Current Events > Trump administration pitches coal at climate change conference

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http://time.com/5475293/trump-fossil-fuels-cop-24-katowice/

The United Nations climate change conference underway here in Poland could play a critical role in the fight to stem greenhouse gas emissions and keep temperatures from rising to unsafe levels.

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 coals place in the electricity mix.

It is important to the overall climate discussion that we consider whats 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.

The closely watched event underscores the odd position the Trump Administration has placed itself in the international process to address global warming: the U.S. has abandoned its leadership position on climate change but still retains a seat at the table. And, while other countries use the conference as a venue to advocate for speeding up adoption of renewables and eliminating coal, the U.S. has used the venue to rally for natural gas and clean coal even as scientists urge government policymakers to move away from fossil fuels.

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TLDR America is a laughing stock
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There is no way to describe these actions and attitudes as anything but evil.
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We have less than ten years to make meaningful changes to how we pollute the environment before the results become truly catastrophic. Yet here the administration is, trying to sell a climate change conference on coal. Sickening.

Were moving backwards as a country, in every context. MAGA
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Gotta appease the sheeps
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If it's clean coal, then what's the problem?
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Hopefully we only need to deal with this idiocy for two more years.
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Veggeta X posted...

Gotta appease the sheeps

This sort of thing is not aimed at voters.
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If I've learned anything this year from all manor of products it's that activated charcoal is the ultimate cleaning solution.
So activate their fuel coal.
Run the exhaust from coal plants through their own coal, to clean it, then use the old coal to power the plant. Problem fucking solved. Clean coal for generations.

Got science libs?
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clean coal

Do we laugh at this moniker, or cry, or get angry or what
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Antifar posted...

Veggeta X posted...

Gotta appease the sheeps

This sort of thing is not aimed at voters.

I didn't mean just the voters.
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surprising...?
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pinky0926 posted...

clean coal

Do we laugh at this moniker, or cry, or get angry or what

It is clean if used properly. Excessive sun exposure can lead to skin cancer, but that doesn't mean we stop calling solar a form of clean energy or stop using it.
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It's not clean.
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Bump for clean coal.
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Nuclear, goddammit!

it's so weird how trump and his people are so obsessed with coal
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andel posted...

it's so weird how trump and his people are so obsessed with coal

It's not really that weird. It's because of money.
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