Sen. Thom Tillis now says that man is contributing to global warming

[brooklynite]

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Source: News-Observer

Thom Tillis is a smart guy who understands data. He had a successful career as a high-powered management consultant before hitching a lightning-fast ride from Cornelius town commissioner to speaker of the N.C. House to U.S. senator.

So it was disappointing when Tillis, facing a competitive Senate primary in 2014, said climate change was not a fact. Tillis knew better, but such is the state of the Republican Party that even smart candidates like Tillis have to say such foolishness to win a primary.

Then in 2015, Tillis voted against an amendment that said human activity is contributing to climate change. And last year, Tillis urged President Trump to exit the Paris Agreement that called for international emissions reductions and was signed by 197 countries, including the United States.

Finally, Tillis has come clean. In a recent interview with Tim Boyum of Spectrum News, Tillis said, “I think we have to come up with several strategies to recognize reality. That climate changes. Sometimes it changes just because it has over millennia, and other times it changes because of human factors.” Tillis said he was influenced by the U.S. military’s concerns that climate change could lead to global instability and is a threat to national security.



Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article218161710.html

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...but all the men are Chinese?

[irisblue]

1. B/C Florence is lining up on him & his right? nt

[Vinca]

11. Bingo - it always happens that way.

[HipChick]

2. I worked with Thom Tillis when he was in management consulting..

For over a decade, he knows how to ingratiate himself..

Didn't think he'd ever be a doofus and become a full fledged Rethug though..

[sandensea]

3. Intriguing.

What else should we know about two-timing Thom?

[HipChick]

14. He knows how to smooze....worked with him at PWC

and then later at IBM, when they bought PWC...

I'm actually shocked that he has not yet thrown in his hat to run for President...

[sandensea]

15. Like the good con man he is.

Thanks. It's not every day one gets first-person insights into these people.

[yardwork]

17. Do you think he took Russian money to win his senate seat?

[BigmanPigman]

4. Too late GOP liar!

You can't have it both ways. You are a hypocrite sell out and everyone knows it. NO RESPECT FOR YOU!

[aggiesal]

5. Thom Tillis is a smart guy who understands data. ...

All Thom Tellis sees is a cat4 hurricane barreling towards
his state.

And I'm sure he remembers how congress would not approve
hurricane relief to New Orleans after Katrina hit.

He's just posturing.

[turbinetree]

7. Hey Tillis..................can I call you Tillis................

Tillis said, “I think we have to come up with several strategies to recognize reality. That climate changes. Sometimes it changes just because it has over millennia, and other times it changes because of human factors.”

So now your pandering, because your state, is going to get fucked....................think the ash ponds are going to over flow, how about the pig and chicken shit ponds.....................you know the same conglomerates that gave you money............... and now you say basically recognize reality..................... I just gotta ask, do you think you should forfeit your pay and everyone of you hypocrites that have been denying this stuff to pay for the damages, then lets hear your bull shit tune....................especially that asshole by the name of Imhofe................Oh yeah I keep forgetting, the fracking earthquakes are bull shit in his state and the active tornadoes that like to wipe out towns are imaginary also........................but the cost of repairing this shit keeps going up and putting the country at a national security imperil, and for years your ilk said it was bull shit....................FUCK YOU.......................

[RVN VET71]

9. May I offer a strong and loud second to that command?

[RVN VET71]

8. Interesting slug of a man, isn't he?

He's figured out which way the wind is blowing, but the ship sailed a long time ago, while he was sticking a wet finger in the air. He won't gain by this public embrace of fact. Not every voter is that dumb.

I cannot imagine anyone more loathsome than a man who has known, all along, that climate change is real, is caused by man, and is ruining the chance for our species to survive, but who pretended ignorance -- worse, took the side of ignorance, defended ignorance, for his own political profit. If there were a hell, there'd be a special deep, dark, hot place in hell for the likes of him.

[turbinetree]

10. It was and always has been about money and ass kissing power for that ilk.................

he couldn't care less for years......................and now he has found his come to jesus moment ......... ............of his reality, if this thing is as bad as they say it is, ...........................

[GulfCoast66]

12. There may be a ray of hope here. Tillis is a fiend as they all are.

And I had given up any Republican ever admitting climate change is real because they are so invested in the denial.

They seemingly painted themselves in a corner.

While the best alternative is voting them all out, they will never go away as a party. It would be good for America for them to find a way out of the quandary they have created.

What better way from republican to admit climate change is real then saying it is for the military and they are being patriotic.

I know, dishonest as all get out. But if that is the way we can get enough of them to address the problem I am all for it.

[Red Mountain]

13. Meh......he'll just qualify his comments

He's sucking up to the most people he can. To the deniers he'll just say 'we don't know how much people actually contribute' and let himself off the hook.

Equivocator.

[riversedge]

16. NC is going to be visited by mother nature and climate change in a few short hours.....

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/5zjmbw/picture154116354/alternates/LANDSCAPE_1140/sealevel


Sen. Thom Tillis urged President Trump to exit the Paris accord. But we in NC need a plan to deal with rising seas.

Read more here: https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article218161710.html#storylink=cpy

[DonViejo]

18. Locking...

The article in the OP is clearly ID'd as Opinion by the Editorial Board, not LBN.

OPINION

Sen. Thom Tillis now says that man is contributing to global warming

BY THE N AND O EDITORIAL BOARD