Midterm candidates embrace climate denialism - Capital Weather Gang

Despite overwhelming scientific evidence [like what, specifically?] that human activities are warming Earth's climate and causing a range of harmful effects, climate science denialism is enjoying a dramatic resurgence in American political life. More candidates who simply do not believe Earth's climate is warming, or who hold the view that humans are not the primary cause of recent warming, may be elected this year than in any other election in recent memory.
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[Ron Johnson] also described those who think climate change is mostly caused by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels for energy, as "crazy." "It's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity or just something in the geologic eons of time," he said. Climate scientists, of course, have proven otherwise.