Trump Administration Stands Alone As the Rest of the G20 Pledges To Fight Climate Change

[FollowTheWay]

Trump Administration Stands Alone As The Rest Of The G20 Pledges To Fight Climate Change
As 19 of 20 world leaders pledged to fight climate change, President Trump remained the sole holdout. World leaders met in Buenos Aires for the G20 meeting to discuss, in part, trade agreements and the Paris Agreement.
The meeting came just a few days after President Trump sat down to an interview with the Washington Post. On the topic of climate change, Trump reasoned his disbelief of his own administration's climate report due to his "very high levels of intelligence."
This was in response to the 1,600 page National Climate Assessment, released on Black Friday detailing the federal governments most up to date analysis on the state of climate change in the United States. Over 300 federal and non-federal experts and 13 federal agencies contributed to the overall assessment.
From drought in the Colorado River to extreme rainfall in the Midwest and forest fires in California, the report identifies examples of how climate change is impacting everyday lives of Americans. The report focuses on how future climate change will impact communities and individuals, noting that the most vulnerable Americans will be most impacted.

 

[Yeshua1]

Trump Administration Stands Alone As The Rest Of The G20 Pledges To Fight Climate Change
As 19 of 20 world leaders pledged to fight climate change, President Trump remained the sole holdout. World leaders met in Buenos Aires for the G20 meeting to discuss, in part, trade agreements and the Paris Agreement.
The meeting came just a few days after President Trump sat down to an interview with the Washington Post. On the topic of climate change, Trump reasoned his disbelief of his own administration's climate report due to his "very high levels of intelligence."
This was in response to the 1,600 page National Climate Assessment, released on Black Friday detailing the federal governments most up to date analysis on the state of climate change in the United States. Over 300 federal and non-federal experts and 13 federal agencies contributed to the overall assessment.
From drought in the Colorado River to extreme rainfall in the Midwest and forest fires in California, the report identifies examples of how climate change is impacting everyday lives of Americans. The report focuses on how future climate change will impact communities and individuals, noting that the most vulnerable Americans will be most impacted.

Glad to see that the president did not bow down an worship at the alter of "fake science"

 

[just-want-peace]

Methinks the only problem is that there was a far too aggressive over-reaction to the coming ICE AGE we had to avert back in late 60s-mid 70s.
If we hadn't been so confident that we, (humanity) could fine tune the weather, the correctives for warming - to avoid the ice - would not have led to todays warming.

I suggest we just let the "Ruler of the weather", IE the ALMIGHTY, handle this system!!

He seems to have done a pretty good job without our "help" for the past few centuries.

 

[Jerome]

"As 19 of 20 world leaders pledged to fight climate change, President Trump remained the sole holdout."

Reminds me of a song...

The Cheese Stands Alone ♭
The Cheese Stands Alone ♭
Hi Ho the Derry O ♭
The Cheese Stands Alone ♭

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Reminds me of a song...
The Cheese Stands Alone ♭
The Cheese Stands Alone ♭
Hi Ho the Derry O ♭
The Cheese Stands Alone ♭

To be the Big Cheese, you gotta be gutsy, and Trump obviously is. While they try to spin it to make it sound like it's about science, Trump well knows it's about political and economic power. Thankfully, unlike his predecessor, Trump loves America enough not to sell us out here.

 

[Revmitchell]

Good for Trump. No point in wasting money on a myth.

 

[FollowTheWay]

To be the Big Cheese, you gotta be gutsy, and Trump obviously is. While they try to spin it to make it sound like it's about science, Trump well knows it's about political and economic power. Thankfully, unlike his predecessor, Trump loves America enough not to sell us out here.

Trump is rapidly destroying America. The deficit went up in the first full year under Trump. He wastes money by pushing old technology like coal. HNe repeatedly lies and is the laughing stock of world leaders. He is a BAD JOKE. He has no background or ability for his office. He was even a failed businessman.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Trump is rapidly destroying America. The deficit went up in the first full year under Trump. He wastes money by pushing old technology like coal. HNe repeatedly lies and is the laughing stock of world leaders. He is a BAD JOKE. He has no background or ability for his office. He was even a failed businessman.

You are losing focus--I am not saying Trump is perfect, but in this he is exactly right. These other countries cannot be trusted to do anything good or reasonable, only expensive and wasteful, just like with the devilishly brilliant diesel crisis they created.

 

[FollowTheWay]

You are losing focus--I am not saying Trump is perfect, but in this he is exactly right. These other countries cannot be trusted to do anything good or reasonable, only expensive and wasteful, just like with the devilishly brilliant diesel crisis they created.

Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'
Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'

In the wake of the financial crisis, some agency regulatory powers were vastly expanded, but others, for example, the ability of the Fed to lend to an individual company in a crisis, were curtailed. Current Fed officials have pushed back against criticism that their reforms are making the system riskier, saying they making the system more efficient.


Trump's deregulation mania has left us vulnerable to another financial crisis by reducing safeguards put in place after the meltdown of 2007-2008.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'
Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'

In the wake of the financial crisis, some agency regulatory powers were vastly expanded, but others, for example, the ability of the Fed to lend to an individual company in a crisis, were curtailed. Current Fed officials have pushed back against criticism that their reforms are making the system riskier, saying they making the system more efficient.

Trump's deregulation mania has left us vulnerable to another financial crisis by reducing safeguards put in place after the meltdown of 2007-2008.

Are you citing the warning in this article as a climate change issue?

 

[Yeshua1]

Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'
Yellen warns of another potential financial crisis: 'Gigantic holes in the system'

In the wake of the financial crisis, some agency regulatory powers were vastly expanded, but others, for example, the ability of the Fed to lend to an individual company in a crisis, were curtailed. Current Fed officials have pushed back against criticism that their reforms are making the system riskier, saying they making the system more efficient.


Trump's deregulation mania has left us vulnerable to another financial crisis by reducing safeguards put in place after the meltdown of 2007-2008.

You keep sounding like the liberal Dem Chicken Little, as trump is bring Armageddon!

 

[Judith]

Although I did not vote for President Trump he has the climate change issue correct. There is no such thing as man made or man changing climate change. Climate change is part of the creation.

 

[kyredneck]

Although I did not vote for President Trump

Just curious, do you intend to vote for him in 2020?

 

[Martin Marprelate]

Although I did not vote for President Trump he has the climate change issue correct. There is no such thing as man made or man changing climate change. Climate change is part of the creation.

I would just like to say that this guy manipulates his data just as much as anyone else. He talks of a record cold winter in Britain. Well I live there, and it was one of the warmest I can remember- we had roses growing in our garden in January- until March. In March we had two spells of extremely cold weather, so we may have had the coldest spring on record, but I very much doubt it was the coldest winter.
Also, the guy talks about cold winters in the USA, and he may be right, but he doesn't talk about the hot summers. I don't recall hearing about huge forest fires year after year in California and elsewhere until quite recently.

Just saying.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

Although I did not vote for President Trump he has the climate change issue correct. There is no such thing as man made or man changing climate change. Climate change is part of the creation.

According to the presentation, this climate scientist correctly predicted global cooling based on the raw data available to them all. Others "homogenized" the data and used the results to model extreme global warming scenarios. They failed in their predictions, but this information was suppressed in the main.

Besides being funny, he nicely dissed New York City using the other guys’ ammunition, and he really got me with his hair line, this scientist seems rational, well-informed, and balanced. At the same time, he brings up a few alarming points regarding how science is reported (or not) in professional journals and in the media.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

I would just like to say that this guy manipulates his data just as much as anyone else. He talks of a record cold winter in Britain. Well I live there, and it was one of the warmest I can remember- we had roses growing in our garden in January- until March. In March we had two spells of extremely cold weather, so we may have had the coldest spring on record, but I very much doubt it was the coldest winter.
Also, the guy talks about cold winters in the USA, and he may be right, but he doesn't talk about the hot summers. I don't recall hearing about huge forest fires year after year in California and elsewhere until quite recently.

Just saying.

I can appreciate your anecdotal witness, but it is not evidence, much less hard data. Which winter are you referring to and what were the daily temperatures? How do they differ from “his” raw data?

You called the raw data “his,” yet he presented it as the raw data they all have.

How much did those forest fires raise the global temperature? You may be confusing hot and cold with wet and dry. Didn’t he address that in the presentation?

 

[FollowTheWay]

Although I did not vote for President Trump he has the climate change issue correct. There is no such thing as man made or man changing climate change. Climate change is part of the creation.

This guy is a charlatan and has been completely discredited.

 

[RighteousnessTemperance&]

This guy is a charlatan and has been completely discredited.

As a professor emeritus at a state school, and one whose specialty is in this field, he is an unlikely candidate for global warming charlatan. Your description better fits Al Gore.

You will need to do better. But I'll anticipate you with this unsolicited rebuttal to part of a smear campaign against him. The entire letter would be an eye-opener, if one were willing to have his eyes opened.

Rebuttal to the attack on Dr. Don Easterbrook (exceprts below)

...
One might think that the foregoing facts would raise doubts in scientists interested in pursuing objective truth. But global warming is not so much a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification as it is a political ideology that must be fiercely defended in defiance of every fact to the contrary. In the past few years we have been told that not only hot weather but cold weather is caused by global warming. The blizzards that struck the east coast of the US in 2010 were attributed to global warming. Every weather event–hot, cold, wet or dry–is said to be caused by global warming. The theory that explains everything explains nothing.
…
At the heart of the WWU geology faculty criticisms was the claim that peer review creates objective and reliable knowledge. Nonsense. Peer review produces opinions. Scientists, like other people, have political beliefs, ideological orientations, and personal views that strain their scientific objectivity. One of the most disgusting things to emerge from the 2009 Climategate emails was the revelation of an attempt to subvert the peer-review process by suppressing the publication of work that was scientifically sound but contrary to the reviewer’s personal views.
...​

 

[FollowTheWay]

As a professor emeritus at a state school, and one whose specialty is in this field, he is an unlikely candidate for global warming charlatan. Your description better fits Al Gore.

You will need to do better. But I'll anticipate you with this unsolicited rebuttal to part of a smear campaign against him. The entire letter would be an eye-opener, if one were willing to have his eyes opened.

Rebuttal to the attack on Dr. Don Easterbrook (exceprts below)

...
One might think that the foregoing facts would raise doubts in scientists interested in pursuing objective truth. But global warming is not so much a scientific theory subject to empirical falsification as it is a political ideology that must be fiercely defended in defiance of every fact to the contrary. In the past few years we have been told that not only hot weather but cold weather is caused by global warming. The blizzards that struck the east coast of the US in 2010 were attributed to global warming. Every weather event–hot, cold, wet or dry–is said to be caused by global warming. The theory that explains everything explains nothing.
…
At the heart of the WWU geology faculty criticisms was the claim that peer review creates objective and reliable knowledge. Nonsense. Peer review produces opinions. Scientists, like other people, have political beliefs, ideological orientations, and personal views that strain their scientific objectivity. One of the most disgusting things to emerge from the 2009 Climategate emails was the revelation of an attempt to subvert the peer-review process by suppressing the publication of work that was scientifically sound but contrary to the reviewer’s personal views.
...​

Dr. Easterbrook said in 2010 that the earth is not warming but is cooling.

 

[HankD]

Trump is rapidly destroying America. The deficit went up in the first full year under Trump. He wastes money by pushing old technology like coal. HNe repeatedly lies and is the laughing stock of world leaders. He is a BAD JOKE. He has no background or ability for his office. He was even a failed businessman.

Hmm, Don't recall hearing about a building named FollowTheWay Towers.