The national conversation on climate change can’t start “with alarmism,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb. warned Sunday.
In an interview on “Fox News Sunday,” Sasse noted the nation needs to take heed of the latest government assessment that shows climate is changing and that humans are a contributing factor.
“It's going to need to be a conversation… that doesn't start with alarmism, but that starts with some discussion of the magnitude of the challenge, the global elements to it and how the [United States] shouldn't just do this is a feel-good measure, but some sort of innovative proposal,” he said.
Sasse said “reasonable people” can disagree about how much and how fast the climate is change.
“I think the real question, though, becomes what do you do about it?” he said. “Because you can't legislate or regulate your way into the past. We have to innovate our way into the future.”
Sasse also supported Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in his public rebuke of President Donald Trump about presidential appointments of judges.
“When the president wants to critique bad judging, he should get out the merits of critiquing the particulars of a bad ruling and he should help explain to our kids why we think we shouldn't have Obama judges and Trump judges,” he said, adding: “We need to do a better job of teaching basic American civics.”
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