George Gemelas & Isaiah Mears: GOP should embrace smart climate-change solutions

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2 thoughts on “George Gemelas & Isaiah Mears: GOP should embrace smart climate-change solutions

  1. When the rest of the world get to the standards the United States has already set, then we can discuss carbon pricing. But to send the US economy into a tail spin for something that we light years ahead of the rest of the world is short sighted. If the young conservatives are concerned about participation in politics, lets discuss the real environmental crisis and that is a 23 trillion dollar debt. If you believe that the 23 trillion dollar debt does not effect the environment, wait until it collapses. Survival will be all that anyone cares about and carbon pricing will neither help this debt or will anyone care when they are jobless and hungry. The under 40 crowd has had this environmental propaganda jammed in their brains. But when you look at the long term prognosis environmentalist don’t care about the environment, they are concerned about wealth transfer. Carbon pricing is wealth transfer and as young conservatives you should know that wealth transfer is not good conservation of the capitalist economics. Without manipulated data and grants for scientist to prove climate change this would not have made it to the college curriculum.

  2. Steve’s comments are wrong on multiple levels beginning with the U.S. standards on GHG emissions. The facts are that U.S. is by far the historical leader in GHG emissions and the only country not participating in the Paris Climate Agreement. Independent ratings classify our emissions policy as “critically insufficient”. We are joined there with just a few other countries such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Perhaps he meant India, who is on track to meet its share of the 2 degree goal. The statement about manipulated data is equally wrong, since climate change is one of the most researched, documented, and peer reviewed topics of the last couple decades. Statements to contrary should make even the most ardent conspiracy theorist blush. Lastly, carbon pricing has been studied and contrary to his opinion, found to be beneficial to the economy, especially if the fees are returned to households. Recent congressional testimony by economists on H.R. 763 reiterates this finding. It’s great to see this young conservative group take the earth’s climate seriously, they’re the ones with the most to lose if we don’t.

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