Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges U.S. President to Stay in Paris Climate Pact

[Salty Pirate]

I feel the same way reading through some of these responses, but... it's also a bit of a relief coming across posts like yours that show me that, yes, there are people out there who do care and aren't so self absorbed and negligent/uninformed. So that's something

CO2 is not pollution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Adding CO2 is not leaving things worse than you found them. Nobody here is saying, yeah, dirty air and murky water.

DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT ACTUAL POLLUTION IS FROM BURNING SOMETHING???

Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) would be pollution. Nitrogen Oxides are pollution

 

[Hedwigg]

CO2 is not pollution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Adding CO2 is not leaving things worse than you found them. Nobody here is saying, yeah, dirty air and murky water. DO ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT ACTUAL POLLUTION IS FROM BURNING SOMETHING??? Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) would be pollution. Nitrogen Oxides are pollution

You should really educate yourself so you can have an informed discussion before you spout out and/or troll nonsense in forums.

 

[big-ted]

Thanks USA, Nicaragua and Syria for screwing up the only planet we can live on

Hope all the extra droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes are worth it

 

[TechGeek76]

Thanks USA, Nicaragua and Syria for screwing up the only planet we can live on

Hope all the extra droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes are worth it

Extra hurricanes huh? I don't recall many hitting us in Fl in quite a few years, but oh so many! LOL!

 

[tshrimp]

Note to Tim Cook. Stay out of politics. Why don't you just focus on hiring American workers instead of pushing the H1-B. You are far from a political saint.

Those who blindly follow a title should read up on this agreement/accord.

https://www.atr.org/obamas-paris-agreement-all-cost-and-no-benefit-us

"Through a litany of regulations stemming from the agreement, Obama has essentially offered up the U.S. economy as a sacrificial lamb to further his own legacy. Sadly, the agreement will not just hurt the country’s growth as a whole, but will trickle down to low-and-middle income Americans. As a result of the agreement, energy costs will skyrocket, in turn raising the cost of utility bills for families and increasing the costs of consumer goods."

 

[Salty Pirate]

You should really educate yourself so you can have an informed discussion before you spout out and/or troll nonsense in forums.

so how do you differentiate between CO2 from volcanos and decaying vegetation? Is that pollution too? Sounds like you need an education.

 

[Sanlitun]

A bad agreement that penalizes middle and low income workers in developed nations, and will merely be exploited by Globalists such as Mr. Cook for their own benefit as an economic and political tool.

There has to be a comprehensive, verifiable and enforceable treaty or there isn't a point. Mr Trump is correct on this.

 

[Felix01]

Well, it looks like Cook wasn't persuasive enough...Trump pulled the US out.

 

[BornAgainMac]

Make USA great again, get rid of Donald Trump!

The media is bad. It sucks because now I have to go to several sources of news and try to figure out the truth. I bet this has been going on for decades.

 

[star-affinity]

so how do you differentiate between CO2 from volcanos and decaying vegetation? Is that pollution too? Sounds like you need an education.

Humans emit 100 times more CO2 than volcanoes.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/volcanoes-and-global-warming.htm

Plants cannot live on CO2 alone - more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is not necessarily good for plants.
https://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-plant-food.htm

 

[DougFNJ]

Oh you are really reaching with that Obama collusion hot mic. That was about a hotly debated subject (missile defense) not about negotiations across the board behind closed doors.

I personally am reserving judgement about Trump/Russia until the facts come out. But being a life long Newyorker, I can tell you the US made a horrid choice in electing trump.

I want you to be honest with me. Had that been Trump on that hot mic, would the media and liberal not completely exploded?

It's great that your reserve your judgement, I wish more would.

As far as NY, did you grow up under Koch when he completely stalled any growth and progress in NYC, crime was highest, Times Square was most certainly where you would never want to be, businesses left in droves, and it was only getting worse. Trump pissed off a lot of people while he was doing it, but he upgraded a lot of neighborhoods.

 

[Tonewheel]

So Trump is pulling out.

Too bad his father didn't pull out.

 

[TechGeek76]

So Trump is pulling out.

Too bad his father didn't pull out.

Boy, you're a regular comedic genius

 

[Mainsail]

Largest inaugural audience....who cares, they also reported that he got rid of the MLK bust that a photographer was standing in front of. Who cares? Small stuff.

3 million illegal voters.... very plausible. Without voter ID and the constant fight against it, it's very plausible.

Wiretapping by the former president is unwrapping before your very eyes, you just don't know about it because your media is still too focused on trying to find the non existing evidence of Russian Collusion. Those wiretaps were what got Flynn in trouble, and it appears Obama is under his own investigation for tapping quite a few wires right now. By the way, how does a community organizer that becomes a senator followed shortly by becoming president afford an $8.1 million dollar home on a salary of $400k per year? But I digress...

Carrier steaming North Korea? What are they steaming, carpets?

The big lies are the constant reports from "sources" unchecked, not investigated, and they just pile it on over and over, but pay no attention. This giant story about Russian collusion. They build something up, work with it, nothing comes of it, knock it down and try something else. Nobody can say what the crime is, and the investigation has not produced anything. Next up, reports are serving up the newest and biggest, "Comey is going to testify about Trump's interference 3 weeks after he testified under oath that there was no interference. So they will continue to feed the story on how they see it playing out when the reality is, if Comey testifies that Trump interfered, A. He goes to jail for perjury, B. He adds to that punishment as it is illegal to NOT report someone trying to interfere with an investigation. Next up after that?

By the way, does anyone recall the live Microphone when Obama got caught colluding with the Russians? Why wasn't there an investigation there? Augh the blatantly obvious double standard.

Repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it.

The reporter quickly corrected the error regarding MLK bust. This
President continues insist he had record breaking inauguration attendance. Alternative Facts.

There is not a shred of evidence that Obama wire tapped Trump tower. I guarantee Trump didn't even know that this type of surveillance is not within presidential authority and requires judicial review and probable cause.

"Steaming to a destination" is an often used nautical term. It does not literal mean the carrier group is using steam propulsion. Any more than when a giant cruise ship "sets sail" it does not literally mean they are using wind and sail as propulsion. Ugh! If you are going to be snarky at least try to be clever about it.

 

[Carnegie]

No they are not. The elite I speak of own the Federal Reserve. They print money out of nothing and sell it to the US government in exchange for interest, big interest, i.e. usury.

...

Are you referring to the interest earned from assets held in the open market account (i.e. which make up the assets side of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet)? If so, that interest (after covering expenses of the Federal Reserve System) goes to the U.S. Treasury.

Yes, a large portion of the assets which the Federal Reserve holds are U.S. Treasuries that were bought from third-parties in open market transactions. So that money is, in effect, loaned to the U.S. government. But that isn't done directly and almost all of the interest paid to the Federal Reserve on those securities is remitted back to the U.S. government. The Federal Reserve holding so much of our sovereign debt has the effect of lowering our (i.e. the federal government's) borrowing costs. That happens in two ways. It helps to keep the (initial) rates on U.S. Treasuries lower and, as I indicated, the interest we pay on those securities is returned. The interest that the Federal Reserve earns from its other balance sheet holdings is also remitted to the U.S. Treasury. In recent years the Federal Reserve has been remitting around $100 billion per year to the U.S. government.

Now, private banks which are members of the Federal Reserve System are required by law to hold stock in the regional Reserve Banks. They have to pay for that stock, but their ownership of it isn't equatable to equity ownership of most things. They can't do anything with that stock and they aren't entitled to any 'profits' which the Reserve Banks might, if they otherwise functioned as private banks, make. Those profits, if we wish to refer to them as such, go to the U.S. Treasury. They are paid an annual dividend of up to 6% on their paid-in capital to compensate them for not having or being able to do anything else with that capital. At times (e.g. in recent years) that's been a comparably decent rate of return on that capital, at other times it hasn't been - the member banks likely could have done better having that capital available to, e.g., invest otherwise. At any rate, the amount paid in dividends to member banks is a tiny portion (recently, less than 2%) of the interest which the Federal Reserve earns from its holdings and the amount which it remits to the U.S. Treasury.

 

[star-affinity]

P.S. I've been alive a long time - the climate is about the same, maybe a bit cooler actually.

So one of the reason that you think man made global warming isn't real is because your personal experience is that the climate ”is a bit cooler”? I… I don't know what to say.

Hey Star, I appreciate the thought and research into this post. Just realize for every website you'll show me saying man made global warming is all real, I'll find you 5 that say it is all part of nature's course.

Thanks, I guess. I'm just trying to spread som info I think is important and many of the claims made by deniers in this thread have detailed answers on that site.

And when mentioning websites – Websites is one thing, but the source if what's on the websites is another. Like hagar replied to you the vast majority of people working in this field agrees that we are contributing to climate change. That all of these people would be ”living a lie” and have a ”personal agenda” isn't realistic. I'm convinced the majority of people working with science is interested in how things really are (or seem at least seem to be), and doesn't care as much about personal gain as some seem to think.

And yes, I do believe in a Creator and that man is at the mercy of God. To believe that something come out of nothing by a great explosion that created complete order in nature is... not very scientific. Do the scientific experiment and blow something up and see what kind of order results from the explosion.

Your conclusions aren't very scientific either.
Saying how the ”Big Bang” affected the universe is comparable to blowing something up on a tiny scale here on Earth isn't really a good comparison.

And yes, as strange it may sound to our ”every day life on Earth” ears it is scientific to think that the universe might have come out of nothing – modern physics suggests that. The total amount of energy in the universe seems to be zero: https://www.astrosociety.org/publications/a-universe-from-nothing/

But really – I'd say no one (currently) knows exactly what's required for a universe such as the one we live in to come into existence. Putting the concept of God in the mix doesn't really explain anything (and is objectively indistinguishable from a fantasy, it could just be imaginary) – I prefer to stay agnostic for the time being.

I have a hard time seeing that the point in box six in the Dilbert strip above matches reality. Like I wrote above ”I'm convinced the majority of people working with science is interested in how things really are (or seem at least seem to be), and doesn't care as much about personal gain as some seem to think.”

 

[Phil in ocala]

Withdrawing from the agreement despite the settled scientific consensus is very unfortunate and will potentially have very bad consequences for future generations.

It will be one of those moments in history that we look back on and ask "What were they thinking??"

_____________________________
Wait until he abolishes the ATF, legalizes automatic weapons...

 

[Larry-K]

And yes, I do believe in a Creator and that man is at the mercy of God. To believe that something come out of nothing by a great explosion that created complete order in nature is... not very scientific. Do the scientific experiment and blow something up and see what kind of order results from the explosion.

I like how religions find something, like the universe, so improbable to have happened on its own, that they invent a "Boogey-Man" with magical powers, and no plausible explanation for existence, to have created it instead.

This is an old and discredited argument that philosophers have bandied about for centuries.

 

[F1Mac]

And yes, I do believe in a Creator and that man is at the mercy of God. To believe that something come out of nothing by a great explosion that created complete order in nature is... not very scientific. Do the scientific experiment and blow something up and see what kind of order results from the explosion.

See no one thinks "something came out of nothing by a great explosion", except of course those who believe in a "creator and that man is at the mercy of god", or those who stop reading after the words Big Bang* Do the scientific research on the subject when you have a moment.

...No worries though, the benevolent Creator will do something about this climate thing before it's too late, I'm sure of it!


*hint: what is generally referred to as "Big Bang" isn't in fact an "explosion"...

 

[Larry-K]

See no one thinks "something came out of nothing by a great explosion", except of course those who believe in a "creator and that man is at the mercy of god", or those who stop reading after the words Big Bang Do the scientific research on the subject when you have a moment.

...No worries though, the benevolent Creator will do something about this climate thing before it's too late, I'm sure of it!

Hey, he saved the Dinosaurs from that asteroid, didn't he?

 

[phillipduran]

Nope.

The USA is in full USA first mode and were not having any deals that don't boost our economy or increase our safety. After rising the national debt to 19,000,000,000,000 over the last 8 years were done with any feel good deals or anything that hands power to globalists. Paris Accord is out. Bye Bye! USA and USA economy first. Deregulate and get the economic machine going.

 

[amegicfox]

Elon Musk came here penniless and found AMERICA in exploiting the American taxpayers !!!!

- Tesla cars and factories are 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money
- Solar City solar panels and installations are 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money
- Space X is 100% subsidized by the government/taxpayer money

now this tool is telling Americans after he has been milking them for years and made him reach
that he will not cooperate ?

this is a guy who wants America to be on it's knees with pointless regulation and taxes
so he can keep enriching himself

he was only in if he could influence the government in doing more stupid subsidizing to his experimental companies on the back of american's taxpayers

Great riddance. Go back to South Africa and tell South Africans governments
to subsidized your profitless government sucking companies

 

[F1Mac]

After rising the national debt to 19,000,000,000,000 over the last 8 years were done with any feel good deals or anything that hands power to globalists.

Except it's a little too easy to attribute the 9 trillion increase to one man. There are many other factors he did not control that contributed to it - a "couple of them" inherited from the previous administration mind you. But of course that's what the current administration want you to believe, great savior Trumpy will fix this mess dammit!

 

[gugy]

Trump is an imbecile. Nothing else to say....

 

[Larry-K]

Nope.

The USA is in full USA first mode and were not having any deals that don't boost our economy or increase our safety. After rising the national debt to 19,000,000,000,000 over the last 8 years were done with any feel good deals or anything that hands power to globalists. Paris Accord is out. Bye Bye! USA and USA economy first. Deregulate and get the economic machine going.

If you're so bent out of shape about the debt, you might want to go to the 1 percenters and ask for your money back, because that's where most of it went.

If you think dropping out of the world market for green energy solutions, and deregulating is going to boost jobs here, enjoy your new Coal Mining Gig.