That was awkward -- at world's biggest climate conference, U.S. promotes fossil fuels

[EricMaundry]

Source: Washington Post

KATOWICE, Poland — President Trump’s top White House adviser on energy and climate stood before the crowd of some 200 people on Monday and tried to burnish the image of coal, the fossil fuel that powered the industrial revolution — and is now a major culprit behind the climate crisis world leaders are meeting here to address.

“We strongly believe that no country should have to sacrifice economic prosperity or energy security in pursuit of environmental sustainability,” said Wells Griffith, Trump’s adviser.

Mocking laughter echoed through the conference room. A woman yelled, “These false solutions are a joke!” And dozens of people erupted into chants of protest.

The protest was a piece of theater, and so too was the United States’ public embrace of coal and other dirty fuels at an event otherwise dedicated to saving the world from the catastrophic impacts of climate change. The standoff punctuated the awkward position the American delegation finds itself in as career bureaucrats seek to advance the Trump administration’s agenda in an international arena aimed at cutting back on fossil fuels.

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[TeamPooka]

1. Trump's minions on their March of Corruption.

[AJT]

2. "career bureaucrats seek to advance the Trump administration's agenda"

Why would any career bureaucrat promte 45s agenda?

[Roy Rolling]

6. Right

It's the opposite of career bureaucrats, the political appointees are causing the problem.

[Ahpook]

3. I get it now

He admits to fucking up the environment but there is money to be made, so fuck it.

Oook

[The Liberal Lion]

4. We look like backward facing, cave dwelling idoits on the world stage

Where the US should and could be leading the world in alternative energies and sustainable environmental progress, we drag our country and a good bit of the world backwards. How tragic our fall from grace.

[Corgigal]

5. Yo world, if I can be so bold.

Please do not have any scientific, nor ally meetings for the next year or so. We are working on taking out the garbage and it piled up.

We will return to regular sheduled program when our justice system plays whack a mole with a bunch of Russian assets. Bear with us, will be under new management as soon as we can.

[Raine]

7. and "news" networks like MSNBC & CNN

can't even bother to cover it.

[BigmanPigman]

8. The US sides with Russia and Saudi Arabia instead of our allies

when it comes to Climate Change. How will we ever begin to undo all the harm this fucking moron, his corrupt cabinet and the complicit GOP have done in only 2 years? There is no way we can allow them to continue until 2020! We must indict and jail them ASAP!

[TomCADem]

9. Next, Trump Will Promote Cheese Burgers at the American Heart Association Annual Meeting

Heck, when Trump's Blood Test Results Are Announced Sarah Sanders will declare that this establishes that he has the metabolism of an Olympic athlete.

[YOHABLO]

10. It couldn't be that the U.S. is the world's largest exporter of oil? No, not that.