| Whenever you hear a phrase like "radical left’s fringe climate agenda" or "radical progressive Democrats," you know you're listening to someone who either doesn't understand what they're talking about or who is purposfully misleading. |
| The {Republican} party platform, issued last week, makes no mention of climate change. Instead, it encourages more production of oil, gas and coal, the burning of which is dangerously driving up global temperatures. “We will DRILL, BABY, DRILL,” it says, referring to oil as “liquid gold.”
By contrast, Mr. Biden has taken the most aggressive action of any president to cut emissions from coal, oil and gas and encourage a transition to wind, solar and other carbon-free energy. He has directed every federal agency from the Agriculture Department to the Pentagon to consider how climate change is affecting their core missions. If Mr. Biden has taken an all-of-government approach to fighting climate change, Mr. Trump and his allies would adopt the opposite: scrubbing “climate” from all federal functions and promoting fossil fuels. Mr. Trump and his allies want to end federal subsidies for electric vehicles, battery development and the wind and solar industries, preferring instead to open up the Alaskan wilderness to oil drilling, encourage more offshore drilling and expand gas export terminals. But if elected, Mr. Trump has indicated he would pull back from the global fight against climate change, as he did when he announced in 2017 that the United States would be the first and only country to withdraw from the Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. (The United States subsequently rejoined under Mr. Biden.) And it’s possible he would go even further. Mr. Trump’s former aides said that if he wins in November, he would remove the country altogether from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international body that works on climate policy and created the 2015 Paris deal. Federal research into climate change would slow or disappear under Project 2025, which recommends dismantling the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which conducts some of the world’s leading climate research and is also responsible for weather forecasting and tracking the path of hurricanes and other storms. NOAA, according to the authors of Project 2025, is “one of the main drivers of the climate change alarm industry and, as such, is harmful to future U.S. prosperity.” At the agency’s research operation, which include a network of research laboratories, an undersea research center, and several joint research institutes with universities, “the preponderance of its climate-change research should be disbanded,” the blueprint said. As president, Mr. Trump tried to replace top officials with political appointees who denied the existence of climate change and put pressure on federal scientists to water down their conclusions. Scientists refused to change their findings and attempts by the Trump administration to bury climate research were also not successful. “Thank God they didn’t know how to run a government,” Thomas Armstrong, who led the National Climate Assessment program under the Obama administration, said at the end of Mr. Trump’s presidency, adding, “It could have been a lot worse.” Source: "At the Republican National Convention, Climate Change Isn’t a Problem" By Lisa Friedman - NY Times - 7/15/24 The Senate is set to vote this week on whether to repeal the first major update to national standards for gas furnaces in four decades Starting four years from now, the rule finalized last September requires manufacturers to make the least efficient gas furnaces on the market today waste 15% less energy, cutting back on more carbon dioxide than the entirety of France emits in a single year and saving ratepayers money. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) {. . .} introduced legislation to revoke Biden’s gas furnace rule under the Congressional Review Act. “I’m committed to doing everything in my power to push back against this rule that puts the radical left’s fringe climate agenda before the needs of the American people,” Cruz said in a press release. Source: "Congress To Vote On Repealing Rule That Would Save Americans $1.5 Billion A Year On Heating" By Alexander C. Kaufman - HuffPost - 5/21/2024 “There is currently an unprecedented and a clear and present danger to the integrity of our election system — and that is the threat of noncitizens and illegal aliens voting in our elections,” Mr. Johnson warned during a news conference on the steps of the Capitol this month. But he conceded that he had no evidence to support that assertion. “We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it’s not been something that is easily provable,” Mr. Johnson said. “We don’t have that number.” Republicans also are moving forward this week on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, sponsored by Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas and an influential leader of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus. “Secure elections are a key cornerstone for any representative government; without them, we won’t have a country,” Mr. Roy said in a statement. “Radical progressive Democrats know this and are using open border policies while also attacking election integrity laws to fundamentally remake America.” Source: "House G.O.P. Moves to Crack Down on Noncitizen Voting, Sowing False Narrative" By Luke Broadwater - NY Times - 5/21/24 |
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