On Wednesday, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, who won the Iowa caucus in 2012 but came in last on Monday’s first-in-the-nation test, suspended his candidacy for the GOP nomination.
Here’s a view of his climate change positioning:
Santorum, a self-professed devout Catholic, disagreed with Pope Francis on the pontiff’s call for global action on climate change. “The church has gotten it wrong a few times on science, and I think we probably are better off leaving science to the scientists and focus on what we’re really good at, which is theology and morality,” Santorum said.
“A lot of things cause climate change,” he said on more than one occasion.
More recently, in the last two undercard debates, Santorum asserted that if you care about climate change, the solution was to bring American manufacturing jobs back from China. “Remember this: China produces five times more CO2 and other pollutants per dollar of GDP. You want to help the environment? Bring jobs back to America.”