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375 Top Scientists Warn Us Not To Vote For Trump

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iRAWRasaurus

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Hundreds of the world’s leading scientists, including famed physicist Stephen Hawking, warn in an open letter Tuesday that a Donald Trump win in November would prove disastrous to global efforts against climate change.

The Republican presidential nominee, who once claimed global warming is a hoax “created by and for the Chinese,” vowed in May that he would “cancel” the historic Paris climate agreement.

Opting out of that pact, write the 375 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, including 30 Nobel Prize winners, would have “severe and long-lasting” consequences, both for the planet and for the United States’ credibility.

“A ‘Parexit,’” the letter states, “would send a clear signal to the rest of the world: ‘The United States does not care about the global problem of human-caused climate change. You are on your own.”

The U.S. and China ― the world’s two largest emitters of greenhouse gases ― officially ratified the Paris agreement earlier this month, a major step toward having the deal take effect this year. More than 170 nations signed the Paris agreement in April, committing to fight climate change by cutting carbon emissions.

“The United States can and must be a major player in developing innovative solutions to the problem of reducing emissions of greenhouse gases,” the letter says. “Nations that find innovative ways of decarbonizing energy systems and sequestering CO2 will be the economic leaders of the 21st century. Walking away from Paris makes it less likely that the U.S. will have a global leadership role, politically, economically, or morally. We cannot afford to cross that tipping point.”

Also among the signees is former Harvard biology professor E.O. Wilson, commonly known as the “father of biodiversity,” who earlier this month told The Huffington Post that his “main worry right now is that the Republican candidate might win the election.”
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Trump has made his feelings about climate change and environmental protection alarmingly clear. He’s said weather “goes up and it goes down,” and warned that unlike him, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton wants to “shut down the mines.” Trump’s senior economic adviser, Stephen Moore, said that lifting all restrictions on mining, fracking and drilling is among the ways the GOP candidate plans to pay for his costly proposals.

Although Tuesday’s letter doesn’t mention Trump by name, it is a clear attempt to steer Americans away from casting votes in his favor come November.

“Human-caused climate change is not a belief, a hoax, or a conspiracy. It is a physical reality,” the scientists write. “During the Presidential primary campaign, claims were made that the Earth is not warming, or that warming is due to purely natural causes outside of human control. Such claims are inconsistent with reality.”

Famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson didn’t sign the letter, but endorsed it in a statement Tuesday to Mashable.

“For lawmakers to not heed the advice of esteemed scientists on matters of science, in this the 21st century, signals the beginning of the end of an informed democracy,” Tyson told the publication.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/scientists-donald-trump_us_57e1ac04e4b0e80b1b9eda3d?

View the full letter here

decompose me if old.
 
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GhostTrick

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And... USA needs 375 top scientists to know that ? God damn it.
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forms

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Haven't you heard, the scientists are all in on IT.

Educate yourself!

I fully expect this to be the response of most potential Trump voters.
 
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Mung

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I feel like we are in the back to the future altered timeline when Biff Tannen became rich and powerful.
 
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Palette Swap

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I'm growing disillusioned with the notion this would swing any one. If anything people will feel talked down to. The incoherent moron who can't string more than five words together feels relatable to them. For some reason.
 
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Breads

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Fuck the opinions of the educated elite. It doesn't reflect how we, the hard working class, feel.

This is America.
 
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LizardKing

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The only people who would care about this letter are people already voting for Hillary. I suppose you could have some educated middle class republicans who might, but republicans in general never really cared about climate change much.
 
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Hoo-doo

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Lol, it could be 10.000 scientists. Trump's base don't give a shit.

Let's heed the wise words of the Insane Clown Posse's hit single 'Miracles':

And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

Edit: Corpekata, you bastard!
 
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astroturfing

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Trump is so fucking dumb you cannot let him to be the leader of the planet (basically), even if he wins the vote he should be stopped from ever entering the White House. Trump isn't an option. truthfully neither are any of the current republicans really, they aren't even a serious political party anymore, just obstructionist bullies who want to block all progress, revel proudly in ignorance and watch the world burn. fuck em all.

are tens of millions of Americans seriously considering voting in a professional clown and a manbaby who mocks disabled people and thinks climate change is a Chinese hoax..? i still can't believe it!
 
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Lord Frieza

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Hoo-doo said:
Lol, it could be 10.000 scientists. Trump's base don't give a shit.

Let's heed the wise words of the Insane Clown Posse's hit single 'Miracles':

And I don't wanna talk to a scientist
Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed

Edit: Corpekata, you bastard!
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We need to quit framing everything around Trump's established base. Everyone knows those motherfuckers are lost. But theres still undecided voters out there, this kind of stuff does no real harm and only potentially helps speaking to them.
 
Monocle

Monocle

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Libruls and elitists bought and paid for by the Clintons, amirite?

I'm not saying it's extremely convenient that so many scientists just happen to support part of Hillary's platform, but something is going on.
 
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John_B

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Even if there was such a thing as global warming, and I know for a fact there isn't, trust me, I known, then Trump would finish it before it even started. He would have his best guys, scientific guys, on it and be done with it twice as fast and at only a fraction of the cost of what these Hillary followers claims to be a solution. And he would make China pay for the bill.
 
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makingmusic476

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My dad unironically said earlier today something along the lines of "It's almost Fall, and it's still so hot! I can't believe it. Can you??"
 
Monocle

Monocle

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John_B said:
Even if there was such a thing as global warming, and I know for a fact there isn't, trust me, I known, then Trump would finish it before it even started. He would have his best guys, scientific guys, on it and be done with it twice as fast and at only a fraction of the cost of what these Hillary followers claims to be a solution. And he would make China pay for the bill.
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He'd get eskimos, world class eskimos, to build an igloo around America.
 
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Nightbird

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rrc1594 said:
How do you not believe in global warming?
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replace "Vaccines causes autism" with "Global warming is a myth"

or

"BLM wants to kill cops"

"All Mexican immigrants rape woman and bring drugs"

"The refugees want to bomb america"

and so on.

you get what i mean
 
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El Topo

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Why would a regular guy listen to this?

Timbuktu said:
This is reminding me too much of Brexit dammit.
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What's sad is that the people involved here don't seem to have learned their lesson from that. You know what a regular person reads/hears?
"Highly educated people with a good income that don't really care about regular people and/or cannot relate to them tell them to not vote Trump, cite fear of global warming."

(I should probably use "regular" instead.)
 
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