Climate Change

[Moksha]

Are Republicans still doing their best to deny climate change?

[ceeboo]

Are Republicans still doing their best to deny climate change?

Are Democrats still beating their spouses?

[Chap]

Are Republicans still doing their best to deny climate change?

I am afraid that it looks as if that is the case for many elected Republicans:

Read the extract below - but this alone is enough to give one pause:

"Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition."

Why do they behave like this? Well, the answer might involve $61 million, it seems ...

Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress

According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warming—and that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries.

While the number of climate deniers has shrunk by 11 members (from 150 to 139) since the CAP Action Fund’s analysis of the 116th Congress—largely in the face of growing and overwhelming public support for action on climate—their numbers still include the majority of the congressional Republican caucus.* These climate deniers comprise 52 percent of House Republicans; 60 percent of Senate Republicans; and more than one-quarter of the total number of elected officials in Congress. Furthermore, despite the decline in total overall deniers in Congress, a new concerning trend has emerged: Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition.**

It is stark and shocking that there are still 139 elected officials in the U.S. Congress who deny or dodge clear scientific consensus, despite the obvious effects of climate change now accelerating across the country and globe. Climate change is no longer a distant threat looming in the future—nor has it been for quite some time. In 2020, there were 22 extreme weather events that caused damage in the United States that exceeded $1 billion each, a new annual record that shattered the previous record of 16 events that happened in both 2011 and 2017. With the backdrop of a deadly pandemic, Americans last year had to flee their homes in the face of out-of-control wildfires and an unprecedented number of hurricanes and seek shelter from sweltering heat waves—events that exacerbate already-troubling racial and economic inequalities.

While more than 25 percent of elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress refuse to accept this clear and experienced reality, the American public has noticed. Climate change featured prominently in the 2020 presidential election, with younger voters ranking climate action as their top priority. The public knows how to solve climate change too—by deep and immediate cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions through sectoral standards coupled with massive investments that create jobs in the clean economies of the future, all while addressing decades of environmental injustices. According to exit polls on November 3, 2020 by Fox News, these investments are supported by 70 percent of the American public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of adults believe that the government is doing too little to address the climate crisis, and 80 percent support tougher limits on carbon pollution from power plants

[Atlanticmike]

Are Republicans still doing their best to deny climate change?

As a good conservative, I'm burning as much debris, limbs and cut down trees as possible. I love watching the smoke go up into the atmosphere. I'm mean, the trees need to eat just like we do and I'm tired of them starving. Best thing we could do as environmentalist is help get the carbon dioxide levels around 600 ppm by burning as much wood debris as possible. The trees will love you forever, promise.

[Atlanticmike]

Are Republicans still doing their best to deny climate change?

I am afraid that it looks as if that is the case for many elected Republicans:

Read the extract below - but this alone is enough to give one pause:

"Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition."

Why do they behave like this? Well, the answer might involve $61 million, it seems ...

Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress

According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warming—and that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries.

While the number of climate deniers has shrunk by 11 members (from 150 to 139) since the CAP Action Fund’s analysis of the 116th Congress—largely in the face of growing and overwhelming public support for action on climate—their numbers still include the majority of the congressional Republican caucus.* These climate deniers comprise 52 percent of House Republicans; 60 percent of Senate Republicans; and more than one-quarter of the total number of elected officials in Congress. Furthermore, despite the decline in total overall deniers in Congress, a new concerning trend has emerged: Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis’ definition.**

It is stark and shocking that there are still 139 elected officials in the U.S. Congress who deny or dodge clear scientific consensus, despite the obvious effects of climate change now accelerating across the country and globe. Climate change is no longer a distant threat looming in the future—nor has it been for quite some time. In 2020, there were 22 extreme weather events that caused damage in the United States that exceeded $1 billion each, a new annual record that shattered the previous record of 16 events that happened in both 2011 and 2017. With the backdrop of a deadly pandemic, Americans last year had to flee their homes in the face of out-of-control wildfires and an unprecedented number of hurricanes and seek shelter from sweltering heat waves—events that exacerbate already-troubling racial and economic inequalities.

While more than 25 percent of elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress refuse to accept this clear and experienced reality, the American public has noticed. Climate change featured prominently in the 2020 presidential election, with younger voters ranking climate action as their top priority. The public knows how to solve climate change too—by deep and immediate cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions through sectoral standards coupled with massive investments that create jobs in the clean economies of the future, all while addressing decades of environmental injustices. According to exit polls on November 3, 2020 by Fox News, these investments are supported by 70 percent of the American public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of adults believe that the government is doing too little to address the climate crisis, and 80 percent support tougher limits on carbon pollution from power plants

Sounds like you're upset because republicans don't want to be part of the progressive religion of climate change. How old is your female prophet now, is she 17 or 18, I can't remember?? What are you doing to help climate change?

[Chap]

Fortunately the time is long past when only it was regarded as unusual, even slightly weird, to acknowledge the well established scientific fact that the globe is steadily heating up, and that human activity has got us into this mess:

While more than 25 percent of elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress refuse to accept this clear and experienced reality, the American public has noticed. Climate change featured prominently in the 2020 presidential election, with younger voters ranking climate action as their top priority. The public knows how to solve climate change too—by deep and immediate cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions through sectoral standards coupled with massive investments that create jobs in the clean economies of the future, all while addressing decades of environmental injustices. According to exit polls on November 3, 2020 by Fox News, these investments are supported by 70 percent of the American public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of adults believe that the government is doing too little to address the climate crisis, and 80 percent support tougher limits on carbon pollution from power plants

Two-Thirds of Americans Think Government Should Do More on Climate
Bipartisan backing for carbon capture tax credits, extensive tree-planting efforts

[Atlanticmike]

Fortunately the time is long past when only it was regarded as unusual, even slightly weird, to attention to the well established scientific fact that the globe is steadily heating up, and that human activity has got us into this mess:

While more than 25 percent of elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress refuse to accept this clear and experienced reality, the American public has noticed. Climate change featured prominently in the 2020 presidential election, with younger voters ranking climate action as their top priority. The public knows how to solve climate change too—by deep and immediate cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions through sectoral standards coupled with massive investments that create jobs in the clean economies of the future, all while addressing decades of environmental injustices. According to exit polls on November 3, 2020 by Fox News, these investments are supported by 70 percent of the American public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of adults believe that the government is doing too little to address the climate crisis, and 80 percent support tougher limits on carbon pollution from power plants

Two-Thirds of Americans Think Government Should Do More on Climate
Bipartisan backing for carbon capture tax credits, extensive tree-planting efforts

You PROGRESSIVE ding-a-lings have scared the youth of today so bad there's a chronic fear of environmental doom that has infected our younger generations. Kids are going to therapist because they're scared the world is about to burn, run out of oxygen or some other nightmare they keep hearing about through today's media.

What's funny about the whole situation is, the prophets of climate change ride around in new cars have multiple cars , have multiple houses, which means the have multiple electric bills, they ride around on private Jets, and so on and so on. These mother fxxxers aren't environmentalist. They are prophets forming a new global religion and the "devil" is named carbon dioxide, an evil killer that can't be seen. Sound familiar exmormons?? Wake up!! You're in a progressive cult and it's called climate change.

[canpakes]

Sound familiar exmormons?? Wake up!! You're in a progressive cult and it's called climate change.

So, the choice is either to be in a cult that believes that there can be climate change, or to be in a cult that believes there can be no such thing as climate change?

I’m thinking that there’s a middle ground in there, somewhere.

[Atlanticmike]

Sound familiar exmormons?? Wake up!! You're in a progressive cult and it's called climate change.

So, the choice is either to be in a cult that believes that there can be climate change, or to be in a cult that believes there can be no such thing as climate change?

I’m thinking that there’s a middle ground in there, somewhere.

Climate change is the perfect vehicle for a worldwide religion. It's so complicated no one can comprehend it. You can't see the "devil" CO2. And to scare you, all the prophets of this new religion have to do is put up pictures of polar bears floating by on a piece of ice.

Honest question canpakes, what concerns you about the earth warming?

[canpakes]

Honest question canpakes, what concerns you about the earth warming?

Shifts in resource availability, water issues (already seeing this out West), food production; specifically, the rate-of-change in climate-affected systems when compared to our ability to compensate or adapt.

All of these can have an impact on infrastructure, as well as create political and financial instability. Mitigation isn’t cheap. Check out what Miami is going through these days to ensure that their real estate market isn’t going to be sunk by sea level change, as example.

How about yourself?