Al Gore calls Trump's deregulation proposals 'literally insane'
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This was from an interview with Judy Woodruff
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The earmarks of this latest storm, Judy, are worth paying attention to. Starting with Hurricane Harvey, which hit Houston, Texas, a year ago and dumped five feet of rain, we have been seeing a new pattern. And Hurricane Michael intensified as it reached the coast. And that's something relatively new.
And the reason for it is, the ocean waters are much warmer than normal, so it's not getting cold waters churned up to weaken the storm. It just keeps on getting stronger.
The scientists not only predicted these consequences. They're telling us they're going to get a lot worse still, until we stop using the Earth's atmosphere as an open sewer for 110 million tons of man-made global warming pollution every single day.
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Well, his proposal is literally insane. And his reaction to the scientific community's warnings is an outlier reaction.
It's making the U.S. come off like a rogue nation and being different from any other nation in the entire world. And, of course, everybody knows it's because the large carbon polluters are his buddies, and he wants to use them as a way of signaling to ultra-conservatives that he doesn't care about what the truth of the matter is.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/al-gore-calls-trumps-deregulation-proposals-literally-insane
dalton99a
(81,570 posts)vlyons
(10,252 posts)hi might change his tune.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)"The earmarks of this latest storm, Judy, are worth paying attention to."
It reads as if the latest storm is named Judy, which had me confused. Or, you could add a sentence at the beginning noting that this is an interview with Judy Woodruff.
Uncle Joe
(58,417 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,019 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Oh, well. Sixteen years later and the Democrats had made no moves to prevent winning the popular vote and losing the presidency once again. At least Trump is the best thing to ever happen to the legacy of Dubya.
ananda
(28,876 posts)nt
Judi Lynn
(160,621 posts)The world would be so much different now, had the Supreme Court not made that filthy decision that doomed us.
Here's hoping he will be appearing publicly now, knowing how desperately people like him are needed, even as it almost seems too late. It's so good knowing he's out there, and he's paying close attention.
Thank you for this outstanding interview, Uncle Joe.