Sentences with phrase «conservative political climate»

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Mr. Viersen is the former treasurer of the Barrhead / Neerlandia local of the Association for Reformed Political Action, a social conservative Christian organization that has spoken against Gay - Straight Alliance legislation for Alberta schools and questioned the existence of human - influenced climate change.

She cites a study which analyzes survey data revealing that, since the mid-1970s, a falling percentage of college - educated conservatives claim to «trust science,» compared to relatively stable numbers among liberals, and argues that those who oppose contraception, question the Neo-Darwinist narrative of evolution, or disagree with certain political measures to address global climate change, are opposed to science in general....

Indeed there is no doubt that the future direction of the European Union will have a major impact on the political landscape of the UK: Completion of the single market, enlargement, climate change and security are some of the salient challenges which Member States will confront over the coming years and we as British Conservatives should be at the forefront of those advocating sensible and workable solutions.

«The time for petty point - scoring on climate change, from any political party, is surely past,» the Conservative MP said.

So both right - wing and independent voices also think this is a potentially significant political issue, as This Independent piece shows, However, the main post showing the scale of climate scepticism was primarily about the disagreement between Conservatives, noting the frontbench's support.

But, in the current political climate, it seems to me perfectly conceivable that the Conservatives could push Labour into third place.

I am also confident that any attempt to compile the political associations of prominent, self - proclaimed climate change deniers would find that they are overwhelmingly associated with conservative and not liberal political groups.

The Conservative peer and former party co-chair told the Guardian she was deeply worried about the current political climate, claiming a surge in «respectable racism» was feeding the far right.

Joe Pinion, 34, is African - American, founder of the Conservative Color Coalition, a spokesman for climate change advocacy group RepublicEn, and a prominent political commentator on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News Radio.

An expensive political football Critics of throwing billions of dollars at the technology, including Australia's Green Party and some conservative coalition members, argue it will be developed too late to address climate change and is too expensive.

The jump accounts for the single biggest change among all voting groups, and it could symbolize a softening among conservatives on an issue that has sharply divided the political parties, according to Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.

It appears that the announcement could reinforce the idea that Obama's climate policies produce political discomfort for Democrats in conservative states.

Political conservatives become more open to environmentalism after seeing climate change messages rooted in nostalgia, found a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Andrew Hoffman and Jenna White at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, recently argued this, saying it would create «political cover for emerging Republicans to upend the notion that you can't be a conservative and believe in climate change».

He says that's a lesson from his work on climate change doubters, whose real driver often isn't their beliefs about the role of carbon dioxide but rather their conservative political views.

«Atmospheric CO2 is not a pollutant, it is in fact the very elixir of life,» CO2 Coalition adviser Craig Idso says of the climate change debate at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.

Ann Hart Coulter (/ ˈ k oʊ l t ər /; born December 8, 1961) is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist Tom Harris is executive director of the Ottawa - based International Climate Science Coalition, which challenges the hypothesis that carbon dioxide emissions

Layering his story with grim warnings about the horrors of climate change and the co-opting of Christianity by the conservative right, Schrader's movie begins in quiet introspection and ends with a crescendo of political rage.

This shift in orientation occurred for diverse reasons, including growing public concern about the level of violence and disorder in public schools, the changed political climate following the end of the Vietnam era, and a pattern of increasingly conservative judicial appointments during the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations.

However, with an increase in school violence and gang - related activities, the political climate seems to have turned more conservative, and the Supreme Court has begun to return many decisions back to the discretion of the local school board.

In an essay entitled The Clinton Crew: Privileged White Art, Ho tries to articulate how the social and political climate of the late 90's produced such a relatively conservative group of artists interested in autonomous, formal artistic practices, while being fundamentally decent people.

This tribal theory applies to peoples political affiliations such as liberal or conservative, or membership of other social groups, and we know liberals do tend to accept climate science more than conservatives from polls by Pew Research etc, although its not black and white.

Rev. Cizik is a card - carrying evangelical, conservative, Republican, Christian political activist who now gets the urgency of climate change.

I had a bit of an «a-ha» moment reading this paper by the excellent Australian political scientist Clive Hamilton, in which he argues that a great many American conservatives have come to see climate science as a threat to their core ideological identity.

Every political group uses spin to try to persuade the public, but some of the groups that represent conservatives and industry use what can be called extreme tactics in the climate change science debate.

I have lost count of the number of climate sceptics, or in your case a renewable energy sceptic, and eventually it turns out they have some sort of ideological or political motive, usually conservative leaning.

This Twitter item leads to a Grist / Climate Desk piece on «Political ideology affects energy - efficiency attitudes and choices,» a fascinating new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that, in part using light bulb choices, shows how polarization over the merits of cutting greenhouse gas emissions appears to torque the behavior of conservatives away from commonsense energy choices.

Political scholar Steven F. Hayward recently presented in Issues the conservative position on global warming and climate change, including a look at measures that conservatives might accept as part of any action plan.

Arguments that unilateral action by the United States produces little climate benefit, that a carbon tax will expand the size of government, that a carbon tax is a regressive, that adaptation and geo - engineering is preferable to emissions constraint, that economists can not confidently design a carbon tax that does more good than harm, that the legislative process can not deliver a carbon tax worth embracing, and that promoting a carbon tax puts conservatives on a slippery political slope are explored and found wanting.

In Issues, a scholar of conservative policy has looked at areas where action on climate measures might win favor, while an energy analyst has proposed combining climate policies drawn from across the political spectrum.

In comparison to these factors and trends shaping wider public opinion, past research suggests that the influence of conservative media / commentators and Climategate on wider public opinion is likely to be limited, reinforcing the views of the 20 % or less of the public already strongly dismissive of climate change and holding a strong conservative political identity.

As this narrative goes, right - wing politicians and their fellow travelers among the ranks of denialist political conservatives are conspiring with the oil companies to keep America from playing its proper role in the worldwide fight against climate change.

Clearly, many supposedly conservative or skeptical groups not only fail to challenge the alarmist view of climate change, they even endorse significant parts of alarmism and often go so far as to support the very political actions that Brulle most greatly desires.

The political divide occurs because conservatives fear that liberals will use the climate issue to increase taxes and government intrusion.

If you were already part of a cultural group predisposed to distrust climate science — e.g., a political conservative or «hierarchical - individualist» — then more science knowledge and more skill in mathematical reasoning tended to make you even more dismissive.

What I find very odd is that the «precautionary principle», an extremely conservative philosophy, is heralded as the cornerstone of human / climate interactions, but is never extended to the social / economic / political system.

The climate change disinformation campaign can be understood to be a continuation of the counter-movements that arose among US political conservatives in reaction to the environmental, civil rights, women's rights, and anti-war movements that arose in the 1960's in the United States.

Accordingly, they tell the story backwards, from the present: environmentalism is at odds with conservative thinking; that Thatcher proposed «there is no such thing as society» and invented individualism; that such individualism is apart from, and opposed to global political environmentalism rather than essential to its thinking; and that climate change politics began in Magdalen College in 1978.

Thank you Wagathon, for reminding everyone on Climate Etc of a wise and foresighted conservative statesman, who rejected willful ignorance and ideology - first political dogma, and who possessed the courage to deal wisely with inconvenient scientific truths!

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

Though the science of climate change is clear, certain American conservatives deny the validity of the science and describe its conclusions as a political scam, a confusion of science and politics which could prove very dangerous... No American would deny the science of ballistics, but some deny climate science.

ClimateDepot.com is the website of Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow employee Marc Morano, a conservative global warming denier who previously served as environmental communications director for a vocal political denier of climate change, Republican Sen. James Inhofe.

Both Romm and advocacy organizations such as Media Matters for America raise their financial support and define their professional roles as watch dogging the mainstream media, asserting that consistent false balance in mainstream coverage at leading outlets such as the NY Times or the Washington Post remains a major barrier to political action on climate change and that conservative media like Fox News have a powerful impact on wider public opinion.

So, they came up with the idea that even though conservatives were science savvy, they couldn't shake their political world - view and admit the warmist climate scientists were right.

On Friday he's slated to be on a panel to talk about «The Right Climate Stuff» at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Mr Gore has been accused of exaggerating climate - change risks for his own political gain and conservative critics have claimed scientific research is skewed to play on the fears of the public.

Here's another recent example — Pielke and his fellow conservative contrarian colleague Dan Sarewitz had an article in the Financial Times recently («Climate policy robs the world's poor of their hopes») that I think misses the mark so badly, in a let's - be-provocative-and-act-like-we're - the - real - progressives way, that it would be tempting to ignore it, except that it's in a high - profile publication and feeds misleading talking points to a right - wing corporate political and economic culture.

«This successful anti-science campaign has targeted Republican elites across all levels of government, eroding belief in climate change among conservatives in the public and in office,» Leah Stokes, a political scientist the University of California, Santa Barbara, told Earther in an email.

Roughly seven - in - ten self - identifying political liberals (68 %) consider climate change a very serious problem, while just 30 % of conservatives say the same.

If political conservatives have so far not found environmental policies to their liking, then a priority for everyone who cares about climate change, whatever their political leaning, is to find a way of reconciling the values of the right with policy responses to climate change that are sustainable and just.