Biden: Climate Change Denial Is Like ‘Denying Gravity’

Vice meets Vice in a preview clip from this season of the HBO investigative series. Joe Biden sat down for an interview recently with Shane Smith and expressed his amazement at how climate change denial continues to persist.

Smith asked Biden not just about climate change denial, but specifically how the current head of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, James Inhofe, is in that camp (to the point where he used a snowball to back him up).

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Biden said, “I think it’s close to mindless. I mean, I think it’s almost like denying gravity now.”

He went off on the “willing suspension of disbelief” by climate change deniers and cited Hurricane Sandy specifically to show how serious the problem is.

Watch the video below, via HBO:

[h/t HuffPost]
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