Shimkus In Denial About Man-Made Climate Change

5/5/2009: Following a GOP mock energy hearing, Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL) was asked by the ThinkProgress Wonk Room how the GOP "all of the above" energy plan deals with the threat of catastrophic global warming. Shimkus responded that he believes "the climate continuously changes, you know, throughout the millions of years that the planet has been here on Earth, and it will continue to change."

TRANSCRIPT:
Q: Do you think there are significant costs of inaction? Of catastrophic global warming?

SHIMKUS: I think that when you do an all-of-the-above energy solution, you can move in great ways to provide energy security and meet some needs that other people feel that we need to do.

Q: Do you think we can avoid global warming going that way?

SHIMKUS: I believe that, as you know, the climate continuously changes, you know, throughout the millions of years that the planet has been here on Earth, and it will continue to change. I don't think we can control the emissions of China and India, nor do they have any desire to control them. So as the panelists said today, all pain and no gain.

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[Heteroz]

Basic short-term thinking that we will pay for dearly decades from now, so fuck him

[pandaya]

@7thDayAtheist - yeah, in another video he's talking about dinosaurs. It's the one where quotes from the bible as an argument against climate change. This guy is a MORON.

[7thDayAtheist]

I'm confused. This guy quotes the bible ad nauseum but then says above that the history of the Earth goes back millions of years. He needs to make up his mind. Are we here 10 thousand years or hundreds of millions? I hope he favors the latter.

[GraffixWB]

um, "in denial?" That was the best possible answer he could have given based on the question.

Paraphrazed: even if manmade global warming is real, none of the other industrialized countries will change their standards,so these bills will just drive jobs away..

they have been cooking the books on this stuff for years. You know most of the worlds ice sheets are growing, not shrinking? the argument isn't about global warming, its about what is best for the country. more tax = negative!

[unaka2012]

gah! thanks for posting!