It's happened. You're finally seeing pigs fly. Former South Carolina GOP Rep. Bob Inglis, who lost his primary to a Tea Party insurgent in 2010, is urging conservatives to stop denying that humans are contributing to global warming.
Inglis, who will lead a new initiative at George Mason University to promote “conservative solutions to America’s energy and climate challenges," says conservatives should instead promote solutions to the problem on their own terms.
Inglis on Tuesday announced a new “Energy and Enterprise Initiative” that he hopes will voice the case for conservative leadership on energy and climate.
“Conservatives have the answer to our energy and climate challenge,” he said in a statement. “It’s about correcting market distortions and setting the economics right. We need to stop retreating in denial and start stepping forward in the competition of ideas.”
The wingnuts are getting their faces rubbed in the mud with the in your face evidence of extreme weather now
directly attributed to climate change.
E&EI will sponsor policy papers from conservative scholars, students and activists. It will partner with conservative thought leaders, businesses, and other organizations to host panels, conduct outreach, and voice the case for conservative leadership on energy and climate. E&EI will convene forums around the country that bring together economists, national security experts, climate scientists and interested citizens to explore the power of free enterprise to solve the nation’s energy and climate challenges.
Inglis states that his loss in the SC primary was in part due to his belief in climate change. Take a look at the video in the E&EI link it's calling for a carbon tax! Holy Moly maybe some republicans are realizing that climate change might cross party lines and affect them too. It must be quite the eye opener for republicans/conservatives living in the areas ravaged by wildfires, drought and storms. I wonder how their base is going to feel when they find that they were mislead and that that misleading information may adversely affect their lives and the lives of their children.