Like House & Senate GOP Candidates, Most Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Global Warming Deniers

[G_j]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/10/20/governor-climate-deniers/


Like House & Senate GOP Candidates, Most Republican Gubernatorial Candidates Are Global Warming Deniers

An exclusive Wonk Room analysis finds that 22 of the 37 Republican candidates for governor this November are deniers of the scientific consensus on global warming pollution. These science deniers are part of an anti-reality wave of Tea Party candidates, who comprise the Republican slate for the U.S. House and Senate. “The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones,” writes the National Journal’s Ron Brownstein.

Although 97 percent of climate scientists agree that climate change is manmade, only two Republican gubernatorial candidates in Democratic strongholds — Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie (R-VT) and Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona (R-HI) — want to address the threat. Two more candidates — Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) and Meg Whitman (R-CA) — accept that global warming is a manmade problem, but oppose enacting policy to reduce fossil fuel pollution. The other eleven candidates have “artfully avoided” any discussion of the threat global warming poses to their states, from flood-ravaged Iowa and Tennessee to drought-parched Nevada.

Without further ado, meet the twenty-two climate zombies running for governor:

ALABAMA – Robert Dudley
ALASKA – Sean Parnell
CONNECTICUT – Tom Foley
FLORIDA – Rick Scott
GEORGIA – Nathan Deal
ILLINOIS – Bill Brady
KANSAS – Sam Brownback
MINNESOTA – Tom Emmer
MAINE – Paul LePage
MARYLAND – Robert Ehrlich
MASSACHUSETTS – Charlie Baker
NEW YORK – Carl Paladino
NEW MEXICO – Susana Martinez
OHIO – John Kasich
OKLAHOMA – Mary Fallin
OREGON – Chris Dudley
RHODE ISLAND – Joseph Robitaille
SOUTH DAKOTA – Dennis Daugaard
TEXAS – Rick Perry
UTAH – Gary Herbert
WISCONSIN – Scott Walker
WYOMING – Matt Mead

[Mass]

1. Baker is not a denier. Being a denier would mean he takes a position. He is a coward.

He has avoided every discussion on the issue, and, in the quote listed there, says he does not know enough to take position.

An expensive Harvard education wasted.

[HopeHoops]

2. Hey, it snows don' it? And we gots ta use heatin' oil ta keep warm and all. We needs ta drill more

Pennsylvania has our own, but fortunately none of them are major contenders (except for "wish I were Santorum" Toomey).

[G_j]

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