The rare Republican who's actually worried about climate change

Garret Graves has seen the damage at home in Louisiana - but don't expect him to embrace the Green New Deal

As the top Republican on a congressional climate change committee, Louisiana's Garret Graves is a surprising pick. Other Republicans on the Democrat-initiated panel have publicly doubted climate change science. Donald Trump has called global warming a hoax and the party as a whole is seen by many as an obstacle to tackling climate change.

But not Graves. The third-term lawmaker sees rising temperatures as a direct and urgent threat to his state and district, which stretches from the capital, Baton Rouge, to the Gulf coast. He acknowledges fossils fuels are heating the planet, though he thinks Democrats' plans to quickly shift away from them are unrealistic, and he hasn't yet offered alternative proposals of his own.