claim: "virtually no republican" in washington accepts climate change science.
author: jerry brown
evidence_1: nov 17, 2017 ... one analysis by politifact agreed that “virtually no republican” in washington  accepts climate-change science. it wasn't always this way. in 2008, republican  presidential candidate john mccain produced an ad praising him as a candidate  who “sounded the alarm on global warming.” according to an ...
evidence_2: ... climate science, fighting tooth and nail to protect their oil fortune at the expense  of our air and treating this misinformation campaign as just another investment in  their bottom line. the sad part? it's working. politifact recently rated it “mostly true ” that “virtually no republican” in washington accepts climate change science.
evidence_3: according to politifact in may 2014, jerry brown's statement that 'virtually no  republican' in washington accepts climate change science, was "mostly true";  politifact counted "eight out of 278, or about 3 percent" of republican members  of congress who "accept the prevailing scientific conclusion that global warming  is ...
evidence_4: jun 3, 2017 ... the republican party's fast journey from debating how to combat human-caused  climate change to arguing that it does not exist is a story of big political money,  democratic hubris in ... that scientific consensus was enough to pull virtually all  of the major nations along. .... i accept that,” he offered that fall.
evidence_5: jerry brown says 'virtually no republican' in washington accepts climate change  science. politifact.com | may 18, 2014. more than1,500 wildfireshave ravaged  california so far in 2014, more than twice the state sees in an average year. on  abc'sthis week, gov. jerry brown, .