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President Trump in his Paris Climate Accord speech got MIT stats wrong bigly.
The President claimed that with the Accord implimented that tempreature would only produce a 0.2% reduction in temperature rise by 2100.
Problems is MIT stated...
by Marnie1
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 11:36 PM PDT
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From the first ever address in English from the Presidential Palace (the Élysée) in Paris:
Wherever we live, whoever we are, we all share the same responsibility:
MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN.
by BC in Illinois
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 08:55 PM PDT
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Dem Pundits,
I will say this nicely once and only once. Either prepare with facts & stats or else get the F**K away from a studio. This happened in Hillary’s campaign and it is happening now. Republicans will come up with a quasi-stat and...
by InfiniteThoughts
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 08:22 PM PDT
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After multiple delays, and the building up of a twisted reality television-like suspense, Donald Trump has finally announced that he will take America out of the Paris Climate Agreement. Among all the fluster of his presidency, this may be one of...
by AlexLenferna
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 03:08 PM PDT
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THE UNITED STATES CLIMATE ALLIANCE HAS BEEN FORMED
The governors of New York, California and Washington in the past hour have announced the formation of an alliance of US states to follow the Paris Accords. This represents over one-fifth of the...
by oregonj
363 comments
on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 02:46 PM PDT
with 402 Recommends
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I'll just leave this here. This is what a real and pissed off President looks like.
by First Amendment
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 12:57 PM PDT
with 293 Recommends
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Crying over here.
www.washingtonpost.com/…
No words.
by Colorado Blue
20 comments
on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 12:15 PM PDT
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Welcome back, dear friend, to our latest edition of This Week in the Environment. It’s been a busy and troubling few days. Our president has now made the historically terrible decision to leave the Paris climate agreement, just days after news that we...
by GreenpowerCA
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 11:21 AM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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If it's Thursday on The After Show with Wink & Justice; then Thank God It's Giovedì (that's what we call it, because we can).
The Portland, ...
by justiceputnam
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Trump is expected to announce today that America is pulling out of the Paris Climate agreement. Why did he wait till today? The other thing happening today is completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. It is expected to be fully operational today.
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by xaxnar
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on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 06:24 AM PDT
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Pr*sident Donald Trump—the man who lied about all the environmental awards he has received and vacillated between being a total numbskull on climate change and just another opportunist who bends with the wind as long as it doesn’t mean erecting...
by Meteor Blades
285 comments
on Thu Jun 01, 2017 at 12:40 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Tim Kaine’s (D. VA) re-election campaign:
In 2015, President Obama’s administration helped forge an historic pact in the Paris climate agreement. Nearly 200 countries pledged to hit specific goals to...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed May 31, 2017 at 10:20 PM PDT
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Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I. VT) group, Our Revolution:
Donald Trump is turning his back on the Paris Climate Agreement that the United States made with nearly 200 other nations last fall. This decision is bad...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Wed May 31, 2017 at 08:32 PM PDT
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It was widely reported today that the Trump Administration is poised to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. At 3pm on Thursday, Donald Trump will hold a reality-TV type ceremony in the Rose Garden to announce his decision.
Climate...
by The Climate Mobilization
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on Wed May 31, 2017 at 04:26 PM PDT
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Two years ago, I travelled to Paris to research and witness the making of the Paris Climate Agreement. I returned from that trip and published this article to express how fearful I ...
by HarrisonBeck
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on Wed May 31, 2017 at 02:01 PM PDT
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It's "Wednesday's Child is Full of Whoa! Wednesdays" on The After Show. We were going to call it "Germanic Mercury" but you know what they say, one cannot live on Greek and ...
by justiceputnam
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on Wed May 31, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Red Sky at Morning Tuesdays on The After Show means only one thing, it's Tuesday, and the refraction of light on the horizon portends something is a-brewing.
The Donald ...
by justiceputnam
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on Tue May 30, 2017 at 07:51 AM PDT
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Hey, I got so angry at those Trump tweets with his cavalier disregard for the future of the planet— of any future but his own— I started a petition at whitehouse.gov. Believe it or not, Trump hasn’t gotten rid of this site yet, where citizens can post...
by alixpippin
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 10:52 PM PDT
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Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C
( a 1.5C INCREASE in historic average global temperatures ):
“Global average temperatures could pass 1.5C above pre-industrial levels within the next decade, new projections suggest.”
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by Angmar
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on Sun May 28, 2017 at 07:01 AM PDT
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Cue the world's smallest violin for climate science denier/confuser Bret Stephens.
Hillary Clinton is emerging into more public engagement. There was her strong speech at Wellesley earlier today (full video after the fold). And, here is an...
by A Siegel
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on Fri May 26, 2017 at 08:53 PM PDT
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