Links tagged “deforestation”
- House hearing confronts GOP’s 1 trillion tree planting push to battle climate change
The bill from Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) gives the legislative backing to plant 1 trillion trees by 2050. The bill, from Westerman, a Yale-educated forester, was unveiled earlier this month as part of a moderate package of Republican bills to combat climate change — earning a mixed reception within Republican circles. The measure incentivizes the use of wood products, but it does not require any specific level of emissions reductions, in line with a Republican emphasis on avoiding new regulations on fossil fuel production or consumption. Westerman said he began crafting it following publication of a July 2019 study in Science that found planting a trillion trees could significantly curb carbon dioxide emissions. "If we can't agree about trees, I don't know what we could agree about," he told POLITICO. (Excerpt from 2019 Science study: "The restoration of trees remains among the most effective strategies for climate change mitigation.")
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- Right-Wing Backlash Greets Modest GOP Foray Into ‘Climate Change’
- GOP, courting youth, talks climate change – Seeks to plant 1 trillion trees
Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, who drafted a resolution last year echoing Democratic talking points that climate change is a threat to national security, agreed.
“I am encouraged that my Republican colleagues are abandoning climate denial,” he said.
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- Some GOP lawmakers introduce ‘climate messaging exercise’ – ‘A slippery slope to a slightly less intrusive Green New Deal’
The American Energy Alliance, a free-market energy industry group, panned Wednesday’s Republican proposal as a “climate messaging exercise” that mimics Democratic proposals.
“His (McCarthy’s) costly proposal is a slippery slope to a slightly less intrusive Green New Deal,” said AEA President Thomas Pyle.
- GOP’s ‘climate’ plan denounced as ‘Romney liberal climate regulations’
Club for Growth: “Besides hurting our economy, these measures will not make a single environmentalist vote for a Republican and only alienate conservatives across the country."
- CEI: Climate Bills Supported by Some House Republicans are Bad Policy – ‘Not only bad policy, but will not bring any political relief’
- Settled Science?! Trees both cause & solve ‘global warming’?! – GOP climate pandering seeks to plant billions of trees
GOP climate bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
Plant or not plant trees to fight "global warming?! It's all so confusing! This is what the (allegedly) settled science says:
Christian Science Monitor: Why planting some trees could make global warming worse - 2016
Live Science: Want to Fight Climate Change? Plant 1 Trillion Trees - 2019
Discover Mag: We Can’t Just Plant Billions of Trees to Stop Climate Change - 2019
AP: Best way to fight climate change? Plant a trillion trees - 2019
Climate News Network: Planting trees will not slow global warming - 2017
- NYT reveals how Trump administration was duped into promoting planting trees as a climate ‘solution’ – Meanwhile, even UN IPCC and journal Nature ‘find that global-scale deforestation has a net cooling influence on Earth’s climate’
- Study Projecting Net Carbon Dioxide Benefits through 2050 Defended
- GOP bill will seek to commit US to planting 3.3 billion trees annually
