The Daily Caller says they are “fuming”
Liberal anti-fossil fuel activists are really frustrated the majority of Americans keep electing Republicans to represent them who disagree with claims that human activities are causing catastrophic global warming.
New research by the Center for American Progress (CAP) Action Fund claims that while 76 percent of Americans believe global warming is happening, 63 percent of the country is represented by “someone in Congress who denies the reality of climate change.â€
“Following the second straight year that earned the title of hottest year on record, 59 percent of the Republican House caucus and 70 percent of Republicans in the Senate deny the scientific consensus that climate change is happening and humans are the main cause,â€Â according to an article published on the blog ThinkProgress — the media wing of the CAP Action Fund.
“There are 182 climate deniers in the 114th Congress in 2016 — 144 in the House and 38 in the Senate,†reads the ThinkProgress article. “According to the U.S. Census, that means 202,803,591 people are represented by a climate denier in Congress.â€
Of course, other than the zealots in the Cult of Climastrology, most Americans do not find ‘climate change’ to be an important issue in the least. It tends to rank last or next to last in every poll with a multitude of issues. And, warming doesn’t prove anthropogenic causation.
Too many people fail to realize: Yes everyone likes to win arguments, but the first step is you have to DO some arguing…that’s why we elect a Congress in the first place, to do the arguing. Turns out there are people in the country with other opinions.
bummed now but optimistic about the near future. I?We expect to win both the White House and the Senate in Nov.
The House will take some time the new Liberal SCOTUS that we will be getting after those two wins will do something about the GOP gerrymandering that has resulted in NC having only 3 out of 14 Dem Reps.
Teach although AGW does rate low of immediate worries about 70% of all Americans do NOT deny AGW
I believe the global climate certainly does change, and I believe human activity is A cause of it. Not THE cause, just A cause. Like, I took a leak in a river that later overflowed its banks…my activities were a partial cause…
How should I have responded to this survey? Am I a denier?
Viewpoints that are not in line with The Party must be quashed.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch testified Wednesday that the Justice Department has “discussed†taking civil legal action against the fossil fuel industry for “denying†the “threat of carbon emissions†when it comes to climate change.
During Lynch’s testimony at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said that he believes there are similarities between the tobacco industry denying scientific studies showing the dangers of using tobacco and companies within the fossil fuel industry denying studies allegedly showing the threat of carbon emissions.
That is one way to interpret the actions. Another, more rational view, is that corporations must obey the laws and not mislead their shareholders. Remember that corporations are government creations and must abide by the policies and regulations. For example, a corporation that sells tobacco cannot legally lie about the harm that tobacco causes to artificially prop up it’s markets while at the same time recognizing that a legal reckoning is just over the horizon. Those actions arguably defraud actual and potential investors.
Just as tobacco use harms users (one of those dogged negative externalities), fossil fuel use harms the users’ environment.
I’m not sure that is a more rational view. As a reminder, the article is about
Perhaps the most rational view is something like “Liberals disagree with voters about whether elected officials agree with the voters, and aren’t ready to consider the possibility that the voters might know best about what the voters think.”