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Pope Francis' climate message yields little GOP response
2015-06-19 09:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Pope Francis' call for dramatic action on climate change drew a round of shrugs from congressional Republicans, while a number of the party's presidential candidates ignored it entirely. "I don't want to be disrespectful, but I don't consider him an expert on environmental issues," said Texas Rep. Joe Barton, a senior Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, in a comment echoed by others in his party. Even Capitol Hill's Catholic Republicans, despite their religion's reverence for the...
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