Childintime wrote:Liveinadive wrote:Well to be fair, China saying they will do better at climate change is like the pikey down the road saying he will stop burning tyres one day a week.
China spends more on renewables than the entire US and EU budgets combined.
Power in China is sitting at just under 25% renewable!
China is no. 1 in the world for wind power generation.
China is no.1 in the world for photovolactic.
China is no.1 in the world for hydro. Or, at least, it was - can't find the newest numbers.
China produces more power from renewables than France and Germany's renewable and non-renewable power output combined.
China is building 50 (!) nuclear power stations to try to reduce reliance on coal in the short term.
China is still growing at a rate of 6.7% this year and is trying to manage expansion and building on a scale never before seen in the course of history, which needs power NOW! But they're making sure to do more than any single country on earth to do their bit on climate change.
They're committed - far more than we are.
mistercrayon wrote:Trump repeatedly undermining the media is rancid business.
If enough idiots hook on his bullshit (and they did already) and he convinces enough he is the truth (because they are fucking idiots) it's easy to foresee some really really dark shit happening.
regmcfly wrote:Here's his chance over - two days in and he wants to leave the United Nations https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/193
Bollockoff wrote:It shouldn't be if the voting population i.e. everyone is involved and educated to be involved from very young. I realise it's a contradiction but i'm starting to feel like participation should be mandatory so the system actually works.
Brooks wrote:Apparently this press guy goes to anime conventions and is a brony??
Fucks alive.
Updated statement from White House Communications Office
Mr Spicer said: "Real Americans will not be surprised to learn that the biased media used misleading photographic evidence. In fact, hundreds of thousands of the President's supporters were standing on those white sheets but the cameras did not pick them up because they were themselves wearing white sheets."
acemuzzy wrote:Brooks wrote:Apparently this press guy goes to anime conventions and is a brony??
Fucks alive.
Living in la-la land presumably a prerequisite for the job
His whole demeanour during the conference was like a butthurt defender of the brony movement.beano wrote:
I don't think it's ever intentional with Trump though. Maybe Bannon and those types know what they're doing with him but he doesn't seem to know himself.Jaco wrote:Kow wrote:Which is probably part of his plan - have so much shite going on everywhere that it's difficult to pick out what's really going on.
Bingo. Obfuscation is a powerful weapon.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-aides-rocky-first-weekend.htmlMr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Imagine what it's going to be like when it's something serious. Deny everything tactic will probably get you alarmingly far.
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