Bob Inglis is a former Republican member of Congress from South Carolina, a conservative who was defeated by a candidate riding the Tea Party wave in 2010. He's gone on to lead the Energy and Enterprise Initiativeat George Mason University in Virginia. It's proposing a solution to the world's climate change problem based on conservative political values, and he'll be explaining that at the Hinckley Institute of Politicsat the University of Utah.
In a conversation with KUER, Bob Inglis also tried to explain what's behind the denial of human-caused climate change that so many conservatives in his party embrace.