So Cute! Fmr GOP Rep Dumped By Tea Party Launches Climate Initiative! "Stop Denying!", He Says!

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Former GOP Rep. Bob Inglis is “urging conservatives to stop denying that humans are contributing to global warming.” "Conservatives have the answer to our energy and climate challenge," he says 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."

Inglis, a South Carolina Republican beaten by the Tea Party in 2010, is launching the “Energy and Enterprise Initiative” at George Mason University to push “conservative solutions to America’s energy and climate challenges.”

The National Journal (subscription required) reports:

"The campaign will push one policy: a new tax on carbon pollution or gasoline consumption, paired with a cut in the income or payroll tax, creating a revenue-neutral, market-driven solution to an environmental problem while cutting taxes that conservatives dislike."

In short, the party of monolithic knee-jerk climate denial turns out to be bilithic. Okay, technically, a bilith is “a prehistoric monument composed of two stones usually constituting a pillar capped by a slab.” And it’s true that the national GOP is now prehistoric when it comes to climate science (see National Journal: “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones”).

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http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23850

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