The majority of articles that I have written for Odyssey regard restaurant recommendations or lifestyle articles with topics represented through gifs. However, when something as major as the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement occurs, my neutral attitude diminishes and I can no longer avoid posting about my political views. This is because they are no longer solely political views but concerns for human welfare and the world in which we live in. These quotes stated by Donald Trump scream ignorance and misinformation, however, I will not go into detail about my feelings on this decision. I will instead allow my tone and each provided example to shine through.
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Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump
"The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/2658952...
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✔@realDonaldTrump"Ice storm rolls from Texas to Tennessee - I'm in Los Angeles and it's freezing. Global warming is a total, and very expensive, hoax!"
3."I'm not a believer in man-made global warming. It could be warming, and it's going to start to cool at some point. And you know, in the early, in the 1920s, people talked about global cooling…They thought the Earth was cooling. Now, it's global warming"
http://www.hughhewitt.com/donald-trump-returns/
4."With the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels up and down the coast, the Nobel committee should take the Nobel Prize back from Al Gore"
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/11/tru...5. "This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice."
http://www.newsweek.com/what-has-trump-said-about-...
6."I believe in clean air. Immaculate air.... But I don't believe in climate change."
http://www.newsweek.com/what-has-trump-said-about-...
7. "Obama's talking about all of this with the global warming and...a lot of it's a hoax. It's a hoax. I mean, it's a money-making industry, OK? It's a hoax, a lot of it."
http://www.newsweek.com/what-has-trump-said-about-...
8. "They changed the name from “global warming” to “climate change” after the term global warming just wasn’t working (it was too cold)!"
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-climat...
9."The global warming we should be worried about is the global warming caused by NUCLEAR WEAPONS in the hands of crazy or incompetent leaders!"
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-climat...
10. "There is still much that needs to be investigated in the field of 'climate change,'"
http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-climat...