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After years when inaction was @USChamber top goal, now it wants us to believe it’s sincere that "inaction is not an option." Born at night but not last night. #ChamberofCarbon
.@USChamber claims to support “innovation,” but it opposes price on carbon that provides the business case for innovation — hoping Innovation Fairy will fly down? #ChamberofCarbon
Is @USChamber’s new and improved rhetoric just windowdressing to quiet members demanding that it stop blocking climate action? I hope members weren’t born last night. #ChamberofCarbon
@USChamber is America’s largest business lobby, dominant in Republican Party. How will we know when @USChamber is sincere? When Senate Republicans come forward to work on serious climate bill. Until then, window dressing. #ChamberofCarbon
America’s largest business lobby should reflect the business consensus that we must act on climate, or fess up and call itself #ChamberofCarbon.
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.@USChamber puts member corps out front, secretly takes $$$ and orders from fossil fuel, plays members for chumps. Don’t be a corporate chump for @USChamber climate denial! #ChamberofCarbon
As a member, do you even know where @USChamber gets its big bucks? Do you even know why @USChamber is one of two worst influences on climate? Have they clued you in, or are you their chump? Don’t be a chump. #ChamberofCarbon
If they haven’t told you, if they just put you out front while they did their real business in back with fossil fuel donors, you have been chumped by the #ChamberofCarbon.
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Increasing #ClimateRisks are forcing the insurance industry to recalculate. Climate change may be gradual, but its market effects are volatile. What we are doing currently — nothing—will cost us big.
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Look at Texas. The annual probability of a Texas storm dropping 20 inches of rain is expected to rise from 1% to 18%. When insurance companies get scared, that’s a pretty good sign that we should be too. #ClimateCosts usatoday.com/story/weather/…
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