A politician knows he has a problem when his own children warn him that they might vote against him.
That is what happened to Representative Bob Inglis of South Carolina, who like President Bush and most of his Republican peers has been skeptical about global warming despite mounting evidence that the planet is in crisis because of rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures from greenhouse gases and other substantially man-made factors.
Inglis learned that the political winds might be shifting not on Capitol Hill but back home when his eldest son, Robert Jr., 22, told him that he’d better “clean up his act on the environment.”
His daughter was no less blunt, while Inglis said “I have three more kids coming up — and they seem to share the same view.”
The family pressure worked and Inglis traveled to Antarctica and Greenland to witness first-hand the effects of global warming the effects of rising CO2 levels and temperatures.
Inglis now believes the science behind global warming, as well as the politics: Republicans, he said, will “get hammered†if they don’t confront the issue soon.
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