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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(133,121 posts)
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:24 PM Oct 2025

United States downgraded to 'critically insufficient' in major international rating: 'The US is being left behind'

An initiative that tracks progress in the fight against rising global temperatures has downgraded the United States from "insufficient" to "critically insufficient" based on a new report.

What's happening?

The Climate Action Tracker, which analyzes countries' efforts to reduce the amount of planet-heating pollution in the atmosphere, announced in late September that it had downgraded the U.S. in light of the current administration's drastic U-turn on climate policy.

"The Trump administration's massive support for expanding fossil fuels and unwinding clean energy rollout means the U.S. is being left behind, particularly as China ramps up production of renewable energy, electric vehicles and other clean technology," Bill Hare, the chief executive officer of Climate Analytics, a nonprofit partnering on the Climate Action Tracker, said in a CAT press release.

"This could become a fossil fuel industry-inspired debacle for the U.S. economy."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/united-states-downgraded-to-critically-insufficient-in-major-international-rating-the-us-is-being-left-behind/ar-AA1NLWHU

Dipshit Donny doesn't believe climate change is real so here we are.

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United States downgraded to 'critically insufficient' in major international rating: 'The US is being left behind' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 OP
Is pootin happy yet? SheltieLover Oct 2025 #1
I'm sure it did put a smile on that creepy Cha Oct 2025 #4
I'm sure it did SheltieLover Oct 2025 #5
Aloha, Sheltie..🌺 Cha Oct 2025 #7
Indeed Hey Joe Oct 2025 #2
On Purpose, imo, Putin likes it that way. Cha Oct 2025 #3
Mahalo, Cha! SheltieLover Oct 2025 #6
It's so Obvious.. Cha Oct 2025 #8
Sounds right ! Home of the heartless, Land of the critically insufficient! Bread and Circuses Oct 2025 #9
The economy is tanking, but the Republican senators are on a island living it up............. Lovie777 Oct 2025 #10
OH, I thought we were judged 'critically insufficient' on HUMAN RIGHTS, Jack Valentino Oct 2025 #11
I'm not sure what we're not critically insufficient on. ananda Oct 2025 #12
All 3 of those words apply to Trumpy throwing tax $$$ at the coal industry!! riversedge Oct 2025 #13
Dipshit Donny calls global warming a hoax, but not when it threatens his golf course... SunSeeker Oct 2025 #14
Lies and contradictions are par for the course with TSF. Prof. Toru Tanaka Oct 2025 #17
The oil companies Racygrandma Oct 2025 #15
Shame on every person who voted for this beast. Joinfortmill Oct 2025 #16
We were once great -- then we decided to invest in our billionaires rather than our country. W_HAMILTON Oct 2025 #18
ugh BlueWaveNeverEnd Oct 2025 #19

Cha

(317,073 posts)
7. Aloha, Sheltie..🌺
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:40 PM
Oct 2025

TY for the flower.

And, the ... We could all use plenty of those these ddys.

Hey Joe

(433 posts)
2. Indeed
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:28 PM
Oct 2025

Trump will herald this news as a victory over the “woke” agenda.
We are doomed with these fuckwits.

Lovie777

(21,865 posts)
10. The economy is tanking, but the Republican senators are on a island living it up.............
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 02:54 PM
Oct 2025

with tax payer's money, well at least some of it.............

while they are making fun of the USA.

Jack Valentino

(4,431 posts)
11. OH, I thought we were judged 'critically insufficient' on HUMAN RIGHTS,
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:36 PM
Oct 2025

but this is about climate change...

ananda

(34,490 posts)
12. I'm not sure what we're not critically insufficient on.
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:39 PM
Oct 2025

Except for idiocy, cruelty, and insanity.

SunSeeker

(57,625 posts)
14. Dipshit Donny calls global warming a hoax, but not when it threatens his golf course...
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:54 PM
Oct 2025

In 2016, a company owned by Donald Trump submitted a permit application to build a sea wall to protect his golf course in County Clare, Ireland. The application explicitly cited climate change and its consequences, including rising sea levels and increased extreme weather, as the reason for needing the wall. This was widely reported by news outlets, which contrasted the application's reasoning with Trump's public statements at the time that called climate change a "hoax." 

Trump Says Climate Change a 'Hoax' but Acknowledges Threat to Golf Course - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-climate-change-hoax-acknowledges-threat-golf/story

Racygrandma

(186 posts)
15. The oil companies
Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:56 PM
Oct 2025

Have a lot of political power. They like it that way and are not going to give it up.

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