The Hill ran an article titled (headline is the link):
Senator Cory Gardener (R-Colo), told The Hill: "Innovation has a critical role. If you look at the reductions in emissions as a result of shifting to natural gas and away coal and other fuels, it’s had a dramatic impact on emissions.”
Senator Bob Sasse (R-Neb.) went on Fox News to say: "What the U.S. needs to do is participate in a long-term conversation about how you get to innovation, and it's going to need to be a conversation again that doesn’t start with alarmism. But that starts with some discussion of the magnitude of the challenge, the global elements to it and how the U.S. shouldn't just do this as a feel-good measure but some sort of innovative proposal.”
The fact that Republicans are beginning to acknowledge climate change should be enough to not listen to anything they have to say. For fucking years they have been saying that climate change isn't man made.
Furthermore, "innovation" is a Freudian phrase used by Republicans who talk about fighting climate change, but are in bed with the fossil fuel industry, or the fossil fuel is big in their district.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), literally called bullshit to these Republicans talking about "innovation."
The Senator starting a a Twitter thread said:
There's a reason Noam Chomsky asks whether or not the Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history (6:20 mark):
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