MOST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ARE CLIMATE CHANGE DENIERS

…South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham: the only GOP candidate that believes in climate change.

 

The Republicans will believe their auto mechanic, but no way will they believe a PhD climate change scientist.

It has been shown that 97% of certified climate scientists agree that human activity has been responsible for the climate change the world is experiencing.  It doesn’t take the proverbial “Rocket Scientist” to realize that when you pump that much carbon into the air from burning fossil fuels, at some point, something has to give.

It has been shown by basic medical science that cigarette smoking causes cancer, that eating fattening foods causes obesity and that taking certain drugs, can cause an addiction.  So, why do the Republicans continue to deny climate change by saying “I’m not a scientist, so I can’t say that climate change was caused by humans.”

These Republicans are wearing climate change blinders.  They will believe their own doctors, they will believe their own auto mechanics and their personal computer techies, but God forbid that they should believe the 97% of the scientists that say climate change is real and humans are partially or completely to blame.

All but one of the Republican presidential contenders (That one being Senator Lindsay Graham.) they either doubt the scientific consensus on climate change or they oppose any attempts to do anything about it. This issue alone promises to be one of the major ideological divides facing voters next year.

Of the other GOP candidates, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former New York Gov. George Pataki and the ex-CEO of H-P, Carly Fiorina, they have previously at least acknowledged the scientific consensus on climate change.  But with the election now on its way, they continue to hem and haw about what, if any, action should be taken.

Is this stubborn attitude by the GOP because of all the money donated to the party by those corporations that have some connections to big oil?  If yes, it’s just one more example of why it’s important to get big money out of politics.  But as long as the American voters will continue to put the Republicans in power, especially in the House of Representatives that controls the nation’s purse strings, you can kiss that option good-bye for years.

Senator Ted Cruz said this week that he promised to do only two things as a Texas Senator:  “To do the things I said I would do when elected, and to tell the truth.”   Well, he should resign right now as he makes a serious habit of not telling the truth. 

Just this week Cruz said Planned Parenthood was doing illegal things with fetal tissues and he flat-out denies that climate change is taking place, as he accused the climate scientists of “cooking the books”.  Needless to say, he never showed any proof against Planned Parenthood and never offered any proof of “books that are being cooked”.  He also cherry-picked one statement from some data that denies that last year was the hottest year ever recorded.  As with other climate-change deniers, Cruz also ignores the fact that nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred since the turn of the century.

In a previous article, I referred to the Koch Brothers financed: Freedom Partners organization that is attempting to take over the RNC.

At the recent Freedom Partners Forum, Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Ted Cruz and former Florida Governor, Jeb Bush, all three in their speeches basically pooh-poohed any idea that humans caused climate change.  In fact, Jeb Bush actually called the tough new curbs on carbon emissions from power plants as ““unconstitutional and they will cost American jobs”.

As expected, Jeb offered nothing to show why the regulations were “unconstitutional” or “what lost jobs” he was referring to.  In fact, as for Bush’s claim of unconstitutionality, the US Supreme Court ruled last year that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate carbon emissions by power plants, factories and other polluting facilities. That 7-2 decision was written by the conservative Justice, Antonin Scalia.

Apparently, at least the conservative justices on the highest court do believe that it’s important, long-term, to get a handle on the concentration of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.

Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are promising even tougher action against climate change than President Obama has taken.

Just one more reason that proves why elections matter.

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