Bloomberg to world leaders: Ignore Trump on climate

Trump is ignoring climate by surrounding himself with oil industry lobbyists and oil industry hired scientists.

It is just like the tobacco industries hiring scientists to come to a "public" conclusion that nicotine isn't addictive, while the tobacco company's scientists did everything they could in the background to enhance nicotine's addictiveness.

Sugar companies are also engaging in similar "scientific" studies. One said drinking sugary beverages made you a better driver.????

Trump is ignoring climate by surrounding himself with oil industry lobbyists and oil industry hired scientist.

So you want him to focus on the climate like Obama did and ignore the country? I agree, Trump should take the warnings a bit more seriously, but the planet is billions of years old, it did fine so far and I think it will do so after we are all dead and gone. No rush.

It is just like the tobacco industries hiring scientists to come to a "public" conclusion that nicotine isn't addictive, while the tobacco company's scientists did everything they could in the background to enhance nicotine's addictiveness.

Wait a minute, I know that way back in the 70's that the tabacco industry are a bunch of slimey criminals.

Sugar companies are also engaging in similar "scientific" studies. One said drinking sugary beverages made you a better driver.????

Nothing new here. This is all old news, where have you been??

So you want him to focus on the climate like Obama did and ignore the country? I agree, Trump should take the warnings a bit more seriously, but the planet is billions of years old, it did fine so far and I think it will do so after we are all dead and gone. No rush.

Billions of years without industrialization. Surprised you don't say the earth has only been around for a few thousand years to align with religious misconceptions.

Renewable energy creates more domestic non-exportable jobs than the oil and coal industries. That alone should counter your argument.

Trump, his administration and you are dismissing science or cherry picking science to support a pre-determined conclusion that fossil fuels are fine.

I heard a so-called physics PhD assert nothing is wrong because humans exhale a few kilos of Co2 per day and plants love Co2. His assertion against Co2 causing climate change. The guy was in his 70s and unheard of outside climate change deniers. Guess he needed a paycheck and is willing to say anything to get one. The problem is the rate of Co2 change and the effects on the environment, not that Co2 can be naturally occurring.

Trump and his supporters are making America dumber each day.

bass4funk: "So you want him to focus on the climate like Obama did and ignore the country? "

Bud, the next generation will be the last if we don't start focussing on it now -- and it's likely already too late as it is.

Bud, the next generation will be the last if we don't start focussing on it now -- and it's likely already too late as it is.

Good lord! A meteor hit the Earth billions of years ago, wiped out almost more than half the life on this planet and guess what, we managed to survive and thrive.

Billions of years without industrialization. Surprised you don't say the earth has only been around for a few thousand years to align with religious misconceptions.

I'm sorry, so now as a conservative, I have to be a far-right religious person? You may not know this, but not all conservatives are ultra-religious and NOT all liberals are far left progressive athiests.

Renewable energy creates more domestic non-exportable jobs than the oil and coal industries. That alone should counter your argument.

Yeah, but we're not fully there yet!

Trump, his administration and you are dismissing science or cherry picking science to support a pre-determined conclusion that fossil fuels are fine.

Not dismissing, but not falling for the ruse that if we don't do something now, our children and the world will cease to exist next year.

I heard a so-called physics PhD assert nothing is wrong because humans exhale a few kilos of Co2 per day and plants love Co2. His assertion against Co2 causing climate change. The guy was in his 70s and unheard of outside climate change deniers. Guess he needed a paycheck and is willing to say anything to get one. The problem is the rate of Co2 change and the effects on the environment, not that Co2 can be naturally occurring.

I see.

Trump and his supporters are making America dumber each day.

I felt the same with the last president.

He should have kept it simple and urged world leaders to ignore Trump on everything. He should be locked in his playroom until he grows up.

A meteor hit the Earth billions of years ago, wiped out almost more than half the life on this planet and guess what, we managed to survive and thrive.

You realise that 'we' weren't here billions of years ago? I think you're thinking of the meteor that hit the Earth around 66 million years ago and killed some three-quarters of all plant and animal life including every four-legged species bigger than around 25 kilos.

The Earth (=massive great lump of rock) survived well enough, but 'we' weren't here then and 'we' didn't survive. Some tiny rat-sized mammal survived, evolved and thrived, and eventually became our ancestor. Are you suggesting you'd be happy for human life to go through a self-imposed extinction event, so long as it didn't happen 'next year' and so long as some other, currently nondescript and probably unnoticed, species made the most of the niche we live behind?

not all conservatives are ultra-religious

Glad to hear it. Pity not being ultra-religious didn't help you learn any science.

The smart thing for companies in the US to do, is ignore Trump's "standards" and stick with international climate change agreements. Because it makes their own products and services more marketable when they choose to export as well as encourages innovative goals to achieve more environment friendly procedures and products. Message to Trump, "The world waits for no one..."

As George Carlin used to say.... The earth isn't going anywhere. It's about what will happen to the people on it.

The environment and jobs are a balance. You can't go too far in either direction.

not falling for the ruse that if we don't do something now, our children and the world will cease to exist next year.

But you are falling for the ruse that if we don't build a border wall now, our children and our nation will cease to exist next year.

@ Bass4funk

I think george carlin put it best regarding climate change.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4