Chris Hayes Urges Journalists ‘Not to Collude’ With Republican Climate Deniers (Video)

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sending massive amounts of smoke into the United States. He also touched on some recent bad news — that scientists project we’ll have raised global temperatures to a potential climate change tipping point by 2027.From here, Hayes noted how this growing crisis is “utterly and completely absent and ignored” by all of the Republican candidates vying for the 2024 nomination. “Republicans don’t care, truly don’t care if we melt the earth,” Hayes added.

And from there, he tied this to the debt ceiling fight.Hayes noted the various success of the Inflation Reduction Act championed by President Joe Biden, which contained a significant amount of climate change-related policy changes.“Demand for tax credits for things like wind, and solar projects, and electric cars are exceeding projections.

We’re seeing real progress on energy transition for the first time. Sales of energy efficient heat pumps are now outpacing traditional fossil fuel furnaces in people’s homes.

We may be about to get a huge boom in the use of hydrogen for industrial purposes, which is a game changers,” Hayes said.But, Hayes continued, the problem of climate change “just doesn’t exist” for Republicans. “Instead, what they do is go to bat on behalf of the fossil fuel companies to try to destroy the energy transition.