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Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity (cnn.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: President-elect Donald Trump conceded Tuesday there is "some connectivity" between human activity and climate change and wavered on whether he would pull the United States out of international accords aimed at combating the phenomenon, which scientists overwhelmingly agree is caused by human activity. The statements could mark a softening in Trump's position on U.S. involvement in efforts to fight climate change, although he did not commit to specific action in any direction. During the campaign, he vowed to "cancel" the U.S.'s participation in the Paris climate agreement, stop all U.S. payments to UN programs aimed at fighting climate change and continued to cast serious doubt on the role man-made carbon dioxide emissions played in the planet's warming and associated impacts. "I think there is some connectivity. Some, something. It depends on how much," Trump said Tuesday in a meeting with New York Times reporters, columnists and editors. He has previously called climate change a "hoax" invented by the Chinese. Asked if he would withdraw the U.S. from international climate change agreements, Trump said he is "looking at it very closely," according to Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Mike Grynbaum, who were live-tweeting the meeting. He added that he has "an open mind to it," despite explicitly promising to withdraw from at least one climate accord on the campaign trail. The President-elect on the campaign trail repeatedly vowed to slash environmental protection regulations burdening U.S. businesses and said that beyond the consequences to the planet, he is particularly mindful of the economic impact of combating climate change. He said he is considering "how much it will cost our companies" and the effect on American competitiveness in the global market, according to a tweet from Grynbaum.
Obama and Guantanamo, for example.
It was obvious that he really wanted to close that thing. Who knows exactly what he learned when he was office, but you could just see that combination of "frustration" and "defeat" in him when the topic came up afterwards.
Wingus, Dingus! Listen up!
Trump downplayed that Chinese hoax thing long ago and claimed he was joking. The truth is he has never actually been a strident "denier." That's just what your echo chamber told you he was.
Maw! Fire up the karma burner!
Obama is an insider Black man.
That's why we have an outsider White man.
Obama wanted out of Afghanistan and Iraq, he wanted to close Gitmo, and he wanted immigration reform and affordable health care.
He will have no legacy.
No president after him will, either.
The President has become the person who steps forward when a nation-state says, "I want to talk to America."
Other than that pageantry, the President offers condolences and empty promises of change to the families of victims.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
How soon before the conservatives try to disparage him?
It will be around 2018 when there are riots in every major city. As an historian, I find it interesting to see the Stein's gate theory play out in a timeline that only has a 20% probability. (A 20% probability doesn't mean that this timeline is "unpossible," just that a time traveler has a random chance of arriving in a worldline where Trump is president or Clinton in the events leading up to the year from hell.) The major events all remain unchanged. In my timeline, it's supposed that the riots happened because of dissatisfaction with Clinton and the passage of TPTISA. In this timeline, it looks like Trump won't carry the flag of the reactionary reality distortion field known as the alt-right, causing the same riots when BRICS starting rumbling about moving away from the US dollar.
I'm still formulating a thesis for my report when I return to 2042. I should be here until a little before Denver begins to fall in February 2025. It's not necessary for me to observe the year from hell again to complete my mission. N-day is the Stein's gate.
Interesting take, but wrong.
America is way long overdue for the needle to peg out to the right.
That's obviated by the results of this last election.
America needs Trump and everything he can possibly bring to the fight.
America needs to actually experience the fantasy of suicide so it can get a sour taste in its mouth and deal with that which has remained in the shadows.
The effort to convert America to Christianity needs to be exposed so we can get rid of the son of a bitches.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Which white supremacists? Which al-right hatemongers? Which members of his own (historically democrat voting family) are you afraid of. Despite the media smear campaigns none of those have been appointed.