Election Results Make U.S. Congress Action on Climate Change Even Less Likely Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, who will lead the Senate, emphasizes coal-mining jobs over warnings from scientists. Republicans won control of the Senate for the first time in eight years and expanded their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. Emboldened, they will also likely move to block funding for the crown jewel of Obama's climate agenda: the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. This looming political shift could slow U.S. efforts to reduce heat-trapping emissions and comes just days after scientists on the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged swift action to slash emissions from the burning of fossil fuels. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...ays-us-election-results-could-reshape-energy/ Yeah, the earth is fucked. I just hope everyone remembers which party denied the science as the ecosystems crash, cities flood, droughts kill and wars erupt because of climate change.
Yes, if that nightmarish fantasy of yours comes to pass, I'm sure people will be all but consumed on which political group to blame.
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses as extreme weather creates more global humanitarian crises. The report lays out a road map to show how the military will adapt to rising sea levels, more violent storms and widespread droughts. The Defense Department will begin by integrating plans for climate change risks across all of its operations, from war games and strategic military planning situations to a rethinking of the movement of supplies. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, speaking Monday at a meeting of defense ministers in Peru, highlighted the report’s findings and the global security threats of climate change. Continue reading the main story “The loss of glaciers will strain water supplies in several areas of our hemisphere,” Mr. Hagel said. “Destruction and devastation from hurricanes can sow the seeds for instability. Droughts and crop failures can leave millions of people without any lifeline, and trigger waves of mass migration.”
Flashback 2007: Sen Boxer gloats to Inhofe over Dem takeover of Senate at Gore hearing: ‘Elections have consequences’ Boxer to Inhofe: 'You're not making the rules - you used to when you did this. You don't do this any more.'