After 2 Months' Rain In 1 Week, IA GOP Nom Claims He's Read "Credible" Debunking Of Climate Science

On edit - had to add this photograph. It's from his own campaign.

Parts of Iowa have just been inundated with two months of rainfall in one week, an impact of climate change that scientists have connected to the rise in global temperatures. But when Congressional hopeful David Young, who just won the Republican nomination in his bid for Iowa’s 3rd district House seat, was asked about climate change on Iowa Public Radio last month, Young asserted that he’s seen “credible studies” saying man-made climate change isn’t real.

“I’ve seen, like a lot of people, credible studies on both sides of this issue,” he said. “I do know one thing for sure: we need to use sound science and not put this into a political science box.”

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In another recent interview with the Des Moines Register, Young conceded that “the climate does change” but then added, “a lot of times some of the climate change is because of natural occurrences with volcanoes or natural gases.”

Young’s comments come over a year after a survey of more than 12,000 peer-reviewed climate science papers found a 97 percent consensus among the science community that global warming exists and is primarily caused by humans. Last month, John Oliver called attention to the over-representation of climate deniers in the media by hosting a “statistically representative” science debate on his comedy show, and just this week, a physicist announced that he’s offering $10,000 to any scientist who can disprove climate change.

According to the Des Moines Register, Young’s opponent in the general election, Staci Appel, “accepts the idea that climate change is caused by humans, saying ‘I don’t know that we can afford not to deal with’ the problem.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/06/24/3451884/david-young-climate-change/