Climate of Denial Curtis
pols, media and biz (also local impacts?)<div>
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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">David Curtis</strong>, <span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Executive Director</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David is the President of the<a href="https://www.brokenbrickinitiative.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;"> Broken Brick Initiative, LLC</a>, co-director of <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://www.communitylibrariesandinformationcenters.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">Community Libraries and Information Centers, L3C</a> and currently serves on the board of the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://gbmrc.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">Greater Burlington Multicultural Resource Center</a>. With a master’s degree in public administration, he has studied the growth of democracy movements and the development of accountability standards.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">eg </p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH, 1) represents a gerrymandered Ohio district that takes in parts of Cincinnati combined with the heavily Republican rural and suburban areas of Warren and Hamilton counties. As drawn, the district had been the subject of a legal challenge, but a recent <a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/27/supreme-court-decides-gerrymandering-cases-could-affect-ohio/1522145001/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">Supreme Court decision</a> has put off a potential redrawing of the electoral map until the 2022 elections.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Elected to Congress in 1994, Chabot was defeated in the 2008 election. He won a rematch election in 2010 and continues to serve in the House of Representatives. Chabot remains known as one of the 12 House Managers during the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton in 1999.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit;">Steve Chabot on Climate Change</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Despite claims to the contrary, the evidence concerning man-made climate change is far from conclusive,” said Rep. Steve Chabot, in a statement.<a href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/politics/2014/10/11/climate-can-debate-forever/17137787/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;"> “However, what is conclusive is the damage some of the more extreme proposals intended to address climate change, like cap-and-trade, will have on our economy.”</a></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://stevechabot.com/blog/climate-scientists-behaving-badly/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">From Chabot’s blog</a>: “It’s just another example of many in the press, and many in the academic/scientific community having bought into the whole global warming/climate change “religion,” no matter what the facts are.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January 2019, Chabot <a href="https://stevechabot.com/blog/what-the-heck-is-a-green-new-deal/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">attacked</a> The Green New Deal on his blog, calling it “radical” and “reckless.” He goes on to say, “Because in my view the Green New Deal would cripple the economy, throw hundreds of thousands, probably millions of people out of work, add multiple trillions of dollars to the national debt, grow government exponentially, and raise taxes to confiscatory levels. So count me as a NO.”</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Consistently voting against climate change legislation while supporting traditional energy. The <a href="https://scorecard.lcv.org/moc/steve-chabot" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">League of Conservation Voters ranked Chabot</a> at 3% in 2018, and in analyzing votes through 2016, noted that <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/contributors/2018/01/23/why-these-lawmakers-rejecting-climate-change/1050888001/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">Chabot opposed the environmental position consistent with scientific consensus in 42 of 43 votes</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chabot supported the Keystone XL pipeline project and signed onto a 2/6/13 House of Representatives letter to President Obama urging <a href="https://www.ontheissues.org/Notebook/Note_13-KeyXL-H.htm" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">Keystone XL pipeline approval</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 18px; line-height: inherit; font-family: Roboto; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The<a href="https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/default/news/2018/08/14/170996/profile-corruption-rep-steve-chabot-r-oh-01/" target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;"> Oil and Gas industry has contributed $224,125</a> to Chabot during the course of his congressional career. Click <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label=" (opens in a new tab)" href="https://republicinsanity.tumblr.com/post/176097966993/steve-chabot-2018-update" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font: inherit; color: rgb(23, 133, 155); transition: all 0.2s ease-out 0s;">here</a> for an overview of recent Chabot votes.</p></div></div>