GOP Rep Tipton Won’t Acknowledge Human-Caused Climate Change Because It Would ‘Divide America’

GOP Rep Tipton Won’t Acknowledge Human-Caused Climate Change Because It Would ‘Divide America’: FORT GARLAND, Colorado — Man-made climate change may be helping to devastate the western half of the country with droughts and wildfires, but acknowledging its existence is problematic because it would “divide America,” according to a leading Tea Party congressman. In an interview with ThinkProgress, Scott Tipton (R-CO) conceded that climate change exists, but argued [...]/p