Opinion: When will the GOP open its eyes to the climate?
I suppose one practical way to look at the global climate emergency this summer is that it’s not so much the 102-degree high last week in Portland, Ore. that matters.
Until now. Or, rather, until last summer, when Portland hit an absurd 116 F., beating the former record high of 107 set in 1965 by a ridiculous nine degrees. Oregonians already believe in global weirding. It’s not a matter, there, of being a Democrat or a Republican. And there are plenty of Republicans left there, especially rural ones. But Oregon GOPers are of the Mark Hatfield variety. The kind who come down to Stanford for a master’s in poli sci before returning to Oregon and serving as its governor and United States senator.
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