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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:06 PM Feb 2019

He gets to decide': Trump escalates his fight against climate science ahead of 2020

From the earliest days of his administration, President Trump has been at war with his own government over climate change.

He upbraided his first economic adviser by telling him that he didn’t care that American executives backed the Paris climate agreement because “my voters don’t live on Park Avenue.” He has told aides that he thinks the Earth’s climate will begin cooling again, so there is no need to act forcefully before then.

And he was enraged by a recent National Climate Assessment released by more than a dozen federal agencies showing climate impacts are ‘intensifying across the country” and that only aggressive action will avoid “substantial damages” in the future. The report spurred the White House to make plans for an internal working group to counter the scientific consensus that climate change represents a major threat to the United States and the globe.

For a president who has yet to receive an extensive scientific briefing on climate change, the topic amounts to a political litmus test ahead of the 2020 elections. Rather than accept the conclusions espoused by elites and loathed by many of his voters, Trump has opted to question the premise that global warming represents a major problem or, at times, if it even exists at all. And now through its new working group, his National Security Council is working to muster ammunition for his arguments.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/he-gets-to-decide-trump-escalates-his-fight-against-climate-science-ahead-of-2020/ar-BBUdKrC?li=BBnbcA1

You know Donald I understand presidents are immune to the affect of gravity. If they were to jump from a high building they'd float.

You should try it.

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He gets to decide': Trump escalates his fight against climate science ahead of 2020 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Feb 2019 OP
Fat Donnie DOES think presidents are immune to gravity. He's seen proof: LastLiberal in PalmSprings Feb 2019 #1
Remind him that Obama could levitate off of the Capitol Dome... Moostache Feb 2019 #2

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
2. Remind him that Obama could levitate off of the Capitol Dome...
Thu Feb 28, 2019, 09:41 PM
Feb 2019

Or just tell him Obama was better at jumping off bridges too

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