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Science and Climate Change action under attack from Republican presidential candidates

Rick Perry denounces the concept of man-made global warming as “one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”..

..poll found that 98 per cent of scientists accepted the idea [of globalwarming]…..

GOP presidential hopefuls rush to deny climate change  The Australian, Catherine Philp, Washington  August 23, 2011 “…..In the past week, the Environmental Protection Agency has become the new target for Republican hopefuls, with conservative candidates scrambling to outdo each other over how quickly they would abolish it. The attacks have exposed a sharp split in the field between those who accept the scientific basis of climate change and those who do not.

Michele Bachmann, the Tea Party insurgent, said that on the first day of her presidency, “the EPA will have the doors locked and lights turned off”.

Rick Perry, the Texas Governor and newest entrant in the field, slammed the agency for “job-killing over-regulation”.

In his book, Fed Up!, Mr Perry denounces the concept of man-made global warming as “one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight”.

Recent polls suggest that public attitudes are more partisan than ever. A survey last year by the Pew Research Centre found that 79 per cent of Democrats accepted the idea of global warming against 38 per cent of Republicans.

The proportion of all voters who agreed with climate change dropped from 79 to 59 per cent in a year. The same poll found that 98 per cent of scientists accepted the idea…..

But the shift in Republican attitudes has turned several candidates, including Newt Gingrich, apostate on the issue. Jon Huntsman, a former US ambassador to China, went the other way, tweeting: “To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.”GOP presidential hopefuls rush to deny climate change | The Australian

August 23, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change, politics, USA