Climate tweets on Sanders

.@VarshPrakash leading off here at #GreenNewDeal event in DC. @aoc, @SenSanders / @BernieSanders and @EdMarkey set to speak tonight. pic.twitter.com/FKd9G4JHoP

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 13, 2019

And now @BernieSanders comes onto the stage to "Bernie!" chants.

"It sounds like you guys are ready for a revolution," he says.

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders: "the scientific community has been v clear and that is if we do not act boldly and aggressively to transform our energy system away from fossil fuels in a very short time … there will be irreparable harm to our planet. … we will not allow that to happen."

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders: "there will be massive migrations of ppl all over the world which will put increased pressure on limited natural resources" and wreak havoc

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders : "it is absolutely imperative that we have american ldrshp that brings the nations of the world together" to transition away from fossil fuels

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders: instead of spending $1T a year on "weapons of mass destruction" think of spending it on "making this planet healthy and habitable."

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders says "it's time to end all subsidies for the oil and gas companies. these companies lied to the american ppl about the very existence of climate change and committed one of the greatest frauds in the history of our country."

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders says "the fossil fuel industry must be forced" to pay for climate damage, just as tobacco industry did for lying about lung cancer

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders : "that means the united states must lead the world with a global approach that emphasizes the green new deal," saying it will create jobs thru investments in retrofitting buildings, clean tech, energy efficient transit that will be "built right here" in US

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders: "the workers in the fossil fuel industry" at oil rigs and coal mines "are not our enemies," must provide "just transition."

"we have an overall economy that is rigged and a political system that is corrupt."

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

.@BernieSanders, to this mostly young crowd, says fossil fuel industry's sowing of misinformation about their effect on climate change is "like the tobacco industry of 50 yrs ago. you remember that? well i know you werent born yet, but you read about it. but i do remember it."

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019

Seems like a fairly standard @BernieSanders stump speech on climate so far. Still awaiting the climate plan his Senate office said he'd outline.

— Zack Colman (@zcolman) May 14, 2019