Drought, Heat Shows Climate Change is Real, Democrats Say
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Wildfires in the U.S. West, heat in the East and drought across most of the nation show the climate is changing, Democrats said today as they sought to revive an issue the Obama administration and Republicans had dropped.
“The whole world is debating global warming,” Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent who often votes with Democrats, said at a hearing on climate change. “We can’t run away from the issue. We need to put it front and center.”