Article snippet: Republican lawmakers are largely shrugging off dire climate change warnings spelled out in a major new United Nations report. Few GOP lawmakers on Wednesday said they had read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) report, which warned that the planet would be unlivable if leaders failed to cut carbon emissions. “I just got that, and I hadn’t gotten a chance to do a deep dive on it so I’m going to have to wait to comment,” Sen. MORE (R-W.Va.) told The Hill three days after the report was released. Even fewer said they were heeding the warnings that action needed to be taken to cut emissions by 2030. “That’s the UN. That’s the group that was formed to sell this in the first place,” said Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the former chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and one of the best-known skeptics of climate change in the Senate. “They come from that prejudiced perspective,” Inhofe said of the report’s authors. Sen. MORE (R-S.D) said he had also not read the report or the 34-page summary for policymakers, adding that it was important to do whatever necessary to maintain a strong economy. “We ought to be talking about the things that we can do and still maintain a strong economy, because we’re not going to be able to address it unless we keep a strong economy,” he said. The countries that negotiated the landmark Paris climate agreement called for the report, asking the IPCC to study how to limit the globe’s average temperature to ... Link to the full article to read more