Former Republican congressman Bob Inglis knows something about the cost of climate change – it included his job.
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| Former Republican congressman Bob Inglis in Sydney on Sunday. |
A conservative from South Carolina's Republican heartland, he initially thought – assumed – the science of climate change was nonsense.
"I didn't really know anything about it except that Al Gore was for it and, as I represented one of the most conservative districts in the most conservative states in America, that was really the end of the inquiry," he says.
But when he decideed to run again for Congress in 2004, five years after vacating his seat, his son Robert told him he had to "clean up his act on the environment", so he joined the House of Representatives science committee and joined fact-finding trips to Antarctica and the Great Barrier Reef.
Read Adam Morton’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “The US Republican spreading the conservative case for acting on climate change.”
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