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Module 4 - Discussion

Please review the following materials regarding Climate Change Politics (remember that you can access to the NYT through OSU: https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/nytLinks to an external site.):

The New York Times article U.S. Climate Report Warns of Damaged Environment and Shrinking Economy (Links to an external site.)

The Hill article GOP senator calls for ‘balance’ after climate change report. (Links to an external site.)

 (Links to an external site.)The National Geographic article  (Links to an external site.)National Geographic (2018) What do the 2018 midterms say about climate action.pdf

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The New York Times article Another Inconvenient Truth. (Links to an external site.)

C-SPAN video Senator Sanders Town Hall on Climate Change (Links to an external site.)

Scientific consensus: Earth's Climate is Warming (NASA) (Links to an external site.)

EPA's information on Climate Change (Links to an external site.)

In your initial post, address at least three of the following questions: given what you have read and watched, what is the current state of climate politics in the United States? How is the scientific information regarding climate change interpreted by major political parties? By what mechanism(s) has it become possible for politicians to doubt scientific consensus? What role do scientists play in the political process regarding climate change, and is this different than the role they should play? What sorts of policy tools do you think would be most useful in addressing climate change?

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