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.

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Re:Flip flop ....

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The nonsense is nonsense. The first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club.

If she didn't do anything wrong, then why does Obama need to pardon her? The million dollar question that nobody has been asking because it's an inconvenient truth.

Re:You Trump voters have been played

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Pretty telling reaction you have there. Instead of, "Hurray, this man who I thought was evil incarnate is changing his mind in view of new information, exactly what we want to see in a politician," it's nothing but hatred towards the downtrodden Americans to whom he was the last resort for change. You're not by chance a big-city liberal, are you? That would explain a lot.

Never forget that Trump was never, ever a positive candidate that people were for. He was the last dying gasp of a people who were being crushed by heartless sociopathic globalists. He was a big "NO" to Hillary, the Democrats, the Republicans, and the entire "fuck you, middle America" mentality that they represent. And from your comment, you sound like one of them. Here's one of your tribe with a typical stone-hearted reaction, do you agree with him? How does that make you feel?

In this election, if you support Donald Trump, you are "the others." I have zero interest in knowing, interacting with, tolerating or otherwise sharing my time or bits of my life with anyone who supports Trump. I don't say that defiantly or righteously, just as fact. Don't follow me on social media. Don't talk to me at parties, at school functions, as a neighbor or even as a friend. Your decision says all I need to know about you. You can't unspin it or rationalize it to me.

-- Tim Goodman