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Could Chuck Hagel, likely defense secretary nominee, turn out to be a climate hawk?
2013-01-07 06:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: On the one hand, Hagel - a Republican senator from Nebraska from 1997 to 2008 and now co-chair of the President`s Intelligence Advisory Board - has professed many views you might associate with a climate denier. In fact, his name is tied to the Senate`s first high-profile repudiation of climate action: In 1997, he cosponsored the Byrd-Hagel resolution calling for rejection of the Kyoto Protocol, arguing that it would hurt the U.S. economy and should have required emissions cuts from developing...
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