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srican69

(1,426 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 01:00 PM Dec 2014

An Excellent Start: GOP Congressman Chris Gibson and Climate Change

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/12/09/gop_and_climate_change_rep_chris_gibson_wants_to_take_action.html

My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one in over 100 million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there's a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science. … I hope that my party—that we will come to be comfortable with this, because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science, and I still think we can bring forward conservative solutions to this, absolutely, but we have to recognize the reality.



I don't think GOP is as much anti-science as it is pro-financial-interests-of-the-wealthy , and once they see that more of their base benefit from climate change action than don't - they will be singing a new tune.
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