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JohnnyRingo

(18,580 posts)
Sat Sep 29, 2018, 12:44 AM Sep 2018

Trump admin says global temps will rise 7 degrees by 2100.

...while still denying it exists.

via Jalopnik:

The Trump Administration Is Certain the Earth Will See a 7-Degree Rise in Temps by 2100

President Donald Trump has said that climate change is a hoax, but in a 500-page report issued last month, his administration asserted it’s indeed real—so real, in fact, that it foresees a seven degrees Fahrenheit rise in global temperatures by 2100. Still, it seeks to reverse the Obama-era fuel economy standards aimed at averting such this catastrophe, according to The Washington Post.

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The unbelievable admission came in an environmental impact statement issued by the Trump administration to justify its proposal to freeze fuel economy standards at levels set in 2020. The plan would be a drastic departure from previous levels set by former President Barack Obama, in an effort to combat climate change.

Here’s the kicker, though: It wasn’t as if Trump’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration offered this forecast under the assumption that everyone will fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. “Just the opposite,” the Post says, “The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed.”

The analysis assumes the planet’s fate is already sealed. From President Trump. Who believes climate change is a hoax.

While the proposal would increase greenhouse gas emissions, the impact statement says, that policy would add just a very small drop to a very big, hot bucket.

“The amazing thing they’re saying is human activities are going to lead to this rise of carbon dioxide that is disastrous for the environment and society,” said Michael MacCracken, who served as a senior scientist at the U.S. Global Change Research Program from 1993 to 2002. “And then they’re saying they’re not going to do anything about it.”


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Trump’s rule would dump an additional eight billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere this century, “more than a year’s worth of total U.S. emissions,” the Post reports.

See you in hell, everybody!

https://jalopnik.com/the-trump-administration-is-certain-the-earth-will-see-1829388050



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Trump admin says global temps will rise 7 degrees by 2100. (Original Post) JohnnyRingo Sep 2018 OP
But it's still not Global Warming?Just a warming up all over? donkeypoofed Sep 2018 #1
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