take long to elect another republican dope - as far as climate and the environment - a great deal is already irreversible and things will start to accelerate - the human race is well on the way to self extinction - the rest of nature can't wait.
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I'm reminded of the Wizard of Oz when the Wicked Witch of the West turned over the hourglass. I think the poster is wrong. The sand is flowing quickly and the time to turn back the clock on climate change is running out fast.
America's GDP is more than 30% of combined GDP of G20 Countries. These countries will have to work with Trump.
World's biggest problem is the Communist Fascist China which is bullying many nations in Asia and even has eyes on over half for mineral rich Siberia. Its time for US, Japan, India and Russia to get together to tame this wild Dragon.
World's biggest problem is the Communist Fascist China which is bullying many nations in Asia and even has eyes on over half for mineral rich Siberia. Its time for US, Japan, India and Russia to get together to tame this wild Dragon.
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Ummm ... The GDP of the EU exceeds that of the US. The GDP of China is nearly on par. Other economic blocs - SE Asia, Australia, India - will emerge. The US is no longer "exceptional" in this regard. We are an important player, but one which seems intent on dealing itself out of the game. The presumption that the US remains the only game in town is wishful thinking. In regards this issue, any one of the blocs I mention above has the capability to develop and market technology without reference to the US.
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I would not be surprised if the US starts getting sanctioned one of these days. We have truly become a bad actor in global politics, military force, our prison-industrial complex commits human rights abuses, and our corporations lead the world in greed and corruption. Then now we are knowingly going to continue pollute the atmosphere in a fashion that will affect these other countries.
That said, Europe and Asia don't really need us for anything. They had robust economies for thousands of years before the US existed and have their own relationships with other producers of everything the US has to offer. While we are a convenient source, doing as we are will make the cost of doing business with us greater than the benefits.
As we continue down our path of non-cooperation with other global leaders, one of these days it might just dawn on them that we are more of an obstacle to progress than an asset to improve the world. And when that day comes, I wonder what those countries will do.
That said, Europe and Asia don't really need us for anything. They had robust economies for thousands of years before the US existed and have their own relationships with other producers of everything the US has to offer. While we are a convenient source, doing as we are will make the cost of doing business with us greater than the benefits.
As we continue down our path of non-cooperation with other global leaders, one of these days it might just dawn on them that we are more of an obstacle to progress than an asset to improve the world. And when that day comes, I wonder what those countries will do.
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Because I sense deep cynicism, work with Trump.
I'm so glad a handbag designer took her Father's seat at this meeting.
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The seat was taken by the adviser to whom the President listens most closely, with the most attention and respect. That is a separate problem.
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Are you even certain that she designed it?
It just makes one so proud that such persons with their wisdom and knowledge of world affairs would represent this country-or, just more self aggrandizement.
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The reason that neither Putin nor Trump wanted anyone to be present at their meeting is that they wanted to keep everything secret. Here is babe-in-the-diplomatic-woods Trump going one on one with Putin. Somebody figured that the Russians had a total of 80 years of experience in these matters and Trump and Tillerson have zero. Anyhow, Tillerson comes out of the meeting and announces that Trump brought up Russian interference. Trump had announced in Poland that he didn't believe that Russia had interfered and, anyhow, everybody does it. Now imagine Trump "confronting" Putin about something he does not believe in and doesn't consider a big deal. So, if he brought it up, what did he says? "Vladimir, people say you interfered in our election. I gotta ask, Did you?" And Vladimir says: "It's all fake news". And Trump replies: "That's what I say. Now, about Syria." Never mind Crimea, forget about Ukraine. And here we have the first diplomatic triumph of the Trump administration.
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The sneer at journalists was alarming considering what happens to journalists in Russia when they investigate the kleptocracy.
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By tomorrow morning, when the tweet hits the fan, will we get Trump's true impressions of the G20. Should be an interesting and unusual take on the conference.
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Thank you New York Times for insight and inspiration. people must speak out. Theater is a powerful force. Years back legendary Playwright Edward Albee wrote about climate change in his Pulitzer winning "Seascape." In San Francisco for summer & returning to Manhattan for fall is the Playwrights Sanctuary directed by St John's University professor/playwright/ eco activist Dr. Larry Myers mentoring younger & newer dramatists writing about climate change, tent dwellers & LGBTQIA rights. Young people must realize the power of poetic new resistance dramatic arts. In America we can create art about serious issues.
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The rest of the world is moving forward to save this planet and the USA (?) we are matching backward to our own drumbeat.. Vary sad!!
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Not just sad. Absurd. And we were the ones who made the Paris Agreement happen.
The truth is in plain sight. Between his own narrow interest and our nation's good, Trump will always choose the former. There is in fact scant evidence that at any time in his life he has looked out for anyone's well-being other than his own. No need to parse him any farther.
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I say, let Europe move on without us, I wish them well. We ran the world post WWII only because other countries and their economies were decimated by warfare. That is no longer the case. They will thrive without us. Even with the demonstrations, Angela Merkel is tough, far tougher than Trump, especially regarding Putin, and will push Europe forward, not backwards.
As for the environment, many of our states and industries have committed to clean power and will individually set up their own deals with the EU and the rest of the Paris Accord countries. This idea that we are putting the brakes on our current emissions pledge is something happening only in the mind of Trump.
We are a country of 320 million. The world is what, 7 billion? We are moving toward irrelevance if we don't continue our engagement with the rest of the planet. I don't understand how people fail to understand this. We've become a nation of the misinformed and ignorant.
Those who think we will benefit from isolationist and protectionist policies have their heads stuck in the past.
As for the environment, many of our states and industries have committed to clean power and will individually set up their own deals with the EU and the rest of the Paris Accord countries. This idea that we are putting the brakes on our current emissions pledge is something happening only in the mind of Trump.
We are a country of 320 million. The world is what, 7 billion? We are moving toward irrelevance if we don't continue our engagement with the rest of the planet. I don't understand how people fail to understand this. We've become a nation of the misinformed and ignorant.
Those who think we will benefit from isolationist and protectionist policies have their heads stuck in the past.
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CF, you are entirely right.
Most Americans are hip to where we need to go. We are stuck in this place because too many of them stayed home on Election Day, thinking their votes didn't matter. If 1 voter more in each district had voted, we would be saying Madame President today, instead of cursing over the morning paper. Maybe now all these lazy, entitled, spoiled Americans will stop whining and start voting. Our turnout is the lowest in the industrialized world. This did not need to happen. More than 150 million eligible voters did not bother. That's more than the total who voted.
I think it's stuck in somewhere much darker.
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Well, America has had a good run since WW2 telling the world what to do....now it's the world's turn to do what is best fro them. That's fine. Some say it's American money that run things....time will prove this. The damage done ny such intransigence however will take more than a few years to reverse.
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Like the bush catastrophe, it will never be entirely reversible.
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Income and wealth inequality secured
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The world leaders did well to move forward without the American Big Oil Administration.
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"And while Mr. Trump’s aides said he has little in common politically with the anarchists and anti-globalism protesters in the streets of this gritty port city, they said the president intuitively understood their rage in a way that few other leaders at the summit could."
As world leaders move ahead on climate change and leave the US in the dust, Trump as you cited in another article is feeding off of the rage. He is a spoiler who is not interested in the truth, I don't think he is capable of much feeling, but he does understand anger and he knows how to marshall anger like he has in the US. So I think it is kind of scary, this quote that he intuitively understood the rage. He doesn't want to get along or solve problems like climate change as the other world leaders do, he literally does want to disrupt and deep down encourage violence. I just hope the world leaders figure out how to box Trump in because in the US, we certainly do not know how and the GOP is spineless, marshmallow and letting Trump walk all over them.
So I hope the other world leaders move forward trying to solve the problems of the world. Trump has stained the GOP and ruined the party just like he is ruining America and you know what, to Trump in his twisted, reverse logic speak, that is how he is making America Great Again.
As world leaders move ahead on climate change and leave the US in the dust, Trump as you cited in another article is feeding off of the rage. He is a spoiler who is not interested in the truth, I don't think he is capable of much feeling, but he does understand anger and he knows how to marshall anger like he has in the US. So I think it is kind of scary, this quote that he intuitively understood the rage. He doesn't want to get along or solve problems like climate change as the other world leaders do, he literally does want to disrupt and deep down encourage violence. I just hope the world leaders figure out how to box Trump in because in the US, we certainly do not know how and the GOP is spineless, marshmallow and letting Trump walk all over them.
So I hope the other world leaders move forward trying to solve the problems of the world. Trump has stained the GOP and ruined the party just like he is ruining America and you know what, to Trump in his twisted, reverse logic speak, that is how he is making America Great Again.
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World Leaders Move Forward on Climate Change, Without U.S. ?
Without us, they will limp along, and put on a show. But they cannot get very far. We must respect nature. But that also means others must respect our trade concerns.
Without us, they will limp along, and put on a show. But they cannot get very far. We must respect nature. But that also means others must respect our trade concerns.
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They don't really need us for much anymore since we don't contribute much anyways. We are a convenient trading partner sometimes but there are plenty of alternatives. As Trump likes to point out, we import more than we export. And then our corporations are at the apex of greediness and corruption in the world so they might not be missed.
But we do like dropping bombs. However, sometimes we drop bombs when they don't want us to. So they actually might want to take that responsibility back sooner or later.
So in this atmosphere with everything going on- the US has been increasingly more of a problem to deal with than a country you would want to have on-board for a project.
But we do like dropping bombs. However, sometimes we drop bombs when they don't want us to. So they actually might want to take that responsibility back sooner or later.
So in this atmosphere with everything going on- the US has been increasingly more of a problem to deal with than a country you would want to have on-board for a project.
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I am against giving "no strings attached" money to corrupt leaders of 3rd world countries who will enrich themselves and Swiss banksters. The effort to curb energy and CO2 emissions is the personal responsibility and will be much cheaper and more efficient without bloated bureaucracy. Don't water loans, drive low-emission cars, sell your private jet, get rid of your air-conditioner and so on. I am tired on memos on climate change written while on board of your private jet.
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The money that was supposed to go to the fund for the Paris Accord was to help developing nations build clean energy (ie wind and solar) instead of building dirty but cheaper (ie coal and natural gas).
As many conservatives decry, what good is it if we cut our emissions if India is still building however many coal plants every year.
The problem is they need electricity yesterday and all they can afford is coal plants today.
Its not totally crazy to not want to pay for their infrastructure costs and their most definitely will be waste, but I don't think its totally without merit to try throwing some money at the problem.
As many conservatives decry, what good is it if we cut our emissions if India is still building however many coal plants every year.
The problem is they need electricity yesterday and all they can afford is coal plants today.
Its not totally crazy to not want to pay for their infrastructure costs and their most definitely will be waste, but I don't think its totally without merit to try throwing some money at the problem.
How do you stop Trump and the likes from saying one thing and then transferring their ill gotten gains into Swiss bank accounts?
Touché
All that money the US was going to pledge toward the agreement. Gone. Gone. Gone. So sad.
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It is now G19, really.
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Recall how Trump used to charge President Obama from retreating on America's global leadership. Here, we have an issue on which all parties have a stake - our shared, only planet - and it is Trump slinking away. Not only is Trump standing back while China, Canada, France and many more nations step up, he has also reneged on the word of the US by recklessly pulling us out of the Paris Climate Accord. Trump makes the US outliers on both science and morality when he defies the urging of Pope Francis, himself a trained scientist and a respected leader worldwide, to make climate protection an ethical responsibility.
Trump finds it easy to get cheap applause from trash-talking environmental stewardship. There won't be much good cheer if our planet get trashed.
Trump finds it easy to get cheap applause from trash-talking environmental stewardship. There won't be much good cheer if our planet get trashed.
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What is Jared doing there?
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Jared's the guy to whom Trump has off-shored his job.
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What is Ivanka doing there?
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The only people damaged during the G-20 were Americans. Trump has happily sold out America in order to advance his family's wealth and prominence. Every move he makes is for personal enrichment. Period. I will never understand how his supporters refuse to understand that. In the meantime Russia, Germany and China have leaders with clearly defined interests and objectives for their countries and were well prepared to advance them this week. It is so tragic to watch the greedy grifter Trump sit there incompetently grinning with satisfaction making personal deals at the expense of the rest of us.
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"...the nations took "note" of Mr. Trump's decision to abandon the pact and "immediately cease" efforts to enact former President Barack Obama's pledge of curbing greenhouse gas emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025."
The world took note, as have we Mr. Trump, the people in the country whose principles, traditions, and responsibility to lead you have abandoned in your errant and uninformed zeal to make America "great" again. To me, this willful ignorance and mission to prop up profiteering by the established energy interests for as long as possible, all enabled by the Republican party and their billionaire supporters and network, is tragic and quite possibly the biggest crime that will be attributed to your administration by historians.
The window of opportunity to do something is now, but you just shut it and returned to your air-conditioned gold-plated palace of reckless ignorance. History and the people living today will not be kind to you. Not in your wildest dreams of adoration.
The world took note, as have we Mr. Trump, the people in the country whose principles, traditions, and responsibility to lead you have abandoned in your errant and uninformed zeal to make America "great" again. To me, this willful ignorance and mission to prop up profiteering by the established energy interests for as long as possible, all enabled by the Republican party and their billionaire supporters and network, is tragic and quite possibly the biggest crime that will be attributed to your administration by historians.
The window of opportunity to do something is now, but you just shut it and returned to your air-conditioned gold-plated palace of reckless ignorance. History and the people living today will not be kind to you. Not in your wildest dreams of adoration.
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Its sad to me to think that Trump is too old to live long enough to see his legacy get completely trashed over the next 30-40 years.
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Excellent. This was a hollow agreement that is in actuality nothing more than a financial framework for carbon credit trading. And, it is a non-binding agreement, not a treaty. And, it is baloney anyway because humans are not the primary driver of climate change. That honor goes to the earth and the solar system. We just add noise to a huge signal.
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Good thing you're here to set us straight. Here we were believe 98% of global climate scientists who spend their lives and considerable intellects learning about and working on the problem. And here you are, arm-chair know-it-all, finally come to tell us how it really is, based on nothing. Thanks so much for that!
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Wrong. And the earth is round, by the way.
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Completely totally unscientific.
Let me explain. Greenhouse gases do in fact emit heat when excited by certain wavelengths of light. Specifically, the infrared light the earth emits on its dark side. So CO2 and methane, and all that stuff, they do heat up when exposed to infrared. Its physics and there is no denying it.
Then, the earth's natural greenhouse gas production and consumption is at near equilibrium. Almost all of what humans emit remains in the atmosphere. The amount that is absorbed by natural processes isn't too encouraging either. When CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, it lowers its alkalinity. In approximately 100 years, there will be no crustaceans or coral reefs at the rate the oceans pH is dropping. Basically, the ocean will become a toxic cesspool for most sea life. There is already evidence of a mass extinction event in progress.
Then uh, actually with the natural cycles of the earth's climate we should be in a cooling phase. But the earth is warming instead. And solar influences only ever account for like 0.1 degrees C which is a trifling amount compared to the rate the earth is heating. So even accounting for the 0.1 degrees, we still have a problem with warming.
Let me explain. Greenhouse gases do in fact emit heat when excited by certain wavelengths of light. Specifically, the infrared light the earth emits on its dark side. So CO2 and methane, and all that stuff, they do heat up when exposed to infrared. Its physics and there is no denying it.
Then, the earth's natural greenhouse gas production and consumption is at near equilibrium. Almost all of what humans emit remains in the atmosphere. The amount that is absorbed by natural processes isn't too encouraging either. When CO2 is absorbed by the oceans, it lowers its alkalinity. In approximately 100 years, there will be no crustaceans or coral reefs at the rate the oceans pH is dropping. Basically, the ocean will become a toxic cesspool for most sea life. There is already evidence of a mass extinction event in progress.
Then uh, actually with the natural cycles of the earth's climate we should be in a cooling phase. But the earth is warming instead. And solar influences only ever account for like 0.1 degrees C which is a trifling amount compared to the rate the earth is heating. So even accounting for the 0.1 degrees, we still have a problem with warming.
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We are all going to pay for the terrible mistake of putting Donald Trump in the White House. And our children and children's children will pay most of all.
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Im so glad that my Daughter never reproduced. At least I know that there will be no grandchildren who have to live in the country djt is going to leave behind him.
The smart move would be to embrace the accord and not only compete in the renewable energy sector, it would be to take the lead. Energy jobs of the future are in solar and wind technologies, not in coal and fossil fuels.
But Trump is not a visionary, he only cares about himself one day at a time, throwing red meat to his 38% and keeping them in his corner.
But Trump is not a visionary, he only cares about himself one day at a time, throwing red meat to his 38% and keeping them in his corner.
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This is the 'Making America Great Again' part.
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Mo, its the "making America toxic" part.
China is building and financing 50% of the world's new coal fired power plants making the Paris accords a joke. Germany buys wood pellets from the USA by the cargo ship load to replace coal and claim they meet their renewable fuel%. Canada's oil sands are more polluting than all of Russia's oil. At least Trump is honest about how dumb the Paris accords are and not putting on a fraudulent show like the rest of the G20.
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China recently closed down plans to build 300 (three hundred!) coal plants.
And, newsflash--wood is a renewable resource, when managed correctly.
And, newsflash--wood is a renewable resource, when managed correctly.
Wood is not fossil fuel. Different issue.
Another reminder that the greatest threat to the world is not ISIS, North Korea, China, or even Putin, but rather it is Donald Trump.
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At this point, Steve Bannon and his anti-government, isolationist "America First" agenda can take a bow.
He's managed to pull it off, while Americans who probably never heard of NATO, or the G20 before now, blindly cheer on the fact that this country is not only on the wrong trajectory when it comes to addressing the effects of climate change, but that it has been reduced to little more than a pariah-state on the world stage.
For those who insist on putting a price tag on everything, just like Donald Trump does, here's something to consider:
Melting ice-shelves in the Arctic isn't winning.
The extinction of wildlife, and wildlife habitats isn't winning.
Rising ocean levels threatening indigenous populations isn't winning.
Depletion of the ozone layer isn't winning.
Drought, and resulting starvation isn't winning.
This country ignores the plight of the planet, and the concerns of its neighbours at its own peril.
AMERICA isn't winning.
He's managed to pull it off, while Americans who probably never heard of NATO, or the G20 before now, blindly cheer on the fact that this country is not only on the wrong trajectory when it comes to addressing the effects of climate change, but that it has been reduced to little more than a pariah-state on the world stage.
For those who insist on putting a price tag on everything, just like Donald Trump does, here's something to consider:
Melting ice-shelves in the Arctic isn't winning.
The extinction of wildlife, and wildlife habitats isn't winning.
Rising ocean levels threatening indigenous populations isn't winning.
Depletion of the ozone layer isn't winning.
Drought, and resulting starvation isn't winning.
This country ignores the plight of the planet, and the concerns of its neighbours at its own peril.
AMERICA isn't winning.
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This comes on the same day as The NYTimes editorial suggesting the Trump Administration has some good ideas. Huh? Nothing good has come from this administration and nothing will from a President who lives in a world of his own distorted imagination, and demands obsequious assent to this world from all who surround him. The effects of rolling back protections for consumers of financial products, for the environment, for students, for the newly ensured, for voters, haven't yet been felt, but when they are, and when they are combined with the tax cuts and budget cuts this administration supports, the nightmare will be impossible to ignore.
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The hardest walk is walking alone. It is that walk that makes you strongest. If no one walks with you don't be afraid to walk alone and think differently......... Mahatma Gandhi. America should lead by example on climate change even if it moves alone for now, the rest will follow and adopt the US standards for emission, use of clean energy and environment protection.
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The Paris Accord was at best a wishy-washy feel good agreement among nations with no goals and no penalties for non compliance. It was one of those agreements that allowed the participants to go home and say we are addressing climate change at the highest levels. It was similar to world economic summits and peace accords where in the long run nothing changes. President Trump was right to opt out especially since China didn't have to act on pollution control for years down the road.
People seem to believe that all work on climate change ceases if we do not belong to an accord with other nations. Why don't you save your negative and hateful rhetoric on this and any subject involving the President. America has been and always will be the world leader in all areas from military, economics, and yes the environment . We feed the world, we protect the world, and we are the example of how a true democracy works.
It is going to be OK children, America will survive.
People seem to believe that all work on climate change ceases if we do not belong to an accord with other nations. Why don't you save your negative and hateful rhetoric on this and any subject involving the President. America has been and always will be the world leader in all areas from military, economics, and yes the environment . We feed the world, we protect the world, and we are the example of how a true democracy works.
It is going to be OK children, America will survive.
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But he opted out because he doesn't believe climate change is a threat. Did you forget that part, or leave it out on purpose.
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With a mere 4.4% of the world's population the US is wholly responsible for at least 27% of the current climate situation and has profited handsomely from the exploitation of fossil fuels. Trump has failed to recognise that a commitment to meet the Paris Accord without further scrutiny of this fact was an excellent "deal."
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The more outrageous, the better he likes it. He wants to be famous. Infamy is also fame. Maybe the world's leaders could use reverse psychology on him. Pretend to withdraw from Paris, so he'll have something to oppose. Use a bit of Taoist philosophy against him ... he's not that difficult to outsmart, though no one has really tried it. Yet.
I can certainly see why China signed on, they were going to be subsidized by part of the $10 billion purse of which the US was expected to pay $3 billion. What kind of deal was that anyway for the US?
The US can still work to reduce CO2 emissions with or without the Paris Accord.
The US can still work to reduce CO2 emissions with or without the Paris Accord.
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We proposed the League of Nations to resolve the world's problems. We did a little better with the UN. Our efforts to protect wild life have been a miserable failure. Air and water quality have deteriorated. And human population growth continues unchecked. I admire anybody so wildly optimistic to believe that we will beat back climate change. Myself, I am very skeptical.
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I feel a great disturbance in The Force.
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Trump's goal is to get concessions from the Chinese who are the real holdouts preventing the defining and implementation of a meaningful global warming policy. Trump retains the US's negotiating position with the Chinese and will now have a chance to forge a meaningful global policy.
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During my 81 years, I've observed there is truth in the old political axiom that "what goes around comes around." I may not live to see what comes around, but the wait will be interesting because none of us knows, to use another cliche, what the unintended consequences will be. Who knows? it might serve us well to shake up the Atlantic Alliance a bit.
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What the Europeans want from the U.S. in the Paris "climate" accord is simply our money. Also, the agreement puts the U.S. at a very big strategic disadvantage economically. It also allows such large industrial countries as China and India to delay any implementation of the agreement for 20yrs. The Germans must be masochists, or continue to carry the baggage of collective guilt for their actions during WW2. Why else would they continue to support Merkel, after she allowed more than a million undocumented immigrants into Germany. What is in the Kool-Aid there? Merkel and her family have a very interesting history which no news organization covers or investigates.
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Like the headline says, move forward on climate change. The individual states and citizens will have to lead. Because it's obvious that the Republican Party, a minority party which stole the federal government, won't.
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There is clearly a "stark divide" between Trump and the rest of the world. Please don't say that divide exists between Americans and the rest of the world. We didn't elect Trump, and we're very sorry the Electoral College did. Please don't hold it against us -- it will be over soon.
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But will it be over?. You have to make that happen and where is the real progress on that?
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Trump is damaging everything he touches. Leaders have a responsibility to act for the good of their people, and in no way is it good to support pollution rather than environmental protection. One of Trump's first actions was to permit coal wastes to be dumped into rivers. This poisons water - an essential for life for humans, plants and land - and may poison people. Who did this benefit? Maybe a few coal company owners, but this is a dying industry that is pre-modern era technology. The world has moved on to renewable energies and technologies, with China particularly investing heavily. It is one of the fastest growing employment sectors, with far more people than in coal who risk industrial accidents and illnesses like black lung.
By ripping up international trade deals such as the TPP, Trump upset what was supposed to be a counterbalance to China and an enormous trade opportunity for U.S. businesses. This was meant for security as well as economic benefits, and included requirements about worker safety. Trump damaged business interests and workers when he did this. His attacks on NAFTA will result in the loss of the biggest export markets for many states. The countries involved are moving on without the U.S., marginalizing U.S. businesses.
God created the world in 6 days, including the land, sea, animals, and plants. Pope Francis issued an encyclical about the moral imperative of environmental stewardship. Trump is destroying a lot in 6 months.
By ripping up international trade deals such as the TPP, Trump upset what was supposed to be a counterbalance to China and an enormous trade opportunity for U.S. businesses. This was meant for security as well as economic benefits, and included requirements about worker safety. Trump damaged business interests and workers when he did this. His attacks on NAFTA will result in the loss of the biggest export markets for many states. The countries involved are moving on without the U.S., marginalizing U.S. businesses.
God created the world in 6 days, including the land, sea, animals, and plants. Pope Francis issued an encyclical about the moral imperative of environmental stewardship. Trump is destroying a lot in 6 months.
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I thought this was an economic summit yet I see little reporting on global and regional economic issues. Is that because they aren't talking about the economy or because the NYT is giving its attention, as always to the Trump-Russia relationship? Also, I'd like to know why we taxpayers are paying for our president's daughter and son-in-law to attend. I'm sure hobnobbing with world leaders and economy ministers will help their personal business ambitions but how will it help the American people?
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Trump is quickly turning the United States of America into a pariah state.
I have lived a long time. I never envisioned seeing the unraveling of our wonderful country and its preeminent position in world leadership. I cry for what we have lost and what we still have to lose with this administration.
I have lived a long time. I never envisioned seeing the unraveling of our wonderful country and its preeminent position in world leadership. I cry for what we have lost and what we still have to lose with this administration.
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Not just Trump...his backers, his supporters , the GOP, all of that apparatus, is destroying your country very quickly..
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We have the most to gain by limiting pollution. We are way down the road compared to China, India and other countries that are at the front end of industrialization. The only reason i can think of for Trumpie to be opposed is that Obama supported it. Ditto with some of his other edicts-- Obama liked something so he had to change the direction. My understanding is that the agreement supported goals, not requirements. so what's to lose? Maybe he thinks the rest of the world should jump at the change to make American First? I have some bumper stickers if anyone wants one: "Make American Smart Again".
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I just hope Germany sees the invaluable role Chancellor Merkel has in the world today, and they reelect her for another term. The U.S. can no longer be relied upon as an ally in any endeavor, from climate change to trading partner to international diplomacy, to the national and/or international support for defense.
It is now up to Chancellor Merkel to hold the line for the democracies of the world. It is just so sad how low the United States has fallen in world opinion in just a few short months.
It is now up to Chancellor Merkel to hold the line for the democracies of the world. It is just so sad how low the United States has fallen in world opinion in just a few short months.
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What is Jared Kushner doing there? Since when is he entitled to meet at the table with foreign leaders?
Can't Trump do anything without being pumped up by family members at his side?
Can't Trump do anything without being pumped up by family members at his side?
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So how are we being left behind? Trump isn't preventing the free market from developing responses to purported climate change. That is what it has done quite efficiently for years. What he's stopped is Government Diktat and wealth transfers to Kleptocrats in the Third World. The Paris Accords are a totalitarian power grab.
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Possibly the worst thing about the G20 meeting: Due to the attention required by Trump (e.g., for the climate change discussion and respective communiqué formulations), the topics that should have been discussed in greater detail (Africa, refugees, developing countries) got shortchanged.
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Trump likes to think of himself as a hugely successful businessman, but it speaks volumes to his considerable ignorance that pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord not only makes us look selfish in many senses, but over the long run, it will work against our country's financial interests and well-being.
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"World leaders can move forward on climate change without USA,"
I am happy that at G 20 meeting, America was well represented by Ivanka and Jared. Ivnaka even sat in briefly for her father at the session..For Trump G20 is a family business. Who cares about climate change, that is only for third world countries.
I am happy that at G 20 meeting, America was well represented by Ivanka and Jared. Ivnaka even sat in briefly for her father at the session..For Trump G20 is a family business. Who cares about climate change, that is only for third world countries.
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The ship is sinking with a fool as the captain. Not only with the trumpeter ruin the USA, but he'll be taken to the cleaners when the real negotiations start with the North Koreans, the Chinese, and the Russians. THe worst part of this all, is that it's taken the fool only a mere 120 days to turn the USA upside down. What's even worse is that 40-55% of the USA believes the fool!
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It's bad I grant you that, but not that bad. 60 million voters (26% of eligible voters) voted for Trump; a quarter of the electorate. 63 million voted for HRC. Why nearly half the eligible voters stayed home is what Americans ought to be ashamed of. The press spent 98% of their time on the horse race, not the issues or the respective party platforms. Had they done their job, the outcome would have been quite different as well.
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"I went to see the captain ... strangest I could find. I laid my proposition down; laid it on the line ...."
"... though I could not caution all, I sill might warn a few. Don't lend your had to raise a flag atop no ship of fools."
Where is Larry Eisenberg when you need him??
"Ship of fools ... on a cruel sea ....."
"... though I could not caution all, I sill might warn a few. Don't lend your had to raise a flag atop no ship of fools."
Where is Larry Eisenberg when you need him??
"Ship of fools ... on a cruel sea ....."
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It is currently 113F in Boise, Idaho, known for hot days in summer but rarely to this degree, the temperature here today may surpass its historical record.
Meanwhile, the antediluvian president imagines himself a great man by standing outside other world leaders in backing away from the Paris Climate Accord. Donald thinks mining coal is great and will 'bring back jobs', ignoring the reality that many coal mining jobs are now done by massive machines and that the burning of coal produces tiny particulate matter deeply invasive of people's lungs. He also loves drilling for fossil fuels, yet one wonders if when he is flying across and ocean, if he has had the experience of looking out the window and up, where at 35,000 feet, one can get a glimpse of the darkness of space; the breathable part of the earth's atmosphere is thin and as we are discovering, susceptible to significant changes due to greenhouse gases and pollution produced by human beings and a rapidly heating planet earth.
To paraphrase a Native American elder, one cannot eat money nor can any amount of money reverse profound changes and damage to our singular and most special planet.
Meanwhile, the antediluvian president imagines himself a great man by standing outside other world leaders in backing away from the Paris Climate Accord. Donald thinks mining coal is great and will 'bring back jobs', ignoring the reality that many coal mining jobs are now done by massive machines and that the burning of coal produces tiny particulate matter deeply invasive of people's lungs. He also loves drilling for fossil fuels, yet one wonders if when he is flying across and ocean, if he has had the experience of looking out the window and up, where at 35,000 feet, one can get a glimpse of the darkness of space; the breathable part of the earth's atmosphere is thin and as we are discovering, susceptible to significant changes due to greenhouse gases and pollution produced by human beings and a rapidly heating planet earth.
To paraphrase a Native American elder, one cannot eat money nor can any amount of money reverse profound changes and damage to our singular and most special planet.
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Of all the things the USA and a conservative president has to be "isolationist" about, it has to be global warming? Sad.
Worst. President. In. My. Lifetime.
Worst. President. In. My. Lifetime.
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He's the best President in the last 8.5 years.
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"Conservative"? Trump? The GOP? An error in terminology. Crazy, greedy, unrealistic, bought and paid for, yes. Conservative, no.
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Not a president! A CEO of a profit making operation. Government is not a business. It is a system for the manifestation of equality and liberty for ALL
The legacy of the Trump administration will be that of abandoning responsibility, progress and truth. People will be poorer and in worse health when this is said and done. That the Trump family would spend their time preening as they do is shameful.
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shameful. Doesn't even begin to describe what this batch of Neanderthals is perpetrating on our country. They are at the very leas traitors. They have betrayed the very roots of of our Constitution for which I might remind us millions and milions of patriots have spent their lives manifesting and protecting.
These Dark brothers have to and will go. Triumph is unavoidable. it's about Consciousness and evolution.
These Dark brothers have to and will go. Triumph is unavoidable. it's about Consciousness and evolution.
Trump, Pruitt, and Perry all need to spend a summer in Phoenix - mostly outdoors in the sun, doing manual labor. During the rest of the time they should study climate data history for the area - steady increases, year after year. I bet their attitude on Global Warming would quickly change. (118 F yesterday)
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Everyone should view the NASA pump handle video on CO2 concentration change over time. The alarm bells are ringing and our GOP "leadership" is failing us in highly significant and substantial ways.... on purpose, against what the vast majority of scientists agree is happening. Presidents and those in Congress who disregard, or worse...don't care to even consider or take the time to learn, our National Academies of Science and science in general are not fit to lead...in fact they represent the opposite of responsible leadership. With POTUS Triumph and his team we are in danger. Forget the stock market rise...our leaders are morally bankrupted and this will impact our economy soon enough. Anti-productive, disinformation promoting, greedy for short term gsain, ..the list goes on and on. #Resist
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Can you say Urban Heat Island. Phoenix has grown from 5000 people in 1900 to 1.6 million today and 4.5 in the metro area. According to the NOAA temp data base (climate at a glance) temps for Phoenix were identified separately starting in 1934. Since then, the avg temps for all AZ (which includes Phoenix) has increased .3 F per decade. But Phoenix -- 1.0 F per decade. So yeah, the warming is man made (how come women never get angered when something bad is referred to as man made or man caused) but it's due to growing a huge city and metro area from nothing in the middle of the dessert.
Oops, I know I used facts here -- but you should try it. Makes for sounder arguments.
Oops, I know I used facts here -- but you should try it. Makes for sounder arguments.
Sorry Ralphie - you only used SOME of the facts, not ALL of them.
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon addresses heat retention during the evening. I looked at the data in 1975, going back about 30 years. Evening temperatures rising steadily, daytime temperatures not changing. THEN GLOBAL WARMING BEGAN! Daytime temperatures rising much faster now than evening temperatures!
The Urban Heat Island phenomenon addresses heat retention during the evening. I looked at the data in 1975, going back about 30 years. Evening temperatures rising steadily, daytime temperatures not changing. THEN GLOBAL WARMING BEGAN! Daytime temperatures rising much faster now than evening temperatures!
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Ignorance knows best.
Thanks to Trump Nation, the USA is now officially #1....in climate change ignorance, denial and disinterest.
As Trump brings back about 250 coal jobs, the rest of the world adds millions of alternative energy and science jobs as 21st century technology accelerates toward a new energy revolution.
Our stupid President stays steadfast to his stupid voter base.
Thanks to Trump Nation, the USA is now officially #1....in climate change ignorance, denial and disinterest.
As Trump brings back about 250 coal jobs, the rest of the world adds millions of alternative energy and science jobs as 21st century technology accelerates toward a new energy revolution.
Our stupid President stays steadfast to his stupid voter base.
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Not to worry. From what I've read, the biggest companies have already transitioned to nat gas. The newer power plants are nat gas. So the buyers will need to be from abroad. Regardless of what he says for political gain, coal is on the way out, just like wood. Personally I wish we could go back to nuke power if we could be responsible enough in the construction, operation and dealing with the left overs.
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Good luck with your "alternative jobs." The free market will decide, free from manipulation.
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Until they realize they're being gamed, especially with the "beautiful" healthcare which will make money for insurers while denying meaningful health coverage to 22 million to 70 million people (when Medicaid kicks in). The joke will be on traitor Trump and the collaborationist GOP, as the GOP has also promoted gun use, and once these people realize they are the walking dead, they'll be sure to take some of their GOP murderers with them.
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For this accompanying photo, which includes Jared, I wish the NYT would supply every participant's transliterated comment: "Who is this guy, and what is he doing here?"
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Perhaps Jared is bringing his vast knowledge and wisdom about world affairs to the table? Or, just there as a junior president and chair occupier trying to look official.
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Jim: Translated.
This is exactly what we desire, you want to do something that we don't. Go for it, I fully support them doing what their citizens desire. I am fine with local governments and private organizations working to reduce their emissions. I don't support the federal government paying bribes or insisting on goals.
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So we should get rid of seat belts and bring back good old-fashioned lead poisoning, Vulcanalex ?
Please experiment with thinking.
Please experiment with thinking.
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Hey Tennessee, the majority of American voters voted for Hillary Clinton! Trump supporters are the ....minority!
Majority of America, KNOWS Climate Change IS REAL!
Majority of America, KNOWS Climate Change IS REAL!
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These people are incapable of thinking towards the common good. They also deny evolution and have an aversion towards educated knowledge. Their world view and intelligence limits them severely. Engaging them in discourse is self defeating.
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Not to worry! Jared and Ivanka sat at the G-20 table. (Sarcasm alert)
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When the rest of the world is going one way and you're going another you're not working in the best interests of America. At some point during your presidency you're going to need allies and the Israelis won't be sufficient. (I'm guessing that if Barack Obama had made a surprise visit to the G-20, everyone at the conference save The Donald and The Commissar would have reflexively received him with a standing ovation.)
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Israel is not an ally. they will only stick with us as long they're is plenty money coming and it serves their occupation of Palestine
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@TT: They're the closest thing to one that The Donald is likely to have unless he continues to mistake Putin's playing him for a sucker as actual evidence of admiration.
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HAMBURG, Germany -- President Trump distinguishes our USA -- from the civilized, industrial world.
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American exceptionalism is taking on a new meaning with Trump.
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The Republican frame of reference may be summarized as " what has the world done to improve my personal income". What Republicans fail to understand is that this is not leadership.
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It is certainly the guiding light I follow.
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You're right, it's not leadership. It's called Adam Smith's 'invisible hand' and it's managed to deliver pretty much every service and innovation that you currently enjoy. Don't be so quick to sneer...
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@Larry: Beautifully said.
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Donald Trump is a parasite that has embedded himself into American politics like a tick. The G20 Summit revealed the methods Trump is using to shift the US to an authoritarian kleptocracy where he controls the government apparatus necessary to permit the sustained looting of the country.
This power grab has been facilitated by a corrupt GOP that has over decades cultivated an uneducated base whose elected officials now populate both the House and Senate. This GOP-run legislature is the very definition of a classic kakistocracy, a state or country run by the worst, least qualified or most corrupt citizens. Trump’s cabinet members: Sessions, Tillerson, Price, Mnuchin, Ross, DeVoss, and Pruitt – each either unqualified, unscrupulous, or both – are in management positions in this corrupt kleptocracy. These are the future oligarchs of a Putin style authoritarian state. Each, a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to legitimate government.
The first and last deal Trump intends to “negotiate” is to use a complicit GOP-run legislature to lift the sanctions on Russia. This will permit the $500 billion Exxon/Rosneft deal negotiated by Rex Tillerson with Putin and Sechin in 2014 to go forward as planned. Qui bono? Trump and his handpicked oligarchy. That’s what he does, and that’s what he’s doing. We urgently need a national movement to throw these GOP bums out of office and demand criminal prosecution of Trump. It is the only way to stop this attempted coup d'état.
This power grab has been facilitated by a corrupt GOP that has over decades cultivated an uneducated base whose elected officials now populate both the House and Senate. This GOP-run legislature is the very definition of a classic kakistocracy, a state or country run by the worst, least qualified or most corrupt citizens. Trump’s cabinet members: Sessions, Tillerson, Price, Mnuchin, Ross, DeVoss, and Pruitt – each either unqualified, unscrupulous, or both – are in management positions in this corrupt kleptocracy. These are the future oligarchs of a Putin style authoritarian state. Each, a poke in the eye with a sharp stick to legitimate government.
The first and last deal Trump intends to “negotiate” is to use a complicit GOP-run legislature to lift the sanctions on Russia. This will permit the $500 billion Exxon/Rosneft deal negotiated by Rex Tillerson with Putin and Sechin in 2014 to go forward as planned. Qui bono? Trump and his handpicked oligarchy. That’s what he does, and that’s what he’s doing. We urgently need a national movement to throw these GOP bums out of office and demand criminal prosecution of Trump. It is the only way to stop this attempted coup d'état.
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Yes. Yes. And yes.
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But Congress moved to limit the President's ability to remove sanctions against Russia unilaterally, so how will he do this? Yes, Tillerson is eager to remove the sanctions against Russia and Trump was "honoured" to meet Putin and let "bygones be bygones." What does Rusia have on Trump?
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Yes and yes and yes!
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We are truly an embarrassment and a world laughing stock. As we stupidly say we're on our own the world is starting to thank us for it. We'll pay for this down the road.
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Just how do you think we will pay? It seems like avoiding the bribes is a positive.
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@vulcanalex
We will pay for it by no longer being a part of the free world, and having no say in how that world grows and is managed. And by no longer having allies to stand by our side.
We will pay for it by no longer being a part of the free world, and having no say in how that world grows and is managed. And by no longer having allies to stand by our side.
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What bribes are you talking about? You mean us donating money to help smaller countries develop alternative energy sources? You do realize that the effects are world wide, right? If we support the creation of clean, alternative energy, our grandchildren, living in USA, are going to be better off. They will not be dependent on another country. We will have done the hard work of setting up a better system.
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To President Vainglorious and his marks, every industrial nation's leader except him was out of step. He marches forward alone. This is "progress." We, our USA, are in deep trouble until we nonviolently remove this buffoon from office.
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World leaders can "move" anywhere they want, with regard to the thoroughly debunked religion of anthropogenic climate change. Just as long as they recognize the USA will not participate and will not provide one single penny of support to their efforts.
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"Debunked"? "Religion"? The US military reports that climate change is a "present security threat". But thanks for letting everyone know whose side you're on.
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"Thoroughly debunked" by whom? Your local FOX-station meteorologist? Friendly warning: don't vacation in the Maldives anytime soon. For that matter, best stay away from Florida.
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It is not proven that whatever things we might do will make any difference. And if we mind our own business those threats that Obama encouraged the military to see won't effect us. They might or even will effect others.
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Excellent, let them foot the bills for awhile.
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We will gladly pay the bills, safe in the knowledge that we are saving the planet for future generations.
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Since they will be developing the sustainable economy, they'll have plenty of money to do that, while we sit over on the sidelines as a Third World country, polluted to the gills, and made irrelevant.
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The payments for those bills will be made by us and our future generations.
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