How Did Fighting Climate Change Become a Partisan Issue? | The New Yorker

Twenty years ago, Senator John McCain tried to spearhead an effort. What has happened to Republicans since then?

Save this story Save this story In January, 2000, during the run-up to the New Hampshire primaries, Presidential candidates in the Granite State were confronted by a young man—a recent Dartmouth graduate—wearing a red cape, orange long johns, and yellow-painted galoshes. He called himself Captain Climate, and asked any candidate within shouting distance, “What’s your plan?” All the candidates ignored him, except one. That candidate was John McCain , then the senior United States senator from Arizona. McCain went on to win New Hampshire’s Republican primary and then to lose the nomination to Ge

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