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Scientists leave GOP due to attitudes toward science
2013-09-01 15:36:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salt Lake Tribune: Barry Bickmore, a professor of geology at Brigham Young University and onetime Republican convention delegate in crimson-red Utah County in the nations reddest state, has pondered the issue at length. He contends his party is increasingly ruled by zealots and a demand for "ideological purity" that turns off scientists. He says most examples are in the environmental sciences. And he points to the time in 2009 when majority-party Republicans in the Utah Capitol put climate-science doubters on a...
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GOP Rep Todd Rokita: Connecting Climate Change To Humans Is 'Arrogant'
2013-08-26 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) said Friday that he does not believe humans are responsible for climate change, according to The Purdue Exponent. I think its arrogant that we think as people that we can somehow change the climate of the whole earth when science is telling us that theres a cycle to all this, Rokita said in an interview with the college paper after a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Ind. And that cycle was occurring before the industrial revolution and I suspect will occur way into...
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Climate action gets more GOP support
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
DNJ: Climate change doesn't care if you're liberal or conservative, a Whig or on Team Jacob, and a growing number of conservatives are realizing that they don't have to choose between their core beliefs and preventing climate change. In an Aug. 1 editorial in the New York Times titled A Republican Case for Climate Action, four conservative EPA heads from the Nixon, Reagan, and two Bush administrations affirmed the global-warming analyses of scientists working for government and environmental-action...
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House GOP Plans Mega-Hearing on Climate Change
2013-08-22 01:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: After virtually ignoring the nation's biggest environmental issue for years, Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are planning a major hearing on climate change on Sept. 18 and are inviting leaders of 13 federal agencies to testify. It will be the first time since President Obama unveiled his climate action plan in June that administration officials will testify on Capitol Hill about the agenda. Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield, R-Ky., who will preside...
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Gore claims many Republicans growing weary of GOP climate change 'deniers'
2013-08-22 00:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Former Vice President Al Gore said he believes some Republicans are growing weary of colleagues who question climate change. A lot of Republicans have shared with me privately their growing discomfort with the statements of some of the deniers in their ranks. Even though theyre not yet willing to come back to advocate constructive policies, there is definitely movement, Gore said in a wide-ranging interview with The Washington Post published Wednesday. Many congressional Republicans are at odds...
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