Trump Officials Accused of Bullying Tactics to Kill a Climate Measure

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1. “More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. That’s when the United States launched a pressure campaign that officials around the world have called extraordinary, even by the standards of the Trump administration’s combativeness, according to nine diplomats on its receiving end.

   An ambassador from Asia was told that, if he voted in favor of the plan, his country’s sailors would no longer be allowed to disembark at American ports. Caribbean diplomats were told that they could be blacklisted from entering the United States. And **Marco Rubio, the secretary of state,** personally called officials in several countries to threaten financial penalties and other punishments if they continued to support the agreement to cut ship pollution.

   These and other threats, including tariffs, sanctions and the revocation of diplomats’ U.S. visas, effectively killed the deal, according to the nine American, European and developing-nation diplomats directly involved in the negotiations. They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration.” – The New York Times

2. I think this is a good time to remind everyone that even *if* countries stick to their climate pledges, we’re looking at a potential global warming of up to 2.5°C in 2100. And we have a tragic history of underestimating the effects.

   There are ways to combat, mitigate and even partially reverse what’s ahead. Don’t get lethargic. Too much is at stake. Get organized. Protest. Argue at dinner tables. Pick the slightly more uncomfortable, more environmentally friendly road. And fucking vote.

3. Mentally Backward comes to mind.

4. Republicans are global terrorists.

5. Trump had a speech recently where he talked about how smoggy and polluted China was and how you couldn’t breath and in the same breath said climate change was a hoax.  

6. >They spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution from the Trump administration.

   Because the GOP is an organized crime syndicate.

7. Trump officials (acc)USED bullying tactics to kill a climate measure.

8. you would think living in miami would make the climate change issue a tangible reality, but nothing has changed in my many decades here

   the only thing that shifts is the projection in which we’d be submerged. 2000, 2010 and 2020 have passed, ruining past projections by the epa, noaa, the associated press, unep/ipcc and others

   let’s just be honest for once- this is about shifting and controlling new energy resources. that’s fine, have at it; it’s not like i or anyone here can do anything about it

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