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Students around the world go on strike protesting climate change

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Public school teacher supporter of GW propaganda to students: 'Children, if we do not convince the government to immediately begin spending trillions of dollars on climate change we will all die within 12 years. So go out there and find TV cameras to get in front of and protest your hearts out against government hesitancy to go into deep dept chasing little chicken rainbows.'
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The evidence is so overwhelming that even fossil fuel companies and federal agencies under Trump have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

Climate emergency: what the oil, coal and gas giants say | Environment | The Guardian

Fourth National Climate Assessment

While you deniers can't show a single scientific report from federal agencies under Trump or during Bush eight years that disprove the urgent need for actions.
 
Young people all across the world are organizing and making their voices heard.

"More than a million young people have turned out for global student strikes that are also driving home the connections between climate change and social injustice, economic inequality and human rights. Young climate leaders around the world are rising to the challenge, seizing the opportunity of these strikes to raise their voices in a collective call for greater ambition in defense of the vulnerable and at-risk communities most impacted by unchecked climate change.

Unimpressed with political soundbites and platitudes, these young people are refusing to settle for anything less than transformational change, informed by recent scientific reports that find that we have just over a decade to halve our global greenhouse gas emissions."

15 youth climate activists you should be following on social media | Earth Day Network
 
Bergslagstroll said:
The evidence is so overwhelming that even fossil fuel companies and federal agencies under Trump have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

Climate emergency: what the oil, coal and gas giants say | Environment | The Guardian

Fourth National Climate Assessment

While you deniers can't show a single scientific report from federal agencies under Trump or during Bush eight years that disprove the urgent need for actions.
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While Gore was jet-setting around the globe on gas guzzling ozone-destroying climate and location changing private planes, warning everyone of his view of impending immediate global warming flood disasters facing place like NYC, fsimply went on as usual as little chicken climate change alarm clocks rang themselves silly and then broke - repeatedly.
 
marke said:
While Gore was jet-setting around the globe on gas guzzling ozone-destroying climate and location changing private planes, warning everyone of his view of impending immediate global warming flood disasters facing place like NYC, fsimply went on as usual as little chicken climate change alarm clocks rang themselves silly and then broke - repeatedly.
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We are now running out of time in avoiding many of the devasting of climate change.

"Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels would be a herculean task, involving rapid, dramatic changes in how governments, industries and societies function, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But even though the world has already warmed by 1 °C, humanity has 10–30 more years than scientists previously thought in which to kick its carbon habit.

The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October. The report draws on research conducted since nations unveiled the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and limit global temperature increase to between 1.5 and 2 °C."

IPCC says limiting global warming to 1.5 degC will require drastic action

That it would have been much easier and less costly to avoid many of the devastating effects if the warnings from the world's leading scientists had been listen. That the evidence for the urgent need for action is so overwhelming that it shouldn't be a partisan issue.

"It is becoming harder, however, for Trump to swat away the unfolding crises caused by global warming. American lives are increasingly ravaged by flooding and wildfires and Democrats have seized the initiative with the Green New Deal resolution, which proposes full-scale societal and economic change to eliminate carbon emissions while investing in education, health, transport and a federal jobs guarantee.

Now, younger Republicans are breaking with Trump in an attempt to haul their party towards scientific reality.

“There’s disagreement there with Donald Trump,” said Tex Fischer, a 22-year-old conservative Ohioan with a head of unruly hair. “I don’t personally know anyone involved in young, right-of-center politics that doesn’t believe climate change is an issue.

“I think conservatives for a long time have been too willing to just let this be a leftwing issue. We can talk about this. Conservatives that care about the environment do exist.”"

The young Republicans breaking with their party over climate change | Environment | The Guardian
 
Bergslagstroll said:
We are now running out of time in avoiding many of the devasting of climate change.

"Limiting global warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels would be a herculean task, involving rapid, dramatic changes in how governments, industries and societies function, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But even though the world has already warmed by 1 °C, humanity has 10–30 more years than scientists previously thought in which to kick its carbon habit.

The world would have to curb its carbon emissions by at least 49% of 2017 levels by 2030 and then achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 to meet this target, according to a summary of the latest IPCC report, released on 8 October. The report draws on research conducted since nations unveiled the 2015 Paris climate agreement, which seeks to curb greenhouse-gas emissions and limit global temperature increase to between 1.5 and 2 °C."

IPCC says limiting global warming to 1.5 degC will require drastic action

That it would have been much easier and less costly to avoid many of the devastating effects if the warnings from the world's leading scientists had been listen. That the evidence for the urgent need for action is so overwhelming that it shouldn't be a partisan issue.

"It is becoming harder, however, for Trump to swat away the unfolding crises caused by global warming. American lives are increasingly ravaged by flooding and wildfires and Democrats have seized the initiative with the Green New Deal resolution, which proposes full-scale societal and economic change to eliminate carbon emissions while investing in education, health, transport and a federal jobs guarantee.

Now, younger Republicans are breaking with Trump in an attempt to haul their party towards scientific reality.

“There’s disagreement there with Donald Trump,” said Tex Fischer, a 22-year-old conservative Ohioan with a head of unruly hair. “I don’t personally know anyone involved in young, right-of-center politics that doesn’t believe climate change is an issue.

“I think conservatives for a long time have been too willing to just let this be a leftwing issue. We can talk about this. Conservatives that care about the environment do exist.”"

The young Republicans breaking with their party over climate change | Environment | The Guardian
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Sure, sure. Climate change expert AOC has informed us we have less than 12 years to get busy funding organizations and foundations founded by big democrat supporters seeking huge government funding for their spurious little projects.
 
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marke said:
Sure, sure. Climate change expert AOC has informed us we have less than 12 years to get busy funding organizations and foundations founded by big democrat supporters seeking huge government funding for their spurious little projects.
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The evidence is so overwhelming that even federal agencies under Donald Trump and fossil fuel companies have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Statements on Paris climate agreement | ExxonMobil
 
Bergslagstroll said:
The evidence is so overwhelming that even federal agencies under Donald Trump and fossil fuel companies have to acknowledge the urgent need for action.

Fourth National Climate Assessment

Statements on Paris climate agreement | ExxonMobil
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Like the growing popularity of tattoos climate change hysteria is growing among those who don't want to be thought ill of for not fully supporting the sloppy science and outrageous predictions of global warming propagandists.
 
marke said:
Like the growing popularity of tattoos climate change hysteria is growing among those who don't want to be thought ill of for not fully supporting the sloppy science and outrageous predictions of global warming propagandists.
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Trump doesn't want to hang with the "cool environment crowd". Instead he wants to spend billions of dollars on propping up unprofitable coal plants.

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants - Daily chart

So of course he could have directed federal funds to disprove the urgent need for action if any evidence against the urgent need had existed. Instead federal agencies like NASA are acknowledging the urgent need for action.

NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming
 
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Sadly people risk their lives by protecting the environment, their homes and indigenous people.

"Paulo Paulino Guajajara was reportedly attacked and shot in the head while hunting on Friday inside the Arariboia reservation in Maranhao state.

He was a member of Guardians of the Forest, a group formed to combat logging gangs in the area.

The killing increases concerns about escalating violence against Amazon forest protectors.

Non-profit group Survival International, which advocates for isolated communities, says at least three Guardians have previously been killed, along with many of their relatives.

In September, an official who had worked to protect indigenous people was murdered in the city of Tabatinga."

Brazil: Amazon land defender killed by illegal loggers - BBC News
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Trump doesn't want to hang with the "cool environment crowd". Instead he wants to spend billions of dollars on propping up unprofitable coal plants.

Donald Trump hopes to save America’s failing coal-fired power plants - Daily chart

So of course he could have directed federal funds to disprove the urgent need for action if any evidence against the urgent need had existed. Instead federal agencies like NASA are acknowledging the urgent need for action.

NASA: Climate Change and Global Warming
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Obama was way ahead of his time. He predicted he would shut down the coal industry and cause poor people's utility rates to "skyrocket" and he did a good job of making that happen. But his $1 trillion investment in new green energy during the depression turned out to be a very bad idea, with dozens of green energy startups and retrofits going belly up within just a few years of being trotted out by giddy democrats as the new wave of the future.
 
marke said:
Obama was way ahead of his time. He predicted he would shut down the coal industry and cause poor people's utility rates to "skyrocket" and he did a good job of making that happen. But his $1 trillion investment in new green energy during the depression turned out to be a very bad idea, with dozens of green energy startups and retrofits going belly up within just a few years of being trotted out by giddy democrats as the new wave of the future.
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Obama's clean energy plan was in total 90 billion dollars.

Green New Deal can learn from Obama’s $90bn clean energy plan of 2009 - Energy Post

This can be compared to the trillions of dollars Bush's war in Iraq costed. There decades of costly Western intervention in the Middle East have failed to create a peaceful and stable region. That there a mayor risk for a new big conflict with spiking fuel prices.

While the support to renewables have been very successful and renewable are starting to out compete fossil fuels.

Renewable Energy Costs Take Another Tumble, Making Fossil Fuels Look More Expensive Than Ever

Why Republican Leaders Love Renewable Energy

India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low | The Independent
 
marke said:
Unfortunately, Obama's 90 billion dollar new green energy plan never got off the ground but the US government did end up paying out more than $2 billion for Obama's shovel ready green energy projects which failed.
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Renewables are out competing fossil fuels all across the world.

Huge Battery Investments Drop Energy-Storage Costs Faster Than Expected, Threatening Natural Gas

America's coal consumption set to plunge to 42-year low - CNN

As Wind Turned Down A Notch, Solar Soared -- 2018 Renewable Energy Report Denmark | CleanTechnica
 
Bergslagstroll said:
Renewables are out competing fossil fuels all across the world.

Huge Battery Investments Drop Energy-Storage Costs Faster Than Expected, Threatening Natural Gas

America's coal consumption set to plunge to 42-year low - CNN

As Wind Turned Down A Notch, Solar Soared -- 2018 Renewable Energy Report Denmark | CleanTechnica
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I'm not opposed to free market introductions of economically viable alternative energy sources. I am opposed to dummass democrat socialist plans which necessitate shutting down thousands of coal businesses and putting millions of people out of work while investing huge government resources in expensive alternate energy sources.
 
marke said:
I'm not opposed to free market introductions of economically viable alternative energy sources. I am opposed to dummass democrat socialist plans which necessitate shutting down thousands of coal businesses and putting millions of people out of work while investing huge government resources in expensive alternate energy sources.
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Any sources for those claims?

That a transition to renewable energy can create a lot of new jobs.

Most of The World Could Be 100% Powered With Renewables by 2050

Especially in rural Republican areas.

Why Republican Leaders Love Renewable Energy

Also subsidies to fossil fuels have for a long time been bigger than subsidies to renewable energy. That ending fossil fuel subsides and using some of that many to support renewables and other technologies could really speed up the transition.

Just 10% of fossil fuel subsidy cash 'could pay for green transition' | Environment | The Guardian
 
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