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Whitehouse Introduces Resolution To Acknowledge Climate Change Is Real–Then Ron Johnson Blocks It

Published | Video Starts at 13:53

The good senator from Rhode island when he's chairing of the Budget Committee held hearing after hearing about these enormous costs caused by man made climate change. What he refuses to acknowledge is the fact that The reaction of this scare mongering, this alarmism has been somewhere between 6 to 10 trillion dollars is what we've spent globally trying to hold back the tides. Six to $10 trillion. The cost he's talking about pale in comparison to that massive, the largest mal investment in human history. So I mean make no mistakes, the simple resolution. (13:53–14:07)

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