Even now, Republicans who acknowledge the basic realities of climate science are few and far between, and radical new megadonors, such as Robert and Rebekah Mercer, are funding some of the most fringe climate-denial proponents.
Aside from the usual cadre of once-fringe climate science deniers, they are joined by a handful of House Republicans and at least three GOP senators.
Myron Ebell, a once-fringe climate change denier who oversaw Trump's EPA transition team, said the proposal is, for now, "dead on arrival". He rejected the tax plan as tilted in favor of urban dwellers who he said require less energy than rural folks.
At the fringes, climate change is compounding misery.
If you haven't followed this exploding/imploding story carried out at the most extreme, and loudest, fringe of climate discourse, the basics were broken by Leo Hickman of The Guardian early today and then aggregated by Keith Kloor, Joe Romm, Anthony Watts, Jason Samenow and others.
For all but the anti-scientific fringe of climate change deniers – and their self-interested fellow travelers – pretenses of human control over nature now look like pure folly.
India's minister of state commerce, too, said the country was "no longer on the fringe" of climate change policies and technologies, according to the New York Times.
Their proposals were relegated to the fringes of climate science.
The declaration by Siemens, made on the fringes of Climate Week in New York, highlights the competing imperatives of fossil fuel investment and decarbonisation efforts, and comes even as investors announced $200bn£123bnbn) for clean technology as one of the key achievements of the week.
