Amid Extreme Weather, a Shift Among Republicans on Climate Change

[Zorro]

Many Republicans in Congress no longer deny that Earth is heating because of fossil fuel emissions. But they say abandoning oil, gas and coal will harm the economy.

WASHINGTON — After a decade of disputing the existence of climate change, many leading Republicans are shifting their posture amid deadly heat waves, devastating drought and ferocious wildfires that have bludgeoned their districts and unnerved their constituents back home.

Members of Congress who long insisted that the climate is changing due to natural cycles have notably adjusted that view, with many now acknowledging the solid science that emissions from burning oil, gas and coal have raised Earth’s temperature.

But their growing acceptance of the reality of climate change has not translated into support for the one strategy that scientists said in a major United Nations report this week is imperative to avert an even more harrowing future: stop burning fossil fuels.

Instead, Republicans want to spend billions to prepare communities to cope with extreme weather, but are trying to block efforts by Democrats to cut the emissions that are fueling the disasters in the first place.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/climate/republicans-climate-change.html

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Well, I suppose it's good to see RePuQ's transitioning to fact-based arguments instead of

science-denying fantasy-world BULLSHIT like they usually peddle.

The 'what are we going to do now that we all know this is happening' is the far more important (and interesting, IMHO) argument to engage in, so ... the sooner this starts in earnest, the better.

Though I still plan to ridicule the fucking idiots for whom it took this long to figure 'reality' out well into the future, cause that's the kinda person I am

[Binkie The Clown]

2. You know what will harm the economy a million times more severly?

The complete collapse of the ecosystem that supports us by supporting our food supply.

[The Conductor]

3. Th Truth About Facts & Republicans

Facts don't care if you believe in them or not, and can bite you in the ass if ignored.

Republicans don't believe facts until they bite them in the ass.

[ancianita]

4. Their new "compassion conservative" variant.

Always insisting on their freedom to learn the hard way.