2020 Democrats Aim High With Climate Change Proposals

[Elderberry]

NPR by Scott Detrow 5/3/2019

The past few presidential campaigns, environmental activists have "been left begging for there to be a single question at a campaign debate about climate change," longtime climate change activist and author Bill McKibben recently told NPR.

"This time around I'm not worried in the least. I think it's going to be one of the central topics in the primary," McKibben said, "and then I think whoever wins the Democratic nomination is going to try and ram the issue straight down Trump's throat."

Indeed, Democratic voters told a CNN poll this week that aggressively addressing climate change is more important than any other policy position.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks about climate change more than any other candidate in the race. It's essentially the entire focus of his presidential campaign. But until now, Inslee has been a bit vague about how he'd tackle lowering greenhouse gas emissions, arguing the focus itself was what mattered.

"Defeating climate change has to be the No. 1 priority of the United States," Inslee told New Hampshire Public Radio. "If it is not job one, it won't get done. And we need to make it the first and foremost priority of the next president."

Inslee's campaign is now filling in the details on how he'd transition the United States to a carbon-free economy. An Inslee administration would set new regulations mandating zero greenhouse gas emissions in new cars, trucks and buses; and push states toward new construction codes to zero out emissions from new buildings.

More: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/03/719768860/2020-democrats-aim-high-with-climate-change-proposals

[libertybele]

Yeppers ... climate change and how much free stuff they can promise to their liberal mental midget base will determine who gets the DEM nomination.

[Smokin Joe]

Okay, How are they going to stop the Climate from changing?

 

Where is the thermostat?
What is the "right" temperature for the Earth?

Do we really want an Ice age (colder weather?), after all, historically, during colder periods, people have a tendency to starve and freeze to death.

Do these idiots (suffering from outrageous delusions of grandeur) really think they can stop the climate from changing?
Are they more powerful than the Sun?

Any one of them who thinks they can stop Climate Change is mentally incompetent to hold the office of POTUS.

[aligncare]

“Ram it down his throat?” Sounds like someone has anger management issues.

They. Hate. Trump. That’s why all the democrats are talking climate change. Trump was the first republican president to openly call BS on the climate-hoax-and-traveling-grab-the-tax-money show that the democrats are putting on. And, insult to injury, he didn’t just talk, Trump pulled out of the Paris accord! And he tweets on the subject, tweaking their fears the sky will actually fall in 10 years 5 months (or some such equally disturbing, looming countdown to planetary death if governments don’t immediately ban straws and tax flatulence.

[goatprairie]

"Fixing the climate" or whatever they call it sounds like a great idea to many people....until they find out what they'd have to give up and much it would make their lives worse. This idiot Inslee wants to ban all coal-fired plants. How does he think electric cars and other electric-powered conveyances/machines will be charged? Solar and wind power? .....
If the Warmists had their way, we'd all now be living in huges cities in large apartment buildings with one 12x12 room per family. No cars, no airplanes, no travel allowed outside city limits. Your guns confiscated and everybody but the elite virtual prisoners.
Warmists are basically fascists.

[Fishrrman]

"Global warming" and "climate change" were NEVER about "changing the climate".

They were ALWAYS about "changing" the political system.
To... communism.

[jafo2010]

According to the scientist Levin had on his program a couple months ago, it is a total scam.  He presented a very convincing argument.  I do not recall his name, but he was brilliant.

I think the climate MORONS stay in the shadows where they belong because if they get out in front of their empty rhetoric, they will face people that will eat them alive!

[dancer]

It isn't about Climate change.  It's about how much they can steal for their slush funds.  They have literally robbed monies allocated for SS, the vets-military, etc.  Our troops were in dire straights because of it.  Ditto the SS situation.  Their budgets are bogus.  They literally steal the money for their agenda.   Thank God there is a new boss in town who understands this and is trying to do something about it.

[Smokin Joe]

It isn't about Climate change.  It's about how much they can steal for their slush funds.  They have literally robbed monies allocated for SS, the vets-military, etc.  Our troops were in dire straights because of it.  Ditto the SS situation.  Their budgets are bogus.  They literally steal the money for their agenda.   Thank God there is a new boss in town who understands this and is trying to do something about it.

The whole Solyndra loan guarantee scam was based on the Climate Change hoax, and look at how much was siphoned off there. That's our money they're stealing.