Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course

[ScienceRocks]

Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course
Source: Politico


The billionaire, who called global warming a hoax, warns of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall.

By Ben Schreckinger

05/23/16 05:35 AM EDT

A permit application for a sea wall around one of Donald Trump's golf courses explicitly names global warming as a reason to build the wall. | AP Photo

Donald Trump says he is “not a big believer in global warming.” He has called it “a total hoax,” “bullshit” and “pseudoscience.”

But he is also trying to build a sea wall designed to protect one of his golf courses from “global warming and its effects.”

The New York billionaire is applying for permission to erect a coastal protection works to prevent erosion at his seaside golf resort, Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland, in County Clare.

A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.

The zoning application raises further questions about how the billionaire developer would confront a risk he has publicly minimized but that has been identified as a defining challenge of this era by world leaders, global industry and the American military. His public disavowal of climate science at the same time he moves to secure his own holdings against the effects of climate change also illustrates the conflict between his political rhetoric and the realities of running a business with seaside assets in the 21st century...........................

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Read more: Trump acknowledges climate change — at his golf course

Even trump is smart enough to realize that sea levels are rising and that he needs to protect his property. Maybe he'll do the same for the rest of the country?

 

[hazlnut]

Are people starting to understand what a total phony this guy is?

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

The sea wall around one of Donald Trump's golf courses to protect the Golf Course for Trump against AGW Sea Rises is the ONLY FUCKING WALL VON HAIRFUCK IS GONNA Actually BUILD

 

[Asclepias]

Are people starting to understand what a total phony this guy is?

Now he is attempting to hypnotize any far left crazies that are out there.

 

[Siete]

poor lil Donnie ... so many walls, so little time ..

 

[ScienceRocks]

I am just glad that he's admitting that the oceans are rising. That's better then most of the deniers in the environmental forum.

 

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[TyroneSlothrop]

Are people starting to understand what a total phony this guy is?

A Phony on Climate and personal wealth
In 2005, New York Times reporter Tim O'Brien claimed in a book called "Trump Nation" that Trump was worth at best $250 million, when Trump and others said he was a billionaire. Trump sued the reporter for over $2 billion, but the lawsuit opened him up to a close scrutiny of his finances, reports CBS News correspondent Julianna Goldman.

When he filed the 2006 lawsuit, Trump claimed that a major part of his success was based on the "accurate perception by the financial community and public that [he] is a billionaire."
Trump's 2006 lawsuit was dismissed. He appealed and lost the appeal.
In lawsuit deposition, Donald Trump repeatedly called out for exaggerating wealth

 

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[ScienceRocks]

Why is he building a wall for sea level rise if this is so?

 

[ScienceRocks]

He better come out and admit that south Florida needs a wall around it.

 

[B. Kidd]

The southern border wall, the only wall that counts. Mexican forecast: chile today, hot tamale!!!

 

[ScienceRocks]

The young turk does a good job with this!

 

[JoeMoma]

Trump knows how to work the system. Want to get a government grant, say you need it because of global warming. Want to get an environmental permit approved, say the project is needed because of global warming.

 

[Asclepias]

Trump knows how to work the system. Want to get a government grant, say you need it because of global warming. Want to get an environmental permit approved, say the project is needed because of global warming.

Maybe he will get that wall built after all if he claims it will stop global warming.

 

[JoeMoma]

Trump knows how to work the system. Want to get a government grant, say you need it because of global warming. Want to get an environmental permit approved, say the project is needed because of global warming.

Maybe he will get that wall built after all if he claims it will stop global warming.

That's how he is getting Mexico to pay for it.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

The young turk does a good job with this!

AGW

Trump .....

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Trump knows how to work the system. Want to get a government grant, say you need it because of global warming. Want to get an environmental permit approved, say the project is needed because of global warming.

Maybe he will get that wall built after all if he claims it will stop global warming.

That's how he is getting Mexico to pay for it.

The wall will be made of "Unicorn Farts"

 

[Theowl32]

Why is he building a wall for sea level rise if this is so?

Why isn't he doing it along Mara Lago iin Palm Beach, you know, if the sea levels are rising?

Did you know Florida is AT SEA LEVEL?

Do you know Al Gore said Florida would be gone in 2013 in 2008? I live in Florida. It is still here.

Do you know in his stupid lying movie that AL Gore said NYC would be gone in February of this year. New York City is still there.

However, Al Gore did get a whole lot richer since that movie.

Do you know after Al Gore claimed sea levels were rising that he then bought this?

Al Gore mansion along the ocean. Yeah, looks like he really believes the sea levels are rising doesn't it? LOL at you.

So, where are we? We are still dealing with your utter global stupidity.

In the 70s it was all about "global cooling."
In the 80s, it was all about acid rain taking down the planet.
In the 90s it was all about a big giant hole in the ozone layer.
In the 2000s, of course it was ALL about "global warming."
Now, it is all about climate change.

Of course all due to "big oil, America, white people," and whatever other cliche you morons cling to. Look at the moron up there "tyroneslothrop" blaming "big oil" as he bangs away at his computer with his pot stained fingers.

You are all losers and there is no other way to put it.

 

[TyroneSlothrop]

Tidal Flooding and Sea Level Rise in Miami-Dade County, Florida ...

Increased flooding, accelerated sea-level rise in Miami since 2006 ...
Palm Beach, Florida
Donald Trump Vs. Sea Level Rise