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silence7@slrpnk.net to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

100 Degree Days, Wildfires ... to US Congressional Republicans, Nothing to See Here

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100 Degree Days, Wildfires ... to US Congressional Republicans, Nothing to See Here

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silence7@slrpnk.net to Politics@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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You’d think the connection between the weather and climate change would be obvious. But you haven’t discussed the matter with Republicans in Congress.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1033161

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Coverage of the attribution of recent record overall heat to the global warming largely caused by fossil fuels

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    There’s only one metric being optimized for here- campaign finance donations. Until that stops being the case, politicians will continue to optimize for it as we see here.

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      That’s what the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge that a lot of the Democrats have signed is about dealing with.

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        It’s nice but only one source of funding that the Democrats never much relied on to begin with. If you want a real solution, it needs to be something more like this

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          The Democrats have introduced legislation, but never had the votes to pass anything like that.

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