Tillerson Agrees Climate Change Is Hurting The Arctic, Contradicting Trump Admin Policies

Rally against Kinder Morgan oil pipeline on Burnaby Mountain

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Dandelion Salad

TheRealNews on May 12, 2017

The Secretary of State stopped short of linking climate change to human activity, when he signed the Fairbanks Document this week in Alaska. But Janet Redman of Oil Change International says the Trump Administration is still denying the urgency of the warming planet.

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Trump Continues to Waffle on whether US will Adhere to Paris Climate Agreement

TheRealNews on May 14, 2017

Trump pledged on the campaign trail to pull out of the Paris Accords, but now that announcement will be delayed until after the G-7 summit. Janet Redman of Oil Change International says US participation is crucial.

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Trump administration’s schizophrenic stance on climate change

RT America on May 14, 2017

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed a document near the North Pole in Alaska affirming the need for an international response to global warming. However his boss, President Donald Trump, has repeatedly called climate change a hoax that “the Chinese” staged. RT’s Manila Chan discusses the Trump administration’s hot/cold takes on climate change with scientist Dr. Reese Halter.

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Climate Change: The Potential Impacts of Collective Inaction by Graham Peebles

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Rex W. Tillerson–A Frackin’ Hypocrite! by Walter Brasch