On inauguration day, Carlos Crabello published a letter to Joe Biden.

Carlos is a Republican, used to serve in Congress, and his note was something of a plea.

It said, basically, don't forget about us Republicans when you're pushing your climate change agenda.

Why did you want to do that?

Like put paper to pen about this in particular?

Number one, I live in South Florida, and I'd like to live here the rest of my years, and I'd like my daughters to have the option of living here.

So there's something

personal in it for me. But this is the greatest threat that we face long term. It's the greatest

threat the planet faces and it's a major priority for rising generations of voters.

If you're surprised to hear a Republican say things like this out loud, Carlos wants you to know.

He is not alone.

He says, if you look past some of the rhetoric about things like the Paris Climate Accord,

you'll see there are more and more Republicans out there, just like him.

They helped pass the Great American Outdoors Act last year, which invested in national parks.

They tucked clean energy funding into December's COVID relief package.

So the baseline is actually pretty good going into the 117th Congress.

But these seem like small wins to me, not big wins.

Well, everything's relative. Small wins are better than no wins, which is what we had for many years.

As you can probably tell, Carlos is an optimist, which I think is a little weird for someone who used to

serve in Congress. Carlos himself might say he's a realist or just ahead of his time.

And I'll tell you, we are in a much better place than we were just a few years ago. When I arrived in Congress for the 114th Congress,

there were maybe a handful of Republicans

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