{"id":1024955,"date":"2023-07-27T19:31:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1024955"},"modified":"2024-05-23T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:59:11","slug":"as-americans-face-extreme-heat-maga-republicans-still-ignore-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/as-americans-face-extreme-heat-maga-republicans-still-ignore-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"As Americans Face Extreme Heat, MAGA Republicans Still Ignore Climate Change\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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As millions of Americans deal with extreme heat this week, President Biden today announced new steps to protect workers and communities from its impact. Meanwhile, as the Biden-Harris administration is taking action to deliver the most ambitious climate agenda in U.S. history, MAGA Republicans still refuse to acknowledge the urgency of the climate crisis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden is tackling the climate crisis head-on with new actions to provide relief to Americans facing extreme heat. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

CNN<\/a>: \u201cPresident Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a whole-of-government approach to protecting communities and workers from what he called the \u2018real crisis\u2019 of extreme heat amid a recent spate of high temperatures and 150 million Americans are under heat alerts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast, MAGA Republicans running for president have cozied up to Big Oil and Big Gas and railed against efforts to combat the climate crisis. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

New York Times<\/a>: \u201cOver four years, the Trump<\/strong> administration dismantled major climate policies and rolled back many more rules governing clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alex Ward, Politico<\/a>: \u201cPence<\/strong> says that there will be \u2018modest\u2019 temperature changes over the next century. The UN estimates that average Earth temperatures will rise by about 3 degrees above preindustrial levels by the first half of 2030, which could have severe consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Guardian<\/a>: \u201cRon DeSantis <\/strong>has been accused of a \u2018catastrophic\u2019 approach to the climate crisis after he launched his campaign for US president by saying he rejects the \u2018politicization of the weather\u2019 and questioning whether hurricanes hitting his home state of Florida have been worsened by climate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramaswamy<\/strong><\/a>: \u201cThe Earth\u2019s surface area is covered with more plant life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

today than 50 years ago – because, yes, carbon is plant food and surface temperatures are a little higher. More facts that you\u2019ll never hear from the Church of Climate Change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reuters<\/a>: \u201cThe governors of five Republican states are ready to fight Democratic President-elect Joe Biden if he tries to require the power sector to slash greenhouse gas emissions. \u2026 \u2018Our power companies have voluntarily embraced sources of alternative energy without heavy-handed regulation from<\/p>\n\n\n\n

government,\u2019 Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson<\/strong> said in a statement.\u201d
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HuffPost<\/a>: \u201cWhen asked by Joe Scarborough on MSNBC\u2019s \u2018Morning Joe\u2019 on Tuesday whether he believes climate change is occurring and man-made, the New Jersey governor replied, \u2018The climate has been changing forever and it will always change and man will always contribute to it. It\u2019s not a crisis.\u2019 \u2026 Scarborough pointed out that recent years have been uncharacteristically hot, shattering temperature records, but Christie<\/strong> was skeptical. \u2018I don\u2019t buy that, Joe. … I don\u2019t see any evidence that it\u2019s a crisis,\u2019 Christie said. When asked what scientific data he was relying on for evidence, Christie pointed not to specific studies or charts but to his own intuition. \u2018That\u2019s my feeling,\u2019 he said. \u2018I didn\u2019t say I was relying on any scientist.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaitlan Collins, CNN<\/a>: \u201cNorth Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum<\/strong> doesn\u2019t say whether he believes humans are to blame for global warming as a new analysis finds extreme heat waves were made significantly more likely by the human-caused climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And congressional Republicans are also waging war on President Biden\u2019s <\/strong>Inflation Reduction Act <\/em><\/strong>and its historic investments in tackling the climate crisis. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Independent<\/a>: \u201cHouse Republicans want to repeal Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Voters do not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forbes<\/a>: \u201cThe Republican debt limit bill restores energy credits and incentives for renewables to their conditions prior to the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. The overall impact, therefore\u2014if the legislation passes the Senate and is signed into law by the president\u2014will be to scale back support for renewables and other clean energy initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Los Angeles Times Opinion<\/a>: \u201cLost amid all the attention to the partisan standoff over raising the nation\u2019s debt limit is the insanity of a big part of the Republicans\u2019 bargaining position: Many of the savings they demand in return for a higher debt ceiling would come from killing the landmark clean energy initiatives President Biden achieved just nine months ago, and which already have set off a \u2018gold rush\u2019 of job-creating investments.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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