GOP Rep: ‘Arrogant’ To Link Climate Change To Man

Republican candidate for U.S. Representative Todd Rokita speaks at an Indiana Republican Party Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2012, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN) said Friday that he does not believe humanity has had a role in spurring climate change.

“I think it’s arrogant that we think as people that we can somehow change the climate of the whole earth when science is telling us that there’s a cycle to all this,” he said at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Ind., as quoted by The Purdue Exponent, a college paper. “And that cycle was occurring before the industrial revolution and I suspect will occur way into the future.”

h/t Huffington Post

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