SherBeareth<p>👀 <br>US politics is an outlier bastion of climate denial with nearly one in four members of Congress dismissing the reality of climate change, even as alarm has grown among the American public over dangerous global heating.</p><p>A total of 123 elected representatives in the House of Representatives and 23 senators deny the existence of human-caused climate change. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/weirdly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weirdly</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Disbelievers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Disbelievers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/08/republican-climate-deniers-congress-house-senate/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">motherjones.com/politics/2024/</span><span class="invisible">08/republican-climate-deniers-congress-house-senate/</span></a></p>