Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationallyUS politics is an outlier bastion of climate denial with nearly one in four members of Congress dismissing the reality of climate change, even as alarm has grown among the American public over dangerous global heating, an analysis has found.A total of 123 elected federal representatives – 100 in the House of Representatives and 23 US senators – deny the existence of human-caused climate change, all of them Republicans, according to a recent study of statements made by current members. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/05/climate-change-denial-congress
Author : Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor
Publish date : 2024-08-05 10:00:02
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