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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Best video on the subject, period. And from a real live climate expert. The politicization of science is shameful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0PQ1cOlCJI
ABC
All Bull Crap
The Democrats and the media are flailing away, and trying to find anything negative that will stick to Trump and Republicans. Climate, race and abortion are the only three issues they can talk about. I’m beginning to sense some desperation on their part, but we still got two and a half months to the election. That’s a long time in politics!
What if you touch it and it burns your hand, like having a fever?
Projection
Russian disinformation!
Remember - experts say!
Experts say.
The go to words of those seeking to Schumer their horse poo on the wall and call it “news.”
CAGW is a hoax.
Commies gonna commie.
Now THAT'S global warming.
When the Obamas sell their two oceanfront mansions, I’ll perk up a hair.
Weather Experts ,LOL
Hey, the Demoncrats are not only good at inventing new words they are also abusing current words to fit their perverted policies.
ANYTIME you see written “experts say”, prepare for an onslaught of gaslighting Bull crap!
that would mean a volcano erupted. or if you are a democrat politician...you have arrived at the right place.
Touché.
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