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applegrove

(118,014 posts)
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:13 PM Oct 2015

Lindsey Graham Challenges Republicans: ‘Tell Me Why’ You Deny Climate Science

Lindsey Graham Challenges Republicans: ‘Tell Me Why’ You Deny Climate Science

by 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 here’s the trade-off. For those of you who believe climate change is real, you’re 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.”

Graham’s 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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Lindsey Graham Challenges Republicans: ‘Tell Me Why’ You Deny Climate Science (Original Post) applegrove Oct 2015 OP
Guess those floods in SC made him a believer. Warpy Oct 2015 #1
Ding ding we have a winner malaise Oct 2015 #2
"Uncle Sugar" LuvNewcastle Oct 2015 #6
Could this be Lindsey Graham making sense? NV Whino Oct 2015 #3
scary times when Lindsay Graham or Rand Paul are the "reasonable" candidates zazen Oct 2015 #4
Why in the hell do conservatives ALWAYS need some personal demonstration of a problem Marr Oct 2015 #5
Well, duh, Lindsey. Because GOD. Vinca Oct 2015 #7
Because Freedumb, Lindsey . . . hatrack Oct 2015 #8

Warpy

(110,903 posts)
1. Guess those floods in SC made him a believer.
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 08:32 PM
Oct 2015

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.

zazen

(2,978 posts)
4. scary times when Lindsay Graham or Rand Paul are the "reasonable" candidates
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 09:59 PM
Oct 2015

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)
5. Why in the hell do conservatives ALWAYS need some personal demonstration of a problem
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 10:58 PM
Oct 2015

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.

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