Bashar Al-Assad by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44370013
Robert Mugabe by Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40102783
Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Guardian is worried that if Donald Trump is elected as US President, he will reject demands for climate action which are supported by tyrants, war criminals and genocidal maniacs.
Donald Trump would be world’s only national leader to reject climate science
Sierra Club report finds science of climate change accepted by leaders of every country recognized by US – including Bashar al-Assad and Kim Jong-un.
Donald Trump would be the only national leader in the world to dismiss the science of climate change should he become president, putting him out of step even with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea.
The potential isolation of the US on climate change has been laid bare by a new Sierra Club report which found universal acceptance of climate science among the leaders of the 195 countries recognized by the US state department.
Close US allies such as Britain, Israel, Canada and France all have heads of government who have voiced their understanding that the world is warming primarily due to human activities.
Even totalitarian or undemocratic leaders accept mainstream climate science, with Assad calling for nations to “respond more effectively” to the issue and Kim supporting a tree-planting initiative to mitigate greenhouse gases. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has labelled climate change a “major global challenge”.
By contrast, Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has called global warming “bullshit” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing noncompetitive”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/12/donald-trump-climate-change-science-sierra-club
The following is a link to the Sierra Club Report.
Who could fail to be moved by the Guardian and the Sierra Club’s effort, to gather such a list of climate action endorsements from the world’s bad guys.
From memory Russia knows the truth as well, although is happy to take the money if people are handing it out. Certainly, Russia has a remarkably tiny wind “industry” – Wikipedia can’t find even 100MW of installed capacity which means it’s generating about 20MW a year.
Kim supporting a tree-planting initiative to mitigate greenhouse gases. No, he’s planting trees ’cause they’ve denuded the hillsides.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/inside-north-koreas-environmental-collapse/
even PBS says so!
Joseph P Kennedy is quoted as saying that he knew in 1929 that Wall Street was overly optimistic and a crash was on its way when he started to get stock tips from his shoeshine boy. We should know we’re getting BS when we get climate science from Robert Mugabe.
In recent years the title of worst government on the planet has passed back and forth between N. Korea and Zimbabwe. The main difference is the current Kim inherited most of the mess from his father, who in turn inherited most of his mess from his father, whereas Robert Mugabe has presided over the total ruination of Zimbabwe from the start.
I’ve always thought that Al Gore promoting global warming was enough reason to doubt it, but toss in Robert Mugabe as a believer and it’s a slam dunk certain path to ruin if you follow his advice.
PS. I can understand why the Guardian mentions Kim approvingly here; he would line up all the climate deniers, make them dig graves, then open fire with trench mortars. Don’t mention this or Sheldon Whitehouse might get ideas.
Alan Watt, Climate Denialist Level 7
July 13, 2016 at 12:19 pm
Not only that Alan, to Kim all his people, the North Koreans are his “children” and he is their father who cares a lot about his “children” future…:)
He thinks a lot about it, the safe and better future for his children.
He must join the combat against climate change….even if it takes to blow some heads off, literally, as that not a problem at all for the guy.
All that in the name of the “better” future of his “children”…….
Can you spot the odd similarity there?! 🙂
cheers
I think Venezuela and Maduro rate highly on the worst government on the planet scale, too.
Close US allies such as Britain, Israel, Canada and France all have heads of government who have voiced their understanding….
I’m sure leaving Germany out was just and oversight…not
Germany Votes To Abandon Most Green Energy Subsidies
Germany’s legislature voted Friday to sharply cut back on subsidies and other financial incentives supporting green energy due to the strain wind and solar power placed on the country’s electricity grid.
Germany’s wind and solar power systems have provided too much power at unpredictable times, which damaged the power grid and made the system vulnerable to blackouts. Grid operators paid companies $548 million to shutter turbines to fix the problem,
http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/10/germany-votes-to-abandon-most-green-energy-subsidies/#ixzz4EJzUNci1
France is going to build an airport (the “Ayrautport”, built to please local politician Jean-Marc Ayrault and former prime sinister) under a “PPP” (partenariat public privé) scheme, which means the State doesn’t borrow money (to avoid having explicit debt) but will pay a rent to a private operator with has the debt (a silly and costly accounting trick, obviously). The State will have all the financial risk and the private operator will get all the benefits.
The 2 runways airport will be build in Notre-Dame-des-Landes and the environmentalists are extremely opposed to the project (for the protection for a triton, apparently). The region already has two underused airports and the project only makes sense if the new airport becomes a hub, assuming a very significant increase of air travel.
The prime sinister is pushing the project.
So who says France is anti-carbon? This is just word plays.
So, France will copy Spain and build an airport that won’t be used. I thought London Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted (Even Biggin Hill) handled most traffic. Frankfurt was a contender to the London hub.
That article reads more like an Onion story than a real news story.
“Even totalitarian or undemocratic leaders accept mainstream climate science, with Assad calling for nations to “respond more effectively” to the issue and Kim supporting a tree-planting initiative to mitigate greenhouse gases. The Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, has labell ed climate change a “major global challenge”.”
Well duh. If I was the supreme leader and could help my enemy destroy their economy and thus their ability to maintain a strong military by planting a few trees, I would wonder why my subordinates didn’t think of it sooner. Heads would roll!
How typical of the Sierra Club, contriving to bring the U.S. in line with nations where it’s a crime to disagree with the government…
Someone needs to take the Guardian to task for not being very inclusive. I mean why didn’t they include Genghis Khan, Hitler and Pol Pot as fine examples of consensus leaders?
Silly, they don’t even mention Adolf and his environmental program. This is history.
History won’t remember the words of Mugabe on climate.
I suspect history will remember – when Africa fulfils its potential and first world African powers emerge, there will be a reckoning with Western groups who patronised them and forced “climate solutions” on their suffering people.
No room among the colorful cast of characters above for a picture of Nicolas Maduro?
http://www.ibtimes.com/venezuelan-leader-blames-el-nino-global-warming-nations-energy-crisis-2349921
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Samson, pull down this Dagon Temple. TRUMP the snowflakes. TRUMP the establishment. TRUMP 2016
The reality is that the climate change we have been experiencing and Mankind does not have the power to change it. There is no real evidence that CO2 has any effect on climate. So there is no known action that Mankind can take that will have any effect on climate change.
Whether Trump or Clinton, they do understand we employ them, and not the other way around, correct ?
One things for sure…Obama never has
…and Clinton is campaigning to run on his policies
No. The public servants revolt against their public masters has been very quiet. They have arrogated rights as powers, the right to deadly force to go home at the end of their shift at immense cost to the public good.
So, Donald Trump would be the only world leader to do the correct thing. No trace gas at any concentration in the atmosphere can detectably warm the climate.
Earth’s climate is NOT under our control!
Not anymore. The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.
Yeah. Ever since Burt Lancaster died, nobody can quite get the hang of rainmaking.
Very prominent check bones there…. I didn’t realize Mugabe was part Cherokee.
Mebbe he is also a relative of Bitsy Warren.
From the article: “Donald Trump would be world’s only national leader to reject climate science”
That’s what leaders do: They lead, they don’t follow. They get out ahead of the curve, not behind it.
I’m betting if Trump gets in Office, there will be more skeptic world leaders in the future. They just have to be shown the way, and then they can make it to the truth on their own. Trump will show them the way.
I would put Bon Ki Moon and Timothy Donald Cook as “World Dictator” want-a-bees.
On this scale Timothy Donald Cook (CEO Apple Inc.) with $300 billion dollars sitting in Chinese banks and unable to repatriate to the USA, by IRS/Treasury/State Department rules gives “beloved” Timmy-Boy the means to murder 10s of thousands of humans, some of which teased him in Alabama and elsewhere, in order to appease his penis envy.
Ha ha
I find it hard to comprehend why American Republican’s chose a borderline moron like Trump when you had the option of choosing someone who has a borderline genius IQ like Ted Cruz. Can some commenter here answer why Republican’s chose stupid to loose for you (because it doesn’t take a genius to know that Trump will loose) ??
Just sit back and learn just how wrong you are about Trump.
Trump has his faults, but who doesn’t? Trump has talent, the talent the U.S. and the world needs, and he is definitely not stupid.
Trump has the ability to listen and seeks out expert advice, so some of the things he might be weak on can be fixed by putting the right appointee on the job. And noone is better at picking good help, than Trump. As you will see.
OTOH, Hillary is the most corrupt person every to run for president. Once she is in Office, it will be game over for the little guy. Obama used the Federal Government against his political opponents and did a lot of damage, but he will be nothing compared to Hillary, who is ruthless, and very practiced in the art of attacking her poltical enemies using the heavy hand of government.
RICO20 suits will be standard operating procedure under Hillary.
1. Trump was able to convince people that Cruz was someone he was not
2. Trump was able to convince people that Trump was the person that Cruz really is.
Sunspot.
I don’t even live in your country but would gladly vote for him over the crook if given the chance ,as TA says just wait the winner of your election may surprise .
We have had enough of the Obamas ,Clintons,And for us Labs Libs and greens which leaves us with Hanson and you lucky guys with Trump .
Just because you don’t live in the US is no reason to skip your civic duty.
Just go talk to a Democrat, I am sure they can “work something out” so you can vote. After all, non-existent people AND dead people have managed to vote for the Democrat ticket.
Eric Worrall,
lorcanbonda on July 13, 2016 at 9:20 am
This is where a two-party democracy has taken us.
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A post fascist Hrvatski state was made member of the EU.
The post Stalinist Sbrsk state is blocked from EU membership by veto right of EU including recent fascist members.
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So next EU step is to pay 10bil gas bill for Ukraine to provoke Putin.
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My fault :
Neither Obama nor Schäuble/Merkel will pay the 10bil for Ukraine –
leaves white spaces / no go areas in the Balcan, heartland of Europe.
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Catholic Hrvatskis, orthodox Sbrsk, muslim Albanese and bosniaks eager to bomb Boston Marathons.
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Happy French Fußball EM was done without terrorist attacks –
All thumbs up – Hans
Can anyone here explain why an arch catholic Seehofer doesn’t talk with arch catholic kroatians.
And why an arch evangelic Margot Kässman doesn’t talk to arch evangelic US’.
Live goes on without you – my gods are smiling.
As a Christian, I think it would be wise for non-Christians to think this through;
If a man tells you he does not consider Christ his Lord, you can rightly believe him about that, for Christ made it perfectly clear that people denying Him would result in Him denying them . . come judgment day.
If a man tells you he does consider Christ his Lord, you can’t rightly just believe him about that . . And I tell you the truth, I don’t . .
“Donald Trump would be world’s only national leader to reject climate science”
Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second President of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013.
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Klaus is a strong critic of the scientific consensus that global warming is anthropogenic. He has also called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change a group of politicized scientists with one-sided opinions and one-sided assignments. He has said that some other top-level politicians do not expose their doubts about global warming being anthropogenic because “a whip of political correctness strangles their voices.”
Not drinking the AGW kool-aid disqualifies one from being a national leader, no matter what one’s position is.
In other words, the Czech Republic did not have a REAL president from 2003 to 2013, because real presidents think AGW is real. *rolls eyes*
A choice of two is no choice at all. It’s like having to choose between a blonde and a brunette when what you really want is the girl with read hair……………………. Is that like reading Tea Leafs?
I like Trump even though he doesn’t always say the right thing.
Monroe, a lot of what Trump says is distorted by the political opposition, so I hope you actually listen to Trump, rather than getting it secondhand. It might make a difference in how you look at him.
Admittedly, Trump does misspeak sometimes (mainly by not being specific enough on a subject), but none of his gaffs appear to be too serious, other than it allows his political opposition to distort his generalizations and make him look bad.
Like when his opponents were claiming Trump said ALL illegal Mexican immigrants were rapists, when Trump merely stated the truth that SOME illegal Mexican immigrants were rapists. Trump’s enemies want you to think he is after ALL Mexicans, when nothing could be further from the truth.
Trump is brand new to the game of politics, but he is learning fast, which I think is probably one of his best qualities: He seeks out expert advice and takes it. Trump got a contract one time, to rebuild New York City’s skating arena, which was falling into disrepair, and the first thing Trump did was seek out the best ice skate rink builder in the world, who he hired, and they rebuilt New York’s ice arena to be one of the best in the world. Trump doesn’t have to know everything, he just has to know who the experts are, and seek them out and listen to them. That’s what he will do.
Trump’s not perfect, but I think his heart is in the right place (I can hear the Lefties grumbling now), and I think he is entirely capable of carrying out what he says he wants to do: Make America Great Again.
Just about anyone would be better than Hillary Clinton. She scares me more than Obama does. If anyone was going to turn into a tyrant after assuming the power of the presidency, I would think it would be Hillary. Her whole history points in that direction.
Plus, Hillary gets away with her corruption, which will only encourage her to continue. I don’t know that a Republican Congress would do anything to stop her, just like they have done nothing to stop Obama.