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The world is burning from a record heat wave. GOP presidential candidates don't give a fuck
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4103291-gop-front-runners-have-little-to-say-on-climate-change-amid-record-heat/#:~:text=GOP%20presidential%20candidates%20are%20shrugging,-by%20Zack%20Budryk&text=The%20nation%20is%20baking%20in,about%20communities%20at%20sea%20level.
The nation is baking in a record heat wave that is serving as a reminder of how climate change is rapidly affecting human life — from endangering outdoor workers to raising existential questions about communities at sea level.
Yet when it comes to the GOP presidential field, climate change is mostly shrugged off.
None of the 11 major candidates for president is offering significant warnings about the issue.
Most have acknowledged the existence of human-caused climate change, and some have taken action to combat it while holding lower offices.
But most of the candidates are putting more of an emphasis on drilling for oil and natural gas than on taking steps to control emissions.
None of them has a dedicated climate change subsection on the issues page of their campaign website — although biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s economic plan includes the bullet point “abandon the climate cult and unshackle nuclear energy” — and none of the candidates with a dedicated page for energy policy advocates scaling back fossil fuel development.
Playing down the threat
Former President Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, stands out from the rest of the Republican field on the issue for his active minimization of the threat of climate change.
Trump, who withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accords under which countries promised to lower emissions, has in the past acknowledged humans have played some role in changing the climate. However, he has repeatedly played down the dangers, including by misrepresenting the threat of rising sea levels and claiming without any scientific basis that climate change will reverse itself.
Trump has vowed to aggressively expand domestic fossil fuel production and “ensure the United States is never again at the mercy of a foreign supplier of energy.”
His campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
In addition to withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement — which President Biden reentered in 2021 — Trump also staffed his former administration with climate change skeptics, including former Environmental Protection Agency Administrators Scott Pruitt and Scott Wheeler, and unwound more than 100 existing environmental regulations while in office.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4103291-gop-front-runners-have-little-to-say-on-climate-change-amid-record-heat/#:~:text=GOP%20presidential%20candidates%20are%20shrugging,-by%20Zack%20Budryk&text=The%20nation%20is%20baking%20in,about%20communities%20at%20sea%20level.
The nation is baking in a record heat wave that is serving as a reminder of how climate change is rapidly affecting human life — from endangering outdoor workers to raising existential questions about communities at sea level.
Yet when it comes to the GOP presidential field, climate change is mostly shrugged off.
None of the 11 major candidates for president is offering significant warnings about the issue.
Most have acknowledged the existence of human-caused climate change, and some have taken action to combat it while holding lower offices.
But most of the candidates are putting more of an emphasis on drilling for oil and natural gas than on taking steps to control emissions.
None of them has a dedicated climate change subsection on the issues page of their campaign website — although biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy’s economic plan includes the bullet point “abandon the climate cult and unshackle nuclear energy” — and none of the candidates with a dedicated page for energy policy advocates scaling back fossil fuel development.
Playing down the threat
Former President Trump, the front-runner for the GOP nomination, stands out from the rest of the Republican field on the issue for his active minimization of the threat of climate change.
Trump, who withdrew the United States from the Paris climate accords under which countries promised to lower emissions, has in the past acknowledged humans have played some role in changing the climate. However, he has repeatedly played down the dangers, including by misrepresenting the threat of rising sea levels and claiming without any scientific basis that climate change will reverse itself.
Trump has vowed to aggressively expand domestic fossil fuel production and “ensure the United States is never again at the mercy of a foreign supplier of energy.”
His campaign did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
In addition to withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris Agreement — which President Biden reentered in 2021 — Trump also staffed his former administration with climate change skeptics, including former Environmental Protection Agency Administrators Scott Pruitt and Scott Wheeler, and unwound more than 100 existing environmental regulations while in office.
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