The Republican national convention, dominated by veneration of Donald Trump and bleak warnings of the dangers of socialism, has completely ignored the climate crisis, an omission that has disturbed some conservatives who warn the party risks being left behind by voters. But Trump’s renomination event has not laid out any plan for the climate crisis, nor even any acknowledgment of it. “It is disappointing,” said Danielle Butcher, chief operating officer of the American Conservation Coalition, an organization of young conservatives. “To see no mention of climate change at the RNC, no update in the official platform? Climate scientists have found that hot, dry conditions caused by climate change are helpful fuel wildfire conditions, with global heating doubling the area burned in the US west since the 1980s.

Source: The Guardian August 26, 2020 21:00 UTC