With Graham's Departure, It's Official - Not 1 GOP Candidate Accepts Validity Of Climate Science

Say goodbye to the only major Republican presidential candidate who publicly accepts mainstream climate science.

On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Aside from former New York governor George Pataki — who has consistently polled at zero percent and has failed to get his name on primary ballots in multiple states — Graham was the only person in the crowded Republican field who admitted that the planet is warming, that the warming is harmful, and that humans are the primary cause.

Granted, Graham was also not doing particularly well in the presidential race. But his Senate seat gave him greater name recognition and more media attention than other lower-polling candidates, and he sometimes used that attention to call out fellow Republicans who don’t accept the science of climate change.

“I’ve talked to the climatologists of the world, and 90 percent of them are telling me that the greenhouse gas effect is real — that we’re heating up the planet,” Graham said at the CNBC presidential debate in October. “I just want a solution that would be good for the economy that doesn’t destroy it.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/21/3734216/republican-candidates-climate-change-lindsey-graham/