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   From: alredy@bloomberg.com   
      
   Mark Gongloff,   
   Columnist   
   New House Speaker Widens Partisan Climate Divide   
   Mike Johnson believes even less than his predecessor in an emergency that   
   is alredy costing Americans many tens of billions of dollars each year.   
      
   ***alredy***, implies the write is also deficient in mathmathics and basic   
   science.  These climate clowns are basing their hysteria on a few hundred   
   years of actual temperature history.   
      
   Learning that new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson doesn’t believe humans   
   have caused a climate emergency is about as shocking as learning that   
   water is wet. He is an avowed MAGA Republican who may or may not believe   
   Noah had dinosaurs on the Ark. Still, it represents a serious blow in the   
   climate fight that most Americans support, at a moment when we can't   
   afford to waste time playing politics. Just ask taxpayers, who are seeing   
   insurance rates skyrocket to cover the cost of protecting against climate-   
   fueled disasters.   
      
   It is now a fact about the United States, the wealthiest nation Earth as   
   well as one of its biggest greenhouse-gas polluters, that a person who has   
   suggested climate change is being caused by “natural cycles” is second in   
   the line of succession to be president. Johnson’s ascension from little-   
   known representative from Louisiana risks even more deeply entrenching in   
   American politics the false idea of established climate science as a   
   matter of opinion or debate. Few other countries are so divided on this   
   issue. It wouldn’t matter, except that the US should be leading the fight   
   for change. Instead, it risks sinking deeper into paralysis at a time when   
   it’s already moving far too slowly to avoid the worst impacts of planetary   
   heating.   
      
   https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-10-29/house-speaker-mike-   
   johnson-widens-partisan-climate-change-divide?leadSource=uverify%20wall   
      
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