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"Pseudoscience" is how North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson described climate science during a campaign speech in Hickory in July. For him, climate denial is a talking point as he seeks the Republican nomination for governor.
I've reported on Robinson's views, but one other comment in that speech caught my ear and seemed worth a fact-check. Robinson also claimed that the history of North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe helps prove that global warming is not a crisis.
"You can go all the way back in history, reading the history book about the Lumbee Indians and they talked about how the natives first got here." Robinson said. "And the very beginning of the book says long, long ago — and I wish they had put this in parentheses — before cars, SUVs and jets and factories . . . long, long ago, there was a great period of cooling. And people decided to take advantage of that and walk across something called the Bering Strait land bridge that froze. They found themselves trapped many years later, when there was a great period of warming. Long before there were cars and jets and SUVs and factories and Right Guard and gas ovens and gas lawnmowers. Long before that, there was these great periods of warming and cooling."
I wondered: Does Lumbee history actually help disprove modern climate science? I put the question to Ryan Emanuel, who is both a...
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