In Colorado, a state with a recent history of severe drought, epic wildfires and historic floods, the Republican candidate for governor is not backing down from his stance denying the role of humans in driving climate change.
In a debate with incumbent Democrat John Hickenlooper Tuesday night, GOP nominee Bob Beauprez was asked whether humans are contributing significantly to climate change and whether we can reverse it. No and No, answered Beauprez.
Five years after he characterized those who are concerned about climate change as religious zealots, Beauprez said “powers bigger than us” are in control of Earth’s fate.
“But are we going to end or alter the path that Earth’s evolution is going to take? I don’t think so,” Beauprez said in the debate hosted by the Denver Post. “I think the Earth’s already figured that out and powers bigger than us have figured that out.”
Hickenlooper, for his part, said humans are contributing to climate change that to reverse it will take “a concerted effort, not just on the part of the United States, but worldwide.” Of course, 97 percent of climate scientists agree that human activity is driving recent global warming.
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Which is why I will never vote for a Republican in my state. We have a lot of religious zealots here who look to the bible for their science.
I kind of think this is the best Americans are going to get from such: “We’re reducing carbon emissions and should continue to do so.” The rest goes into people’s pride and ‘hell hath no fury’.
I’ll take “should continue to do so” as a glass half full.
I hope future authors take a full bead on how a trivial application of 19th century Physics (the Physics that settled Colorado, among other things), got turned into ‘the Defining!’ religious and political culture-war issue of the 21st.
Mostly because you just KNOW it is going to happen again, given deep pockets and a wealth of human gullibility I had no idea existed prior to this issue.
If I had to guess the back story for this, I suspect that this guy was opposed in the primary by a Tea Party-type (pro-gun, populist, hands-off economically) but won nomination based on support from the party establishment and big donors… some of the same donors who supported Hickenlooper.
Essentially, the party is being paid off to take a dive in the governor’s race.
“…Beauprez said “powers bigger than us” are in control of Earth’s fate.”
I assume he is referring to the fossil fuel industry here?
I think he just meant God.
NObody is as big as big fossils!
The “I don’t believe in it, therefore it will go away” argument. Impressive.