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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg

artappraiser — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:38:36 +0000

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Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has written a blueprint for how to defy Trump and uphold the Paris Agreement

by Leanna Garfield @ BusinessInsider.com, 1 hr. ago

[....] Even before Bloomberg did all that, he and former Sierra Club executive director Carl Pope had already laid out a blueprint for fighting climate change. In their 2017 book "Climate of Hope," they argue it's most effective to take action on the local level [....]

How G.O.P. Came to View

artappraiser — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 00:46:01 +0000

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How G.O.P. Came to View Climate Change as Fake

By CORAL DAVENPORT and ERIC LIPTON @ NYTimes.com, 17 minutes ago

The party’s fast journey from debating how to combat climate change to arguing against its existence is a story of big political money and Democratic hubris.

[....] The Republican Party’s fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money, Democratic hubris in the Obama years and a partisan chasm that grew over nine years like a crack in the Antarctic shelf, favoring extreme positions and uncompromising rhetoric over cooperation and conciliation.

“Most Republicans still do not regard climate change as a hoax,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who worked for Senator Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign. “But the entire climate change debate has now been caught up in the broader polarization of American politics.”

“In some ways,” he added, “it’s become yet another of the long list of litmus test issues that determine whether or not you’re a good Republican.”

Since Mr. McCain ran for president on climate credentials that were stronger than his opponent Barack Obama’s, the scientific evidence linking greenhouse gases from fossil fuels to the dangerous warming of the planet has grown stronger [....]

Yet when Mr. Trump pulled the United States from the Paris accord, the Senate majority leader, the speaker of the House and every member of the elected Republican leadership were united in their praise.

Those divisions did not happen by themselves. Republican lawmakers were moved along by a campaign carefully crafted by fossil fuel industry players, most notably Charles D. and David H. Koch, the Kansas-based billionaires who run a chain of refineries [.....]

....The Whig Party was

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:35:45 +0000

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....The Whig Party was formally organized in 1834, bringing together a loose coalition of groups united in their opposition to what party members viewed as the executive tyranny of “King Andrew” Jackson....

~Encyclopedia Britannica

I just knew in my heart that

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:29:26 +0000

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I just knew in my heart that sooner or later the other meglomaniac NY billionaire would get on stage,I was so certain he has been stewing and steaming, ready to blow a gasket, soooo chomping at the bit to be the alt. sensible rational anal wonk authoritarian leader, sooo wishing he had run for president....

Dem party moves too slow

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 23:23:56 +0000

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Dem party moves too slow these days: Michael Bloomberg pledges his own money to help U.N. after Trump pulls out of Paris climate deal

By Kristin Phillips @ WaPo, June 3

Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has promised to provide up to $15 million in funding that he says the United Nations will lose because of President Trump’s decision to pull out from the landmark Paris climate deal.

The billionaire’s charitable organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, on Thursday pledged to shoulder the United States’ share in the operating costs of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, the organization’s climate negotiating body in charge of helping developing countries fulfill environmental requirements under the 2015 pact [.....]

Caption for video below: Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg made an unexpected trip to Paris where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron and reassured him that American cities and states will meet the Paris climate deal commitments. (Reuters)

Could reporters stop asking

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 20:48:01 +0000

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Could reporters stop asking if political leaders "believe" in climate change and start asking if they understand it instead
— Megan Collins (@megan_styleGF) June 2, 2017

(BTW, i found this re-tweeted by Neo-con Bill Kristol. But note there's been 38K retweets.)

there is certainly a broad

artappraiser — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 08:55:31 +0000

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there is certainly a broad coalition passionately against Trump on this, for a start see my news thead here.