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This is the best summary I could come up with:
And without deeper cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions and accelerated adaptation to changes already underway, the report authors warn that “severe climate risks to the United States will continue to grow.”
As international delegates gather later this month for negotiations at the COP28 climate conference to further map out how they’ll address warming, the US will be one of many countries coming to the table with alarmingly little progress on a problem that the research continues to show is getting worse.
Now, the Biden administration is leading with a splashier release: The fifth assessment has new bells and whistles, including an accompanying podcast, art series, and even a poetry anthology compiled by two poet laureates and a climate scientist.
Young people today “have not just intellectually started to appreciate the concept of this crisis, it is their lived experience to see the sky turn orange or to breathe in the smoke from wildfires, hundreds of miles [away],” Biden’s national climate adviser Ali Zaidi said on a press call.
Scientists have begun to piece together how factors like race, income, construction techniques, and insurance rates can compound the effects of a disaster already worsened by climate change, creating social disruption and widening inequities.
While rising temperatures can fuel hotter heat waves and more damaging storms, the harms that people experience —injuries, illnesses, homelessness, stress, financial loss — are a function of decisions they make as individuals and as communities.
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So what is the difference between “burying” something and doing nothing about it, or performatively doing nothing about it?
Biden has:
- tried a drilling permit moratorium, which got overturned in court.
- Cut the issuance of drilling leases to the minimum required by law
- passed the Inflation Reduction Act
- enacted a regulation to force vehicle electrification
- passed a regulation to force fossil fuels out of most power plants
- Started up a Civilian Climate Corps
The Washington Post has a much more complete list
Days after President Biden told world leaders that his administration is committed to slowing climate change with “action, and not words,” his Interior Department oversaw one of the largest oil and gas lease sales in American history.
Cool.
Yes, they lost a lawsuit and were forced to do it. Per your article:
Shortly after taking office, Biden announced a temporary pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters, pending a review of their impact on the worsening climate crisis. Roughly a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from fossil fuel extraction from public lands.
More than a dozen Republican-led states filed a lawsuit challenging the pause, saying it would cause undue harm to the energy industry and state economies that are reliant on fossil fuel production.
Earlier this summer, a federal judge in Louisiana sided with those states, issuing a nationwide preliminary injunction. The Biden administration is appealing that decision but agreed to resume lease sales in the interim. Additional lease sales are scheduled in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana and other Western states early next year.
We’re not supposed to have a temporary dictatorship of the President, but competing spheres of power. This is a great example of that.
Super cool how it’s illegal to stop destroying the planet. Fuck your “competing spheres of power.”
So join me in working to get congress and the judiciary on board with doing the right thing.
Why would they do that? You are going to vote blue no matter who anyway, so what leverage do you have?
US elections have two parts. A primary challenge is a great way to move policy without endangering your position in the general