Brownback: It’s time to tackle global warming
posted in Candidates, Global warming, Issues, Sam Brownback (R) |Original source: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jan/31/brownback_its_time_tackle_global_warming/
On a day when the temperature didn’t reach double digits, Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas called for reductions in greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.
Speaking with reporters Tuesday, the Republican presidential candidate said most scientists agree that rising levels of carbon dioxide have caused a rise in global temperatures. Brownback said levels of carbon dioxide, or CO2, have increased since the industrial revolution but have risen more quickly in recent decades.
“It seems to me just prudent that we recognize we have climate increase and temperature change,” he said. “We have CO2 loading and we need to reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.”
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Although Brownback said global temperatures had risen and climate change needed to be addressed, he declined to use the term “global warming.”
