Yves here. Even though the Republican response to climate change is little more than a hand wave, the enthusiasm about the Democrats’ approach seems overdone. The Paris Accord goals already look like too little, too late. And that’s before getting to how much hidden carbon we import via Chinese made goods.
There’s too much inertia and wishful thinking and not enough fear.
By Dana Nuccitelli, an environmental scientist, writer, and author of ‘Climatology versus Pseudoscience,’ published in 2015. He has published 10 peer-reviewed studies related to climate change and has been writing about the subject since 2010 for outlets including Skeptical Science and The Guardian. Originally published at Yale Climate Connections