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hatrack

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Tue Aug 10, 2021, 08:44 AM Aug 2021

Zero Mentions Of IPCC Report By GQP Legislators, Though 2 Took Time To Sneer @ Dem Climate Proposals

A new report on Monday from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the United Nations group dedicated to climate science, warns that drastic and immediate effort is needed to slow climate change. Congressional Republicans are simply ignoring it. A review of social media posts by House and Senate Republicans on Monday found zero mentions of the report or its findings. Only two lawmakers even mentioned the climate, mocking efforts to protect it.

The Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis report, the sixth assessment by the international body, relied on more than 14,000 studies. It reached the "unequivocal" conclusion that humans are inducing global warming and that it can "have profound consequences for the world's social, economic, and natural systems."

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But congressional Republicans — most of whom deny the science that humans are causing climate change — said nothing. The lone GOP mentions of the climate on Monday came from Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson. Both mentioned it in the context of opposing Democratic proposals to address the environment.

Hinson bashed "out of control spending by the far-left" that would fund "a civilian climate corps." Greene warned that Democratic proposals to promote electric vehicles are really just a scheme to "enslave America to China."

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https://www.nationalmemo.com/republicans-un-climate-report-

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