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Philip Bump: Is this the worst argument for climate inaction in political history?

Winters in Wisconsin won't be as terrible, so who cares about other countries?

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One candidate for Wisconsin’s senate race wants to put the state ‘in the driver’s seat’ of the clean energy economy. The other calls climate science ‘lunacy’

Trump-endorsed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson calls climate change “absurd.” Progressive Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes calls for climate action, saying, “the climate crisis is already here.”

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Many voters are worried about climate change, but it's not top of mind in Wisconsin's US Senate race

Wisconsin voters say they’re concerned about climate change — but the issue is far from the forefront of issues in Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race.

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Ron Johnson: Climate change is 'bulls---'

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) downplayed the dangers of climate change at a Republican luncheon earlier this summer, according to a new report.

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Senator Ron Johnson gives bizarre history of Greenland to claim climate change isn’t real

Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson doubled down on his decade-old claim that climate change can't be real because of his assumption that Greenland must've been green "at some point".

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