White House Hopes Report Will Change GOP Minds On Climate Change

White House press secretary Jay Carney, left, and White House senior counselor John Podesta, right, laugh during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington Monday, May 5, 2014. Podesta, who served as Ch... White House press secretary Jay Carney, left, and White House senior counselor John Podesta, right, laugh during the daily news briefing at the White House in Washington Monday, May 5, 2014. Podesta, who served as Chief of Staff under President Clinton, was answering a question about his returning to work for the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS
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The White House is hoping that its massive new report Tuesday, which found that climate change is already harming Americans, will cause Republicans to change their minds on the issue.

John Podesta, an adviser to President Obama on science and technology as well as an influential player in Democratic circles, told reporters on a conference call he’d like to see Republican “deniers” accept the scientific consensus.

“Hopefully with this report, they might review it and change their minds,” Podesta said, in response to a question about the political impacts of the report.

Congressional Republicans broadly doubt or deny the scientific consensus that climate change is real and man-made, which 97 to 98 percent of climate scientists believe.

On the call, Podesta and top scientists who worked on the report stressed that climate change isn’t a distant threat and is already impacting all regions of the U.S. and key sectors of the national economy.

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  1. Avatar for jsfox jsfox says:

    Perfect picture for the headline. The Republicans can’t change their minds, to do so would be to admit that have been wrong. One needs to be both reasonably intelligent and self aware in order admit mistakes,. The Republicans are neither.

  2. “White House Hopes Report Will Change GOP Minds On Climate Change”

    Oh my. That was priceless.

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    It involves science .

    Mind-changing not happening…

  4. The only way to get Republicans to accept this report, let alone read it in good faith, would be to slap the word Benghazi on the cover.

  5. In other news, Amnesty International has high hopes that Kansas Governor Mary Fallin will change her mind on Capital Punishment.

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