What GQP Response There's Been To IPCC's Latest Ranges From Meh To Moronic To "Too Busy To Read It"
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The report quoted a handful of GOP lawmakers saying they'd consider climate-related policies, so long as there were no tax increases on anyone. "We clearly have an issue over climate change," said Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who soon after added, "I don't want to raise taxes on anybody." Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), right on cue, told Politico, in apparent reference to the IPCC, "I don't know why people still take it seriously." The Oklahoma senator, of course, is whom Senate Republicans tapped a few years ago to lead the Senate committee that oversees environmental policy.
A handful of other congressional Republicans said they'd seen some coverage of the latest findings, but they've been too busy to get up to speed.
Reading this, I found myself thinking about a New York Times report from a couple of months ago that said, "[M]any in the Republican Party are coming to terms with what polls have been saying for years: independents, suburban voters and especially young Republicans are worried about climate change and want the government to take action." As we discussed soon after, it's led some GOP lawmakers to launch efforts such as the Conservative Climate Caucus, which will purportedly cultivate unidentified, conservative-friendly solutions to the intensifying crisis.
But while some Republicans go through the motions, convinced that blanket climate denial is no longer a sustainable political position, the party still refuses to engage in the debate in a meaningful way, and is even less willing to propose meaningful policies that might make a difference, even when confronted with brutal evidence.
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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/confronted-evidence-climate-crisis-republicans-shrug-n1276641