Conservatives are well aware of the GOP candidates' remarks and past statements of other party leaders, including President George W. Bush, who in his eighth year in office embraced a small cap on greenhouse gas emissions. Now, they say mandatory emission reduction policies are undermined by unsubstantiated gaps in historical data and a secret conspiracy among scientists to make the problem out to be much worse than it is.
Jim Connaughton, who served for eight years as Bush's top White House environmental adviser, said the slate of possible GOP presidential candidates are displaying collective amnesia in denouncing cap and trade when it "was the invention of conservative Republican economists as a better way to cut pollution than inefficient command and control regulations."
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