Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin might consider it a “badge of Honor,” that he is cited by one group as among the 123 elected officials in Congress who are called “climate deniers.” Others might call it a mark against him.
The Center for American Progress classified the Republican Senator among those who don’t support the claims of human-caused climate change. The group did a reported analysis of the 118th U.S. Congress and found 123 of the officials are climate deniers or about 23% of the 535 total members.
The analysis pointed to claims that Sen. Mullin had received $1.3 million in campaign contributions in what it called “anti-climate money.” It offered a statement Mullin made to Fox News in June of last year when asked whether he believed smoke from Canadian wildfires was due to climate change. “Absolutely not. If you studied forests, especially healthy forests, you’ll see that nature naturally burns itself off every 11 years with natural disater fires. And so, this is a forest fire.”
Sen. Mullin isn’t the only Oklahoman on the list. So is Rep. Josh Brecheen and the analysis pointed to statements he made in a House hearing last summer where the Republican Congressman said not even the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change could agree that climate change is caused by humans, at least regarding hurricanes.
“It states: There’s no consensus on the role of human activity on changes of Atlantic hurricane activity…..we have to look at the science and the international community who’s saying—there’s this constant messaging and theme. The United Nations is saying it’s not there. There’s no consensus world climate change in this regard.”
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