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 obvious that those who support this man-made global warming non-sense do not have any sense.
The business of global climate change benefits the high rollers at the expense of the little guys. I hate globally planned extortion.
The elites are all engaging in the BIG LIE, the one that they repeat over and over to sell their scam to the ignorant population as if it is true.
Nothing in it but loss of sovereignty and loss of wealth and stature. Our benefit as the people is ZERO.
I am so totally done with the Republicans. I will vote for Barr or Paul.
It’s obvious that those who support this man-made global warming nonsense do not have any sense.
most Dems dispute terrorism being a threat.
Let’s see who was right in 20 years.
Isn't that funny? Most of them discount conservatism, too.
No, the problem is that Democrats don't see these ideologies as threats. They are a means to an end.
“Most Republicans Discount Global Warming”
And why is that, one wonders. Perhaps, because there is no conclusive evidence of this sort of sudden serious catastrophic situation happening in the entire geological or human history of the planet, by the actions of ANY biological factor?
There are periods of which the planet may have been warmer, or colder, than it now is. At no time has this period of extended warmth, or coldness, been known to threaten humanity with extinction. Or any other species, for that matter. The hue and cry that some rare very localized and highly specialized species is “threatened” by climate change alone, overlooks the fact that the very specialization has put the species in an evolutionary dead end, and they would have died out anyway, as they could no longer adapt to existing conditions. They die out because they do not have useful strategies to adapt, like high rates of reproduction, enabling a few of the millions born or hatched to survive to the age of reproduction, or evolving some kind of protective adaptation along with the climatic change. Thus we have fish that can survive being frozen in ice for months at a time, but are literally cooked when they get into water that is as warm as only a few degrees above freezing. Most of these adaptations will die, but with enough offspring produced, SOME will survive, thus assuring the continuation of at least a subspecies.
Global warming (or global cooling) may or may not be occurring. But whether either situation is due to any activities of humanity, is still unanswered, and nobody can say authoratively that humanity contributes significantly to such change.
It is like a gnat sitting on the head of an elephant, and imagining it is guiding the larger creature. In all likelihood, the larger creature is totally unaware of the presence of the smaller. Or if it is, the larger creature considers the smaller creature an annoyance.
Thus the planet opens up a volcano, and in hours, totally swamps the pollution output of ALL of human activity over a period of years.
And really bad pollution, too. Fine choking dust, noxious gas, huge ejected rocks, molten lava, and fissures that swallow up or smash large strips of real estate.
It is like a gnat sitting on the head of an elephant
Horton hears a who
Paul is out of it (can he leave the party and still get on the ballot as a third party candidate).
Who are you pulling for out of the likely victors for President? I didn’t vote for McCain or Huckabee in the Texas Primary but will vote against the Marxist (D) in November.
He didn't; he flunked out. After that he dropped out of law school. In undergrad he got a "D" in the one elementary level science course he took that was closest to an earth science course. In short, he's a self-inflated ignoramus peddling a "scientific" fraud.
I don’t discount global warming. I do, however, discount man-made global warming and the “solutions” that liberals propose...as trite bovine excrement.
Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn. If people want Democrats, including those with R’s by their names, far be it from me to take it away from them.
Bob Barr isn’t out though, you forgot to mention that. But they can be the ones to cast their vote for socialists and liberals. I am not interested.
Dems fabricate theories of impending doom, indoctrinate the youth, and maintain power through their support and the support of a frightened public. The elders of the party create the imaginary, impending disasters and manipulate the youth into become the foot soldiers believing they are supporting an idealistic, positive cause.
Exactly.
Ironic statement since it's BS.
That particular chemical needs to be banned. Please help.
The fact that an article like this is even written shows that there is still much to be discussed.
For instance "Most Republicans Discount Gravity" would be the title of an article in The Onion. People don't ask if you "BELIEVE" that the world is flat, or if you "BELIEVE" that pi=3.14 (approximately). But they do ask if you "BELIEVE" in Global Warming.
GW is a "science" based on nothing but faith and an excellent marketing scheme.
Actually, he was too dumb to graduate. He only spent a year studying divinity and journalism at Vanderbilt, but didn't complete the program.
(1) It’s hard to think of global warming (a general term that encompasses everything but says nothing) when areas of the land are still snow-covered.
(2) And, we don’t want to put any more money in albore’s companies since albore stands to gain a whale of a lot of money from the hysteria he started and his followers perpetuated.
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