Here's a take on the Chait article: the second poll, which showed
that the number of Republican global warming deniers had grown in a
year, was taken one month in to the new Democratic congress. It could
be Republicans were still smarting, they were in "bunker" mode, and
not going to agree with Democrats on any of "their" issues. I hope
they do a similar poll next year.
So what might they be thinking? The Chait article mentions how some
are complete tools of the energy industry. mt mentioned the
conservative's general distaste for collective action. I'd add
residual animosity towards Al Gore for being a member of the hated (by
the right) Clinton administration. Taking Gore's most prominent issue
seriously means taking Al Gore seriously which some Republicans just
can't do. If they admit the basic science of global warming then
they'd also be aligned with environmental groups, Hollywood liberals
and other boogymen of the right. They've invested a lot in portraying
those folks , and Gore, as fools.
One of the outcomes of Al Gore's testimony was that its clear there's
a lot of congressmen who just don't know much about the science. We
can continue to explain it to them and hopefully move those numbers in
the other direction by next year.
Rob
On Mar 31, 12:00 pm, "Michael Tobis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ail.com> wrote:
> There's been a lot of talk about what is behind the thinking of the
> "skeptics" crowd, kicked off largely by Gavin Schmidt's experience in
> more or less losing a debate:
>
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/03/adventures-on-t...
>
> and by Chait's article "Why the right goes nuclear over global
> warming" in the LA Times:
>
> http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-op-chait25mar25,0,3...
>
>
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