Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 15m15 minutes ago
If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 9m9 minutes ago
The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!

pacino wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:

i have seen this before and dont get it

CalvinBall wrote:

pacino wrote:

i have seen this before and dont get it

CalvinBall wrote:

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 15m15 minutes ago
If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 9m9 minutes ago
The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!

pacino wrote:Every House GOP member was given a MAGA hat. They're supposed to all wear them today.

For the third year in a row, global carbon emissions have remained flat, thanks in large part to declining emissions in China.
Carbon emissions from 2016 will only be about 0.2 percent more than in 2015, despite a steady 3 percent growth in the world’s economy, according to a new report from the Global Carbon Project. Before 2014, emissions were increasing at an average rate of 2.3 percent per year.
“This third year of almost no growth in emissions is unprecedented at a time of strong economic growth,” Corinne Le Quéré, Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, said in a statement. “This is a great help for tackling climate change but it is not enough. Global emissions now need to decrease rapidly, not just stop growing.”

"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016," said Petteri Taalas, the head of the World Meteorological Organization.

WMO's preliminary data through October showed world temperatures, boosted by the El Nino phenomenon, are 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

That's getting close to the limit set by the global climate agreement adopted in Paris last year. It calls for limiting the temperature rise since the industrial revolution to 2 degrees C or even 1.5 degrees C.

WMO said 16 of the 17 hottest years have occurred this century. The only exception was 1998, which was also an El Nino year.

pacino wrote:Slow progress:

For the third year in a row, global carbon emissions have remained flat, thanks in large part to declining emissions in China.
Carbon emissions from 2016 will only be about 0.2 percent more than in 2015, despite a steady 3 percent growth in the world’s economy, according to a new report from the Global Carbon Project. Before 2014, emissions were increasing at an average rate of 2.3 percent per year.
“This third year of almost no growth in emissions is unprecedented at a time of strong economic growth,” Corinne Le Quéré, Director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia, said in a statement. “This is a great help for tackling climate change but it is not enough. Global emissions now need to decrease rapidly, not just stop growing.”

Too slow:

"Another year. Another record. The high temperatures we saw in 2015 are set to be beaten in 2016," said Petteri Taalas, the head of the World Meteorological Organization.

WMO's preliminary data through October showed world temperatures, boosted by the El Nino phenomenon, are 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

That's getting close to the limit set by the global climate agreement adopted in Paris last year. It calls for limiting the temperature rise since the industrial revolution to 2 degrees C or even 1.5 degrees C.

WMO said 16 of the 17 hottest years have occurred this century. The only exception was 1998, which was also an El Nino year.

pacino wrote:MAGA!

The source said the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate the pull-out: sending a letter withdrawing from the 1992 international framework accord that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement; voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year's time; or issuing a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord.

Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be controversial, partly because it was signed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and approved by the U.S. Senate. The action also could antagonize many other countries. [L8N1DB41L]

The UNFCCC sets a goal of avoiding "dangerous" man-made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.

The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

pacino wrote:woody, i'm sure whoever is in charge of the EPA come January 2017 will take this #$!&@ seriously. we will come together as a country and we will make sure we stick to our agreements with the rest of the world and that they stick to theirs.

OK, now that I have that out of my system... The EU might enact a carbon tax on the US if we pull out of the Paris Agreement.

a source to Reuters says he may try to scrap it all:

The source said the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate the pull-out: sending a letter withdrawing from the 1992 international framework accord that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement; voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year's time; or issuing a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord.

Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be controversial, partly because it was signed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and approved by the U.S. Senate. The action also could antagonize many other countries. [L8N1DB41L]

The UNFCCC sets a goal of avoiding "dangerous" man-made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.

The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:woody, i'm sure whoever is in charge of the EPA come January 2017 will take this #$!&@ seriously. we will come together as a country and we will make sure we stick to our agreements with the rest of the world and that they stick to theirs.

OK, now that I have that out of my system... The EU might enact a carbon tax on the US if we pull out of the Paris Agreement.

a source to Reuters says he may try to scrap it all:

The source said the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate the pull-out: sending a letter withdrawing from the 1992 international framework accord that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement; voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year's time; or issuing a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord.

Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be controversial, partly because it was signed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and approved by the U.S. Senate. The action also could antagonize many other countries. [L8N1DB41L]

The UNFCCC sets a goal of avoiding "dangerous" man-made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.

The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

I'm pretty sure (~80%) that the President cannot unilaterally pull out of a treaty that was approved by Congress and ratified.

pacino wrote:

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

pacino wrote:woody, i'm sure whoever is in charge of the EPA come January 2017 will take this #$!&@ seriously. we will come together as a country and we will make sure we stick to our agreements with the rest of the world and that they stick to theirs.

OK, now that I have that out of my system... The EU might enact a carbon tax on the US if we pull out of the Paris Agreement.

a source to Reuters says he may try to scrap it all:

The source said the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate the pull-out: sending a letter withdrawing from the 1992 international framework accord that is the parent treaty of the Paris Agreement; voiding U.S. involvement in both in a year's time; or issuing a presidential order simply deleting the U.S. signature from the Paris accord.

Withdrawing from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) would be controversial, partly because it was signed by former Republican President George H.W. Bush in 1992 and approved by the U.S. Senate. The action also could antagonize many other countries. [L8N1DB41L]

The UNFCCC sets a goal of avoiding "dangerous" man-made damage to the climate to avert more heat waves, downpours, floods, extinctions of animals and plants and rising sea levels.

The 2015 Paris Agreement is much more explicit, seeking to phase out net greenhouse gas emissions by the second half of the century and limit global warming to "well below" 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial times.

I'm pretty sure (~80%) that the President cannot unilaterally pull out of a treaty that was approved by Congress and ratified.

Congress wouldn't even vote on a goddamn action in Syria that a President they hate initiated, you think they'll stop this?