Column | Vance used past GOP climate inaction to argue for climate inaction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : During Obama's first term, though, the fossil-fuel industry -- a central driver of carbon dioxide emissions -- began leaning on its political allies to slow the embrace of technologies like electric vehicles, wind turbines and solar panels.
45% : He suggested that it be stipulated, just for the sake of argument, that carbon dioxide emissions are driving increased warming, which is a bit like stipulating that a dropped object will fall toward the Earth.
38% : Trump has long responded to questions about climate change by talking, instead, about the environment broadly and about his purported passion for clear air and water (despite his administration rolling back protections for those things) -- to the point that it was reasonable to ask whether he knew what climate change actually entailed.
10% : "He also twisted the knife a bit, noting that Trump had in the past referred to climate change as a "hoax" and that Trump had welcomed oil-industry executives to Mar-a-Lago, where he suggested that a $1 billion contribution to boost his campaign would result in a fossil fuel-friendly president.

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