GOP Senators Might Hate the Green New Deal But Can't Ignore It
The political center of climate change gravity has moved noticeably leftward.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York, speaks as Senator Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, right, listens during a news conference announcing Green New Deal legislation in Washington.
Photographer: Bloomberg/BloombergSenator William Cassidy of Louisiana is a big fan of empiricism. Here he is at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources last month, addressing a panel of experts who had just discussed ways to combat climate change:
There was much more along those lines, with Cassidy particularly unimpressed by talk of carbon taxes ("empirically" complicated) and wanting solutions to be "embedded in empiricism.” For me, though, those five minutes I will never get back offered ample and, dare I say, empirical evidence for the drawbacks of overusing the word “empirical.”3