Republican climate politics: an irresolvable conundrum.

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CNN’s Dana Bash asked Pence on “State of the Union” if he believed that climate change was primarily caused by human activity, as scientists have convincingly and overwhelmingly argued. Pence didn’t really give a substantive answer.

Instead, he offered a greasy-spoon diner’s menu of distractions. During “our” administration (that is, when he was serving as Donald Trump’s vice president) there was $2-a-gallon gas, he said — a state of affairs that depended on the cratering of the economy from the coronavirus pandemic. Trump (

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