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LymphocyteLover

(6,463 posts)
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 07:54 AM Oct 2

When asked about climate change at the debates, both Trump & Vance gave the same line about wanting clean air & water

WHO THE HELL ARE THEY TRYING TO FOOL? Do they really think this means anything, to be in favor clean air and water??

It's a deeply insulting answer for such a massive threat to our civilization. Both of them clearly are denying climate science about the role of human emissions. Frankly this in itself should be disqualifying. Completely disgusting, psychopathic and evil to not take this incredibly major threat seriously.

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When asked about climate change at the debates, both Trump & Vance gave the same line about wanting clean air & water (Original Post) LymphocyteLover Oct 2 OP
They want to sell you air and water. C_U_L8R Oct 2 #1
and lie to you about how clean about how clean it is LymphocyteLover Oct 2 #6
Vance kept talking about energy when asked about climate change too Botany Oct 2 #2
It's the biggest issue of our time, IMO. It's insane that we have climate change deniers in reach of the Oval Office LymphocyteLover Oct 2 #5
The federal courts are now administrative czars over EPA regulations bronxiteforever Oct 2 #3
Grrrr... LymphocyteLover Oct 2 #4

Botany

(72,203 posts)
2. Vance kept talking about energy when asked about climate change too
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 08:37 AM
Oct 2

Knowing full well that the vast majority of our energy comes from fossil fuels such as coal, gas, and
oil or its byproducts of which their combustion produces greenhouse gases such as CO2 and CH4.
And those gases cause climate warming which causes once locked away methane (CH4) in the perma-
frost in the arctic and mountain soils to be released as the ground unfreezes. The warmer climate also
is causing a change in the environmental conditions in our forests and they become hotter and drier
which leads to more and intense forest and vegetation fires which then releases even more CO2 into
the atmosphere and that accelerates the planet’s warming along which the burned out forests and
vegetation areas will not fix as much CO2 as they once did.

In the summer of ‘23 Ohio had 20 to 30 smoke days via the Canadian wild fires in areas that used to
never “carry forest fires” because the ground and forest floor areas stayed wet year round. And along
coastal New Jersey 100s if not thousands of acres of white cedar forests are dying as our warmer atmosphere melts the ice caps in the polar regions and our glaciers which cause sea levels to rise
which floods the cedar forest wetlands with salt water which kills the cedar trees and dead trees don’t
fix CO2 too.

Btw I too am adding to the problem right now because I just turned on my oven and coffee pot which
use electricity that is produced by coal or gas.

LymphocyteLover

(6,463 posts)
5. It's the biggest issue of our time, IMO. It's insane that we have climate change deniers in reach of the Oval Office
Wed Oct 2, 2024, 12:45 PM
Oct 2
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