Climate change deniers make up nearly a quarter of US Congress
by Oliver Milman and Dharna Noor from Environment | The Guardian on (#6PQZ4)
Climate denialists - 23 in Senate and 100 in House - are all Republicans and make US an outlier internationally
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, an analysis has found.
A total of 123 elected federal representatives - 100 in the House of Representatives and 23 US senators - deny the existence of human-caused climate change, all of them Republicans, according to a recent study of statements made by current members.
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