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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:24 PM Oct 2025

United States downgraded to 'critically insufficient' in major international rating: 'The US is being left behind' [View all]

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.

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