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88 Republicans in Congress are denying reality in two ways: they reject the science of climate change AND theyre rejecting the democratic results of the 2020 election. NEW ANALYSIS:
Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress - Center for American Progress
There are 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress who still deny the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change.
americanprogress.org
9:41 AM · Mar 30, 2021
CAP Action
@CAPAction
88 Republicans in Congress are denying reality in two ways: they reject the science of climate change AND theyre rejecting the democratic results of the 2020 election. NEW ANALYSIS:
Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress - Center for American Progress
There are 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress who still deny the scientific consensus of human-caused climate change.
americanprogress.org
9:41 AM · Mar 30, 2021
https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2021/03/30/497685/climate-deniers-117th-congress/
According to new analysis from the Center for American Progress, there are still 139 elected officials in the 117th Congress, including 109 representatives and 30 senators, who refuse to acknowledge the scientific evidence of human-caused climate change. All 139 of these climate-denying elected officials have made recent statements casting doubt on the clear, established scientific consensus that the world is warmingand that human activity is to blame. These same 139 climate-denying members have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries.
While the number of climate deniers has shrunk by 11 members (from 150 to 139) since the CAP Action Funds analysis of the 116th Congresslargely in the face of growing and overwhelming public support for action on climatetheir numbers still include the majority of the congressional Republican caucus.* These climate deniers comprise 52 percent of House Republicans; 60 percent of Senate Republicans; and more than one-quarter of the total number of elected officials in Congress. Furthermore, despite the decline in total overall deniers in Congress, a new concerning trend has emerged: Of the 69 freshmen representatives and senators elected to their respective offices in 2020, one-third deny the science of climate change, including 20 new House Republicans and three-of-four new Republican senators. Of note, no currently serving Democratic or independent elected officials have engaged in explicit climate denial by this analysis definition.**
It is stark and shocking that there are still 139 elected officials in the U.S. Congress who deny or dodge clear scientific consensus, despite the obvious effects of climate change now accelerating across the country and globe. Climate change is no longer a distant threat looming in the futurenor has it been for quite some time. In 2020, there were 22 extreme weather events that caused damage in the United States that exceeded $1 billion each, a new annual record that shattered the previous record of 16 events that happened in both 2011 and 2017. With the backdrop of a deadly pandemic, Americans last year had to flee their homes in the face of out-of-control wildfires and an unprecedented number of hurricanes and seek shelter from sweltering heat wavesevents that exacerbate already-troubling racial and economic inequalities.
While more than 25 percent of elected officials in the 117th U.S. Congress refuse to accept this clear and experienced reality, the American public has noticed. Climate change featured prominently in the 2020 presidential election, with younger voters ranking climate action as their top priority. The public knows how to solve climate change tooby deep and immediate cuts to U.S. carbon dioxide emissions through sectoral standards coupled with massive investments that create jobs in the clean economies of the future, all while addressing decades of environmental injustices. According to exit polls on November 3, 2020 by Fox News, these investments are supported by 70 percent of the American public. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of adults believe that the government is doing too little to address the climate crisis, and 80 percent support tougher limits on carbon pollution from power plants.
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Climate Deniers in the 117th Congress - Center for American Progress (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Mar 2021
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(36,457 posts)1. For all our pride in our big brain & superior intelligence, we've fucked things up pretty good.
I think this turning away from science, which I've read is happening on a global scale, is a refusal of humanity to accept that we aren't as smart as we think we are.