Steam and smoke rise over a coal-burning power plant in
Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Steam and smoke rise over a coal-burning
power plant in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Martin Meissner/AP The
more carbon that gets released into the atmosphere, the higher
the average temperature rises. That's a scientific fact. Human
activities, such as driving, flying, building and even turning
on the lights, are the biggest contributor to the release of
carbon. That too, is a fact. And yet the majority of Republicans
running for House and Senate seats this year disagree. Ken Buck,
the GOP senate candidate in Colorado admits he's a climate
change denier. Ron Johnson, who leads in the polls of
Wisconsin's senatorial race, has said that "it is far more
likely that [climate change] is just sunspot activity or
something just in the geologic eons of time where we have
changes in the climate." And when Christine O'Donnell, the
Republican candidate for Senate in Delaware, was asked whether
human activity contributes to global warming, she sa