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US Republicans oppose climate funding as millions suffer in extreme weather
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
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How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
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What's "climate funding" ?
I agree that the article is not the greatest but it does explain a bit:
It sounds like they 1) don't want to support funding anything that hurts the fossil fuel industry or makes us use less oil and 2) don't want to give free climate change mitigation help that goes to communities (instead of business or at all? I don't know). When you put yourself in the mind of someone who doesn't believe humans cause climate change and gets huge amounts of lobbying money from the fossil fuel industry, it makes sense.
They could cut subsidies to fossil fuel industry, which would do more to help climate then this exercise.
Neither side is doing anything about dealing with actual culprits. With subsidies, nuclear and renewables can compete properly but this topic does not get any attention from the fake news.
That's because the fossil fuels industry bought off all the Republicans and a small number of Democrats. This let them force the Inflation Reduction Act to be all-carrot-no-stick
India and Vietnam have higher share of solar in their electricity mix then the US and I kind of doubt they hand out massive subsidies to solar.