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What are GOP candidates saying about climate change?
2016-01-24 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PRI: Here are a few of the questions voters are asking -- and what a few of the candidates are saying. First, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush: QUESTION: Governor, the next president of the United States is going to have to deal with the Paris climate accord. What would you do to implement or push back on that? BUSH: I don't have the details of what the president committed to. He doesn't have the authority to do it. If he did, he would, once again, create a treaty which would be enforceable....
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It?s Official: None Of Remaining Major GOP Candidates Accept Climate Science
2015-12-22 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ThinkProgress: Say goodbye to the only major Republican presidential candidate who publicly accepts mainstream climate science. On Monday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Aside from former New York governor George Pataki - who has consistently polled at zero percent and has failed to get his name on primary ballots in multiple states - Graham was the only person in the crowded Republican field who admitted that the planet is warming, that the warming...
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Clinton says GOP candidates hindering anti-terrorism efforts
2015-12-09 22:22:42| Biotech - Topix.net
Hillary Clinton accused Republicans of undermining American efforts to fight Islamic terrorism, saying Wednesday that the "hateful" campaign rhetoric of frontrunner Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP field is providing new material for Islamic State propaganda. "Instead of showing leadership some of the leaders in this campaign are resorting to really hateful rhetoric," Clinton said at a town hall meeting.
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Bernie Sanders: GOP Candidates Care More About Koch Money Than Preserving Planet for Our Children
2015-12-02 17:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Science-denying Republicans--intent on derailing local, national and global attempts to avert a looming climate crisis--have their priorities all wrong, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday. "I find it unacceptable that many of my Republican colleagues are more worried about campaign contributions they`re getting from the Koch brothers and others in the fossil fuel industry than they are about preserving the planet for our children and grandchildren," Sen. Sanders (I-Vt.) said...
GOP candidates head to climate change doorstep for California debate
2015-09-16 19:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: When California Gov. Jerry Brown caught wind of the fact that top-tier GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson questioned the science behind climate change on a recent campaign swing through San Francisco, it seemed that Brown, a Democrat, could not help responding. His office shot off a note to Carson, along with a flash drive containing a 167-page United Nations report written by more than 800 scientists and surveying 30,000 scientific papers definitively concluding that human activity has exacerbated...
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