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US Republicans Are The Worst And Climate Is Their Target

Paul Krugman: “We’re looking at a [Republican] party that has turned its back on science at a time when doing so puts the very future of civilization at risk. That’s the truth, and it needs to be faced head-on.”

Elizabeth Kolbert of the New Yorker: "The best that can be hoped for during the next week in Paris is that the rest of the world ignores the U.S.’s Republican leaders.

Obama-era Republicans are just plain asshole obstructionists:

Joby Warrick of the Washington Post: ”… formerly classified documents from the Bush [I] and Reagan administrations obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and released on Wednesday by the National Security Archive … portray senior officials in the two Republican administrations pressing for an aggressive response to international environmental issues of the day — including, during Bush’s term, climate change…. The assertive posture contrasts with the positions taken this week by leading Republican presidential contenders, several of whom publicly mocked [President] Obama’s efforts to secure an international climate treaty in Paris. The GOP-controlled House voted Tuesday to block the administration’s signature regulation to cut greenhouse-gas pollution from U.S. power plants.“