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Post by redstripe on Apr 5, 2019 7:48:25 GMT -6
Shes fucking eating while giving this stupid sound bite. Her grandchildren will be appalled.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 11:54:09 GMT -6
So, she's channeling Hillary Clinton and going with a southern drawl accent?
For those who forgot:
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Post by redrex on Apr 5, 2019 12:09:32 GMT -6
I think she is great----Hope she keeps talking for another year and a half
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 5, 2019 17:17:56 GMT -6
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✔ @aoc As much as the right wants to distort & deflect, I am from the Bronx. I act & talk like it, *especially* when I’m fired up and especially when I’m home.
It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 5, 2019 18:14:28 GMT -6
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ✔ @aoc As much as the right wants to distort & deflect, I am from the Bronx. I act & talk like it, *especially* when I’m fired up and especially when I’m home. It is so hurtful to see how every aspect of my life is weaponized against me, yet somehow asserted as false at the same time. 11.8K 6:41 PM - Apr 5, 2019 If it were Trump complaining about this it would be on the kyron at CNN 24/7 and Madcow would be cutting short yet another vacation.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 5, 2019 18:17:14 GMT -6
So, she's channeling Hillary Clinton and going with a southern drawl accent? For those who forgot: An Allen Combs sighting. And don't forget Obama. At times he was the "clean and articulate one" and when necessary he would adapt to speaking to blacks. Had AOC/Sandy put her mouth to better use - filling it instead of opening it - she's have made a lot more money. I thought the other day she was a waitress?
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 6, 2019 12:38:51 GMT -6
A brief stroll for AOC & her claims of "climate Armageddon " : From 1989: www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked PETER JAMES SPIELMANN June 30, 1989 UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000.
Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ″eco- refugees,′ ′ threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP.
He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday. Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study. ″Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life. Africa doesn’t have to worry about land, but would you want to live in the Sahara?″ he said. ........ Al Gore predicts but is wrong: www.investors.com/politics/editorials/arctic-ice-cap-grows-60-percent/sea ice since this date last year, the largest increase on record. There is more sea ice now than there was in mid-September 1990. Al Gore, call your office. A 2007 prediction that summer in the North Pole could be "ice-free by 2013" that was cited by former Vice President Al Gore in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech has proven to be off . .. by 920,000 square miles. But then Democrats have never been good at math — or climate science. In his Dec. 10, 2007, "Earth has a fever" speech, Gore referred to a prediction by U.S. climate scientist Wieslaw Maslowski that the Arctic's summer ice could "completely disappear" by 2013 due to global warming caused by carbon emissions as the seas rose to swallow up places like the island of Manhattan. .........
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 7, 2019 12:15:49 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/45654/financially-illiterate-prominent-investor-blasts-ryan-saavedraTracy Maitland, president and chief investment officer of Advent Capital Management, blasted socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) at the National Action Network gathering — where Ocasio-Cortez was widely criticized for using an accent while talking to the predominantly black audience — over her lack of financial knowledge and even said she may need to be removed from office. The people campaigning against the Amazon campus are financially illiterate," Maitland said, according to the New York Post. nypost.com/2019/04/05/investor-rips-ocasio-cortez-as-financially-illiterate-at-sharpton-conference/Maitland told the Post: "This was a disgrace. I partially blame AOC for the loss of Amazon. She doesn’t know what she doesn’t know. That’s scary. We have to make sure she’s better educated or vote her out of office." Ocasio-Cortez led the charge against Amazon which ended up costing New York 25,000 jobs and nearly $30 billion in tax revenue. She later exploded at critics who correctly noted that she had no idea what she was talking about when it came to the Amazon deal. Both Democrat New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Democrat New York Governor Andrew Cuomo slammed her for ruining the deal.
As Ocasio-Cortez has become more well-known, her poll numbers have taken a nose dive, as many Americans view far outside of the mainstream. At home in the Bronx, her constituents feel she is ignoring them in favor of having a national platform."A Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday morning found that 23 percent of Americans had a favorable view of the member of Congress, while 36 percent had an unfavorable view — a -13 overall approval rating," the leftist publication Vox reported. "This new poll isn’t a one-off finding. Three prior surveys — one in January from Morning Consult, one in February from Fox, and a third in mid-March from Gallup — all found that more Americans had negative views of AOC than had positive ones." Another poll found that three times more people viewed her as a villain than as a hero after she sabotaged the Amazon deal. Ocasio-Cortez's other fringe views have largely contributed to the decline in her poll numbers, including her call for banning all semi-automatic firearms and implementing a $93 trillion climate policy that is loaded with entitlement programs that will bankrupt the country. Ocasio-Cortez has also faced a growing corruption scandal -- there have been multiple FEC complaints filed against her and her chief-of-staff that allege serious campaign finance violations.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 12, 2019 12:48:42 GMT -6
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Post by hermit on Apr 13, 2019 7:22:07 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 14, 2019 8:10:54 GMT -6
AOC applauds a boycott of the NY Post because it dares to call out a Muslim Congresswoman who made anti-American comments
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 20, 2019 6:18:29 GMT -6
This little one nailed it:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 22, 2019 17:48:46 GMT -6
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made stunning remarks last week at a town hall in New York City, claiming that the broken healthcare system at the Department of Veterans Affairs provides "Cadillac first-class health care" to veterans.
In a video clip flagged by The Washington Free Beacon's Brent Scher, Ocasio-Cortez praised the VA healthcare system, saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
"The idea that this thing that isn't broken, this thing that provides the highest quality care to our veterans somehow needs to be fixed, optimized, tinkered with until you don't even recognize it anymore," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Here's the thing, they are trying to fix it, but who are they trying to fix it for is the question we've got to ask. They're trying to fix the VA for pharmaceutical companies, they're trying to fix the VA for insurance corporations, and ultimately they're trying to fix the VA for a for-profit healthcare industry that does not put people or veterans first."
"We have a responsibility to protect it, because if it is any community that deserves Cadillac first-class health care in the United States of America it is our military service members," Ocasio-Cortez added.
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 22, 2019 18:23:06 GMT -6
Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made stunning remarks last week at a town hall in New York City, claiming that the broken healthcare system at the Department of Veterans Affairs provides "Cadillac first-class health care" to veterans. In a video clip flagged by The Washington Free Beacon's Brent Scher, Ocasio-Cortez praised the VA healthcare system, saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." "The idea that this thing that isn't broken, this thing that provides the highest quality care to our veterans somehow needs to be fixed, optimized, tinkered with until you don't even recognize it anymore," Ocasio-Cortez said. "Here's the thing, they are trying to fix it, but who are they trying to fix it for is the question we've got to ask. They're trying to fix the VA for pharmaceutical companies, they're trying to fix the VA for insurance corporations, and ultimately they're trying to fix the VA for a for-profit healthcare industry that does not put people or veterans first." "We have a responsibility to protect it, because if it is any community that deserves Cadillac first-class health care in the United States of America it is our military service members," Ocasio-Cortez added. Maybe it is first class seeing how people have stopped dropping dead from neglect. Maybe so now that the suicide hot line doesn't take messages. She's fucking insane. Just another in an a never ending line of bullshit that will get shoveled up by her sheeps. What is wrong with her?
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 23, 2019 7:42:19 GMT -6
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Post by kcrufnek on Apr 23, 2019 17:29:24 GMT -6
For fuck's sake. They work together. Go knock on her door.
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 29, 2019 7:40:01 GMT -6
AOC excuse for not talking about the Sri Lanka bombing on Easter:
And called out:
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Post by soonernvolved on Apr 30, 2019 7:41:26 GMT -6
www.investors.com/politics/editorials/green-new-deal-93-trillion-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/herself "boss" of the "Green New Deal." Maybe she can explain were the money will come from to pay its $93 trillion cost. Because taxing the rich won't even scratch the surface. At an event on Friday, Ocasio-Cortez complained about criticism of the Green New Deal — much of it coming from her own party — that it's a pipe dream. Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, for example, said that "there are things that are great goals, but are unrealistic." Ocasio-Cortez's response: "Some people are like, 'Oh, it's unrealistic, oh it's fake, oh it doesn't address this little minute thing. And I'm like, 'You try! You do it.' 'Cause you're not. 'Cause you're not. So, until you do it, I'm the boss. How 'bout that?" Try to do what? Come up with an equally unrealistic plan that would bankrupt the nation? Because that's precisely what the Green New Deal would do. Green New Deal's Gargantuan Price Tag A new analysis from the American Action Forum finds that the Green New Deal, as laid out by New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, would cost up to $93 trillion in the first ten years. Remember, the GND isn't just about converting the entire U.S. energy supply to renewable energy in a decade and establishing a "zero emissions transportation system." www.americanactionforum.org/research/the-green-new-deal-scope-scale-and-implications/?utm_source=American+Action+Forum+Emails&utm_campaign=fdde613f17-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_25_02_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_64783a8335-fdde613f17-267115165guaranteed" federal jobs, "universal health care," and "food security." Beyond the bumper-sticker labels, the grandiose plan is vague on any of the details. Still, the AAF, which is headed up by former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, was able to rough out the 10-year costs for each of the proposals. A zero-carbon electricity grid would cost $5.4 trillion, the AAF calculates. A "zero-emissions transportation system," an additional $1.3-$2.7 trillion. "Guaranteed green housing" will cost anywhere from $1.6 trillion to $4.2 trillion. Despite the GND's name, it's the proposals that have nothing to do with climate change that cost the most. The price tag for a federal guaranteed jobs program could run as much as $44.6 trillion over the next decade. The "universal health care" plan? $36 trillion. Cost Will Likely Be Higher If anything, these are lowball estimates. To calculate the cost of converting to 100% renewable energy, for example, the authors simply assume that no new transmission lines would be needed, and that much of the renewable energy would come from nuclear power. Neither is realistic. The price tag for a nationwide high-speed rail system that could replace airplanes doesn't factor in the massive cost overruns endemic to every other government infrastructure project — and which are wrecking California's attempt to build its own bullet train. See also: Green New Deal: Is 100% Renewable Energy Even Possible, Or Good For The Environment? The $36 trillion cost for "universal health care" is in line with other estimates for "Medicare for all." And as we've noted in this space, those are lowball figures. All told, the cost of the "green" part of the Green New Deal would run from $8.3 trillion to $12.3 trillion over the next 10 years, according to the AAF report. The rest of it would cost an additional $42.8 trillion to $80.6 trillion. Let's put this in perspective. At the low end, the GND would more than double the size of the federal government. At the high end — roughly $9 trillion a year — even taking every single penny earned by tax filers with adjusted gross incomes over $50,000 would not be enough money to pay the costs. Looked at another way, economists expect the entire U.S. gross domestic product over the next decade to total $266 trillion. More Than A Third Of GDP That means the Green New Deal would account for up to 35% of the nation's economy from 2020 to 2029. That's on top of existing federal government programs, which already consume more than 20% of GDP each year. To call this "unrealistic" is the understatement of the year. It would be cataclysmic. What's most shocking about the Green New Deal, however, isn't the unprecedented economic destruction it would cause. Nor is the fact that it will do nothing to prevent "climate change" from happening. Nor the fact that a 29-year-old socialist and her legions of followers think this would be neat. What's most shocking about the Green New Deal is that so many leading Democrats, many of whom very much hope one day to be president, are blindly embracing it.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 2, 2019 11:30:41 GMT -6
She's baaaaaack!!!!
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Post by soonernvolved on May 3, 2019 11:53:13 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 6, 2019 14:48:38 GMT -6
And then this happened:
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Post by scout on May 12, 2019 20:51:14 GMT -6
AOC said that the scientists all agree that we only have 12 years until the human race no longer exists. Why don't we have a countdown clock? I mean 12 years is pretty specific and that was a pretty long time ago. I need to know how to spend my retirement so I don't have any money left at the end.
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Post by redrex on May 12, 2019 21:16:00 GMT -6
AOC is dumber than a box of hair
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Post by kcrufnek on May 12, 2019 21:43:54 GMT -6
AOC said that the scientists all agree that we only have 12 years until the human race no longer exists. Why don't we have a countdown clock? I mean 12 years is pretty specific and that was a pretty long time ago. I need to know how to spend my retirement so I don't have any money left at the end. Mayor Pete said we have ten years left. What does he know that AOC does not?
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Post by kcrufnek on May 12, 2019 23:14:47 GMT -6
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Post by soonernvolved on May 13, 2019 13:06:01 GMT -6
dailycaller.com/2019/05/13/ocasio-cortez-12-year-climate-literal/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge” to take her climate apocalypse prediction literally. However, thousands of environmental activists and at least five Democratic presidential candidates have repeated the talking point. Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal is also built on the incorrect claim there’s only 12 years left to avert catastrophic global warming. New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said “you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge” to take her literally when she invoked a 12-year deadline to stop “world ending” global warming. However, at least five Democrats running for president in 2020 invoked the “12 years left” talking point as a sign of how seriously they took climate change to build support among the environmental left. (RELATED: Ocasio-Cortez Rebuffs ‘Fact-Checkers,’ Says The World Ending In 12 Years Was ‘Dry Humor’) In January, Ocasio-Cortez said young people were worried “the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.” In April, Ocasio-Cortez warned again there were only 12 years left and that “for everyone who wants to make a joke about that, you may laugh, but your grandkids will not.” On Sunday, however, Ocasio-Cortez seemingly flipped her position on the 12-year deadline. Her “world ending” warning was only “dry humor,” and that “you’d have to have the social intelligence of a sea sponge to think it’s literal,” she tweeted. .......... The supposed 12-year deadline is embedded in the Green New Deal, which Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey introduced in February. The bill calls for a complete transformation of the U.S. economy within 10 years based on an October United Nations report. That report said global greenhouse gas emissions needed to fall 45 percent below 2010 levels by 2030, then to zero by 2050, to avoid warming above 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2100. Media outlets, politicians and activists incorrectly took this to mean there’s only 12 years left to avoid climate catastrophe. Environmentalists promoting the Green New Deal have invoked the 12-year deadline. As have the thousands of students who went on strike for a Green New Deal. In fact, the Green New Deal’s press release claimed “we may have as few as 12 years to achieve it.” Likewise, at least five Democratic presidential candidates have invoked the false 12-year deadline to promote their climate change agendas. “And when it comes to environmental issues, climate change, we have 12 years,” New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker said in April at the “She the People” forum in Houston, Texas. Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders warned “we have all of 12 years to significantly cut carbon emissions or else their will be irreparable damage to the United States and countries all over the world.” Sanders co-sponsored the Senate version of the Green New Deal. Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris also used the 12-year talking point, warning of “severe consequences” if nothing is done to fight global warming. “Every day we fail to act will be to our collective consequence. The UN has already said over the next 12 years if we don’t get this straight there will be severe consequences,” Harris said in a CNN town hall held in April. Former Vice President Joe Biden, the current front-runner, warned in January that the U.N. “told us, whether you agree with the exact number, that we have 12 years to act before it’s irreversible.” Former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke also invoked the 12-year deadline, but more recently he warned of the “10 years we have left to us” to fight global warming.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 19, 2019 7:50:23 GMT -6
www.dailywire.com/news/47397/dc-comics-sends-cease-and-desist-over-alexandria-emily-zanottiThe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez comic book might be a hot seller among progressive collectors, but DC Comics isn't happy that Devil's Due, the comics' publisher, depicted the Democratic Socialist Rep as the real "Wonder Woman" on one of the comic books' variant covers. AOC stars in Devil's Due's, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & The Freedom Force: New Party, Who Dis?" where she takes Washington, D.C. by storm, transforming the government into a progressive utopia and battling conservative arch-enemies like President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association. According to a release from Devil's Due: It's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the "Freshmen Force" (of Congress) vs. the establishment in this all-new special! Comic creators converge to celebrate the election of the most diverse group of freshman Representatives in history, and spare no-one in this satire that takes aim at Washington. From the house that brought you Barack the Barbarian! Featuring comics from various artists and bonus activities and games. The book retails for around $5 (though at a recent comic book convention, your fair reporter found them at the low, low price of 4 for $10). "New Party, Who Dis?" is supposed to be the first release in a series, and to promote the series' launch, Devil's Due commissioned a handful of variant covers, including one depicting AOC dressed in a Wonder Woman-eque costume, posing for an iconic portrait similar to the one Gal Gadot posed for ahead of the "Wonder Woman" movie premiere. The cover played right into the progressive perception that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the epitome of a female warrior, but DC Comics, which publishes the actual Wonder Woman series, wasn't too happy to see someone else in a version of the Amazon's iconic costume. "The cover in question was the NY Collector Cave retailer exclusive cover by artist Carla Cohen, which as you can see below does bear a strong resemblance to DC's Wonder Woman. Ocasio-Cortez has an A symbol where the typical W would go, but it's not hard to make the leap to Diana of Themyscira," Comicbook.com reports. In fact, the A in place of the W is about the only visible change.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 22, 2019 7:26:52 GMT -6
You can’t make this stuff up: “But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said. www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-growing-cauliflower-colonialRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday that growing cauliflower in community gardens is part of the “colonial” attitudes that her Green New Deal will stamp out. The New York Democrat, who introduced the proposal to tackle climate change by radically transforming the economy, posted a series of Instagram videos filmed in her home state talking about community gardens as a “core component” of her proposal. “What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It’s so important,” she said as she filmed a community garden in the Bronx. “So that’s really how you do it right. That is such a core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it’s an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, ‘Why do you need to do that? That’s too hard.’” She went on to add that growing cauliflower in such gardens is a “colonial approach” and the reason communities of color oppose environmentalist movements. “But when you really think about it -- when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something -- what you’re doing is you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “That is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.” “But when you really think about it — when someone says that it’s ‘too hard’ to do a green space that grows Yucca instead of, I don’t know, cauliflower or something — what you’re doing is that you’re taking a colonial approach to environmentalism.” — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ocasio-Cortez has emerged as the key Democratic voice on how to tackle climate change, going as far as to slam leading presidential candidate Joe Biden over reports that he’s exploring a “middle-ground” approach to tackling the issue.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 23, 2019 15:40:55 GMT -6
Democrat leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and several of her party faithful are pushing the Green New Deal — a brilliant attempt to destroy the United States by banning all oil, gas and coal while at the same time building bridges to Europe and Asia… Because the world only has 12 more years before we all burn up. Meanwhile in China....... nationalpost.com/news/world/scientists-discover-china-has-been-secretly-emitting-banned-ozone-depleting-gas?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1558550088A chemical banned around the globe for the last 30 years has made an unfortunate resurgence. And all signs, in a new study, point to China as the culprit. In the 1980s, countries came together to sign The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, a landmark treaty designed to halt and reduce the production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC), chemicals used in fridges and foams that had the side effect of tearing through the Earth’s ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol has been signed by 197 countries around the world, including Canada, the U.S., and China. As the ozone layer in our upper atmosphere slowly depleted — letting in an increasing amount of the sun’s ultraviolet rays — the protocol contributed to a significant reduction in harmful CFCs, which then allowed for a slow healing of the damaged ozone layer. That is until last year, when scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association found that global emissions of Trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11) have actually been increasing since 2013. The increase implied that someone was secretly violating the Montreal Protocol. But the limitations of measuring devices meant the location of the polluter could only be traced to somewhere in east Asia. Now, in a new study published in Nature on May 22, scientists from the University of Bristol, Kyungpook National University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that between 40 and 60 per cent of total global CFC-11 emissions originate from eastern China.
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Post by soonernvolved on May 24, 2019 6:37:35 GMT -6
Meteorologist fact checks AOC: dailycaller.com/2019/05/23/ocasio-cortez-weather-fact-check/Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested the tornado warning that hit the D.C. area Thursday was part of the “climate crisis” she has previously said humanity only has 12 years left to solve. “The climate crisis is real y’all,” Ocasio said on Instagram Thursday, “guess we’re at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country?” However, she was quickly fact-checked by meteorologist Ryan Maue, who pointed out that far from proof of a “climate crisis,” D.C.’s tornado warning was “just the weather.” (RELATED: Greenpeace Co-Founder Has A Message For Congress About The Latest UN Scare Report) The Washington, D.C., area was hit with a tornado warning Thursday afternoon. An intense, but short-lived storm, brought heavy rainfall and high winds. No tornado hit D.C., however, but the whole event was enough to inspire Ocasio-Cortez to post on Instagram. “Different parts of the country deal with different climate issues,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in her Instagram post. “But ALL of these threats will be increasing in intensity as climate crisis grows and we fail to act appropriately. #GreenNewDeal. The Green New Deal is Ocasio-Cortez’s signature bill, calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions within ten years and vastly expanding the federal welfare state. Ocasio-Cortez “does not know the difference between weather and climate,” Maue tweeted. “Let’s try an easy analogy: Weather is what outfit you wear heading out the door. Climate is your closet wardrobe.” Ocasio-Cortez did somewhat walk back her initial claims by apparently Googling around for information on tornadoes and global warming. She noted that tornadoes are “challenging” to tie to global warming. The freshman lawmaker, however, went on to note that “we DO know for sure that tornadoes HAVE been changing.” She cited a PBS article claiming that tornadoes are “sliding into the Midwest and Southeast.” That claim is based on a 2018 study, though it did not attribute eastward shifting tornadoes to global warming. But researchers have long noted there are complications in trying to study long-term tornado trends. “The reporting has been susceptible to changes in population density, modifications to reporting procedures and training, the introduction of video and social media, and so on,” reads the 2017 National Climate Assessment (NCA). “These have led to systematic, non-meteorological biases in the long-term data record,” the NCA reads.
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