Isnāt climate change denial part of the GOP platform, and therefore a requirement for any of their candidates?
For those fools who think āall parties are the sameā¦ā
I donāt think it is an official platform, but climate change denial falls heavily on the republican/conservative part of the conspiracy spectrum.
The breakdown reported on the candidates is interesting, because the republicans are all over the place and well worth a read. They go from surprisingly nuanced (yet still kinda wrong) to whacked-out. A couple of them donāt sound terribly different from the Democrats, albeit less specific on actions and generally favorable to the XL pipeline.
GOP: Denial is their favorite beverage.
Itās more than just a river? Who knew!
Roger That!
Iād like to see a chart comparing money received from fossil fuel interests vs climate change denial.
Itās disheartening to see the word ābelieveā used in contexts like this.
- āBen Carson (retired neurosurgeon) believes that climate change is happening in the sense thatā¦ā
- āDonald Trump (real estate developer) doesnāt believe in climate change andā¦ā
- āHillary Clinton (former U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state) believes climate change isā
- āBernie Sanders (U.S. senator from Vermont) believes climate change isā¦ā
The term ābeliefā is so mixed up in the concept of āreligious beliefā or āfaithā that its use here is strange in the least. To ābelieveā something, one doesnāt need any proof or evidenceā¦ one simply needs to be convinced in their mind that the thing is true, which can happen in any number of ways. In the case of scientific theories or well founded, long term climate observations, ābeliefā isnāt a well founded resulting mindset. If one ābelieves in climate changeā then one is only proving that no work has been done on their part to know whether climate change is real. Seems fair to say that we are far enough enough along on this topic that folks can take a stand on whether climate change is real, based on the evidence. No belief needed.
I challenge anyone to read this and still say that the Democratic platform is essentially identical to that of the Republicans.
Well, we all know the Shadow Government is heavily tied financially to both Big Oil and and the Big Research Moolah that all the tenured scientists get when they toe the party line on global warming, so itās actually win-win for them
Iām not willing to hand over the definition of ābelieveā to religion.
The scientific method gives good results since hundreds of years, so Iām sure itās a viable principle.
With this foundation I can believe in anthropogenic climate change even without reading (and understandingā¦) the IPCC report.
Theyāre inā seine!
The Democratic platform is essentially identical to that of the Republicans.
Ā
Ā
Ā
Easy
Itās so easy to just say things when you feel like you donāt ever have to qualify anything to yourself or anyone else.
Letās just pretend that didnāt happen.
And in 24 hours, it wonāt have!
Very fair point.
Joe Biden thinks itās real and man-made, but that itās too late to do anything about it.
Damn I want to see what you wrote. Did you go in real hard? I hope you went in real hard.
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
