Populist politicians have railroaded America’s climate-change efforts, creating global deadlock that shows no signs of breaking soon, writes Jan McGirk.
Government measures aimed at curbing global warming are a sure-fire way to steam up America’s libertarian populists, who tend to scoff at scientific warnings about the perils of greenhouse-gas emissions and the human component in climate change. Most of the Tea Party crowd rejects carbon regulation and trading schemes as unwanted interference from a “nanny state”., the shrill contrarian who was defeated as the Republican vice presidential candidate two years ago and later quit halfway through her term as governor of Alaska, panders to these climate-change “sceptics” by dismissing relevant research as “
Republican, the new speaker of the House of Representatives, Congress’s lower chamber, has said: “The idea that carbon dioxide is a carcinogen that is harmful to our environment is almost comical.” No one is laughing.
Government measures aimed at curbing global warming are a sure-fire way to steam up America’s libertarian populists, who tend to scoff at scientific warnings about the perils of greenhouse-gas emissions and the human component in climate change. Most of the Tea Party crowd rejects carbon regulation and trading schemes as unwanted interference from a “nanny state”., the shrill contrarian who was defeated as the Republican vice presidential candidate two years ago and later quit halfway through her term as governor of Alaska, panders to these climate-change “sceptics” by dismissing relevant research as”.
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