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A climate debate could be risky for Dems - but many want it anyway (only 11.59 years left)
Politico ^ | 5/29/19 | ANTHONY ADRAGNA

Posted on 06/01/2019 10:40:09 AM PDT by Libloather

Democrats across the ideological spectrum want their party to dedicate one of its presidential primary debates to climate change — despite the risk of exposing their own divides.

At least five presidential candidates have backed fellow presidential contender Jay Inslee's idea for a climate-centric debate, in a sign of the issue's growing profile among Democratic voters.

But a public debate might also force Democratic contenders to confront policy differences they have so far papered over, including how quickly they would push the U.S. to shift away from the fossil fuels that provide union jobs. The candidates would also face pressure to offer specifics on their position on the Green New Deal, the ambitious progressive climate resolution that Republicans have sought to tar as an expensive socialist boondoggle.

Presidential candidates like Beto O'Rourke have released ambitious climate change plans on the heels of pressure campaigns from progressive activists, while others, like former Vice President Joe Biden, face big questions about how ambitious an agenda they will lay out while balancing the needs of organized labor. Democrats also have a far from unified position on questions such as whether natural gas and nuclear power should have any role in combating climate change, in a sign of how far leftward the discussion has shifted since Barack Obama left the White House.

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Algore declared that the debate is over. Why would these hoax deniers waste time on this?

Destroying the capitalist system that they all benefit from is gonna be a tough sell.

1 posted on 06/01/2019 10:40:09 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Isn’t it now 11.589 years?


2 posted on 06/01/2019 10:44:26 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: Libloather
If the Liberals were truly concerned about the environment, why to they always exempt China, India and Africa from the regulations?
3 posted on 06/01/2019 10:48:54 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Cowboy Bob

...and themselves.


4 posted on 06/01/2019 10:53:02 AM PDT by Libloather (Global warming is AWESOME!)
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To: Drango
Notice that 11.589 years puts us in the next sunspot cycle

If the Sun doesn't start making Sunspots by then

We in a realm of cold hurt.

Solar cells iced over in the snow

Windmills frozen

And frozen corpses of global warming aficionados hanging from unlit lampposts

5 posted on 06/01/2019 10:53:16 AM PDT by spokeshave (If anything, Trump is guilty of attempting to obstruct injustice.)
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To: spokeshave

My hope is that the POTUS will mention that we’re down to 11 years when he delivers the next SOTU address.


6 posted on 06/01/2019 11:00:05 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Libloather

97% of the CO2 produced each year comes from natural sources.

Completely eliminate man’s contribution and it’s not even a blip, especially considering natural CO2 production fluctuates considerably more than 3% from year to year.


7 posted on 06/01/2019 11:02:24 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Libloather

Idiots.

We just hope voters are smarter and won’t fall for all the lies and propaganda.


8 posted on 06/01/2019 11:11:27 AM PDT by Innovative
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...others, like former Vice President Joe Biden, face big questions about how ambitious an agenda they will lay out while balancing the needs of organized labor.
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9 posted on 06/01/2019 11:12:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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The Real Russian Collusion: Fomenting EU, U.S. Climate Protests


10 posted on 06/01/2019 11:21:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Libloather

“...that the Republicans have sought to tar... “

Another unbiased article.

Smh


11 posted on 06/01/2019 11:22:20 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Libloather

“Why would these hoax deniers waste time on this”?

It’s simple: They rely on the ignorance of so many Americans who have no ability to discern or think critically. They are like sheep and are treated as such.


12 posted on 06/01/2019 11:40:11 AM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The main factor that the left always leaves out of their “climate change” discussion is that CO2 is literally the molecule of life. Eliminate CO2 from the atmosphere, eliminate life.

So many of these useful idiots have swallowed the anti-CO2 propaganda that they will cheer if technology is used to remove CO2, even as the act drives the world to a mass extinction event. And there are many schemes to artificially remove CO2 from the air.


13 posted on 06/01/2019 11:44:30 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Drango

I can hardly wait for 11 years and 7 months from now, when it will finally be too late to do anything about Climate Change, and we can just sit back and enjoy our slow slide to extinction.


14 posted on 06/01/2019 11:46:44 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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> want their party to dedicate one of its presidential primary debates to climate change <

Ha, ha, ha! That’s funny right there. A true debate on climate change would include folks with very different viewpoints.

But the only disagreement among the Democrats is when the world will be destroyed. Will it be 10, 15, or 20 years from now? And should we fine the deniers, or should we imprison them?


15 posted on 06/01/2019 11:48:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: laplata

First you pounce

Then you seize

Then you tar


16 posted on 06/01/2019 11:49:10 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Libloather

U.N. predicts disaster if global warming not checked - June 29 1989, Peter Spielman
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.


17 posted on 06/01/2019 12:22:55 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Haiku Guy

Or use lead.


18 posted on 06/01/2019 12:25:52 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Libloather

I want these academics and anyone who has taken money in the name of the hoax to go before Congress and explain their findings under oath.

That will be the end of it, once and for all.


19 posted on 06/01/2019 12:49:11 PM PDT by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: tbw2

The population bomb said we would all be dead by 1980 from over population.

This scam is quite old.


20 posted on 06/01/2019 1:08:49 PM PDT by crusher2013
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