Climate denialists – 23 in Senate and 100 in House – are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally

US 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.

“It’s definitely concerning,” said Kat So, campaign manager for energy and environment campaigns at the Center for American Progress, who wrote the report.

The report defined climate deniers as those who say that the climate crisis is not real or not primarily caused by humans, or claim that climate science is not settled, that extreme weather is not caused by global warming or that planet-warming pollution is beneficial.

  • 𝔻𝕒𝕧𝕖@lemmy.world
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    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

    ― Upton Sinclair

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      most GOP voters just bleat what they’re told to bleat by fox news and the 0.001% who have a financial interest in never moving away from fossil fuels

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      Which surely couldn’t have anything to do with underfunded schools, book bannings, and sensationalised news.

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    I wonder if the venn diagram of climate change deniers and those who receive significant contributions from the oil lobby is essentially a circle.

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    Koch brother: I missed how many? It’s a good thing my brother is dead or he’d kill me for not buying all of them! Well at least we have half the Senate, that’s all we really need.

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    And that’s just the ones denying it…

    Lots more understand it’s a real thing, but are perfectly happy we set record breaking fossil fuels production under Biden.

    Because it’s one of the few things propping up “the economy”.

    Unfortunately pulling coal out of the ground and shipping it to China where they burn coal less efficiently leads to even more climate change than just burning it here.

    If the rest really cared, we wouldn’t be breaking records as we speak

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    Democrats too though instead of outright denial in words it is said in the antiquated politics they push