Links tagged “gop”

'His super PAC, NextGen Climate Action, has raised just $1.2 million from other donors toward that goal, according to still-unreleased figures that his aides shared with POLITICO...So far, the only really big donor to the Steyer cause is Steyer himself. The numbers show just how hard it may be for Steyer to persuade rich liberals to spend their millions on climate change while voters focus on the economy, immigration and Obamacare.'

'How bad can it be? After all, Tom Steyer has managed to rent out the Senate in March, forcing Democrats into an embarrassing all-nighter to protest a lack of action on climate change in a chamber where they control the agenda.'

'A new study in the journal Climatic Change has identified a closely related phenomenon. Call it the "rich idiot" effect: The study finds that among Republicans, as levels of income increase, so does their likelihood of "dismissing the dangers associated with climate change." But among Democrats and independents, there is little or no change in climate views as levels of income increase or decrease.'

Aussie warmist Tim Flannery: 'We’re witnessing an unprecedented rise in climate denial in media and politics – personally I’ve never seen anything like it.'

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Flashback: Watch Now: Morano on TV on Aussie PM undermining Obama’s climate plan: ‘I am jealous of the leadership of Canada & Australia. It is so sad being in America’ – ‘The rest of the world is abandoning carbon pricing as the U.S. is jumping right in’

GOP bill “includes provisions to stop various harmful, costly, and potentially job-killing regulations by the EPA." Not stopping there, Republicans also want to stop a rule to redefine the EPA’s jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.'