Ted Roosevelt IV: a lonely Republican fighting climate change

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"Legacy matters, I guess. Ted Roosevelt, as he’s known, is the great-grandson of our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, who was famous for his love of what he called “the strenuous life“—he boxed, rode horses, fought in the Spanish-American war, went big-game hunting and explored the Amazon. Ted Roosevelt, who is 68, played football at Groton, played ice hockey and rugby and rowed on the lightweight crew at Harvard; after graduation, he served two tours of duty as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam."
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"Ted told me that he’s been concerned about climate change for about 25 years, ever since the natural history museum devoted an exhibit to the issue. 'That was the first time I’d looked at it from a scientific perspective,' he said. Despite uncertainties that are unavoidable when projecting climate into the future, he says, 'the science of climate change has become more ominous.'"
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"Until recently, many prominent Republicans shared that view–Senators McCain and Warner and Governors Schwarzenegger, Pataki and Crist, among others. Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty made commercials urging action on climate. (Here’s Newt’s, here’s Pawlenty’s.) All have left office or changed their minds or both. Writing last fall in The National Journal, Ronald Brownstein said: 'It is difficult to identify another major political party in any democracy as thoroughly dismissive of climate science as is the GOP here.'"

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1. Go Teddy!!

[jimlup]

2. Why doesn't he get a clue and quit his party

God, what a disaster zone the repukes are

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3. He's probably a free-marketeer who is smart enough

to understand the science behind GW.

Living with that kind of cognitive dissonance must suck.