• Trump Administration Pitched Coal at a Climate Change Conference
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Trump Staffers Pitched Coal at Climate Change Conference | Time The Trump Administration showed up to pitch fossil fuels. In a closely watched event Monday on the sidelines of official negotiations, U.S. officials touted natural gas and argued in support of coal’s place in the electricity mix. “It is important to the overall climate discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic,” P. Wells Griffith, special assistant to the president for international energy and environment, told the crowd “Energy innovation and fossil fuels will continue to play a leading role.” Coal, of course, contributes more to greenhouse gases on a unit-per-unit basis than any other electricity source and reducing its role is considered a top priority for scientists who want to address global warming. And climate scientists, along with governments in the vast majority of countries, agree that now is the time to sound the alarm on climate change.
Again? Someone give his staff some crayons and a ballpit while the adults talk.
picturing Trump throwing a lob of coal like a baseball pitch after reading that title.
"Now, I know we need to talk about how we can change the climate for the better... But first, let me talk about coal... Wait no, no, hear me out...." Christ, how is this shit not disregarded right away, interrupted in the same second and thrown out with as much despise as possible? Like, just go "excuse the interruption, but you are forbidden from talking about "pro-coal agendas" because of the obvious reasons." It's as if tobacco companies suddenly started taking pro-tobacco agendas into health discussions.
Now now, that's not entirely fair. He makes more golf swings than any other president.
Imagining anyone who brings up coal at a climate panel just getting blank stares for a few seconds before everyone else turns to each other and starts discussing actual ideas And when the Clean Coal­™ activist starts speaking louder they just shut the door on them I want more people to just laugh in this administration's face when they present nonsense, like in September when the UN laughed at Trump's claims that his is the most accomplished administration in US history.
Pussies. Imagine if we had this sentiment for historical American feats. "We need a new type of government!" "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" "We need to build a rail road across the country!" "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" "We need to build a dam to power Nevada!" "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" "We need to build a military to support our European Allies! "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" "We choose to go to the Moon!" "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" "We need to build a permanent orbiting habit for humans in space!" "It is important to the overall discussion that we consider what’s realistic and pragmatic" Cowards. There are people clawing over the border fense that have more American spirit than these cretins. You can't talk shit about making America great or American exceptionalism while actively pulling America away from the biggest technological challenge humanity has faced. Fucking cowards.
This is no longer funny, it's just sad.
lemme guess, they tried to back it with clean coal "but guys, coal is bad" ~ literally everyone "now wait just a minute guys, we have clean coal" ~ completely delusional trump administration i'd say they should just go nuclear but there's such an anti nuclear stigma anymore becuase of misinformation that it's unlikely to happen.
It stopped being funny about a week after he got sworn in and signed all those executive orders. Not that I wasn't scared, but that was the time everyone seemed to go from "he's full of hot air" to "holy shit he's already done irreparable damage and we have a minimum of 4 more years to deal with"
At this point, I'm so tired of all the climate change denying and that basic "fuck the environment, gotta make money amirite" mindset that has overtaken government. Can we get a petition going to get Ted Turner to dress up as Captain Planet and save the planet? I feel like he's our last hope. https://youtu.be/0maBk21uaj4 He could kick Donald Trump in the balls too.
When it comes to not dumping radioactive sewage into the orphanage, we need to consider what's realistic and pragmatic, but when it comes to a few people illegally immigrating from Mexico to work low paying jobs, we need to build a giant 40 foot tall solid gold wall that spans the entire southern border of the country.
I'm being realistic and pragmatic. Shut down all coal powerplants. The ash is a toxic waste, the miners are exploited, and the energy is not needed.
But those very workers are the ones sitting around complaining about there not being any jobs. The idiots legitimately want to go down into those mines to work. I think Trump would prefer a 40 foot tall golden statue of his dick to replace the Washington Monument, but it's so small they'd have to scale it up by like 10,000x just for it to remotely match the size of the Washington Monument. It'd also have to be a constantly floating golden shower too because we all know how fond President Bonespurs is of bathing in piss.
In order to need to scale it up 10,000x to reach the size of the Washington Monument his dick would have to be 0.666 inches long interestingly enough. Clearly Trump is the (micro)anti-Christ.
maybe that's why his hands are so small
He must have thimbles for shoes too...
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