http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/29/hot-seat-how-will-2016-campaign-press-handle-go/202302
Political jockeying over climate change was elevated last week when the U.S. Senate, for the first time in eight years, cast votes on the topic. On January 21, the Senate voted 98-1 to approve a resolution stating, "climate change is real and not a hoax." Then the Senate rejected a second amendment that stated climate change is real and is significantly caused by humans.
"Man can't change the climate," Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), announced. "The hoax is there are some people so arrogant to think they are so powerful they can change the climate." Republicans, including possible White House candidates Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), voted overwhelmingly against the second resolution, even though the scientific evidence is nearly unanimous that human activity is the dominant cause of climate change.
Meanwhile, the flood of scientific warnings continue and the issue gains urgency. (Tuesday's New England blizzard was the latest example of severe weather that may have been exacerbated by warming seas.)
Of course, most Republican members of Congress aren't economists, yet they regularly pontificate and cast votes about tax and trade policy. Worse, last autumn while Republicans were insisting they weren't qualified to talk about the science of climate change they were simultaneously lecturing the White House about the science of Ebola.
Why the I'm-not-a-scientist dodge? Republicans aren't just on the wrong side of science, they are on the wrong side of public opinion. "Recent polls show that a clear majority of Americans believe the climate is in fact changing, and nearly half view that as a major threat to the country's future," reported Slate this month.
But with the right-wing media, the Tea Party movement and, perhaps most importantly, the oil billionaire Koch brothers firmly entrenched in the climate denier camp, Republicans don't want to upset or embarrass supporters - and the deep-pocketed dirty energy industry - by conceding that climate change is real and is being caused by human activity. So they hide behind the "scientist" caveat. But that ploy only works if journalists play along and provide cover. Will they in 2016?
i'm sticking to my opinion they are fighting against the fact of climate change because they are heavily vested in oil and fossil fuels being proven regularly that the practices they use to extract them are a danger to taxpaying voting Americans that is those they haven't gerrymandered the silence at the voting booth. it breaks down to admission of mans hand in global warming gives them no legal leg to stand on to deny regulations designed to keep us safe from their carless give a damn approach to mining these materials it's all about the Benjamin's.
their ads refer to securing America's dependency of energy oil energy ask the republican in your state WHAT PRICE ENERGY, your family our lands and water than ask what about their families do they care so little for them they are willing to put them at risk too? what about their zeal to be number one while China is going green we are still subject to the republican rally cry "DRILL BABY DRILL" guess they really don't care that much about number one and more about more money.
take your pick for 2016 or show som concern for your country and all it's people. recognize
