Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”

    But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”


    The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.

    A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.


    Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436#ixzz49UaDlSZm
     
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    Floating balls golf course; he could make another 10 billion
     
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    BlazerWookee UNTILT THE DAMN PINWHEEL!

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    I'm sure he's the one who filled out the paperwork... <rolls eyes>
     
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    PDXFonz I’m listening

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    When a problem comes along you must build it.
     
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    Agreed. But you'll see it spin that way most likely.
     
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    Being an Irish course, I'm sure he expects England to pay for the wall
     
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    Why not take advantage of retards and get some tax write offs?
     
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    This.
     
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    Climate change is only a problem when it directly affects the 1%. Or the 0.1%. When the rest of the world has floods, droughts, crop failure, famine, wars over resources, then it's a hoax. The little people, you know.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Indian did a rain dance. It rained. Therefore the dance caused the rain!
     
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    I believe you meant "Native American" or "Indigenous Person", Denny.
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    Believe is a powerful word ;)
     
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    Well, I guess I could believe that they do rain dances in India, too. That would make me feel better.
     
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    I produced an analogy to show the logic behind the premise in the title.

    Anything built right on the coast, just about anywhere, is subject to bad things due to nature.

    If government is going to subsidize the improvements to his property, he'd be a fool to pass on it. And he'd say whatever the government will accept to get that subsidy.

    The bigger story here is it's a scam and he's participating in it.
     
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    Yes, I got the analogy you were making and I agree with it. Just had to give you a little PC grief.
     
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    Really? Is Indian now the wrong word?
     
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    Seems to me, Trump has climate change separated into agenda and actual. Very logical.
     
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    So Trump wants to build a sea wall and make the taxpayers pay for it?
     
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    Oh my, perhaps now the planet may begin to heal. Sort of pushy though, I think the Aleuts and the Tlingit people ( a couple of many) were pretty happy with their handle. It was their name when the first foreigner came to ask. Not so sure they want to be blended into one name acceptable to Obama and gang. I know the Haida would tell them FO. But the majority of them are in Canada, maybe 30% in Alaska.

    The Orient was a magical place, just a bit closer than Shangri-La. Weird how time would tarnish it's glitter. Now some places have been tarnished by the stroke of the powerful pen, places like Oriental NC. A neat little town on the inter-coastal waterway. I don't know it's history but not many will care now, bound to be offensive.
     
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