Sorry, Climate Activists, Montana Climate Harms Are Not Occurring
By
James Taylor
May 13, 2024
An environmental activist website called The Cool Down (TCD) just embarrassed itself by making provably false claims about climate change in Montana and by showing it cannot read a basic calendar.
On May 7, 2024, TCD published an article titled, “State lawmakers pass unprecedented anti-science law: ‘Our families are already suffering.’” The article begins, “Montana’s legislature has passed the nation’s most aggressive anti-science law, prohibiting state agencies from considering the impacts of excess heat-trapping pollution when reviewing permits for large projects like coal mines and power plants.”
Apparently, TCD doesn’t know how to read a calendar. The Montana legislature passed the law in question in April 2023, more than a full year before the TCD article, which is written as if the law had just recently been passed. Most likely, TCD wanted to stir up some climate panic in Montana, did an Internet search for climate change developments in Montana, saw that a climate change law had been passed in ‘April,’ and then wrote a muckraking article about it. But TCD didn’t notice the law was passed in the last week of April 2023 rather than the last week of April 2024, and wrote the article as if the law had just been passed. How embarrassing.
https://climaterealism.com/2024/05/sorry-climate-activists-montana-climate-harms-are-not-occurring/
