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Many GOP Senate candidates doubt climate science
McClatchy Newspapers ^ | Oct. 28, 2010 | Renee Schoof and David Lightman

Posted on 10/29/2010 4:47:04 PM PDT by PROCON

WASHINGTON — Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate. Conservative Republican candidates in U.S. Senate races nationwide, however, don't agree.

It's a point that scores well with tea party activists, but contradicts what NASA, the National Academy of Sciences and other prominent science organizations have been telling readers on their websites.

Victories by these candidates Tuesday could make Senate action on reducing emissions of greenhouse gases — already stalled — even more unlikely to restart next year. Still, even with the complex energy and climate bill looking dead, Republicans have used it — especially the cap-and-trade part about reducing emissions — to bash Democrats. In doing so, they've also cultivated uncertainty about climate change.

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KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
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"The science is overwhelming," said Rep. Baron Hill, D-Ind., an House Energy and Commerce Committee member in a close race in a conservative district. "There is no question about that."

Run with that one and we'll see who's left standing on Tuesday!

1 posted on 10/29/2010 4:47:05 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping!


2 posted on 10/29/2010 4:47:37 PM PDT by PROCON (4 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: PROCON

They’d better, seeing as how climate “science” is 99.99% pure bullstraw.


3 posted on 10/29/2010 4:48:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is brewing!! Just vote them OUT!!)
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To: PROCON
Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate.

Scientists also say just the opposite. Media claims like this one aren't journalism, they are political advocacy.

Fortunately, an increasing number of people are figuring it out.

4 posted on 10/29/2010 4:49:45 PM PDT by Interesting Times (For the truth about "swift boating" see ToSetTheRecordStraight.com)
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To: PROCON
WASHINGTON — Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate.

WASHINGTON — SOME Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate.

There fixed it.

5 posted on 10/29/2010 4:50:04 PM PDT by mountn man (The pleasure you get from life, is equal to the attitude you put into it.)
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To: PROCON

They can take this article and shove it.


6 posted on 10/29/2010 4:51:08 PM PDT by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: PROCON

Many GOP candidates correctly reject fraudulent pseudo-science, and corrently adopt the skeptical attitude that is a FUNDAMENTAL REQUIRMENT of valid science.


7 posted on 10/29/2010 4:51:13 PM PDT by sourcery (Don't call them "liberals" or "progressives." The honest label is extreme anti-Constitutionalists!)
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To: PROCON

Most GOP constituents doubt climate change. The rest of them we put up with because they vote right.


8 posted on 10/29/2010 4:52:47 PM PDT by politicalmerc (I can see November from my house; can you?)
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To: PROCON

Global climate change by mans industry are a huge scam the democrat left uses to deceive the young, the foolish, and the stupid.


9 posted on 10/29/2010 4:56:53 PM PDT by kindred (Come, Lord Jesus, rule and reign over all thine enemies from Zion, the chosen nation.)
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To: PROCON
Many GOP Senate candidates doubt climate junk science

Fixed the headline.

10 posted on 10/29/2010 4:58:00 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: kindred
the democrat left uses to deceive the young, the foolish, and the stupid.

Oh, you mean 0bama voters?

11 posted on 10/29/2010 4:59:20 PM PDT by PROCON (4 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: Interesting Times

And Al Gore leaves his car idle while giving a speech and we are the ones who are supposed to be riding the bicycle to work.


12 posted on 10/29/2010 5:01:40 PM PDT by max americana (Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
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To: PROCON

Give me the damned incandescent bulb back, and take the curly-Q CFL’s and shove ‘em up the south end of the northbound Jackasses in Congress. Junk science makes me puke!


13 posted on 10/29/2010 5:03:14 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: PROCON
Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate.

Any article that resorts to the smarmy "scientists say" gambit has no credibility at all. It is a known fact that many, many scientists reject the man-made global warming theory, and any "news" article that refuses to recognize and state that fact is a propaganda piece.

Which "scientists say"? How many? Who are they? How come we are never treated to their names, and why will none of them agree to publicly debate their claims with any of these skeptical scientists?

"Scientists say"? I say: utter rubbish.

14 posted on 10/29/2010 5:04:22 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: PROCON

Many scientists doubt what passes for “climate science”


15 posted on 10/29/2010 5:10:57 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: PROCON
Scientists say evidence from around the globe clearly shows that human activity is changing the climate.

That's weird, all of the scientists whose work I have read say that evidence from around the globe clearly shows that the changing climate is a natural occurrence. In Arizona, that's called a "Mexican standoff".

16 posted on 10/29/2010 5:13:34 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Just another white boy riding in the back of the bus.)
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To: PROCON

We doubt the “science” part of the climate science cult. Global Warming is more of a religion than Scientology.


17 posted on 10/29/2010 5:19:48 PM PDT by Mad_as_heck (The MSM - America's (domestic) public enemy #1.)
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To: Mad_as_heck

Exactly! It’s a religion and “green credits” are simply indulgences.


18 posted on 10/29/2010 5:23:36 PM PDT by Brucifer (Proud member of the Double Secret Reloading Underground.)
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To: Interesting Times
Media claims like this one aren't journalism, they are political advocacy.
Journalism is political advocacy.

Journalism isn't inherently objective because journalism has its own interests - such as interesting an audience and being perceived to be objective. But ironically, promoting yourself as being objective is inimical to actually being objective.


19 posted on 10/29/2010 5:23:44 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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"The science is overwhelming," said Rep. Baron Hill, D-Ind"
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Indiana 9th District - Young vs. Hill "Leans GOP"
20 posted on 10/29/2010 5:27:12 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
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