Despite a long string of years in which Republican leaders and candidates
bashed global warming science, the platform adopted on July 18 has no section characterizing — one way or the other — the party's view of risks from an unabated buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Even as climate scientists, and the
science underpinning
global warming, have been vindicated (for the umpteenth time) the GOP has completed its descent into
science -
bashing and anti- «warmist» rhetoric.