72 Percent of Republican Senators Are Climate Deniers

[riversedge]

It is a no wonder the US is going nowhere with climate problems-except for what Pres. Obama is doing!

It is past time to contact all your Reps and Senators--of ALL stripes (even if you think it will do no good)--they need to know what their constituents Think! Please do this.





72 Percent of Republican Senators Are Climate Deniers
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2015/01/republican-climate-denial-caucus


—By Jeremy Schulman
| Sat Jan. 10, 2015 6:00 AM EST




Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) at the 2009 UN climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Virginia Mayo/AP

On Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) offered a simple amendment to the controversial bill that would authorize construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. Sanders' measure, which he proposed to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, would have declared it the "sense of Congress" that climate change is real; that it is caused by humans; that it has already caused significant problems; and that the United States needs to shift its economy away from fossil fuels.

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.............(For a great interactive map showing exactly how many climate deniers represent your state in Congress, click here.)

What's more, the Climate Progress analysis shows that many of the congressional committees that deal with climate and energy issues are loaded with global warming deniers:

…68 percent of the Republican leadership in both House and Senate deny human-caused climate change. On the committee level, 13 out of 21 Republican members of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, or 62 percent, reject the science behind human-caused global warming, joined by 67 percent, or 21 out of 31 Republican members, of the House Energy and Commerce Committee…In addition to Inhofe, 10 out of 11, or 91 percent, of Republicans on EPW have said climate change is not happening or that humans do not cause it.

All this could have serious policy consequences: Republicans are threatening to use their majority to cut the EPA's budget and derail the power plant regulations at the heart of President Barack Obama's signature climate initiative.

[riversedge]

1. Republican thinks wind will be depleted if we use Wind Energy!!

JeSuisCharlie8 ?@cloudless8 Jan 8

From Under which rock had this sad excuse of a human emerged? #PlainDumb? "@elderberryplace: What a MORON! "

[sharp_stick]

2. The Texas Delegation

has so little combined brainpower I'm surprised they remember to breath.

[SamKnause]

3. Evil foul people are in charge of the U.S. government.

They will DENY anything if there is money to be made.

They DENY scientific facts.

They DENY economic facts.

They DENY the U.S. has 'Separation of Church and State'.

They DENY the history of the U.S.

They DENY racism still exists in the U.S.

They DENY women to right to equal pay.

They DENY that the corporations are the 'real' welfare queens.

They are out to destroy the entire planet and it seems to be working.

[Joe Turner]

4. More damning than that

I think most of Republican senators know that human-caused climate change is real but are owned by big business and will tout their line no matter what the consequences.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. If climate change is a huge hoax

how are the hoaxers supposedly benefiting? Have climate change deniers ever been able to explain it?

[AJH032]

7. Exactly, thank you.

It seems like the conservative talking point is that climate change is a "liberal conspiracy", as if liberals actually have something to gain from such a hoax. It just demonstrates the low intellectual capacity of the climate change deniers.

[Blue_Tires]

10. Michael Crichton's "explanation" which was adopted by the RW was

Professors, scientists and researchers maintain the hoax so they can continue to land those fat research grants and get famous...

[Gothmog]

6. These GOP senators are idiots

[oberliner]

8. How did the Democrats vote on that?

Is that info available as well?

[kairos12]

9. That means the remaining 28% will get a bagger primary challenge.

[Blue_Tires]

11. Elections have consequences...