| inbluevt | Date: Thursday, 2013/08/15, 6:24 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have come to expect controversy sometimes during their August break. Four years ago, it was health care. This year many thought it would be immigration. But in California, global warming has become an unexpectedly hot topic. Thanks to California Sen. Barbara Boxer, the White House and environmental groups, some Republican lawmakers are on the defensive over an issue that hadn’t been on their
August radar.
As wildfires raged in Southern California last week, Boxer, a Democrat who leads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said climate change was making the problem worse and that Republican
skeptics needed to “get out of the fringe lane.” “The wildfire season is starting earlier and ending later, the fires are growing bigger and hotter, and the impacts and costs of fighting these fires have increased dramatically,” Boxer said while touring wildfire areas last week. “Climate change is already taking a toll, and the deniers
need to stop denying it.”
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