50% of the New Congressmen Deny the Existence of Man-made Climate Change

[Turborama]

by Brian Merchant

Ah, the fallout from the 2010 midterm elections -- it just keeps on getting more depressing, at least from a http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/election-2010-climate-clean-energy-green.php">climate and clean energy perspective. Yes, the folks over at Think Progress did some background research on the incoming Congressmen, and they reveal a disheartening stat: 50% of them outright deny that climate change is real. Nice.

Here's the breakdown from http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/03/gop-frosh-class/">Think Progress:

A new ThinkProgress investigation has found that the incoming GOP freshman class is rife with legislators who not only oppose climate change legislation, but deny that manmade global warming even exists ...

Here is a snapshot of the GOP Class of 2010:

ENVIRONMENT
- 50% deny the existence of manmade climate change
- 86% are opposed to any climate change legislation that increases government revenue

Hooray! We can now look forward to many more years of the status quo -- which, of course means continued dominance from the heavily subsidized oil industry, reliance on foreign oil, and increased industry-wide greenhouse gas emissions right at a time when we're on track to have experienced the hottest year ever recorded.

More: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/11/50-percent-new-congressmen-deny-climate-change.php

[RKP5637]

1. The people get want they vote for and sadly deserve it ... it's sad this

country is overwhelmingly ignorant.

[jpak]

2. Republicans proudly wallow in their ignorance and contempt of science

yup