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Republican ex-EPA chiefs voice support for new carbon rules
2014-06-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Rising public support for action on climate change bodes well for federal regulations announced this month to limit pollution from power plants, four Republican former chiefs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a subcommittee chairman on the Senate Environment and Public Works panel, arranged for the officials to address a sharply divided committee that frequently clashes over the existence and causes of climate change. "We all feel strongly...
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Republican congressman Jeff Miller rejects climate change, asking why did dinosaurs go extinct?
2014-06-11 05:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
News.com.au: MAN made climate change is not real, just ask the dinosaurs. A US congressman from Florida has challenged the idea of man made climate change by asking the question: "why did the dinosaurs go extinct?". During a MSNBC interview, Republican Jeff Miller said climate change had been going on for thousands of years. "It changes. It gets hot, it gets cold. It`s done it for as long as we have measured the climate," Mr Miller said on Monday. But when questioned about whether current climate...
Republican congressman: Its foolish to believe humans are causing climate change
2014-06-09 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla., appeared on MSNBC Monday to educate people who listen to scientists about how foolish they are. Presented with a poll showing that Floridians, on the issue of climate change, trust scientists over climate denier Marco Rubio by a margin of 56 to 33 percent, Miller was unfazed. "Well, I think anybody would answer a poll and say that they believe the scientists, but you have to understand that it is not settled science," he told host Richard Lui. "The issue of climate change...
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Florida Republican leaders balk at climate change
2014-06-07 16:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Few places in the U.S. are more vulnerable to rising sea levels than low-lying South Florida. It's a tourist and retirement mecca built on drained swampland. Other coastal states and the Obama administration are taking aggressive measures to battle the effects of global warming. But Florida's top Republican politicians are challenging the science and balking at government fixes. Among the state's chief skeptics are U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and former Gov. Jeb Bush both possible presidential candidates...
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Even Republican voters support Obamas new climate rule
2014-06-03 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Republican politicians are railing against President Obama`s new draft power-plant pollution rules, portraying them as job killers that will leave the economy in unrecognizable tatters. President`s new nat`l energy tax will condemn families to higher bills & fewer paychecks for years to come. j.mp/1kiElPY-- Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) June 02, 2014 But their rank-and-file voters haven`t yet gotten the message. The latest Washington Post-ABC News poll, conducted from Thursday...
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