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Virginia's Climate Change Deniers

Meet the climate change deniers of Virginia.
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Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA-01)

"As a scientist myself, I recognize that the earth's climate is changing… [but] cycles of heating and cooling have been going on well before man appeared on Earth."

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Rep. Thomas Garrett (R-VA)

"We know there's climate change. There is debate as to whether it's man-caused climate change. What we need to do is take a long hard look at both sides of the science, determine what amount of the climate change is man-caused, and then act appropriately after doing a cost-benefit analysis of what we give up and what we gain by that action."

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Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA-06)

"There is no doubt that the earth's climate is changing. The earth and its climate are dynamic, and have changed throughout history, even without human activity."

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Rep. David Brat (R-VA-07)

"If you let Americans do their thing, there is no scarcity, right? They said we're going to run out of food 200 years ago, that we're going to have a ice age. Now we're heating up."

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Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA-09)

"In regard to radiant heat, the sun spot effects, what do we know about that? I was reading one report here that indicates that by 2020 we will reach a new peak on sun spot activity, and this report actually suggests that the Earth's temperature may be raised by .5 degrees Centigrade as a result of the Sun spot activity. And could that also be the cause."

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Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-VA-10)

Voted in support of S.J. Res. 24, a "resolution of disapproval" under the Congressional Review Act that would nullify the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan—the first nation-wide limit on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, and key climate change policy.

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