The good news? The number of Senate skeptics is down from 77% in 2006
Do you want to know why Republican Senators voted last week to filibuster the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act? Put plainly - they just don't buy it. Or, in the words of one Republic Senator: "This global-warming debate is a farce."
Think Progress has gleaned an interesting nugget from the recent "congressional insiders poll" published in the National Journal. The poll included a question about whether the Senators believed in the anthropogenic causes of global warming. The question posed to 39 Republican and 39 Democrat Senators is as follows:
Q: Do you think it's been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that the Earth is warming because of man-made pollution?
Republicans (39 votes)
Now April 2006 Yes 26 percent 23 percent No 74 percent 77 percent
Quote of Note: "What has been proven is that a well-targeted pop-culture campaign can trump even the best of science. The bad news is, a very few will get very rich, and the rest of us will foot the bill with mythical creations like cap and trade. The impact of such programs on the environment: Zero. The cost to the American public: Huge. The grin on Al Gore's very wealthy face: Priceless!"
Democrats (39 votes)
Now April 2006 Yes 95 percent 98 percent No 5 percent 2 percent
Quote of Note: "When Columbus returned to Spain from the New World in 1493, was he still asked if the world was flat?"
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Yay, to like the only good thing that Republican’s are contributing right now. Stopping pathetic moronic people from just shouting random BS that they don’t know anything about–ie our carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
Maybe, you know, if people would actually research on their own sometimes, instead of just following what the current trend is like sheep.
Human carbon dioxide emissions are what? 00.05% of the air? Just about. What is the biggest greenhouse gas in the air? Oxygen. What does that make up? Appox: 95%. Does anybody even stop to compare those, what do we omit in relation to the oxygen? 0.0005% using the above figures.
Oh boy, we’re really doing something there. How about some logic. What cooks up Earth every day? Well duh, our bloody sun. Do you expect it to stay the same, emit the same amount of rays every day? Of course not! It’s a chaotic mass of gas constantly blowing up, raging around and what not (imagery there, people). And you know what? The sun’s having a little fit right now–little flared up right now, and that, ladies and gentlemen, is what your fear really comes from. You can’t change that big huge sun–and it’s the one giving a little more heat out lately.
I bet most of you only know as much about global warming as An Inconvenient Truth as told you. That and a fear mongering media. Both are only interested in money. That’s right, An Inconvenient Truth is only made for selfish and political reasons. Favorite part of Inconvenient Truth? The graphs showing proof. Hah, if people actually took the time to analyze them correctly, they show opposite correlation. Carbon dioxide FOLLOWS global warming, it isn’t the cause! It’s the reaction!
But that’s okay. You know what? Perhaps we could be a little more Earth friendly. Whatever, pay the costs for your mixed up views. BUT LEAVE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES OUT OF IT. You, each one of you fighting for this, are murdering people. Your denying developing countries the only ways to develop. And don’t spew BS that they can use alternatives. Alternatives, if you didn’t know, aren’t working right now. They aren’t efficient. And quite frankly, they are far too expensive for developing countries. Again, screw yourselves over by forcing developed countries to be more Earth friendly, but leave the poor alone!
Good to see not everyone’s listening to the raving climate-change lunatics.
See the movie “Dimming the sun” which shows how over the past 100 yrs or so, since the industrial revolution, our man-made pollution is actually blanketing the earth, which is blocking some of the suns rays. Less sun is hitting the earth’s surface now than when our grandparents were born.
Our earth is heating up like a greenhouse. there is more CO2 in the atmosphere now than there has EVER been, as far as our scientists can tell. CO2 + heat from sun + greenhouse gases= hot earth due to greenhouse effect.
we have yet to know the full extent of the damages we have done due to pollution.
please go to school and get educated about environmental science. It’s the best way to decifer what ‘green’ news matters most.
@Teresa:
“Go to school and get educated?” Amazing, considering the only place I’ve ever learned these arguments is from the media frenzy. I love the graph that people tote around, you know the one. It shows CO2 over the last couple hundred years. It’s flat for most of it, then shoots up to like 10 times the concentration in the last one-hundred years. Problem is, that it’s simply deceptive scaling. The scale conveniently runs from “280 ppm” to “340 ppm.” That isn’t a very large increase at all. In fact, it means that the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere rises by .00006%. Astronomical value.
There are so many variables to consider that it’s ridiculous to correlate CO2 concentration directly to temperature change. The sun, the Earth’s changing orbit, etc.
The most important argument, though, is that global warming doesn’t really matter in the long run. We’re running a completely unsustainable operation here on Earth. If you really want to fight global warming, don’t procreate. Not having children is the best thing you can do for the environment. But if it makes you feel good to buy special light bulbs, go ahead, just don’t go patronizing people for using plastic bags when you’ve spawned four kids.