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Ah, for it to be several weeks ago, when I was weighing the merits of the top Democratic candidates climate platforms and wondering whether Hillary Clinton was green enough. The GOP field, in comparison to that and in comparison to any rational world in which people refrain from quibbling with the scientific consensus on issues they dont understand is a hot pile of climate-denying garbage.
Their reluctance to take action on one of the most pressing issues of our time takes many forms, from shutting their ears and singing lalalalalala (metaphorically, of course) any time the topic comes up to tiptoeing up to the edge of admitting we might have a problem here
and then praying the Koch brothers didnt overhear. The truth is, no one on the right is up to the challenge of averting the severe, pervasive and irreversible consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. But as the primaries heat up, heres our guide to where they stand.
Climate change is happening, and I will help drive the substantial and sustained emissions cuts scientists say are necessary to fight it:
None of them.
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Hahahahaha climate change isnt happening
Ted Cruz: The Texas senator and Ivy Leaguer will take any of your reasonable and scientifically sound assertions about climate change and spit back a bunch of nonsense that proves only he, in the words of California Gov. Jerry Brown, betokens such a level of ignorance and a direct falsification of scientific data that its shocking.
Donald Trump: The celebrity candidate doesnt just believe that climate change isnt happening. He believes that any and all weather events are used by the GLOBAL WARMING HOAXSTERS to justify higher taxes to save our planet!
Ben Carson: The planets always heating up, or cooling down, so this entire conversation is irrelevant.
Rick Perry: Its not that the former Texas governor is a scientist (hes not, he tells us), but still, calling CO2 a pollutant is doing a disservice [to] the country, and I believe a disservice to the world.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/18/what_scientific_consensus_a_complete_guide_to_climate_denial_and_the_2016_gop_candidates/
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)She is not the person who will lead us in the changes we need to make to try to slow down climate change, but its irrelevant if she wins the nomination because any of the rethugs will be worse.
The excerpt below spells out the very, very painful truth. (Although the first sentence here makes no sense to me. In the primaries, she should be very concerned. Its only if she's the nominated one.) Anyways~
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/16/hillary_clinton_got_heckled_by_climate_activists_at_a_new_hampshire_town.html