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Tea Party - the Best Informed on Global Warming?
by NCD 9/7/2011 - 7:59 pm
A Yale/George Mason University survey of over 1000 persons revealed that among Democrats, Independents and Republicans, the Tea Party leads in not believing in global warming, and also in thinking they don't need to know more about it. Only 10% of the Tea Party think 'most scientists' believe global warming is happening, when in reality, over 95% of scientists believe climate change is occurring. There was not a question on beliefs in talking snakes or in Noah's Ark in the survey, as someone posited at Thinkprogress.
TEA PARTY, some results for them in the survey:
Most scientists believe global warming is happening : 10% (lowest %)
Global warming isn't happening: 53% (highest %)
If it is happening it is 'natural' : 50% (highest %)
Last summer heat waves didn't convince me global warming was real : 46% (highest %)
Are you very or fairly well informed about global warming : 85% (highest %)
I do not need anymore information on global warming : 52% (highest %)
How worried are you about global warming : Not at all 51% (highest with no worries)
Read the full article at
http://environment.yale.edu/climate/files/PoliticsGlobalWarming2011.pdf
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Over half (51%) of Tea Party members say they are not at all worried about global warming.
a majority of Tea Party members (52%) would support building a nuclear power plant in their own local area.
This may be a self-solving problem...
If you can't see it, if you can't taste it, it's just a theory them radiation scientists cook up to get more of my money!
Isn't Obama also pretty supportive of building nuclear power plants in various people's local areas?
Obama = Moron Teabagger?
You guys said it, not me.
Not for or against nuclear, I just don't trust scientists, theories on global climate, vaccines, or anything I can't see in front of me like evolution and I sure as heck don't want Al Gore, the UN, or the government liberals tellin me what the heck I can do with my private property. One man's nukular waste is another man's weed killer.
Whether to revile or support nuclear power is an interesting dilemma. To be sure, it has lots of problems. However, if the alternative is coal, nuclear power pretty much wins on all fronts, including radiation (the amount of radioactive thorium released into the air by coal plants could generate an equal amount of energy if it were captured and used in a thorium nuclear power plant). That said, there are better alternatives.
Speaking of nuclear brain power, Michelle Bachmann, head of the Tea Party caucus, is going to give the Republican response to Obama's speech.
That would be so stoopid for the GOP to do (especially after the dilemma raised by last night's debate) that I thought you might be joking, so I looked it up. The GOP is not offering an official response. Miz B is doing that on her own. More on that.
In attempting to understand the American electorate, the fact that there were those who considered themselves Democrats but also considered themselves a member of the Tea Party goes a long way in shedding some light.
In another tidbit from the study, if it is to be believed as a reflection of the attitudes nationwide, more Democrats (20%) believe that only 41% to 60% of climate scientists believe global warming is happening than those (18%) that 81% to 100% of those scientists agree. Moreover, there is 10% that believe that only 21% to 40% agree.
Maybe even more telling about the electorate and the Democratic Party in general the largest group, 28%, reported not knowing enough to have an opinion. Welcome to America.
Lest the Dems give themselves airs....(I can talk, I'm a registered Trotskyite--I hold 17 positions in the county organization, cause I'm the only one...)
Bronshtein For President
"He won't stab you with an icepick--He knows how that feels"
So the Trots don't have a primary system? Y'all already have your nominee chosen for you?
One word: Politburo
No comment on the Trots. I haven't eaten dinner yet.
From the comment section of NYT, Collins on the debate:
Perry is my personal favorite. You've gotta love a guy who adopts a wait-and-see attitude about global warming while his state is going up in flames.
Trope, if you read all the way to the end of the report, there were precisely TWO respondents who self-identified as both Democrats and Tea Partiers. I wouldn't read too much into that.
Puzzling methodology, though. If they were going to focus on Tea Party attitudes, why did they first exclude those who declined to self-identify as Democrat, Republican or Independent? It's obvious (to me) that a big chunk of those excluded might have self-identified as Tea Partiers, given the choice. Maybe the most dyed-in-the-wool Tea Partiers. Instead, the survey deliberately reduced its sample size, and increased its margin of error. Bizarre.