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cali

(114,904 posts)
Mon May 23, 2016, 07:56 AM May 2016

Trump warns of dire effects of global warning in application to build sea wall

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, he’s 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, that’s a different.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436#ixzz49TloCirL

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Trump warns of dire effects of global warning in application to build sea wall (Original Post) cali May 2016 OP
Darn I thought the wall was going to the U.S. Mexico border. gordianot May 2016 #1
the Mexican border is now located on the coast of Ireland rurallib May 2016 #11
Got to keep those golf balls from escaping into the sea! gordianot May 2016 #12
Make the fish pay for it! stone space May 2016 #2
I thought Borowitz wrote this satire piece Ichingcarpenter May 2016 #3
They already have cali May 2016 #4
He's only a scientist when he doesn't want his investments to crash. moriah May 2016 #5
Doonbeg almost got washed away in a storm 2-3 years ago AngryAmish May 2016 #6
Frankly, if they would just put him in his office and build a wall around that I think we would all jtuck004 May 2016 #7
Figures cagefreesoylentgreen May 2016 #8
k n'r L. Coyote May 2016 #9
Off subject --------------Donald Drumpf an oldie but goodie turbinetree May 2016 #10
Sea wall exacerbate erosion alarimer May 2016 #13
Only answer the fuckwit has for anything. Coward and his wall that he defrauds to pay construct. lonestarnot May 2016 #14
Pragmatism meets pandering. Result= cognitive dissonance... n/t TygrBright May 2016 #15
Big surprise, Not ! Angel Martin May 2016 #16
We need a wall of protection felix_numinous May 2016 #17

gordianot

(15,226 posts)
1. Darn I thought the wall was going to the U.S. Mexico border.
Mon May 23, 2016, 08:06 AM
May 2016

Wonder if there are plans to get Mexico to also fund a seawall?

moriah

(8,311 posts)
5. He's only a scientist when he doesn't want his investments to crash.
Mon May 23, 2016, 08:24 AM
May 2016


Of course, he's one to talk about nukes when he wants other countries to have them and won't rule out nuking Europe.

 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
6. Doonbeg almost got washed away in a storm 2-3 years ago
Mon May 23, 2016, 08:31 AM
May 2016

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)
7. Frankly, if they would just put him in his office and build a wall around that I think we would all
Mon May 23, 2016, 09:46 AM
May 2016

be better off.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
10. Off subject --------------Donald Drumpf an oldie but goodie
Mon May 23, 2016, 10:38 AM
May 2016

on how drumpf always makes this remark--------------------"if you didn't know this or not" ---------------




And Bill Maher pretty much explains drumpf----------------




 

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)
14. Only answer the fuckwit has for anything. Coward and his wall that he defrauds to pay construct.
Mon May 23, 2016, 10:53 AM
May 2016

Stop climate change with a wall fuckwit. Let's see how that works out for you.

Angel Martin

(942 posts)
16. Big surprise, Not !
Mon May 23, 2016, 12:19 PM
May 2016

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.

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