{"id":346857,"date":"2024-10-15T12:02:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346857"},"modified":"2024-10-15T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:02:52","slug":"politico-hurricanes-are-doing-little-to-change-republicans-minds-on-climate-change-gop-still-refusing-to-endorse-tougher-action-against-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346857","title":{"rendered":"POLITICO: \u2018Hurricanes are doing little to change Republicans\u2019 minds on climate change\u2019 \u2013 GOP still refusing to \u2018endorse tougher action against climate change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Climate Depot<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Marc Morano<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/10\/11\/hurricanes-republicans-climate-change-no-change-in-position-00183439<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Emma Dumain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two major hurricanes hitting the same region of the country just weeks apart are not moving the needle for most congressional Republicans when it comes to endorsing tougher action against climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Hurricanes Helene and Milton devastated huge swaths of the Southwest and continue to stress the limits of federal disaster relief coffers, Republicans are by and large still not ready to change the way they react and respond to natural disasters, which studies show to be growing in both intensity and frequency as global warming persists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their reasons range broadly from questioning the science to offering solutions different to what advocates and other experts say is needed. Most Republicans don\u2019t see climate change as a crisis and the storms aren\u2019t changing that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs Governor [Ron] DeSantis noted \u2026 major hurricanes are a natural phenomenon that have been a part of Florida life dating back to the 1800s,\u201d said Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Fla.), whose district was affected by both storms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Webster was one of 42 GOP members of the House and Senate contacted by POLITICO\u2019s E&E News this week, asking if they believed the severity of the storms were exacerbated by global warming and if those storms would motivate lawmakers to endorse reducing greenhouse gas emissions \u2014 many of them from burning fossil fuels \u2014 that scientists call the major cause of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the end, only three House Republicans and one Republican senator \u2014 Marco Rubio of Florida \u2014 responded to the requests. None of them attributed the strength of the storms to climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCongresswoman Mace is a strong advocate for bipartisan action on extreme weather and clean energy, but she\u2019s also clear-eyed about Biden-Harris and the Left\u2019s reckless climate spending,\u201d said Gabrielle Lipsky, a spokesperson for Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), who represents coastal Charleston and is a member of the Conservative Climate Caucus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two major hurricanes hitting the same region of the country just weeks apart are not moving the needle for most congressional Republicans when it comes to endorsing tougher action against climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":346864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818056,691819743,691818087,691818104,691824770],"class_list":{"0":"post-346857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-climate-propaganda","10":"tag-global-warming","11":"tag-hurricanes","12":"tag-politico","14":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0Screenshot-2024-10-15-120112-1.png?fit=1610%2C951&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1set","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":346943,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=346943","url_meta":{"origin":346857,"position":0},"title":"Hurricanes Don\u2019t Move Republicans on Climate, Politico Bemoans; They Shouldn\u2019t","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"16\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"A recent article in Politico bemoans the fact that Republicans representing districts which recently suffered deaths, injuries, and severe damage from back-to-back Hurricanes Helene and Milton, have not blamed climate change for the dual event and embraced sharp restrictions on fossil fuels to prevent climate change and future hurricanes. 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