"We also had to take on the climate deniers. And guess what? We beat them" — Biden pic.twitter.com/fXKrcWP74X
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 26, 2022
Dark Brandon in fine form.
Check out @atrupar thread on this.
Biden campaigning in Maryland on stakes of the 2022 midterms: "The survival of our planet is on the ballot." pic.twitter.com/aHfKiBZSxN
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 25, 2022
If this year of global extremes of heatwaves, flood and droughts, in a average post La Niña period, hasn’t convinced the skeptics, they surely must be wondering what the heck is in store for us all during the next strong El Niño, looking at global temperature statistics, which show a clear upwards trend. (excluding the UAH’s stats which measures the temperatures high up in the Troposphere (where no creatures roam).
Awesome. The score is now 1 for the climate activists compared to 37 for the deniers. Biden got a bill that was much needed, but still very watered down – the very first major climate bill after decades of inaction. Incredible, incredible victory.
‘A deal with the devil’:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/joe-manchin-west-virginia-mountain-valley-pipeline
Another recent article about environmental justice – residents of Port Arthur and other Gulf Coast towns are worried about being further disenfranchised with the parts of the IRA bill that force offshore oil and gas leases. They now have few to no means of blocking them locally:
The Washington Post: Democrats’ climate bill compromises raise environmental justice fears.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/08/27/climate-permitting-sacrifice-zone/