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Pataki also fielded a question about his views on climate change. He started off by saying, “One of the things that troubles me about the Republican party is too often we challenge science that everyone accepts.”
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FactCheck did take issue with one of Pataki’s claims, though. Pataki said, “There’s one country in the world that has fewer greenhouse gas emissions than the rest of the world. You know what that is? The United States. Our emissions are lower than they were in 1995.”
FactCheck responded:
Pataki said that the U.S. is the only country to have reduced its CO2 emissions since 1995. That’s not true—other countries, particularly in Europe, have reduced their emissions over the same time period, some by a greater margin than the U.S.
A spokesman for Pataki clarified in an email that he meant that “the U.S. is the only country in the world that actually emits less carbon than it did in 1995.”
The U.S. has reduced its CO2 emissions since 1995; according to the Energy Information Administration, U.S. emissions were about 5.32 billion metric tons in 1995, and 5.27 billion metric tons in 2012, the latest year with available data. But other countries have also seen CO2 emissions drop over that period.
For example, France’s emissions were about 373 million metric tons in 1995, and that fell to 365 million in 2012. Germany’s emissions fell from 891 million metric tons in 1995 to 788 million in 2012, a greater drop than the 50 million seen in the U.S. Italy, the United Kingdom, Nigeria and several other countries also saw emissions drop.
Because Huckabee is a minister who often speaks about the economy, and most other issues, as a moral issue, many on Twitter took digs at the former governor for not seeing climate change as a moral issue:
Huckabee, if this country ran on morality #ClimateChange would not be an issue. Where's your moral compass on abusing our planet? #GOPDebate
— Asma Mahdi (@SeaAsmaRun) October 29, 2015
@GovMikeHuckabee climate change is a matter of math AND morality #ActOnClimate #GOPDebate
— NextGen America ?✨ (@NextGenAmerica) October 29, 2015
Strange to see Mike Huckabee railing against a "bag of gas" when that's the key element of all the #GOPdebate field's energy plans.
— Sierra Club (@SierraClub) October 29, 2015
Bernie Sanders had this to say last night about the GOP rejecting climate science.
It is an embarrassment that we have a major political party that rejects the overwhelming science on climate change.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) October 29, 2015
Many conservatives are making a strong case for climate action. Last month, 11 Republican members of Congress, led by Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY), introduced a resolution that put the climate challenge in a broader context of conservation, stewardship, innovation and conservatism. And recent polling from three prominent Republican pollsters shows that a majority of Republicans want climate action and support renewable energy.
There is a strong conservative case for climate action: @bobinglis ahead of the #GOPDebate https://t.co/mzzfZ9E2FX pic.twitter.com/GL9pZPTIaK
— Climate Group (@ClimateGroup) October 28, 2015
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