In January, 2000, during the run-up to the New Hampshire primaries, Presidential candidates in the Granite State were confronted by a young man—a recent Dartmouth graduate—wearing a red cape, orange long johns, and yellow-painted galoshes. He called himself Captain Climate, and asked any candidate within shouting distance, “What’s your plan?” All the candidates ignored him, except one., then the senior United States senator from Arizona.
. It has been called “the most important climate action in U.S. history,” which is certainly true; the act provides more than three hundred and fifty billion dollars—mostly in the form of tax credits—to promote clean energy. This time, the vote was strictly along party lines: all fifty Democrats voted for it, all fifty Republicans against it. On Friday, the House passed the bill, also with no Republican votes.
How did caring about a drowned or desiccated future come to be a partisan issue? Perhaps the simplest answer is money. A report put out two years ago by the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis noted, “In the 2000s, several bipartisan climate bills were circulating in the Senate.” Then, in 2010, the Supreme Court, in thedecision, ruled that corporations and wealthy donors could, effectively, pour unlimited amounts of cash into electioneering.
Even money, though, seems an insufficient explanation. The G.O.P.’s opposition to action on climate change has transcended crass calculation to become an article of faith. Several red states, including Texas and Louisiana, have taken steps to penalize financial firms that say they are reducing their investments in fossil fuels, even though these steps are likely to cost the states’ taxpayers money. As the I.R.A.
They wised up. Look at Europe right now.
Oil and Coal Lobbyists
The Republicans have been financed by Bircher, Libertarian billionaires who are connected to the coal, oil and gas industries.
Exxon and the Koch brothers to name 2 things
Mob
Yep, the Republican Party left me. I did not leave it.
Big Oil pays pays better bribes.
cyberfelidae They discovered, that the needs of the few outweighs the needs of the many.
It didn‘t „become“ partisan. When we were fewer, they could just locally avoid environmental issues and didn‘t care about others. So to them it always was partisan. Now it‘s global in every aspect and they don‘t (want) to accept that. Now they’re trapped in denial and habit.
Republicans started kicking out corrupt politicians that break American energy production while buying trillions of dollars of 'green energy' supplies that 'happen' to be 95% Made in China. Make America Great Again!
According to Global warming (before it was changed to climate change) our coast lands and cities should have disappeared 40 years ago. They didn’t! So facts happened!!
How did “fighting climate change” become so anti-science (and scaremongering)? Pushing wind & solar for base load energy was always an ill-conceived strategy. Need nuclear and some combination of natgas, solar, hydro and in some places wind
Three words answer why climate change became partisan : Fossil Fuel industry
They won the 2016 election and every so-called democratic outfit (yourselves included) went to the RIGHT of Trump to resist him (a fascist president - your description, not mine), it really exposed the true face of Amerika.
Climate change is a hoax
thedavidcrosby Ask Newt Gingrich. This was his game plan all along.
thedavidcrosby Republicans supported both the Clean Air Act & the Clean Water Act.
Because it's pseudo-science. Models are not facts or proof.
Money. Money is what happened to them. It’s always money.
They devolved into Repugnants.
Typical New Yorker article: *Scratches head, looks around* 'how did [insert subject] become political?' Darling, it always was. Try pulling your head out of Condé Nast's deep pockets every once and a while 😚
You know who tried to get a bipartisan climate deal going with Senator John Kerry? Lindsey Graham. You want to know what happened to the GOP? Just look at Lindsey Graham today. Trumpist to the soulless core.
Talking about a 90 degree to the dark side ....
They buried McCain
Money and power.
Money
It's almost as if truth is partisan
Ask his C list celebrity daughter.
Cheney/Bush melted down the economy and then a black man took over. They had to do something about that.
The first paper on Global Warming was published by Dr. Edward Teller. Perhaps ask why the Left doesn't even recognize it
money
CO2 is the food of plants. Stop your anti-life hysteria.
Bought and paid for. Simple.
Oh eff off. McCain. Just announce you are trash conservatives.
Life comes at you fast
The soft Republicans lost power.
Newt Gingrich
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