Could Climate change be a big part of why Bloomberg has endorsed Hillary over Trump?

[karynnj]

Bloomberg has long been an advocate of various environmental issues, but in the last two years he has done a huge amount of work on advocating for working against climate change. Hillary Clinton may not be the strongest candidate ever on fighting against climate change, but she is 1000s of times better than Trump -- who has said he will end EPA regulations and tear up the Paris climate accord.

He worked with the State Department to head a group of city officials to help each other making their cities greener and was a UN special envoy on the issue.

Link to explanation of the SD/Bloomberg Philanthropies effort - "our cities, our climate". Link to speeches at the event mentioned in that source: http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/10/248043.htm Joint Kerry/Bloomberg op-ed on climate change - http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/10/248037.htm

Bloomberg also spoke in Paris before the talks that resulted in the Paris Climate Accord. https://www.mikebloomberg.com/news/the-importance-of-city-action-in-combating-climate-change-during-cop21-in-paris/ This was a very big deal.

More recently, he is heading a Bloomberg group that is bringing together business and finance people to focus on energy challenges:
Here was an announcement of Kerry delivering a keynote speech to them:

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will deliver the global policy keynote at Bloomberg New Energy and Finance (BNEF)’s Future of Energy Summit at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City at 10:30 a.m. on April 5, 2016.

Secretary Kerry’s remarks will focus on the inexorable link between energy choices and climate change, the path forward in the wake of the historic Paris Agreement, and the transition toward a global, low-carbon economy.

Since 2008, BNEF’s global Future of Energy Summit has convened key decision-makers from the business, finance and policy communities to focus intently on critical energy challenges ranging from power, transportation, and regulation, to energy finance and energy security.

http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2015/10/index.htm


Given that Trump thinks the Paris Climate Accord a "bad deal" that he will rip up, I am shocked that anyone following Bloomberg is the least surprised -- and I am surprised no one has mentioned Trump's positions on the environment.

[elleng]

1. also that he's got a brain???

[karynnj]

4. True, but that has not moved all Republicans who one could reasonably say have brains to do the same

It certainly seems that Bloomberg has made climate change his issue for the last year at least.

[onehandle]

2. Also guns.

Gun fetishists have no idea how big they are about to lose.

[karynnj]

5. True - He was very very strong on gun control nt

[MADem]

3. They are not close, or even friends.

Not enemies, either, though.

I think he looked at the ticket and saw a capable, prepared and intelligent candidate on the one hand, and a batshit crazy asshole who wants to blow up the world on the other....

No contest. He might as well put some of that money where his mouth is.

[DanTex]

6. Yup. I think it's as simple as: Bloomberg doesn't want crazy lunatic Trump.

[CentralMass]

7. He probably knows first hand what a major @$$hole Trump is.

[Hortensis]

8. Sure, although there are so many enormous issues and

survival-related reasons to vote against Trump that Bloomberg, like most people, probably have a basket-full. But certainly any environmentally worried person must have that way up in priority.

Wonder how many people were at least briefly thinking about global warming today?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Maybe Bloomberg believes Trump is evocative of a man...

Maybe Bloomberg believes Trump is evocative of a man who sent six million of mine and his co-religionists to an early death. I am sure Bernie feels the same way but such thoughts are too incendiary to give voice to.