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Lindsey Graham Challenges Republicans: Tell Me Why You Deny Climate Scienceby Natasha Geiling at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/10/12/3711587/lindsey-graham-no-labels-climate-change/
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Today, during a convention in New Hampshire hosted by the bipartisan group No Labels, Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) took a moment to differentiate himself from the rest of the GOP field by talking about climate change.
As one of the only Republican presidential candidates to repeatedly bring up climate change in the press and during campaign stops, Graham began by asking the audience if anyone there believed climate change was real. Nearly half of the attendees raised their hands and applauded.
I do, too, Graham said. So heres the trade-off. For those of you who believe climate change is real, youre gonna have to deal with a guy like me who will push a lower carbon economy over time and in a business friendly way. The great trade-off is energy producers and environmentalists in a room trying to find, over a 50 year period, a way to go to a lower-carbon economy while in the meantime responsibly exploring for fossil fuels that we own and trying to create alternative energy in every sector of the economy.
Grahams assertion that climate change must be solved in a business-friendly way a position that includes support for continued fossil fuel extraction elicited a call of Keep it in the ground! from one audience member. An analysis of global fossil fuel reserves published last January in Nature found that, in order to avoid catastrophic climate change, the vast majority of existing fossil fuel reserves will need to remain in the ground.
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Warpy
(110,903 posts)Now all those Republicans are going to have to raise taxes to fix the damage. Uncle Sugar will contribute only so much. The rest has to be matched by the state.
malaise
(267,801 posts)Nothing like reality
LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)Love it! I remember what that alludes to as well.
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)zazen
(2,978 posts)Seriously--when I think of which of the Republican candidates I could stomach as much as W., which is setting the bar lower than I had ever thought possible--those are the only two who aren't seriously stupid or seriously deranged (or both).
Even the two of them are terrifying prospects as president, but at least Lindsay Graham is reach-able, on some days. Paul appears to have read some books and formed opinions, kind of like a smart but misguided high school student whom you're assuming will grow out of it during college.
Marr
(20,317 posts)before they acknowledge it's real? Is it just because they don't give a shit about anyone else?
It's not like we can even definitively link the SC floods to climate change. There's TONS of good evidence that climate change is happening, and it's undeniably a problem, but the SC floods isn't part of it. But since it's his problem, he's suddenly on board.
Ugh.
Vinca
(50,168 posts)hatrack
(59,439 posts)Next question?