Poll: Majority of Republicans believe global warming is a hoax

[Redfairen]

Fifty-eight percent of Republicans believe that global warming is a “hoax,” compared to 11 percent of Democrats, according to new polling that underscores political divides over climate change among U.S. residents.

The Public Policy Polling (PPP) survey is one of two polls released Tuesday that reveal sharply differing views on global warming between Democrats and Republicans.

A separate Pew Research Center poll showed that 44 percent of Republicans believe there is “solid evidence” of global warming, compared to 87 percent of Democrats.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/291601-poll-majority-of-republicans-call-global-warming-a-hoax

[Scuba]

1. It's working.

[Aristus]

2. Jesus! They're as bad as the Flat-Earthers...

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. This can be laid directly at the feet of Rush Limbaugh, FOX News

and the army of right wing hate media clones. This idea that global warming is a hoax did not spontaneously pop into millions of Americans heads. No, it was carefully placed there by right wing media and made to stick through repetition.

[Cal33]

4. I wonder why there is such a concentration of unreasoning people who gravitate towards

the Republican Party. What you say are important causes, but there probably also are other
unrecognized ones.

[Third Doctor]

5. Well they are against public education and college loans so this does not surprise me.

[Jamaal510]

6. I understand why

the big whigs of the GOP are railing so much against environmental regulations, as it is in their financial interest. But my question is...why don't the rank-and-file Republicans want to do anything about climate change? Why don't the Average Joes of the GOP care about conserving the environment and making our air and water cleaner?
Republicans are so incredibly out of touch that they would rather save some random millionaires a few bucks instead of making our environment clean and keeping the sea levels from rising.

[adogslife]

7. the majority of Republicans don't believe in science

or have an education that did much for them.

[sakabatou]

8. I don't understand what's with them and science.

I just don't.

[Zoeisright]

9. Once again, there IS NO BELIEF IN SCIENCE.

You either understand it or you don't. You either tell the truth about it or you LIE. And we all know which side of those two sentences fucking repukes are on.

[RDANGELO]

10. These people are not operating on logic.

They are operating on culture or tribalism, which are human instincts. They will believe what ever backs that up because they are hooked on it. They don't really care what is logical or fair or in the best interest of the society. That is why the current Republican Party must be buried.