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they didn't "win" anything
This isn't like a fight for LGBT rights, or the rights of African Americans. This is science and more like gravity or the value of PI.
They can ignore it all they want, and stop the government from issuing regulations to either stop it or mitigate the effects.
But droughts and famine and floods will be more frequent and severe, the great extinction event will continue and accelerate. The oceans will rise. And we will pay huge amounts of money to try and fix it in 30 years.
We already are paying for it...
All so they could have another decade or so of fossil fuel profits.