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An initiative that tracks progress in the fight against rising global temperatures has downgraded the United States from "insufficient" to "critically insufficient" based on a new report.
What's happening?
The Climate Action Tracker, which analyzes countries' efforts to reduce the amount of planet-heating pollution in the atmosphere, announced in late September that it had downgraded the U.S. in light of the current administration's drastic U-turn on climate policy.
"The Trump administration's massive support for expanding fossil fuels and unwinding clean energy rollout means the U.S. is being left behind, particularly as China ramps up production of renewable energy, electric vehicles and other clean technology," Bill Hare, the chief executive officer of Climate Analytics, a nonprofit partnering on the Climate Action Tracker, said in a CAT press release.
"This could become a fossil fuel industry-inspired debacle for the U.S. economy."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/united-states-downgraded-to-critically-insufficient-in-major-international-rating-the-us-is-being-left-behind/ar-AA1NLWHU
Dipshit Donny doesn't believe climate change is real so here we are.
SheltieLover
(81,716 posts)Cha
(320,590 posts)face.
SheltieLover
(81,716 posts)Aloha, Cha. 🌺
Cha
(320,590 posts)TY for the flower.
And, the
... We could all use plenty of those these ddys.
Hey Joe
(814 posts)Trump will herald this news as a victory over the woke agenda.
We are doomed with these fuckwits.
Cha
(320,590 posts)SheltieLover
(81,716 posts)Aloha. 🌺
Cha
(320,590 posts)you're Welcome & Thank You, Sheltie..
Bread and Circuses
(2,121 posts)Lovie777
(23,741 posts)with tax payer's money, well at least some of it.............
while they are making fun of the USA.
Jack Valentino
(5,252 posts)but this is about climate change...
ananda
(35,514 posts)Except for idiocy, cruelty, and insanity.
riversedge
(81,541 posts)SunSeeker
(58,374 posts)In 2016, a company owned by Donald Trump submitted a permit application to build a sea wall to protect his golf course in County Clare, Ireland. The application explicitly cited climate change and its consequences, including rising sea levels and increased extreme weather, as the reason for needing the wall. This was widely reported by news outlets, which contrasted the application's reasoning with Trump's public statements at the time that called climate change a "hoax."
Trump Says Climate Change a 'Hoax' but Acknowledges Threat to Golf Course - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-climate-change-hoax-acknowledges-threat-golf/story
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(2,959 posts)Racygrandma
(209 posts)Have a lot of political power. They like it that way and are not going to give it up.
Joinfortmill
(21,668 posts)W_HAMILTON
(10,438 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
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