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Climate change will be “mild and manageable”? Well, I guess that’s an improvement over Republicans saying climate change is a hoax. Maybe?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nah I'm pretty sure it would be exactly like the EPA under trump.

In other words bound, gagged, neutered, and in the trunk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryJoe Biden, the current president, has called climate change a "clear and present danger" to the health of individuals and their communities.

In a shift from the past, many conservatives now accept the overwhelming scientific evidence of human-caused climate change, but they minimize the consequences of it, and criticize proposed solutions.

Importantly, it is a balanced approach so that we don't get caught up in pushing out unproven technologies or setting us to comply with political timelines in a way that creates unintended consequences.

There is an actual substantive conversation – but scientifically substanced – with a number of scientists all over the country, all over the world, where they understand that the outlook is more mild and manageable.

Yeah, if you look at the latest assessment from the United Nations, if you get past the summary for policymakers, if you get past a lot of political talking points coming from these agencies right now — the ones that you mentioned that are being impacted by the agenda of the Biden administration — if you dig into a lot of those papers, then they do reveal that the observed data and the relative outlooks, as far as our understanding goes, lends itself to a more mild and manageable outlook.

And the federal subsidy or taxpayer support is another tool the left is using to force this transition, in addition to overregulation from agencies like the EPA that push people away and take away the choice of businesses and consumers to decide what types of products they ultimately use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't tell from this summary if the article is sane or bat shit, but usually the bot is good

Edit: the article is good, the summary is bad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You can count on this though: spending on something will be way up.