AP - Harvey Victims Momentarily Consider Possibility Of Global Warming, Then . . "Naaaah!"

[hatrack]

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Johnson and his father, Cliff, both support Trump. And though they wish he would spend less time tweeting and talking about himself, they applaud his moves to roll back environmental regulations and pull out of the Paris climate agreement, a global initiative of 195 nations to reduce carbon emissions. They believe the United States is required to pick up an unfair portion of the tab, which they worry will hurt American industry and workers. "Yes, we do have a responsibility," Johnson said. "What's feasible though? Is it feasible to keep Texas out of work just so we can appease people who believe that we're not environmentally friendly?"

He doesn't believe humans have been on the Earth long enough to alter it enough to make bad storms worse. "You talk to any old-timers, anybody who's ever looked at Poor Richard's Almanack," he said. "You go through weather cycles. We're just in a bad weather cycle right now."

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Ewing, a widow, moved to Jefferson County 10 years ago and doesn't like the industrial landscape of the community. The refineries, she said, are so massive "it looks like a little New York at night." But in that lack of beauty she sees jobs that keep the American dream afloat, so she's made peace with living in the refineries' shadow. Ewing is part of Trump's base, an ardent supporter, and she said the only thing he could do that would disappoint her would be to resign. She feels that nothing — especially environmental regulations — should be allowed to get in the way of his pledge to bring back American manufacturing jobs. "I strongly feel that whatever it takes to bring industry back should be done," she said.

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Evans once ran unsuccessfully for local office as a Republican. He ignored climate change, as he thought Republicans were supposed to do. As an African-American in the GOP, he said, he felt like he needed to "out-Republican the Republicans." "I wasn't going to go near it," he said of environmental issues. "In the short-term, it didn't have any effect on me, at least I thought it didn't, so why would I even go down that rabbit hole?" Evans voted for Trump, though reluctantly. He assured himself that Congress would keep Trump from doing too much damage. "What has he really done up to this point? Nothing," Evans said. But he does think the president could make a difference if he acknowledged climate change as a reality and tried to rally Republicans to find a way to apply conservative principles to simultaneously saving the Earth and the economy.

"He's able to move people in a direction that most leaders can't," he said. "So if he wanted to take up the issue and say, 'There's something to this, guys,' the people will probably listen."

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http://www.sfgate.com/news/texas/article/Texans-hit-hard-by-Hurricane-Harvey-rethink-12280474.php

[Angry Dragon]

1. There is nothing binding in the agreement............

Trump has been telling lies again, and again; and again, and again ,etc.

[eppur_se_muova]

2. It always amazes me how much of Anus Orange's support is based on wishful thinking ...

It's not anything he's done, or anything he's likely to do, or anything he's shown himself inclined to do -- it's what they *wish* he'd do that keeps them holding on. And he's never going to do it, because that would involve caring, and careful thinking, and careful planning, and diligent work, none of which he has shown the slightest evidence of having either the inclination or capacity to do.