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Donald Trump is an environmental nightmare: Keystone, climate change and GOP's demented pander
2016-06-05 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: When President Obama officially killed the Keystone XL pipeline in November 2015, that should have been the end of it. But last week Donald Trump promised to raise the pipeline from the dead if he is elected president. Trump chose to make his remarks in the heart of Americas drill-baby-drill demographic in Bismarck, North Dakota. Im saying yes, we will absolutely approve it, Trump said. Trump also promised to get rid of Obamas measures to reduce emissions, cancel the Paris climate agreement,...
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GOPs climate change minimizers are risk deniers
2016-04-02 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: I just think we have much bigger risks, Donald Trump told us last week. We had asked the Republican presidential candidate about human-caused climate change, a phenomenon in which he said he is not a big believer. Dont good business leaders hedge against risks, spending something now to avoid potentially negative outcomes later? I think our biggest form of climate change we should worry about is nuclear weapons, he responded. Trump is not alone among Republicans in citing other scary problems...
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GOP's Moment of Truth On Bush-Clinton EraHas Arrived at Last
2016-03-29 19:10:37| IT Services - Topix.net
The moment of truth is at hand for the Republicans. Much of the last 35 years of American political history was determined when James A. Baker, George H. W. Bush's campaign manager when he sought the presidential nomination in 1980, persuaded Mr. Bush to retire from the race before the Pennsylvania primary, as Mr. Bush was likely to win it, but Ronald Reagan had already secured the nomination.
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GOP's Plan to Undermine Global Climate Talks
2015-09-08 13:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: Top Republican lawmakers are planning a wide-ranging offensive - including outreach to foreign officials by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's office - to undermine President Barack Obama's hopes of reaching an international climate change agreement that would cement his environmental legacy. The GOP strategy, emerging after months of quiet discussions, includes sowing doubts about Obama's climate policies at home and abroad, trying to block key environmental regulations in Congress, and...
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Sanders: GOP's climate change denial an 'embarrassment'
2015-06-20 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday night said Republican skepticism towards climate change science is a national embarrassment. One of the embarrassments that goes on in this country today is that we have a major political party called the Republican Party that is rejecting what the overwhelming majority of scientists are saying, Sanders told host Bill Maher on HBOs Real Time with Bill Maher. That is, of course, climate change is real and caused by human activity, said Sanders, a...
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