Article 3QNVH Yes, EVs are green and global warming is raising sea levels | Dana Nuccitelli

Yes, EVs are green and global warming is raising sea levels | Dana Nuccitelli

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Dana Nuccitelli
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Republicans paid by the fossil fuel industry deny these realities

Last week, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee held yet another climate science hearing similar to those from April 2017, February 2017, January 2016, May 2015, June 2014, December 2013, and so on. It seems as though disputing established climate science is House Republicans' favorite hobby. This time, it was Philip Duffy's turn to spend two hours playing whack-a-mole with the committee Republicans' endless supply of long-debunked climate myths.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) claimed that sea level rise is due to the White Cliffs of Dover tumbling into the ocean (yes, really), and his colleagues argued that scientists in the 1970s were predicting global cooling, that Earth is just returning to its "normal temperature," that Antarctic ice is growing, and sea levels are hardly rising.

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