President Shitstain On Environment & Energy: Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie After Lie

[hatrack]

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He has spurred a coal comeback.
At least 18 mentions since the election.

“And very importantly for Pennsylvania, we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal, and we are putting our great coal miners back to work.” (April 29)

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He has repeatedly taken credit for the opening of a new coal mine in Pennsylvania. But the mine’s owner, Corsa Coal Corporation, announced the project well before the election and had been developing it for some time. While the number of mining jobs has grown, it’s hardly a boom: Coal mining jobs grew by about 1,100 between December and May.

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The Paris agreement was binding.
Mr. Trump made this claim at least three times, and he has criticized the Paris climate deal at least 11 times since the election.

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The agreement, however, is nonbinding, and was designed from the beginning to be so. The power of the deal flows from the moral duty of nations to meet their commitments and the ability of other nations to shame noncompliant countries into doing their part. Oddly enough, in announcing that the United States would leave the Paris deal, Mr. Trump called it “the nonbinding Paris accord.”

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Wind turbines are notorious bird killers.
More than 55 mentions since 2012.

“Wind turbines are not only killing millions of birds, they are killing the finances & environment of many countries & communities.” (October 2012)

They do kill birds. (And bats, but Mr. Trump does not mention them as often.) By some estimates, as many as 328,000 birds die each year flying into the structures at wind farms. That sounds like a lot, until you learn that cats kill as many as four billion birds in the continental United States every year. Buildings, too, kill as many as a billion birds a year, and they aren’t even trying.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/climate/trump-climate-fact-check.html?smid=tw-nytclimate&smtyp=cur&_r=0

[Skittles]

1. heh

(regarding Ken Starr)

"You know you’re in trouble when Mr. Rod & Reel warns you about going fishing."