GOP not listening to its own scientists on climate change

Republican scientists should seriously consider becoming Democrats.
The GOP is antiscience, from evolution to stem cell research to contraception to global warming. There is an enormous difference between these parties contrary to what some activists claim.

of course they are. they are being cast by the machine as the villains to a certain demographic, and need to act the role. how else are they going to distract and control us into fighting with each other over stupid labels and parties that mean nothing in a system that is rigged from the gate?

This is like if the pope in the 1600s said "the Earth obviously revolves around the Sun" and the cardinals were like "I'm still not so sure."

Global warming isn't even a political issue in the first place, it's a scientific issue that can be backed by solid facts. The only reason they attempt to deny climate change is because they are supporting the gargantuan oil companies.

Follow the money and you will understand why, and where, the GOP is, therefore making it unable to admit to the facts.

Excerpt from the article:

"To support their positions, Bickmore of Brigham Young University said he believes GOP leadership is getting their climate information from the roughly two percent of American climate scientists who remain skeptical. Or worse yet, he said, they're listening to skeptics who have non-climate backgrounds and are on the payrolls of skeptic think tanks like the nonprofit Heartland Institute. This month, leaked documents exposed plans by Heartland to spend $200,000 to develop a K-12 curriculum to undermine the teaching of global warming in public schools.

For now, these GOP climate scientists may find some comfort in the fact that their understanding of global warming aligns with most moderate Republicans.

More than 60 percent of moderate and liberal Republicans, which make up a third of the party, say there is "solid evidence" of global warming, up from about 40 percent two years ago and the same as the American public at large, according to a national survey by the Pew Research Center released late last year. Thirty percent of Tea Party-leaning Republicans share this view."
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This makes what they are doing even more despicable. They know it is real and needs to be addressed, but are listening to the minority with the $$$$$ even against a third of their own party who see the facts of it. There really is no political impasse here regarding Americans who are not being influenced by special interests. That is just more lies from those interests seeking to misinform out of greed and fear and to keep us divided. So, if the 60% of moderate and liberal Republicans joined with the other Americans out here in raising their voices and saying they will not vote for a candidate who bows to the lies for $$$$ because they are putting the future in jeopardy, we could see some definite progress here.

They don't listen to science, because its not about science, its about money. To help combat climate change industry will have to spend money it doesn't want to spend. So they've been distorting and outright lying about the truth. But I have noticed in recent weeks that the right is not rejecting the concept of climate change as it once did. I've actually heard them say that climate is real, but its too late to do anything about it. Has anyone else been hearing this as well?

"Now, many have given up trying and the few who continue notice very little change after speaking with politicians and their aides."
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At least for some this is not a political issue/crisis. I said years ago that once this was made a politically partisan issue with each side claiming ownership of it to appeal to their own agenda (particularly Republicans in bed with the fossil fuel industry) it would be dead. I've given up trying as well and for the life of me do not understand why anyone would think these ignorant, selfish ideologically oil driven lemmings could be reached at this point. We will not solve this or even come close to adapting to its effects waiting for anyone be they Republican or Democrat in this government to have a moral epiphany. We then have to move them out, particularly anyone associated with the climate denial funding organizations that funnel their funding to the Tea Party that was also hijacked, or anyone else deliberately using their politics to cause death and destruction for their own profit.

And instead of engaging these accomplices in their petty uninformed distractionary rhetoric, we should be using the Internet and social media to bring truth. They just can't stand that. The consequences of inaction now will most certainly put the world our children and grandchildren live on in peril, thus putting them in peril as well. The best scientists of every scientific organization on this planet have been stating this and publishing this in peer reviewed literature for decades. But more importantly, reality has shown us the repurcussions of apathy in allowing our entire political process to be bought and sold. Even to buy off a party whose members at one time actually did care for the planet because they understood that it effects us all.

Republicans in the Congress and those running for president, you SHAME your predecessors.

Perhaps out of this however, people are finally coming to realize just how important caring for the environment is to ALL our lives. Without it we don't breathe, we don't have clean water, we don't have biodiversity, we don't have health, we don't have safe food -- we don't have life.

If these politically ideological, anti-science oil whores want to subject their children to this... if they think so little of their own families that they would continue to place their own ambitions above them and this reality, then I say to hell with them... Though I still feel for their children even though they do not care for mine. That should not stop the truth in working to address this for all of us and our children. That is not about being Republican or Democrat, or even being a member of a religion. That is about being human. This is why it is so important to win the conversation, but that doesn't happen if you allow "them" to always control it. That has been and is our biggest mistake.

I applaud those scientists out here of all politics doing this work and all citizens of all politics who understand how urgent this is to our future. To those set on continuing the lies for political gain, ideology and ambition and causing division, you are on the wrong side of history. And you won't get away with it. Reality is and will catch up to you. You've been outted.

The gop has actual scientists!?! Color me amazed! Oh I know they have their cereal-box prize-inside certificates so-called "scientists" at their "think tanks" to cater to the kock-brother denial "studies", but -REAL- scientists?!? Amazing!
That they would listen to actual scientists,... No... That't never happen! Said it before, probably say it again dem gots no truck wit non dat-der fansy liberal city-sliker books lernin! No sir-re! alls wes needs us is the gud book! that's right!