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Study: Republicans Don't Care About Warming Planet

Maybe this just confirms what you already knew, but a new study by Pew shows that Republicans don't care about global warming. Only 12% of Republicans in the January 2008 poll thought dealing with global warming should be a "top priority," as oppposed to 47% of Democrats and 38% of Independents. In fact, global warming was the issue Republicans cared least about.

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In fact, all the frontrunners (plus Al Gore)are big advocates of the emissions trading scheme and nuclear power...

A year ago, Citigroup's Peter Atherton confessed that the European Union's Emission Trading Scheme had "done nothing to curb emissions." He admitted, "Prices up, emissions up, profits up ... Who wins and loses? Coal and nuclear-based generators--biggest winners. Hedge funds and energy traders--even bigger winners. Loser ... ahem ... Consumers!" Patrick Bond, Climate Crisis: Radical Action Needed Now, GreenLeftOnline.

"The Wall Street Journal confirmed that emissions trading would make money for some very large corporations, but don't believe for a minute that this charade would do much about global warming." P. Bond

"This year alone, more than $1 billion in federal research and development spending was devoted to nuclear-power research, far more than any other source of electricity."

Of course darlings, if our Govt. spent that kind of serious change on actually building high-tech, environmently friendly Maglev wind generators..., we'd all be "filling up" for free...

Opps--I forgot--they killed the electric car!!!

Posted by: Michael L. Wagner on 01/31/08 at 6:08 PM  Respond

According to this survey, Democrats must not care much about the environment either. Consider that while only 47% thought global warming was a priority, 76% said the economy was a top priority.

Posted by: Bob on 01/31/08 at 8:20 PM  Respond

This idea about planet warming is a fraud. This winter has been a record. Snow where never before, record snow and rain falls. Not by fire, but by ice.

Posted by: The Iceman on 02/03/08 at 6:45 AM  Respond

I personally think it goes to the question of available brain horsepower. Republicans think that economics is a science (it's really an incomplete modeling exercise), and that what everyone else calls science is really just a grant-writing competition.

Such outright science illitteracy promotes simplistic views of global warming, such as the idea that crops will grow better, due to longer growing seasons (forgetting that soils and water are disappearing, as lands trend toward desertification).

Republicans think that global warming is actually going to make this a better planet to live on.

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