CLIMATE CHANGE/DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Federal scientists warned in a new report Friday [11-23-18] that changes in the climate will disrupt the economies of every region in the country in coming years, with costs threatening to reach hundreds of billions of dollars annually by the middle of this century. The message, echoing decades of sobering conclusions from the world’s leading climate scientists, is at odds with President Donald Trump’s repeated scoffing at the idea of global warming. And the administration chose to release it on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day and one of the slowest news days of the year. But despite the timing, the report is bound to energize the new class of progressive Democrats set to take control of the House in January. Many of them, led by incoming Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, are already pushing for an expansive ‘Green New Deal’ as one of the rallying cries the party would take into the 2020 campaign.”
–Matt Daily, “Trump’s dire climate report hands ammunition to Democrats,” Politico, November 23, 2018 5:22 pm