Posted on 08/27/2024 4:14:58 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
WASHINGTON) -- Climate change may not be a top concern for voters for the 2024 presidential election, but that hasn't stopped many Republicans from making misrepresentations about environmental and energy policy – a departure from the previous tactic of majority climate change denial, according to experts on environmental politics who spoke with ABC News.
Debates around energy policy, specifically regarding renewable energy versus fossil fuels, are inherently connected to climate change, in large part because fossil fuels are the largest contributor to climate change, according to the United Nations, accounting for more than 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions and almost 90% of carbon dioxide emissions.
In recent years, Republicans have been finding opportunities to condemn green energy, like in February 2021, when a historic freeze caused widespread power outages in Texas, affecting more than 4.5 million people and killing hundreds. At the time, some Republican politicians used the crisis to make false claims about renewable energy, claiming that it was unreliable and the cause of the outages. However, a failure to adequately winterize power sources – particularly the state's natural gas infrastructure, which "represented 58 percent of all generating units experiencing unplanned outages, derates or failures to start" during the outage – is what caused the grid failure, according to a report by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released the following November.
While many Republicans previously denied the science that human-caused emissions exacerbated climate change, experts on environmental politics say the conversation has evolved to focus less on the climate science.
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Climate Denial, Homophobic, Toxic Males, etc
We were foolish not to fatally throat punch that rhetoric from day one — that’s a figure of speech, statists.
Global Warming Skeptics Question Authority
Princeton Professor Denies Global Warming Theory Jan. 12, 2009
Princeton Physics Professor Discredits Anthropogenic Climate Change Theory Dec. 21, 2016
German scientists reject man-made global warming
Real Scientist Uncover Serious Flaw In Global Warming Data
Physicist Howard Hayden's one-letter disproof of global warming claims [pre-Climategate]
'Consensus' On Man-Made Global Warming Collapses in 2008
Perth electrical engineer's discovery will change climate change debate October 04, 2015
Top Physicist Freeman Dyson: Obama 'Took the Wrong Side' on Climate Change October 14, 2015
Global Warming Petition Project Scientists who reject AGW
31,487 American scientists have signed this petition, including 9,029 with PhDs
Prominent Scientists Declare Climate Claims Ahead of UN Summit 'Irrational' * 'Based On Nonsense' * 'Leading us down a false path' November 19, 2015
Don’t forget that it was experts that said bumblbees can’t fly,aeroplanes were just a fad, and if you cross your eyes they will stick that way forever.
Only if someone slaps you on your back when you're doing it. Just like if you're on a swing and you swing hard enough to flip it over the top you'll turn inside out.
Why can’t the climate identify however it chooses?
Just be careful you, “don’t go blind”!
How about transitioning to the notion that spending trillions of dollars on the latest environmentalists schemes isn’t likely to change the climate much.
The Republicans just need their very own Climate Change Plan:
All Media, Television, Movies, Newspaper, magazine,... Shall use 100% Green Renewable Carbon Free Energy for ALL OPERATIONS.
I wish we had that long. Voting begins in North Carolina and Pennsylvania in two weeks when voters begin receiving their mail in ballots. Other states follow all through September. The election will be 60 percent complete by Election Day.
I stepped on a crack once. My mother ended up in traction.
“Experts” suck. They are loaded with their own opinions.
If I recall correctly France used paper ballots in their last national election, and they counted all of them by hand. Yet, they were able to announce the results that same day. Granted, they have a smaller population than we do, but still that old fashioned method is less unwieldy and much less prone to cheating compared to our election system which includes early voting, mail in ballots and easy to rig voting machines.
The MSM has transitioned from lying some of the time to lying all of the time.
See that! Shameful!
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