More Evidence Of A Republican Pivot On Climate
The Republicans are pivoting on climate. Giving only lip service to climate and weak policy suggestions will not gain them votes in #Election2020.
The Republicans are pivoting on climate. Giving only lip service to climate and weak policy suggestions will not gain them votes in #Election2020.
If Republicans don’t change their tune on climate change, they stand a good chance of losing Florida and the Presidency in 2020.
Three data points — polling, a Climate Caucus and a senior Trump supporter saying he should accept climate change — suggest Republican denial is thawing.
The most simplistic — but I think quite valid — way I can find of describing the differences is that there are 1) moderate “small government” Republicans, 2) extremist anti-government Republicans with shallow ideological perspective but who actually like social support systems and basic societal protection (just don’t realize this until it touches their lives), and 3) extremely extremist Republicans who think the whole system needs to be destroyed to some degree or another.
As I just wrote, a one-week cleantech tour (and semi-vacation) in the Netherlands put my “link drop” articles on hold for a bit, but I was saving stories along the way. After a couple of weeks, below is a massive list of non-CleanTechnica renewable energy, energy storage, climate, and other green stories … [continued]
Some leading businesses, Hollywood, Obama, and the public are putting the pressure on Congress to move forward with a comprehensive climate and clean energy bill, but while we wait on that, some Senators have decided to tackle some specific coal pollutants that cost the American public trillions of dollars in … [continued]
That’s right, you read the headline correctly. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham from South Carolina is getting censored by his own colleagues because of his clean energy, reduce greenhouse gases and carbon pollution, improve energy security message, but he is not letting up. The Senator gave a speech this week that … [continued]