GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record
GOP Platform Doesn’t Mention the Word “Climate” Once — Even After Hottest Year on Record
The Trump-led 2024 Republican platform instead calls for an American Iron Dome and the largest deportation operation ever.
I think they are quite content to do absolutely nothing about our most pressing social and environmental issues. I struggle to remember the last time I heard an actual attempt at a solving a real problem. Mostly, I hear rhetoric and personal takes.
But they got that one (1) transgender child out of school sports!
Of course it doesn't. The GOP plan regarding the climate is "Ignore it and the problem that doesn't exist in the first place will go away." This plan is deeply unpopular with anyone who sees climate change as a problem, and for those who don't simply not mentioning it at all is in keeping with their values anyway. "Ignore it."
It's worse than that.
The GOP plan on climate is "We'll capitalism out way out of it."
Record high temperatures? Sell AC units and increase prices on electricity.
Water getting more scarce? Buy inefficient desalinators that run on diesel.
Property values declining due to increasing ocean levels? Ban ocean levels.
Here's a taste of the GOP view:
I used to be a government employee in the state of Florida (when Rick Scott was governor) as an environmental educator. One day, we received a memo that for all government employees the phrases "climate change", "global warming", and "sustainability" were now banned from our official duties. How was I supposed to teach about the environment in Florida without using those? I was still allowed to say "unusual weather event".
I left this role, and Florida, and heard that this policy had been repealed.
Wouldn't you know it, I heard from some of my colleagues still there that DeSantis just went ahead and did the same thing, while also making sure the new law impacts the energy grid.
So not only is their plan to ignore it - but they want to force no one else to talk about it either, or make any improvements on their own of their own volition.
By the time the earth becomes unlivable, all the rich people will just build planet survival bases underground or escape to the stars while 99.9999% of the population dies a slow death. The billionaires are obsessed with space for a reason.
Of course they don't.
The second they do, their base might start realizing that they're fucked, that their children might die young due to the effects of climate change, and that its all caused by the very people they voted for.
Tar and feathers would be the least of their worries, they would be shredded toes first.
So better not mention it, with the added benefit that you can keep pushing laws that get you even more monies
Considering they had no platform at all in 2020, that’s not particularly surprising.
"The hottest year on record".
This is becoming a joke, right?
Practically every year is the hottest on record now. It's kind of lost significance, when it's generally a good bet next year will be hotter.- 2010
- 2014
- 2015 / 2022
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018 / 2021
- 2019
- 2020
- 2023
- 2024 (so far)
- 2025 (probably)
Edited for clarity.
CitationThat is in fact the point.
Is it?
Because "hottest year on record" doesn't indicate that at all.
there’s also the nice, easy to understand visual of the warming stripes …
That's awesome!
It makes sense to say "the hottest year on record" if "practically every year is the hottest on record now" and you're talking about the most recent year.
Everything I come across says that 2023 was the hottest year on record so far, but I don’t know the source of this info and I’ve never seen the list you provided.
Yeah the person above you had a slightly old list. 2023 smashed all previous records and was number one. Well until 2024 it was number one I guess.
https://www.noaa.gov/news/2023-was-worlds-warmest-year-on-record-by-far
At this point, if I understand the data correctly, the planet would need to get dangerously cold for the remainder of the year to not go down as the hottest year on record
Constant headlines about "the hottest ever" are getting stale. Takes the meaning out hearing it over and over and over.
Sounds like mom, "it's the hottest/coldest day of the summer/winter!" Yeah mom, it's the hottest or coldest day many, many times a year.
I'm also tired of, "smashed records!", when it was 1 or 2 degrees over the record.
Don't know how else to report it, but people are letting these headlines go in one ear and out the other. There's no real impact to the reader.
