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John Barrasso: “So I say, why should we then spend billions of taxpayer dollars, defense dollars specifically, on climate change…”

On the recordJuly 21, 2014
So I say, why should we then spend billions of taxpayer dollars, defense dollars specifically, on climate change predictions about future conflicts due to drought and famine that the Department's own studies say that we cannot predict?
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming

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Questioning the spending on unpredictable climate change predictions.

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