{"id":3722,"date":"2020-10-30T19:08:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2020-10-30T19:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T19:08:07","slug":"amy-coney-barrett-describes-climate-change-as-a-very-contentious-matter-of-public-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3722","title":{"rendered":"Amy Coney Barrett describes climate change as a \u201cvery contentious matter of public debate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Barrett\u2019s refusal to express her stance on climate change comes in spite of the overwhelming scientific evidence on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that my views on global warming or climate change are relevant to the job I would do as a judge, nor do I think I have views that are informed enough,\u201d Barrett has also said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the New York Times\u2019s John Schwartz wrote<\/a>, however, her approach to the subject could be important in future cases: \u201cIn past decisions, the justices have accepted that human-caused climate change is occurring and determined that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gases in the case Massachusetts v. E.P.A.<\/em>, but a more conservative Supreme Court might revisit the issue.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Barrett did say ended up echoing the way many Republicans have approached the subject of climate change in the past: She declined to comment on whether humans contributed to global warming, an evasion that still seemed to signal quite a lot about where she stands.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/10\/14\/21516800\/amy-coney-barrett-climate-change-confirmation-hearing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Barrett\u2019s refusal to express her stance on climate change comes in spite of the overwhelming scientific evidence on the subject.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that my views on global warming or climate change are relevant to the job I would do as a judge, nor do I think I have views that are informed enough,\u201d Barrett has also said.<\/p>\n

As the New York Times\u2019s John Schwartz wrote, however, her approach to the subject could be important in future cases: \u201cIn past decisions, the justices have accepted that human-caused climate change is occurring and determined that the Environmental Protection Agency can regulate greenhouse gases in the case Massachusetts v. E.P.A., but a more conservative Supreme Court might revisit the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

What Barrett did say ended up echoing the way many Republicans have approached the subject of climate change in the past: She declined to comment on whether humans contributed to global warming, an evasion that still seemed to signal quite a lot about where she stands.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1015,105,104,528],"class_list":["post-3722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-amy-coney-barrett","tag-climate-change","tag-global-warming","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3723,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}