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Mary Bruce
State College
Who is Republican Congressman Glenn Thompson trying to kid? In a recent campaign mailing Thompson says he's "Standing up for Science." That's ridiculous.
For more than 120 years, scientists have known that burning fossil fuels, and adding the resulting CO2 to the atmosphere, would lead to warming. The Swedish scientist who first discovered this went on to win a Nobel Prize.
Since then, scientists have predicted that this warming would lead to melting glaciers, sea-level rise, dangerous heatwaves, crop-killing droughts, stronger storms, and overall increased global temperatures. Each of these predictions has come true just as science predicted, and will only continue to get worse until we drastically reduce burning all forms of fossil fuels.
Yet Thompson, rather than standing up for science, denies the scientific reason for the catastrophic problems associated with climate change. Sadly, he apparently doesn't even have the curiosity to learn about it, instead spewing the standard Republican climate denial lies.
As a result, Thompson's science denial is costing each and every American money by way of increased food, insurance, and healthcare costs--whether we are directly affected by these weather events or not!
Thompson standing up for science? Hardly. Instead, he's comatose on the biggest scientific issue of our time and seems proud of it.
President Biden recently said "Nobody can deny the impact of the climate crisis anymore. They must be brain dead if they do." Biden surely was talking about all the Republicans in Congress including, most certainly, Glenn Thompson.