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On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
If 20 of the leading science agencies in the industrialized countries of the world have said it's a threat and that humans are helping to cause it--if 20 fire marshals of that repute came to my house and said, 'Your house is likely to catch fire,' I think I'd buy some insurance.
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Lamar Alexander
Republican · Tennessee

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Emphasizing the urgency of addressing climate change based on scientific consensus.

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