84% of GOP Congress members reject global warming. 95% of Dem members accept it.

[Doondoo]

When President Bush spoke for the first time in a State of the Union speech about the need to "confront the serious challenge of global climate change," environmentalists celebrated something of a turnaround for the Republican Party - which had put a senator who called global warming a "hoax" in charge of the Senate environmental committee. But did the party indeed shift? A new poll out this month in the National Journal questioned members of Congress about their views on climate change and found climate change skeptics among the ranks of Republicans.

In surveying 113 members of the House and Senate, the nonpartisan publication asked: "Do you think it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made problems?"

Among Republicans, 84 percent said no. Among Democrats, 95 percent said yes.



http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/lv-other/2007/feb/12/566676824.html

[More Than A Feeling]

1. Industry makes it well worth it for Republicans to deny global warming.

Also, they will jump at any chance to smear science in their desperate grab for unearned respect for their extreme religious beliefs. Those two reasons are the bottom line.

[GainesT1958]

6. Yes, the "bottom line" does, indeed, make it easier...

For Repubs to "stay the course" of being non-believers in global warming's effects. As Al Gore noted in his film, if your livelihood (or your "mother's milk" of politics, in this case) depends on contradicting the truth, you do the best job you can to contradict it. For example, the tobacco companies putting out false "studies" concluding smoking wasn't detrimental to health--and their staunch supporters in Congress.

And especially with Repubs, only those whose money talks the loudest--i.e. the most--have any standing. The rest of us are just "loud-mouthed liberals". :eyes:

B-)

[yardwork]

2. Undeniable proof that Democrats are smarter than Republicans

[TwilightZone]

3. Their ability to stay on message is mindboggling.

It is simply amazing how easily it is for nearly all Republicans to flat-out lie about *anything* with a straight face and no conscience.

[jwirr]

4. Actually it is very usual. They were raised "brainwashed" to believe

whatever their authority figures say: father, mother, teacher, preacher and pres. They never question authority. And they do not expect those they represent to question their authority. Anyone know how to goose-step?

[TwilightZone]

5. I don't think it's about authority. It's about power.

They understand that a united front is a powerful force, so they tend to give up individuality for the sake of unity, even when that unity is in support of a concept or action that is completely wrong.

[General Lee]

7. The fact that a majority of Republicans deny global warming

is proof of what bush stated in today's news conference: "money trumps peace". I'll bet he laminated this saying and has it hanging in his office.

[Release The Hounds]

8. Who are these 5% disbelieving Democrats?

Crazy

[Ninja Jordan]

9. For the life of me I'll never understand why this issue falls along party lines.

Why has it become a republic vs. democratic issue? I understand that many oil et al. companies donate money to republicans (so they have an incentive to deny it). But it seems to me like many GOP mindfreak voters follow suit, mindlessly ignoring the facts. Why? What incentive do THEY have?

[AZBlue]

11. Money.

They get big contributions from oil companies and those oilmen don't want alternative fuels considered. They also get big money from the automotive industry, who doesn't want to change their car designs, and from the manufacturing sector, who doesn't want to pay to clean up their factory emissions.

It's disgusting.

[Ninja Jordan]

12. No, I'm talking about GOP voters.

[SCDem]

10. While 100% of us live with the consequences

Which of course are felt by the poor first and foremost.