He confuses clean air and water with climate change.
<10-minutes left of this. excited to get on with my night!
Environmental concerns - this one is lopsided
Trump recites his âClean water, clean airâŚand best numbers, and we are working so well with China response. China is filthy. China does not kick inâŚRussia doesnât until later. We have done the bestâ
Trumpâs final blow âŚâWE havenât destroyed our companiesâ
Biden âGlobal warming is a existential threat to our society. We have a moral imperative to make changes.â
This is the pivotal issue for suburban women, and young voters. OK Biden - win
Loser Trump- âThey want to make smaller windows or no windows?â
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Come on Biden, talk about Tâs coal plan!
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BAM!
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She actually got in the question about leadership. Iâm impressed!! Even thoâ we are in overtime.
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Fabulous ending statement by Joe Biden! 
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WowâŚ
What a holy load of lies coming from Trump and an impassioned Joe.
I think it was a clear win for Biden.
I thought Tâs head would have 
but did not.
All things considered Kristen Welker/NBC did the best of all moderators.
Phew - done!
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I swear what Trump does is a step beyond the Gish Gallop even. It needs its own name. Itâs more like the Trump Clump â itâs so much it created a choke point and everything explodes.
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But in fact, windows donât have to get smaller to meet efficiency goals â they just have to get smarter. âThis is 19th-century thinking, and weâve got 21st-century solutions,â says Jacob Corvidae, principal of the Rocky Mountain Institute, which consults on energy-efficiency retrofits. Over the past decade in particular, windows have gone high-performance, thanks to triple or quadruple panes of glass, insulative measures like a layer of argon suspended between those panes, and heat-reflecting glazings (a 24k-gold coating does help a little, yet isnât enough on its own). But windows are also becoming high-tech tools for managing warming and cooling, which can save even more energy. RMIâs own headquarters â which generates more energy in a year than it consumes â is located in Colorado at an elevation of 6,600 feet and does not have central heat. It stays comfortable largely because its designers employed large, southern-facing windows to maximize passive solar gain. The windows and shades are equipped with sensors to adjust for heat while still allowing daylight to flood in, cutting down on the need for extra lighting.
Yes, Trump âknows all about construction,â but his knowledge was mostly cultivated decades ago, when energy standards were vastly different. (Nearly two decades ago, for example, Australia instituted green-building recommendations that windows be either double-glazed orâyes!âmade smaller.) This year, two of his New York buildings, Trump Tower and Trump International Hotel & Tower, scored Ds on the cityâs new efficiency rating system, and heâs regularly called out for refusing to make window-upgrade retrofits to his properties, even though he did receive $1 million to do so on a property in White Plains in 2012. Itâs plausible that de Blasioâs remark about glass towers stuck with Trump because it would have cost him money. âItâs much more expensive,â Trumpâs ghostwriter said in his 2008 book. âThe science has not been perfected yet and in some cases the savings cannot justify the huge cost. You spend a tremendous amount of money now, and it takes 40 years to get your money backâ â although a report shows the White Plains investments paid for themselves within three years.
Thatâs why rebates are widely offered, many of them through cities and local utilities; although window upgrades can get expensive, the benefits go beyond the energy savings. Corvidae points to the Empire State Building, which RMI worked with a decade ago when the building went through one of the biggest such retrofits in New York City history. All 6,514 windows were upgraded and salvaged as part of an ambitious plan that ended up cutting the buildingâs energy use by one-third and recouping those costs three years later. The windows didnât get any smaller in the process. Trumpâs concerns might be different from his tenantsâ but such changes would impact them both positively, says Corvidae. âHeâs reacting to this as a landlord, not as someone who lives there. But this can be beneficial for landlords, too.â
What Trump is actually trying to do here is, once again, gin up irritation at rules, the way he does about mask wearing. Under the Trump administration, the EPA has rolled back nearly 100 environmental regulations meant to reduce emissions, lower energy usage, and save Americans money. Take energy-efficient light bulbs, for example, another regulated product he has complained about â along with low-flow showerheads and toilets. His EPA has delayed raising efficiency standards to a level that incandescent bulbs could not meet, and Trump often says he will âbring backâ incandescent bulbs. His crowds cheer at that one, too.
The White House press office did not answer calls for comment.
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This would seem necessary in the face of dramatic climate change, but would not sound right to say, Oil producing states - TX, PA and Oklanhoma. Some context needed.
Before the debate, President Trump said his advisers urged him to interrupt less and let Joe Biden talk more, the better to let the Democratic nominee slip up.
Toward the end of the debate, Trump may have gotten what he wanted â a Biden comment about closing down the oil industry that probably wonât play well in states up for grabs this November, such as Texas and Pennsylvania. But thereâs also evidence that Trump is the candidate on the defensive when it comes to public opinion and climate change.
Hereâs what happened:
Trump: âWould you close down the oil industry?â
Biden: âYes. I would transition.â
Trump: âThat is a big statement.â
Biden: âThat is a big statement.â
Trump: âWhy would you do that?â
Biden: âBecause the oil industry pollutes, significantly. ⌠Because it has to be replaced by renewable energy over time, over time. And Iâd stop giving to the oil industry, Iâd stop giving them federal subsidies.â
Trump: âBasically, what he is saying is heâs going to destroy the oil industry. Will you remember that, Texas? Will you remember that, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma?â
Biden: âHe takes everything out of context. But the point is, we have to move toward a net zero emissions. The first place to do that by the year 2035 is in energy production. By 2050: Totally.â
Bidenâs âyesâ answer to closing down the oil industry was potentially serious enough for him to try to clarify his remarks to reporters later at the airport. He said he would stop giving money to the oil industry, rather than close it down entirely: âWeâre not going to get rid of fossil fuels. Weâre going to get rid of subsidies for fossil fuels.â
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I donât know how damaging that is. I think one of the things that really needs to be explained to people is that oil =! freedom for a lot of reasons, but also some people are pretty tired of being on fire.
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I suppose it depends on how people (in PA specifically) âhearâ those comments? Either way, Biden needs to be more clear and nuanced with his answer because saying âyesâ leaves too much for interpretation
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Agree with you on this. Biden kind of threw it in at the end and Trump tried to skewer him immediately. Yes, it is a complex issue. When we get to net-zero carbon emissions (by 2035 is it?) It will take a long process of weaning public use and changing over industry standards which takes a whole lot of ânuanceâ as you say.
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As someone who comes from PA, I can tell you that in the relevant parts of the state a not-insignificant percentage is one big underground coal fire and are still like âcoal is fine.â They are not people he is going to reach on this particular issue. Nothing he could have said that isnât âbring back coal IMOâ is going to play with the fossil fuels crowd there. Thatâs compounded by the fact that people who live in the areas in question tend to be less ideologically opposed to Trump in general.
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