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to protect one of his golf courses. Not that this will bother his lemmings. They'll just say he's playing the game.
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.
It's diabolical," said former South Carolina Republican Rep. Bob Inglis, an advocate of conservative solutions to climate change. Donald Trump is working to ensure his at-risk properties and his company is trying to figure out how to deal with sea level rise. Meanwhile, hes saying things to audiences that he must know are not true.
You have a soft place in your heart for people who are honestly ignorant, but people who are deceitful, thats a different.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436#ixzz49TloCirL
gordianot
(15,226 posts)Wonder if there are plans to get Mexico to also fund a seawall?
rurallib
(62,346 posts)gordianot
(15,226 posts)stone space
(6,498 posts)Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Oh good grief its not satire?
Let the jokes begin.
cali
(114,904 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)That is why he got it so cheap. There is an absolute need for the sea wall. It was a good bit of land but Greg Norman kinda f'd it up. Marty Hawtree should be allowed to do his job. Always gonna be hard to compete with Lahinch in Clare, tho.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)be better off.
cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)Erect a seawall to protect his golf course, who cares if the proles drown.
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turbinetree
(24,632 posts)on how drumpf always makes this remark--------------------"if you didn't know this or not" ---------------
And Bill Maher pretty much explains drumpf----------------
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Almost any effort to stop erosion will be in vain.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)Stop climate change with a wall fuckwit. Let's see how that works out for you.
TygrBright
(20,733 posts)Angel Martin
(942 posts)I see it all the time.
Big developers trying to get density and parking variances by claiming it is more "green".
and sappy city councils fall for it over and over again.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)against this nutbag.