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Warlord
03-06-2020, 11:31 AM
(CNN)Something was different at CPAC 2020.

Sure, Fox News and the NRA were in their regular spots between booths full of "deplorable" hammocks, Donald Trump nutcrackers and a life-size statue of the President, made of nails and posed as Superman.

But in the middle of this year's Conservative Political Action Conference, the booth cocking the most eyebrows was focused on climate change -- not as something to deny or mock -- but as a crisis to fight. With taxes!

Between cardboard cutouts of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, young men in ties and ball caps tried to convince the curious (and the occasional heckler) to ignore everything they've been told about global warming at CPACs past.

Looming across the aisle was The Heartland Institute, the powerful think tank long devoted to denying global warming science, and two booths down stood "Climate Hustle 2" (starring television Hercules Kevin Sorbo) but the Young Conservatives for Carbon Dividends worked a crowd two-people-deep with the confidence of CPAC veterans.

"This is really a generational issue," Harvard senior and YCCD founder Kiera O'Brien told me. "We believe that people my age and a little bit older are really waking up to the problem that is climate change on both sides of the aisle."

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The nationwide action she supports was published in 2017 by Reagan-era cabinet members James Baker and George Shultz and six other authors, and proposes a carbon tax of $40 per ton that would gradually go up in order to drive down fossil fuel demand and spur clean energy innovation. To help cover the higher costs of fuel, the tax would pay the average American family around $2,000 a year in dividend and slap a "border adjustment" on the cost of imported fossil fuel to urge other nations to fall in line.

But central to the plan is a provision that makes most environmentalists recoil: complete deregulation of carbon. So no restrictions on mining coal, fracking or drilling for oil in the United States. It is one big reason Baker-Shultz has the support of oil giants like ExxonMobil and BP. Corporations like Microsoft and Ford and an assortment of strange political bedfellows, including the late Stephen Hawking, Ben Bernanke, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio and Christiana Figueres, lead negotiator for the Paris Climate Accord, are all listed as founding supporters.

O'Brien boasts that such a pedigree has lured the support of around half of the nation's College Republican state chairs and vice chairs. "Those are your next generation leaders of the Republican Party. And when you come with that pitch, party leaders tend to listen."


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Anti Globalist
03-06-2020, 11:59 AM
They need to turn in their conservative card and replace it with a liberal one. Creating new taxes is not going to save the planet.

Brian4Liberty
03-06-2020, 12:28 PM
They are young, so perhaps we can forgive their naive belief in crony corporatism. Then again, they are getting into a very lucrative field. Maybe they are not naive, but see future earnings potential as corporate lobbyists.

Warlord
03-06-2020, 12:32 PM
They are young, so perhaps we can forgive their naive belief in crony corporatism. Then again, they are getting into a very lucrative field. Maybe they are not naive, but see future earnings potential as corporate lobbyists.

Yeah. If you read the full article one of the 'leaders' used to knock on doors for John McCain at 10 years old.

tfurrh
03-06-2020, 12:34 PM
Climates, like people, never really change.

One time I got tricked by a climate who told me it'd changed....after taking it back and trusting it again I realized nothing had changed.

This is why I have problems trusting all climates now.

Brian4Liberty
03-06-2020, 01:21 PM
Yeah. If you read the full article one of the 'leaders' used to knock on doors for John McCain at 10 years old.

Ah, a neoconservative RINO crony corporatist. Guess that’s all redundant.

Brian4Liberty
03-06-2020, 01:22 PM
Climates, like people, never really change.

One time I got tricked by a climate who told me it'd changed....after taking it back and trusting it again I realized nothing had changed.

This is why I have problems trusting all climates now.

The “experts” tell me everyday what the weather is going to be. They are only right when the weather doesn’t change for long periods of time. Shows what the experts know about change.

XNavyNuke
03-06-2020, 06:06 PM
After 12 years of public education followed by 4 years of liberal arts, I think this is exactly what we should expect from years of government training.

Time for the eye exam.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC2Mq9I65G0

XNN

ThePaleoLibertarian
03-06-2020, 08:13 PM
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Anti Globalist
03-07-2020, 08:57 AM
Yeah. If you read the full article one of the 'leaders' used to knock on doors for John McCain at 10 years old.
Well, if one of them was promoting McCain, you know they cannot be trusted.

juleswin
03-07-2020, 09:11 AM
Well, if one of them was promoting McCain, you know they cannot be trusted.

Trump supported Pelsoi, Reid, Schummer, the Clintons, Romney and dismissed Ron Paul and yet you support him. What gives?

RonZeplin
03-07-2020, 09:24 AM
:Young White Hut conservative & Al Gore, at Trump Tower Climate Summit. . :down::down:

:redflag:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. X7LcNqAd1an-c9qn7XuIKwHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1:redflag:

juleswin
03-07-2020, 09:31 AM
:Young White Hut conservative & Al Gore, at Trump Tower Climate Summit. . :down::down:

:redflag:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. X7LcNqAd1an-c9qn7XuIKwHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1:redflag:

Just so everybody knows this, the US is still in the Paris Climate agreement until Nov 4 2020, he cannot legally get out of the agreement until that date(even though he was able to break the Iran nuclear agreement). All he has done to make claim that the US will not follow the agreement and will get out of it when it expires in 11/04/2020. The area where he can use his appointees to get out of this climate change nonsense is with the EPA CO2 endangerment finding and he HAS NOT done anything about it.

This presidency is the biggest head fakes in the history of head fakes and its the saddest thing seeing so many people fall for it

Anti Globalist
03-07-2020, 12:35 PM
Trump supported Pelsoi, Reid, Schummer, the Clintons, Romney and dismissed Ron Paul and yet you support him. What gives?
Where did you get the idea that I support Trump? I didn't vote for him in 2016 and I plan to do the same in November.

Warlord
03-07-2020, 12:45 PM
:Young White Hut conservative & Al Gore, at Trump Tower Climate Summit. . :down::down:

:redflag:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP. X7LcNqAd1an-c9qn7XuIKwHaE8%26pid%3DApi&f=1:redflag:


They see the profits in carbon taxes and exchanges. That's it. Gore is getting rich.

Also Ivanka is horrible. :down:.

Swordsmyth
03-07-2020, 06:37 PM
Just so everybody knows this, the US is still in the Paris Climate agreement until Nov 4 2020, he cannot legally get out of the agreement until that date(even though he was able to break the Iran nuclear agreement). All he has done to make claim that the US will not follow the agreement and will get out of it when it expires in 11/04/2020. The area where he can use his appointees to get out of this climate change nonsense is with the EPA CO2 endangerment finding and he HAS NOT done anything about it.

This presidency is the biggest head fakes in the history of head fakes and its the saddest thing seeing so many people fall for it
He HAS done a lot about it.

And he has officially filed to leave the Paris agreement, we are getting out.

juleswin
03-07-2020, 09:05 PM
He HAS done a lot about it.

And he has officially filed to leave the Paris agreement, we are getting out.

If he loses this election then one can say that we never left the treaty/agreement.

He can do something about the climate change here in the US. Just have the EPA chairman repeal the CO endangerment finding. He can do it today, tonight or even tomorrow, But we know he wouldn't do it. The man is more bark than bite