Large Number of Congress Members don't Worry about Climate Change

   In the 2020 election, 69 new representatives and senators were swept into office. Of them, one-third deny the science of climate change.

  And, they walked into a Congress that was already filled with climate change skeptics, bringing the total to139 legislators -- 109 representatives and 30 senators. True, the number of disbelievers in Congress has been declining, but it still remains an astonishing high number.

  If action on climate change is urgent -- and the consensus of scientists is that it is -- the danger of not getting something done is worrisome with so many packing the halls of the Capitol who do not worry about it themselves.

  "This Earth warming and carbon is actually healthy for us," Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene once famously said.

  Of note, the climate-denying members of Congress have received more than $61 million in lifetime contributions from the coal, oil, and gas industries.

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