Election Results Make U.S. Congress Action on Climate Change Even Less Likely

[NickB79]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141105-united-states-congress-election-climate/

An alignment of the newly empowered McConnell and fellow Republican leaders—who either openly doubt scientists' findings that human industry has heated the planet, or contend that curbing carbon emissions into the Earth's atmosphere isn't worth the potential cost of lost jobs—is likely to create the most hostile political environment ever for addressing climate change in Washington.

The outcome of Tuesday's elections will provide McConnell's party a solid blockade against Obama, who already has turned to executive action to order new emissions standards for power plants when he could not win enough congressional support even with Democrats running the Senate.

[Chemisse]

1. In my opinion, this is the biggest loss of all.

The earth can't afford another 2 years of delay in dealing with climate change.

[Boomer]

2. The difference between 0 and 0 is still 0

We were never going to get action on Climate Change, even before the Republican sweep. Any hope people harbored of changing the status quo was purely hypothetical.