Opinion | The next president must make climate change the top priority

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Opinion: The next president must make climate change the top priority

 

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We should not take the reins on global climate change. Our Nation of United States’ Constitution is being threatened by the uneducated immorals. Remedy for this must come first.

I just saw a gun on TV wear a hundred years ago we had the same type of weather

then wait 6 years

Absolutely right. That person has to be a Democrat.

Interesting how in 1975 the government pushed the 'coming of the ice age' Scientists live off grants. So do politicians and ex-politicians like Gore and even Galileo withdrew his preaching about the earth revolving around the sun.

Trump has too much on his plate to be bothered with this fake climate change crap. God is in control and there is NO climate change!! Trump2020

The only thing that can stop climate change is to stop the westernization of the world. Clear cutting the trees and covering the earth with cement is the cause of global warming. Trees are essential to saving our planet

2018 was reported one of the two worst years for Climate Change. Show me where? You are m0r0ns. (Nov-Dec data captive at NOAA shutdown)

The CURRENT president should too!

I agree climate change must be a high priority for the next President but undoing & cleaning up the shittastrophe Trump has unleashed on this country is gonna be pretty time consuming.

When are you going to focus your enlisting efforts on the real culprits of your CO2 concern, ie: China, India, etc, etc. The US is ahead of the curve in its accomplishments, so yours is only a push in favor moving the country towards a very progressive left.

I agree 💯%

This change will only happen when all countries are committed to climate reform not just the U.S.A. last I knew we all live on this planet.

How about the people who are marching for it? Have you seen the trash that's left behind?

Have we banned private air travel? Are we threatening war if the biggest polluters, India and China, don't stop expansion immediately? Are the rich selling their beach front property? That's what would happen if legitimate. It's a hoax and GFY.

Pass.

in a few years the climate will shift again and whoever is president will be praised. Go after CHINA, the US is OK.

You mean “global warming”, right?

Hope note!

In the 70’s they told we were running out of oil so they told us to conserve and jacked up prices, and taxed gas into oblivion. Then they said never mind. Climate change is just another way to tax people and money grab. The earth’s climate is always changing and has for ages.

THIS PLANET WILL GO THRU CYCLES LIKE IT HAS DONE FOR THE LAST 4 BILLION YEARS AND NOT ONE THING WE DO OR DONT DO WILL CHANGE THAT PERIOD !!!!!!

MAGA

The next President priority should be to tackle homelessness and in equality. To see human being sleeping on the street & not taking immediate action is alarming.

It’s too late. Climate change was inevitable from the 1980s onward. Get educated. Politics have corrupted the science and this is why the two must remain separate. Even if all humans died tomorrow climate change will still occur over the following hundreds of years.

No, I would not agree.

President of China

Hopefully Trump is gone soon....Pence won't care about climate change either. We need Dems to take control.

Why because you say so.

Lol what a joke. More like this president. Difference is realDonaldTrump is bed with oil

NO THE NEXT POTUS HAS TO TAKE HIS JOB FIRST AS A PRIORITY AND THAT INCLUDES THE CONSTITUTION AMERICA CLIMATE ALL PEOPLE LAWS HEALTH A NORMAL PERSON KNOWS BUT TRUMP NEVER KNEW BECAUSE HE IS NOT NORMAL HE IS TAINTED FRAUDULENT CHEAT LIER SEX OFFENDER COWARD BACKSTABBER NEXT TIME NO

20 years too late

The last president made climate change a priority. It’s the current one that has undermined everything accomplished in the Obama administration.

But won’t

Propaganda

Hopefully, the next president will come within the next month and her initials won’t be MP.

It can't wait that long! This criminal in the white house needs to start doing something today instead of lying and tweeting.

Opinion is the operative word for this article

The next President is Donald J Trump . Get used to .

No .... Thank You

Oh for God sakes! It’s a hoax ! Based on modeling and faulty data. Do not regulate me or make laws because of this crap.

I’d settle for one who’s not PutinsPuppet or a racist scumbag. That would be great.

Marxist agenda.

気候変動に対応する必要は、世界各国に有る。当然、米国にも言える事だな。

...and throw away any chance at reelection.

Finally!!! Someone in high political office gets it. Climate change is THE issue. It's way past time for the climate deniers, the oil barons, the Koch brothers and all the others who have put their interests ahead of averting this catastrophe, to get out of the way.

How about Congress do it now?

The climate has been changing over millions of years-I read at one time the Equator was even in a different location.

Monumental effort by Leftists to grab power over US business, especially the energy industry. Earth not vulnerable to US politics.

Yawn

If Nancy and chuck would stop wasting air that might help.

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Climate hoax is designed to extract $’s. Nothing more.

Must

NOPE!!!

Yes, please! We need the money designated for Climate Change so we can distribute the funds to other progressive liberal organizations. It’s all about the money, people. They don’t care about the planet, they care about power!

Carbon tax scam to fill global coffers! Sure John q citizen to blame not the 22,000 nuclear explosions that were detonated?

GovInslee: They’re calling for you. ClimateAction

'Note: 'forming,' NOT 'dissolving!'

Why the next president? Science should tell us about Climate change and what should be done.

Not a thing anyone can do about climate change - glaciers have been growing and melting for millions of years. Govt policies won’t do a damn thing to stop it.

An actual crisis

Oh this president IS dealing with climate change as he is taking down the deep state that is screwing with our weather....but you knew that. Deep State WP.

Immigration must be the top priority. BuildTheWalll

What crap politicians and kings fools ... remember the one that ordered the ocean waves to stop ....

ynpkat ClimateChange is a top priority for Trump... when it comes to HIS properties. Yours? No so much.

Is this article from 1992?

A generation of false equivalence and giving equal time to ignorance and firmly opinion killed our chance to address climate change. There is not a major media outlet in the country not complicit in what is likely now unavoidable suffering. Nice op-ed though.

Nope

Yeah right. LOL

If you.really believed that then you would be calling for a.complete embargo on China, and all business dealings with India. Beck Canada releases more greenhouse gases per capita than Americans.

Haaaa... just saw a tweet about Globalwarming just a little while ago. If you know what I mean

BrezziAnnalisa Deporting racism should be the top priority

Um. No. It’s bullshit.

Silly. Gullible, naive, PC “science” compliant and “climate change” propaganda adherent, but just outright silly.

I don’t think President Pence in 2025 is going to be making climatehoax a priority. Do you? hoax tax regulate YellowVest yellowvestheroes paris

The wall will be lost forever probably under water cause stupid forgot about the climate and everything else that matters !!! YOURE FIRED GO AWAY trump !!!

Climate change is a hoax!

Gun removal is a top priority

And the arrival of the next president won't be a moment too soon.

Walls matter. Support Trump!

ДА , ПОСЛЕ ГОНКИ ВООРУЖЕНИЙ ОБ ЭТОМ ЕСТЬ СМЫСЛ ПОДУМАТЬ

Here's the one MSM installed in WH bcuz he was 'bad for America but damn good for media profit' w/his thoughts on it. Just look how click-worthy he made your story.

The next leadership of America values will pass real laws to help our nation to protect some help people! Not like today that Hate Americans Party Republicans! Who are owned by Oil:coals & Russians & other foreign countries

Right. He could declare an emergency and enact regulations, cut coal power to zero, etc. that’s what will happen if Donnie Hamberders declares emergency on his stupid border wall.

That political retirement account is history!!! They can learn how to EARN monies for a change!!!

This is ridiculous. The US already has a better record than any country in the world. PCA was a joke and a sham.

Climate changes... you adapt

Coinage change will matter when the country clubs get flooded; not before. The rest of the world can roast or drown. Too bad

Not important at all

Amen!

Fuck the carbon tax

Mankind can do nothing to affect climate change in anyway, not even a 0.0001% impact. All we can do is prepare. I’ve seen nothing on preparing for the inevitable.

Climate change is a socialist scheme to strip rights from individuals, same a technology.

If we are truly in danger, please explain why nuclear power plants are not being built? They are the best most effective way to reduce fossil fuels. They would rather TAX us, that’s why.

Or persuade everyone to become a semi vegan daily !

Sorry, but if activists are right it's already too late - we passed the point of no return years ago. All we can do now is enjoy the time we have and hope for some kind of technological miracle. Stop worrying, be happy!

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This is a Globalist/Socialist agenda based pm fear mongering. So we should Join the EU and other Socialist nations? Our nation will become a 3rd world country. No thanks.

Flashback: ABC's FAKE 2008 GLOBAL WARMING SCARE said NYC would be underwater by 2015

BS cult.

Beef industry is the largest methane producer in the country . Isn’t it ?

Jay Inslee should shut his mouth.....that will cure 'man-made gas'. His 'Run' for President is a joke besides being laughable! He can team up with 'Heap big pile of stick', for a 1/1,024 chance to win.

Who knows, next president might shutdown government and demand to get a ceiling built over USA to prevent climate change?🙈🙈😃

What do you want the government to do about climate change ? Do you think a carbon tax will go over any different in the US than it did in France ?

Wouldn’t it be better if the present government also took their collective heads out of the sand/hands out of the polluters pockets and did something useful for the future generations?

Nope

Trump2020

False. The next president must make foreign policy more broadly the top priority, including multilateral climate agreements. The liberal democratic world order is coming apart in a worrying manner.

You’ll have to be very clever: otherwise he will be out immediately. No one wants to face the facts that enacting such legislation will devastate portions of our economy and leave people in ruins.

Nope

More like the last president

How do you propose to get China and India on board? The 'Paris Agreement' left them virtually untouched.

No God the top priority.

The next president must route out institutionalised leftism from our schools and universities as a top priority

Then we need a new next president pretty quick. This one is a boob.

Good

We all eagerly await 'the next president'. This one has been soo substandard.

Nothing can be accomplished until this one issue is addressed. There are WAY TOO MANY energy consumer humans. No amount of renewable, 'clean' tech &c will work. The population must be reduced. Tax people for having more than one child. Bring the population of India, China and

Can't wait to start in 2020

Trump is pushing Pruitt oil leases on Refuges and in the Arctic and Atlantic oceans DURING the shutdown, so without oversight Also without oversight, seismic testing leases that kill whales horribly via blowing out their eardrums.

THIS president should.

Then in 2020 people have to come out and vote this time because this president thinks climate change is a hoax.

...for the world including China and India. Not stupid liberal leftists idea of fighting global warming by punishing America

What the fuck - come on people, the current president needs to make this a priority... Hold him to his standards.

Yes u are right i agree with is very important subjest

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Why doesn’t the current one need to?

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OPINION: 'This' president needs to make climate change a top policy priority. TWO YEARS is too long to wait. (3-4 years with policy implementation if we're being honest.) Think of it like compounded interest. The sooner you put your money in the bigger your reward.

It may be too late.

No he/she shouldn't. Succumbing to paranoia and end-of-the-world crap is NOT what we need.

As long as the next president not paid off by Koch_Industries

Laughable.

Assuming the date on this article is 1990. Good idea to repost it.

Oh my God, here goes Al Gore again on his jet !!

And individual freedom can sod off.

Can we make David Attenborough an honorary American, and vote him in!

We need to elect a real man.

She will

Looks like an ice wall...

Critically important.

That would be Berne. RunBernieRun

Right after jailing the endless corruption from this current administration. No one is above the law.

Lmfao 🖕

There are a lot of things that need priority that Trump has ruined or tried to ruin.

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