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On the recordNovember 28, 2017
A nominee who can't follow the thread from carbon pollution to ocean warming to sea level rise, who imagines science that is not there and ignores science that is there is a preposterous nominee.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Criticism of a nominee's understanding of environmental science.

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