With Joe Biden and national Democrats, it's the same as with coronavirus: Blame Trump for what's wrong, propose inadequate fixes.
CJR has a long roundup piece, starting with the latest scientific findings. The low end, on temperatures, of doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide is now at 2.6C, not 1.5C. That's almost 5°F for the Celsius-illiterate. The high end dropped just half a degree C. It also notes that major investors begged the Fed and the SEC to require companies to put their climate exposure risks on their books. Sadly, CJR's Jon Allsop then stans for Biden's climate plan, contra my first paragraph, and doesn't even mention that it doesn't even mention fracking. (McKibben also doesn't mention that.)
The likely hotter temperatures then, especially coupled with the increasing likelihood of Western inaction, given what I just wrote, means more global refugees. ProPublica covers that.
Maybe we can give them all oil roughnecking jobs, since oil is now going to bail out our National Parks maintenance backlog. And, per High Country News, many ConservaDems like this Tom Keukes are just fine with that.
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