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What you think you know about Republicans and climate change is wrong
2015-07-11 23:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tri-City Herald: Heres what we know about climate change: 97 percent of climate scientists (including me) are convinced, based upon the evidence, that human-caused global warming is happening. The popular narrative in the media these days, however, is that Republicans in Congress dont accept this fact and that the GOP is in denial about the science around climate change. I have some surprising news: Everything you think you know about Republicans and climate change is a myth that I will now explode. An...
(Some) Republicans get religion on climate change
2015-07-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Jerry Taylor talks with passion about how climate change should be a conservative issue. While environmentalists on the left focus on controlling carbon emissions, Taylor argues the right should be looking at climate change the way it looks at financial risk. Leading climate experts estimate theres a 10 percent chance of catastrophic warming because of climate change in this century. Speaking to an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in June, Taylor put the issue this way: If you knew...
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Pope Clashes With Republicans Over Climate Change And Poor
2015-07-06 00:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inquisitr: Leaders in the Roman Catholic Church urged Republican presidential candidates to follow the edicts of Pope Francis and focus their attention on climate change and income inequality. Last weeks announcement from Iowa bishops is the first time a U.S. Catholic bishop has pressed politicians to listen to Pope Francis`s edicts, according to the Business Insider. He has called on political leaders to have "profound political courage." Although the Pope agrees with the traditional Republican stance...
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Truck Toll Alternative Proposed by Rhode Island Republicans
2015-06-15 23:16:21| Trucking - Topix.net
An alternative to the proposed Rhode Island trucking toll has been brought forward by members of the R.I. House Republican Caucus that could eliminate the tolls completely, according to a report from GoLocalProv.com . Rather than charging Class 8 and above trucks for using major highways, this new proposal calls for $60 million to be set aside to restore the state's ailing bridges.
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Angry US Republicans tell Pope Francis stick with his job and well stick with ours
2015-06-13 22:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Leading figures on the American right are launching a series of pre-emptive attacks on the pope before this weeks encyclical, hoping to prevent a mass conversion of the climate change deniers who have powered the corps of the conservative movement for more than a decade. The prospect that the pope, from his perch at the pinnacle of the Catholic church, will exhort humanity to act on climate change as a moral imperative is a direct threat to a core belief of US conservatives. And conservatives ...
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