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New speaker could take House GOP backward on climate (oh no!)
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| 10/5/23
| Emma Dumain
Posted on 10/05/2023 4:04:26 AM PDT by cotton1706
Whoever succeeds Kevin McCarthy as House speaker will almost certainly be a friend of fossil fuel interests and a likely skeptic of the fight against climate change.
The prospect is prompting worries among some green conservatives who appreciated the California Republican’s efforts to move the party away from straight-up climate science denialism.
Those advocates see the current slate of candidates as either untested on or outright hostile to policies designed to address a warming planet.
Many of those fears are being directed at Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the current House majority leader who on Wednesday formally announced his candidacy to replace McCarthy.
“Not so good,” was the blunt assessment from former Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), regarding Scalise’s environmental record. Inglis now leads RepublicEn, seeking to expand the conservative climate movement.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections
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To: cotton1706
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:00:13 AM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: cotton1706
The most important consideration is to get someone who will look good on TV for sound bites. Whatever McCarthy’s faults, he always has a good haircut on TV.
To: cotton1706
I was going to make several points about this BS article, but youze gize made them all for me!
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:34:49 AM PDT
by
FMBass
(Que sais Je)
To: cotton1706
Global Socialist Gaia Worshiping Watermelons everywhere are scared.
The next Republican speaker might actually stand for what the voters want. What a disaster that would be!
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:42:25 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: Telepathic Intruder
If we are bad enough on climate does that mean I get to buy beachfront properties for pennies on the dollar?
Go for it!
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:50:05 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
If we are bad enough on climate does that mean I get to buy beachfront properties for pennies on the dollar?
Go for it!
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:50:07 AM PDT
by
cgbg
("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
To: cotton1706
backward on climate change tyranny
forward on liberty
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:56:02 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: cdcdawg
watermelon “conservatives”
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:58:28 AM PDT
by
joshua c
(to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
To: cotton1706
Getting rid of that clown is shaping up to be the best thing to happen since Trump won.
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posted on
10/05/2023 7:23:19 AM PDT
by
HYPOCRACY
(This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
To: cdcdawg
A “green conservative” is someone who wants the green cash from the warmageddonist lobby.
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posted on
10/05/2023 7:31:02 AM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Telepathic Intruder
"Follow the science", bleat the man made climate change cult sheep.
Instead, let's follow the history of the science.
For over 50 years the "scientist" cult soothsayers have been making end of the earth predictions.
What percentage of their predictions have come to pass? ZERO percent. 100% WRONG.
They just keep moving the date of the Apocalypse up from 5 to 12 years at a whack.
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posted on
10/05/2023 8:01:59 AM PDT
by
Mogger
To: cotton1706
The author...Emma.
To: janetjanet998
It’s worse than that - only 7.30 years left.
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posted on
10/05/2023 8:33:25 AM PDT
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: Libloather
when the cooling starts, I will do my part by using more fossil fuels.
To: Tell It Right
“warmageddonist”
Nice! I think I will be “borrowing” that one.
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posted on
10/05/2023 4:15:23 PM PDT
by
cdcdawg
(Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
To: cdcdawg
Thanks. If you like a visual for the term "warmageddonist", I added to a graph showing the past few thousand years of warming and cooling. Know that not only is the Modern Warm Period very much a repeat of prior cooling periods. But also, the warm periods are the good times to be alive (higher crop yields, more predictable rain patterns, less deaths by plagues) than the cooling periods. Most especially compared to the most recent one (the Little Ice Age). I can only imagine what people struggling to survive during the cooling periods would think about us if they could hear us caterwaul about the fictional warmageddon that any of them would be happy to "put up with".
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posted on
10/05/2023 6:56:30 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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