Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested humans during the Ice Age didn’t try to address climate change, so we shouldn’t either. (via MaddowBlog)
A Washington Post analysisat the Wisconsin Republican’s assessment and said it might very well have been “the worst argument for climate inaction in political history.”
On the surface, the rhetoric served as a timely reminder that folks like Greene and Johnson are almost certainly in the wrong line of work, but there’s a larger context to all of this: The entirety of the Republican Party at the federal level appears desperate to derail effort to deal with the climate crisis.last week, for example, that the House GOP’s radical debt ceiling hostage note is ostensibly focused on debt reduction and moving the budget closer to balance.
[T]he bill Mr. McCarthy introduced ... also carries a second big objective that has little to do with debt: undercutting President Biden’s climate and clean energy agenda and increasing American production of fossil fuels. ... More than half the 320 pages of legislative text [is designed] to speed up leasing and permitting for oil and gas drilling. ... The Republican plan also gives priority to removing clean energy incentives that were included in Mr.
In other words, for all intents and purposes, the GOP’s debt ceiling hostage note is also an anti-climate bill. To the dismay of those concerned with the planet’s future, it’s not the first. The House Republicans’ H.R. 1 — a bill number set aside for the party’s top legislative priority — was designed specifically
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