GOP Eats Climate Denial, Wants 1-T Trees Planted

As Speaker Kevin McCarthy visited a gas drilling site in Ohio to promote the House GOP plan to increase the production of energy from fossil fuels last month, the signs of rising global temperatures could not be ignored.

Photo Insert: Speaker McCarthy's party is no longer denying that global warming exists, yet is searching for a response that will not involve yielding on their enthusiastic support for US-produced energy from burning oil, coal, and gas.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires hung in the air, Stephen Groves reported for the Associated Press (AP).

When the speaker was asked about climate change and forest fires, he was ready with a response: Plant a trillion trees. The idea — simple yet massively ambitious — revealed recent Republican thinking on how to address climate change.

The party is no longer denying that global warming exists, yet is searching for a response to sweltering summers, weather disasters, and rising sea levels that will not involve yielding on their enthusiastic support for US-produced energy from burning oil, coal, and gas.

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