Posted on 05/15/2008 12:06:26 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Republicans Discount Global Warming McCain, Bush At Odds With Most Of Party
POSTED: 2:15 pm EDT May 15, 2008 UPDATED: 2:46 pm EDT May 15, 2008 The proportion of Americans who say that the earth is getting warmer has decreased modestly since January 2007, mostly because of a decline among Republicans, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
That puts most Republicans at odds with their standard-bearer, President George W. Bush, and with GOP presidential contender Sen. John McCain. Both men said this week global warming is real and must be addressed.
Republicans are increasingly skeptical that there is solid evidence that the earth has been warming over the past few decades, the survey found. In January 2007, 62 percent said they believed the evidence, compared to 49 percent in the new Pew findings. Pew found that self-described conservative Republicans are more likely than party moderates or liberals to reject the science.
Overall, 71 percent of Americans say there is solid evidence of higher global temperatures, compared with 77 percent at the beginning of last year. Fewer than half in the survey -- 47 percent -- attribute the rising temperatures to human activity.
Age played a role in opinions, Pew said. Fifty-four percent of people under age 30 believe that the earth is warming mostly because of human activity, compared with 37 percent of those ages 65 and older
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It’s not that we discount GW, it’s that we are ice-age deniers!
Most Republicans have college educations plus advanced degrees which prohibit us from engaging in BS.
I dont dispute “climate change”.. The geological record makes clear that climates change over time...
I dispute that MAN has the ablity to influence it in the least...
I don't reject the science, I reject the gross distortion of the science. And besides, the earth is cooling of late and has erased much of the earlier gains.
1. Even if it is real, there is no way to deal with it.
2. We’ve got bigger problems to deal with than these imaginary problems the Dems dream up for their own partisan purposes.
Most Democrats dispute the threats posed by the Red Menace, Socialism, Communism, and Islamic Imperialism.
“Most Republicans Discount Global Warming”
“Discount” assigns WAY too much value to this outright socialist propaganda.
Discount? No, I’d pay someone to take it away.
It’s always funny how the MSM and liberals portray conservatives as ignorant on this subject. But I bet more conservatives can tell me what the number one “greenhouse” gas is than can liberals. Liberals are always shocked to find out what it is. Hint. It’s not carbon dioxide.
I think you'll find that there are an awful lot of global-warming believing liberals with advanced college degrees. Just check out the proportion of liberals to principled conservatives on any college faculty, for starters.
Furthermore, if advanced college degrees were indicative of any ability to make rational political choices, our country would be in a MUCH better place today.
In my experience, the more time someone spends pursuing a college education, the more likely they are to think Al Gore is right.
I, too, do not dispute climate change. Nor do I dispute global warming. It was cold everywhere today before the sun came up.
I flatly reject anthropogenic catastrophic climate change (ACCC).
Age played a role in opinions, Pew said. Fifty-four percent of people under age 30 believe that the earth is warming mostly because of human activity, compared with 37 percent of those ages 65 and older
Young people are being indoctrinated in school. Be good little Hitler youths and tell your parents to recycle or they will die.
wasser-geist
Except the ones with the microphones who are the self-appointed mouthpieces of the party members and thus make us all look stupid.
Then perhaps they could provide some hard evidence to back up these claims. It's funny how the MSM assumes that conservatives think like liberals: "See? Your politicians are telling you about it, so it MUST be true!"
wasser-geist
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Gesundheit! :-}
“My sentiments too. Global climate change can be demonstrated, but the mechanism which is involved is highly debatable.”
Recently in a discussion I had about solar radiation output and magnetic field fluctuation (drifting magnetic poles)not being part of the models, a global warming zealot scoffed....
“What the hell does the magnetic field have to do with climate”
eco-ism:
Socialists hugging a tree to see which limb to string a rope over...
We used to say, 30 years ago before Global Warming, that we should wait until 15 May to set out the plants when the last danger of frost was past. There was frost this morning, ice on the small pond.
Al Gore graduated from divinity school... need I say more.
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