U.S. Representative Chris Gibson (R-NY) is planning to introduce a House resolution to “recognize the reality” of climate change, the National Journal reported earlier this month.
“My district has been hit with three 500-year floods in the last several years, so either you believe that we had a one in over 100 million probability that occurred, or you believe as I do that there’s a new normal, and we have changing weather patterns, and we have climate change. This is the science,” Gibson told the pro-Republican Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions.
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“I hope that my party—that we will come to be comfortable with this,” Gibson said, “because we have to operate in the realm of knowledge and science. I still think we can bring forward conservative solutions to this, absolutely, but we have to recognize the reality.”
