Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) Shreds GOP Performance, Infowars Witness At Climate Hearings
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We invited several of the world's leading scientists to testify, including Sir Robert Watson, former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. He summed up the far-reaching effects of extinction and the need for all of us to act: "The loss of biodiversity is not only an environmental issue, but an economic, development, social, security, moral and ethical issue."
We hoped our GOP colleagues would join us in a serious science-based discussion on solutions. Instead, they invited two professional climate deniers to testify, one of whom, Marc Morano, runs an industry-funded, anti-science pressure group and has been a repeat guest on the notorious conspiracy-focused "InfoWars" radio show.
Typical of their bombast was Morano's opening statement, where he accused the authors of the biodiversity report — world-renowned scientists sitting next to him at the witness table — of being "leaders of the UN's bastardization of species-endangerment science." Our GOP colleagues on the committee struck the same tone. Rep. Tom McClintock, the panel's top Republican, stated that "carbon dioxide levels have varied widely throughout the planet's history, including periods when they were many times higher than today."
This claim, presented as a dismissal of the urgency to act, only reinforces how pressing the climate crisis really is. When Earth's carbon dioxide levels were that much higher, modern humans had not yet evolved to live on this planet. Our species has never experienced an atmosphere like the one we're creating.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-gop-stand-up-climate-change-deniers-opinon-2019-7
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