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Republicans have decided climate change is, as our incoming president claims, a “scam” and “Chinese hoax” intended to cripple the U.S. economy. Simply put, that’s hogwash and the evidence is stacking up day by day, year by year, disaster by disaster worldwide.
Yet, at both the state and federal level the GOP majorities have budgetary and policy priorities based in the mistaken belief that ignoring our over-heated global climate will somehow make it go away. Nothing could be further from the truth — and it’s getting worse a lot faster than predicted…