With disasters mounting by the day, the U.S. may finally enact real climate policy

[rangerrebew]

With disasters mounting by the day, the U.S. may finally enact real climate policy
But there are some big “ifs.”

Alexander C. Kaufman

Published
    Jul 20, 2021
 

It’s the summer of cascading disasters in the United States: Downpours have made rivers of major metropoles’ transit lines, a coastal condo collapsed, flames have engulfed vast swaths of land, and triple-digit heat has roasted typically temperate regions. The catastrophes have brought a mounting death toll and incalculable trauma.

But, for the first time in over a decade, the U.S. government may actually do something about the emissions destabilizing the climate.

Last week, the Biden administration and its allies in Congress announced plans to pack the federal budget with resources and rules that could jolt a country long paralyzed by corporate obstruction and science denial into finally confronting an unprecedented crisis.

https://grist.org/climate/with-disasters-mounting-by-the-day-the-u-s-may-finally-enact-real-climate-policy/

[Kamaji]

What is this nonsense?

[thackney]

What is this nonsense?

What the budget deal means for climate policy
https://www.eenews.net/articles/what-the-budget-deal-means-for-climate-policy/
07/15/2021

Many Democrats were in high spirits yesterday after agreeing to a $3.5 trillion budget resolution that will lay the groundwork for an array of climate priorities, but their celebrations will be short-lived as they begin jockeying over policy specifics and the complex rules that govern the reconciliation process.

The real fights begin now.

Lawmakers and Democratic aides said yesterday the legislation that emerges from the budget road map will include a clean electricity standard with the goal of reducing emissions 50% and hitting 80% clean energy by 2030.

They’re also looking to wrap in a Civilian Climate Corps — a major progressive priority — expansions of clean energy and vehicle tax credits, a clean energy accelerator, weatherization and federal procurement efforts and a fee on methane emissions....

[dfwgator]

Basically any bad weather event in any part of the world is used by the  media to reinforce the narrative.  It's the "Big Lie" in action,   say it enough and people are just going to accept it.

[skeeter]

Basically any bad weather event in any part of the world is used by the  media to reinforce the narrative.  It's the "Big Lie" in action,   say it enough and people are just going to accept it.

They will if the worthless, feckless, d*ckless GOP doesn’t offer anything like a spirited counter argument.

[GtHawk]

What is this nonsense?

Really a condo collapse due to faulty engineering/construction/maintenance, fires due to failed policies and normal drought cycles(albeit made worse by mans population boom and removal of huge amounts of water from aquifers and lakes) and triple-digit heat has roasted typically temperate regions.(according to who, when, historically?) These are Climate issues? Climate issues that can be affected on way or the other by man?