posted August 28, 2019 04:56 PM            

August 28, 2019
CNN announces 7-hour 'climate change town hall' as sop to fanatics (and to drive away other viewers)
Thomas Lifson

The Democrats had a big problem, and CNN — which now functions as an arm of that radicalized progressive party — stepped up to solve it for them. The party leaders in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) realize that the Green New Deal and other similar radical restructuring plans have no appeal to most voters. The majority of people rightly understand that they would have to give up jobs, prosperity, and physical comfort (for starters, right now set your thermostat to 82 degrees on hot summer nights) to combat the "disaster" that computers models spew out when "adjusted" temperature data are fed in ......

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/cnn_announces_7hour_climate_change_town_hall_as_sop_to_fanatics_and_to_drive_away_other_viewers.html

posted September 05, 2019 04:36 PM            

Call the Federal Elections Commission: CNN made an enormous in-kind contribution to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign on Wednesday evening. .....

Among the worst ideas:

1. Taxing “carbon pollution.” Some called it a “carbon fee”; others called it a “carbon tax.” Former U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) was the only one offering a “cap-and-trade” system as an alternative. All believe that you should be paying more for fuel. None suggested making it revenue-neutral — say, by lowering payroll taxes — though South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg would redistribute the money to the poor. (Learn from California: that’s not happening.)

2. Banning fracking. With the possible exception of former vice president Joe Biden (who agreed last month at the second debate that he would “eliminate” fracking) and former HUD Secretary Julián Castro (who would back bans at state and local levels), all of the Democrats want to ban the one innovation that has made the greatest difference for our planet in the last twenty years, powered the economic recovery, and made us less dependent on the Mideast.

3. Ending oil and gas exploration and extraction on public lands. The Obama administration tried it, too. Never mind that some public lands have been specifically set aside for oil and gas development. There seems to be little thought about the impact that would have on the U.S. economy, on fuel prices, and on national security. Nor is any credit given for industry advances in environmentally-friendly technology (except as a warrant for more regulation).

4. Banning nuclear energy. Perhaps with Nevada — the fourth state in the 2020 primary contests — in mind, most of the candidates objected to nuclear energy because of challenges around nuclear waste storage. Only businessman Andrew Yang and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) offered defenses of nuclear power as a zero-emissions alternative, with Booker making the obvious argument: if you believe we need to reduce emissions quickly, nuclear is the only way.

5. Banning plastic straws, discouraging meat, eliminating incandescent light bulbs. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) admitted that paper straws are useless, but wants to ban the plastic ones anyway, based on pseudoscience. Booker, a vegan, says you can eat what you want — thanks! — but the rest want you to find another source of protein. And the candidates mocked Trump for halting the imposition of energy-efficient bulbs — seemingly ignorant of health risks.

The craziness didn’t end there. Biden blamed climate change for the cancer and the genocide in Darfur (previously thought to be the fault of Arab militias slaughtering, raping, and displacing black African civilians). Buttigieg said he would explain climate change to folks in the heartland by telling them God thought greenhouse gases were a sin. Bernie Sanders suggested global population control, encouraged by organizations that promote abortion abroad.
They all want to rejoin the Paris Climate Accords; none wants to submit them to the Senate for ratification, but several want to eliminate or evade the filibuster to pass the “Green New Deal” — the “green” socialist manifesto written by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

Elizabeth Warren: Green New Deal Is About ‘Racial Justice’

Warren: We Won’t Build Nuclear Plants, and We’ll Replace Nuclear with Renewables

Steyer: I Would ‘Declare Climate Change a National Emergency on Day One’

Pete Buttigieg: Inaction on Climate Change Is a ‘Sin’

Kamala Harris Supports Changing Food Pyramid to Tackle Climate Change

Bernie Sanders Admits $16 Trillion Climate Plan Would Fall on ‘Some Taxpayers’ Shoulders’

Bernie Sanders Suggests He Will Pay for $16 Trillion Green New Deal with Tax Hikes, Military Cuts

No compromises on the road to utopia. And plenty new material for Trump’s campaign ads.
http://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/09/05/the-craziest-things- said-at-the-cnn-climate-town-hall/

posted September 05, 2019 08:40 PM            

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Originally posted by BlueRoamer:
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Hey 'Wrong Way Corrigan', those statements came from your lame brained democrats own mouths.

posted September 05, 2019 11:55 PM            

So, they had a 7 hour global warming town hall at CNN with the demorat presidential candidates spouting their usual nonsense.

Judging by the audience who viewed their town hall, I'd tone down their rhetorical nonsense...if I were a democrat. America isn't drinking the leftist Kool-Aid.

CNN’s 7-Hour Climate Town Hall a Bust, Falls to Fox News, MSNBC
Hannah Bleau
5 Sep 2019

CNN’s 7-hour climate change town hall fell behind Fox News and MSNBC in the ratings, according to Nielsen Media Research’s findings released Thursday.