The Republican political party needs to wake up to the reality that we ’re causing global clime change before it ’s too late , warn two former GOP representative .
Former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert ( radius - NY)wrote an op - ed in the Washington Posturging the members of his company to “ open their mind to rethink what has for the most part become our company ’s line : denying that mood variety and global warming are occurring and that they are for the most part due to human activities . ” He noted :
In a trio of reports free in May , the esteemed and nonpartizan National Academyconcludedthat “ a strong , credible body of scientific grounds present that clime change is occurring , is caused mostly by human action and poses pregnant peril for a broad range of a function of human and innate system . ” Our nation ’s most definitive and respected scientific body could n’t make it any clearer or more conclusive … .
What is occur to the party of Ronald Reagan ? He cover scientific understanding of the environment and pollution and was proud of his role in help to phase out ozone - depleting chemicals . That was smart policy and smart politics . Most important , unlike many who profess to be his followers , Reagan did n’t deny the cosmos of global environmental job but alternatively found ways to address them .
And Rep. Bob Inglis ( R - SC ) , who was ousted this year by a Tea Party - backed nominee , used a House science and surroundings subcommittee hearing to take his own party to task . He used the analogy of a sick child , accordingto the New York Times :
“ Your tyke is nauseated , ” he said . “ Ninety - eight doctors say deal him this way . Two say no , this other direction is the room to go . ” By take away the nonage viewpoint that carbon expelling are not a trouble , “ you ’re taking a big risk with those kids , ” he said .
And Inglis articulate that China was going to “ eat our lunch ” in developing light-green technologies ( such as the wind power plant in Urumqi , pictured above ):
They plan on innovating around these problem , and sell to us , and the rest of the worldly concern , the technology that ’ll execute the twenty-first century . We may adjure the intermission button for a few years , but China is weight-lift the profligate - forward clitoris .
Too bad both of them are out of Congress — by all accounts , the raw crop of GOP legislators is more skeptical about the validity of mood alteration science than their precursor , and the most potential new chairman of the House Science and Technology panel , Ralph Hall ( R - TX ) , has vowed to query clime scientist under oath about “ the wholeness of their research , ” the Times reports .
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