Grist: On the one hand, Hagel - a Republican senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2008 and now co-chair of the President`s Intelligence Advisory Board - has professed many views you might associate with a climate denier.
In fact, his name is tied to the Senate`s first high-profile repudiation of climate action: In 1997, he cosponsored the Byrd-Hagel resolution calling for rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that it would hurt the U.S. economy and should have required emissions cuts from developing...