Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer declared that global warming and climate change will be worse than the coronavirus pandemic without action like Democrats are planning in large spending packages.

“We are surrounded by evidence of the climate crisis — the fires out west, the heat waves, the floods. Everywhere you look. Because of global warming, things are getting worse and worse,” the New York Democrat said in a press conference on Wednesday.

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