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.
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.
Gas Volume
Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 ppmv (78.084%)
Oxygen (O2) 209,460 ppmv (20.946%)
Argon (Ar) 9,340 ppmv (0.9340%)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) 383 ppmv (0.0383%)
Neon (Ne) 18.18 ppmv (0.001818%)
Helium (He) 5.24 ppmv (0.000524%)
Methane (CH4) 1.745 ppmv (0.0001745%)
Krypton (Kr) 1.14 ppmv (0.000114%)
Hydrogen (H2) 0.55 ppmv (0.000055%)
Not included in above dry atmosphere:
Water vapor (H2O) ~0.25% over full atmosphere, typically
Speaking of suspect statistics...
Try asking your liberal buddies to name the four biggest components in the air they are currently breathing. I tried this with my son the CS major.
He was shocked to learn that CO2 is fifth (and a very tiny fraction at that) ... behind N2, O2, H2O, and Argon.
(BTW, the H2O component may be less than Argon - depending on temperature/humidity.)
He graduated with a B.A. in government from Harvard. His time at Vandy was a waste, I guess. He even did time in law school there.
Coming to us from Alaska, where summer is the month when you can see actual dirt.
“Most Republicans Discount Global Warming”
Oddly, so do the actual scientific observations.
Dang, that stuff looks dngerous. Why is it that nobody's taking THAT threat seriously?
;)
Argo System ocean temperature probesGiven that ocean temperatures are regarded as a main indicator of AGW, what the Argo System is showing is that PC AGW is a hoax.
As others have noted, Al flunked out of divinity school.
As far as science is concerned, he seems to be a blockhead.
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