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Uncle Joe

(58,112 posts)
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 09:31 AM Oct 2018

Al Gore calls Trump's deregulation proposals 'literally insane'

Last edited Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:15 PM - Edit history (1)

This was from an interview with Judy Woodruff



(snip)

The earmarks of this latest storm, Judy, are worth paying attention to. Starting with Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston, Texas, a year ago and dumped five feet of rain, we have been seeing a new pattern. And Hurricane Michael intensified as it reached the coast. And that's something relatively new.

And the reason for it is, the ocean waters are much warmer than normal, so it's not getting cold waters churned up to weaken the storm. It just keeps on getting stronger.

The scientists not only predicted these consequences. They're telling us they're going to get a lot worse still, until we stop using the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer for 110 million tons of man-made global warming pollution every single day.

(snip)

Well, his proposal is literally insane. And his reaction to the scientific community's warnings is an outlier reaction.

It's making the U.S. come off like a rogue nation and being different from any other nation in the entire world. And, of course, everybody knows it's because the large carbon polluters are his buddies, and he wants to use them as a way of signaling to ultra-conservatives that he doesn't care about what the truth of the matter is.

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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/al-gore-calls-trumps-deregulation-proposals-literally-insane

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Al Gore calls Trump's deregulation proposals 'literally insane' (Original Post) Uncle Joe Oct 2018 OP
It's typical of Republicans dalton99a Oct 2018 #1
If one of the cat 5 hurricanes hits Mat-a-Lago vlyons Oct 2018 #2
Trump would just blame it on the Chinese Uncle Joe Oct 2018 #3
Uhhh, you might want to fix this sentence: PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2018 #4
Done. Thank you PoindexterOglethorpe Uncle Joe Oct 2018 #7
Trump is literally insane NRaleighLiberal Oct 2018 #5
Imagine where we could be in terms of climate if, in 2000, the Supreme Court... maddiemom Oct 2018 #6
Thank you, Al Gore! ananda Oct 2018 #8
We have always needed Al to manage the Presidency he won in 2000. Judi Lynn Oct 2018 #9
Thank you Judi Lynn. Uncle Joe Oct 2018 #10

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,750 posts)
4. Uhhh, you might want to fix this sentence:
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 11:29 AM
Oct 2018

"The earmarks of this latest storm, Judy, are worth paying attention to."

It reads as if the latest storm is named Judy, which had me confused. Or, you could add a sentence at the beginning noting that this is an interview with Judy Woodruff.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
6. Imagine where we could be in terms of climate if, in 2000, the Supreme Court...
Sat Oct 13, 2018, 12:06 PM
Oct 2018

Oh, well. Sixteen years later and the Democrats had made no moves to prevent winning the popular vote and losing the presidency once again. At least Trump is the best thing to ever happen to the legacy of Dubya.

Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
9. We have always needed Al to manage the Presidency he won in 2000.
Sun Oct 14, 2018, 05:38 AM
Oct 2018

The world would be so much different now, had the Supreme Court not made that filthy decision that doomed us.

Here's hoping he will be appearing publicly now, knowing how desperately people like him are needed, even as it almost seems too late. It's so good knowing he's out there, and he's paying close attention.

Thank you for this outstanding interview, Uncle Joe.

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