Does Mike Pence Believe In Climate Change

Tim Kaine has misrepresented Mike Pence'due south current opinion on climate modify, making it a regular talking betoken in his campaign speeches.

Kaine, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, has repeatedly claimed that Pence, the Republican vice presidential nominee, "says 'climate change is a myth.'" Pence did say that on his campaign website when running for the House in 2000. In a mail service titled "Global Warming Disaster," Pence wrote: "Global warming is a myth."

But more recently, on Sept. 27, Pence said "there's no question" that human action has "some impact on climate."

Kaine has made similar claims on at least 8 occasions between Oct. 10 and Nov. 2.

In 1 instance, at a entrada rally in Davidson, North Carolina, on Oct. 12, however, Kaine correctly used the past tense, claiming, "Mike Pence said climatic change is a myth."

Simply in many other cases, Kaine misleadingly claimed Pence currently says climatic change is a myth.

For example, on Nov. 2 in Dubuque, Iowa, Kaine said, "Donald Trump says, and this is a quote, 'Climatic change is a hoax created by the Chinese.' And his running mate, Mike Pence, says, 'It's a myth.'"

Trump did tweet on November. six, 2012: "The concept of global warming was created past and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive," but after said it was a joke, as nosotros wrote in our report on the first presidential debate. However, Trump as well has a record of calling global warming a "hoax."

In an allusion to the 12-pace plan designed to help people recover from alcohol and other addictions, Kaine went on to say that the "first stride is you have to acknowledge you have a problem." Kaine added that, " Y'all're not going to solve a trouble if you don't admit you have a problem."

However, Pence has acknowledged — on at least one occasion — that humans are affecting the climate.

Pence told CNN's Chris Cuomo on Sept. 27, "There'south no question that the activities that take place in this country and in countries around the globe have some impact on the environment and some impact on climate." He added, "Donald Trump and I say, let'south follow the science, only for heaven's sakes let's not go rushing into the kind of restrictions on our economy that are putting Americans out of piece of work and, frankly, are driving jobs out of this state."

But Trump nonetheless doesn't "follow the science."

Trump told Flim-flam News' Neb O'Reilly on July 26 he "probably did" call climatic change a hoax, adding "they're proverb [climatic change is] man-made and I say it could have a modest impact, but nothing to what they're talking about."

More recently, Trump's campaign director, Kellyanne Conway told CNN'south Alisyn Camerota on Sept. 27 that Trump believes that "global warming" and "climate change" are "naturally occurring" and non man-made.

When we asked Hillary Clinton's campaign for evidence more recent than 2000 to back-up Kaine's claim, spokesperson Josh Schwerin pointed u.s. to other by instances where Pence has questioned the validity of climate change — the most recent instance occurring in 2014.

On Feb. 21, 2014, Pence told MSNBC'due south Chuck Todd that he didn't know if humans' office in climatic change "is a resolved effect in scientific discipline today." Todd then responded, "a lot of scientists out there" do believe humans are impacting the climate. Pence and so said, "I know we're talking about climatic change. Only a few years ago we were talking nigh global warming. We haven't seen a lot of warming lately. I remember back in the '70s we were talking about the coming Ice Historic period."

We've addressed all three of Pence's claims earlier.

First, when Sen. Ted Cruz similarly claimed in January, "none of the alarmists say 'global warming' anymore — at present it'south 'climate change,'" we found that to exist inaccurate. We explained, "Scientists still utilize both terms, simply tend to use 'climate change' more often because, in addition to warming, it refers to phenomena such every bit sea-level rise and changes in precipitation patterns."

2nd, in March 2016 and November 2015, we addressed Rep. Lamar Smith'south claim that information show there'south been a "halt" in global warming — it's false. Some research has constitute that there's been a warming "slowdown," and other enquiry suggested at that place hasn't been. All the same, no research supports "a halt in global warming," as we wrote.

Third, nosotroswrote about the "global cooling" myth in March 2015, when Cruz cited anarticle on the topic published inNewsweek in 1975. That article did warn of "ominous signs" of a "cooling globe," but it has been criticized since then – including by its writer, Peter Gwynne.

Writing for Inside Science in 2014, Gwynne wrote that "while the hypotheses described in that original story seemed right at the time, climate scientists now know that they were seriously incomplete. Our climate is warming — not cooling, as the original story suggested."

The fact is, there was no scientific consensus in the 1970s about global cooling when Gwynne wrote his story in 1975, but today at that place is scientific consensus that human-acquired climate change is real.

Regardless of Pence'southward past remarks, he more recently has admitted that humans play a role in climate change. However, Pence and his running mate accept outlined no policies designed to specifically address climatic change, and, in fact, the GOP ticket would undo steps President Obama has taken to reduce carbon emissions.

For more information on both the Democratic and Republican candidates' positions and policies regarding climate alter, please come across our commodity, "The Candidates on Climate Alter."

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