Climate change denial grandstanding: Wisconsin embarrassments Glenn Grothman and Tom Tiffany conduct a master class in brain case vacuity

 

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Headline:  New York Times, 7/11/2025

Vjosa Isai reports:

“Our communities shouldn’t suffer because of poor decisions made across the border,” Tom Tiffany, a Republican congressman from Wisconsin and one of the letter’s authors, said in a post on X. Canada’s government said it was reviewing the letter and planned to offer a response. The letter was also signed by Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer and Michelle Fischbach of Minnesota.  

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Michael Waddington, a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who studies the interaction between wildfires and forested lands, said a warming climate was turning those landscapes into a tinderbox. 

“The United States is, for the most part, the main reason for that,” said Dr. Waddington, referring to the U.S. role in planet-warming greenhouse emissions. China is the largest emitter.  [emphasis added]

President Trump pulled the United States out of the Paris climate agreement in 2020 during his first presidency and again this past January, a few months after he was re-elected.

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