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When Alex Bozmoski was in college, he didn\u2019t believe climate change was real. He was \u201ca very active conservative Republican,\u201d he says, who \u201cloved making noise.\u201d In high school, he started a newspaper called The Right Idea<\/em>; the logo was an eagle gripping a Christian cross. And at Georgetown University, after George W. Bush won the election in 2004, he carried a cardboard cutout of the president around campus until he was tackled by a liberal student and Bush was broken in half.<\/p>\n

So when Bozmoski enrolled in a climate science class taught by Nathan Hultman, his primary goal was to heckle the professor. But every time he brought up something he had heard on a conservative radio talk show, Hultman asked him to back up those claims with actual scientific evidence. Soon, Bozmoski realized climate skepticism was unfounded, and that climate change is a very serious issue that his own political party was completely ignoring.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt alienated that my tribe has been so out of the loop and not even working on it,\u201d Bozmoski says. \u201cTo me, it seemed like just an easy way out, like a coping mechanism more than a governing strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n

So a few years after his college graduation, Bozmoski began traveling around the country, speaking to conservatives about climate change and free-market options to tackle it. He visited church groups, federalist societies, chambers of commerce, universities \u2014 alone or together with Bob Inglis, a former Republican congressman who introduced a bill to tax carbon emissions. (Inglis\u2019 views on climate change cost him his House seat<\/a> in 2010.) As Bozmoski did more of these talks, he says, \u201cit became pretty clear that when people heard from us, a lot of conservatives were very motivated to get involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every time he brought up something he had heard on a conservative radio talk show, Hultman asked him to back up those claims with actual scientific evidence. Soon, Bozmoski realized climate skepticism was unfounded, and that climate change is a very serious issue that his own political party was completely ignoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,9],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nInside the Renegade Republican Movement for Tackling Climate Change - Organic Consumers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/inside-renegade-republican-movement-tackling-climate-change\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Inside the Renegade Republican Movement for Tackling Climate Change - Organic Consumers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Every time he brought up something he had heard on a conservative radio talk show, Hultman asked him to back up those claims with actual scientific evidence. 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