Look Out, Mike Johnson!! The Conservative Climate Caucus Is "Concerned" About Your Stance On Climate Policy!!

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House Republicans who want their party to engage on climate policy will likely continue to be led over the next two years by a lawmaker who has been largely silent on the issue. Since winning the gavel in October 2023, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has done little to shed light on whether he believes human activity is contributing to the climate crisis — even as more of his members are joining caucuses designed to stop the planet from warming.

His failure so far to weigh in on the matter in a meaningful way raises questions about whether House Republican leaders will take climate members’ concerns seriously in the 119th Congress — especially with Johnson under pressure from both archconservatives as he also attends to moderates making up his narrow majority. "I’d like to hear what he has to say about it,” said Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, regarding the speaker’s climate views. Carter, a vice chair of the House Conservative Climate Caucus, was among the nearly two dozen House Republicans surveyed by POLITICO’s E&E News in recent months about whether Johnson believes in the scientific conclusions surrounding climate change.

None of them could say for sure where Johnson stood on the matter, making it hard to anticipate how the speaker will help settle internal divisions on climate and energy — especially when House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, a fellow Louisianan, is vocally skeptical that humans are having a role in warming the planet.

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He has since said little else, with Johnson’s office having declined multiple requests from POLITICO’s E&E News to elaborate on the speaker’s position. And while his silence is notable given he hails from a state vulnerable to coastal erosion and flooding, it’s not surprising to people familiar with his work in the state Legislature. “There’s a reason people don’t know” his position, said Jackson Voss, a climate policy coordinator with the Louisiana-based Alliance for Affordable Energy. “Obviously, climate and the environment have not been issues that Speaker Johnson, throughout his political career, has focused on very much. He was briefly in the state Legislature, and he focused almost entirely on trying to restrict LGBTQ and abortion rights.”

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https://www.eenews.net/articles/how-will-mike-johnson-lead-republicans-on-climate-2/

[Think. Again.]

1. I'd like to read more about...

....these republican House members who "are joining caucuses designed to stop the planet from warming."

I strongly suspect those caucuses are not actually designed to "stop the planet from warming" as politico claims in the article, but instead are designed to push the fossil fuel industry's latest attempts to derail any non-CO2 emitting energy technology development.

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2. It's greenwashing, but with marble walls instead of corporate logos . . .

Nothing more.

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3. Yep, here's an example of some of their "climate B.S....

&quot Heather Reams, president of Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions), said anyone who is judging Johnson’s statements by whether he mentions the words “climate change” is missing the point.

“Republicans engage on climate differently than Democrats do,” she said. “Democrats talk about their climate agenda; Republicans talk about an energy agenda, and climate is a co-benefit of it.

“So if you’re replacing coal with natural gas, you’re lowering emissions. That’s a climate policy,” she continued."

....Basically pushing the fossil fuel industry's agenda of selling methane instead of any clean energy tech.

[John1956PA]

4. The Department of Newspeak is clarifying all of this.

"Initiatives seeking the cause of global warming shall promote the use of eons-old combustible products to counter same."
My apologies to G. Orwell.

[Ray Bruns]

5. There's a conservative climate caucus?

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6. Yes indeed!! They like to talk about how much they care about the environment!!

Sometimes, they even post things on Twitter or their websites about how much they care about the environment!!

They also have some Young Republican hangers-on who like to talk and post about how much they care about the enviromment!!

Just click on the link below to see a picture with some nature stuff on their website!!

https://conservativeclimatecaucus-curtis.house.gov/

And here's what they do!!

What We Do

Educate House Republicans on climate policies and legislation consistent with conservative values

Organize co-dels and staff-dels to better understand technologies and issues related to climate

Organize Member and staff briefings on conservative climate proposals

Bring Republicans to the table to fight against radical progressive climate proposals that would hurt our economy, American workers, and national security

Introduce Republican members and staff to leaders in industry, think tanks, and more

[eppur_se_muova]

9. CCINO nt

[gizmodog]

7. It's better than climate denial

Ten years ago you could hardly find a repub who would accept that human-caused climate change is real. Now some of them are out in the open admitting that it’s a problem. US Sen John Curtis, UT is willing to discuss solutions

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8. No, it's not . . . It lets them pretend they're doing something (they're not).

It lets them pretend they care (they don't).

It lets them pretend there's plenty of time left (there isn't).

It lets them pretend that Technology (TM) will make the problem go away (it can't).

At least flat-out climate deniers are honestly deluded, as opposed to slimy greenwash salesmen.

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10. It's like something out of "Yes Minister" ...

The important thing is not to do something, nor to try to do something, but to appear to be trying to do something.