Okay, explain to me again why there's no "Republican war on science" when 84 percent of a sample of congressional Republicans polled by National Journal questioned anthropogenic global warming, whereas 95 percent of congressional Democrats affirmed it....
Meanwhile, if you want to know how such a divide is possible, look no farther than the conservative media echo chamber that continues to feature James Inhofe and make his stance appear credible.
More like this
Over at Hullabaloo, I found this great list of suggested slogans for congressional Democrats:
...to me. Or at least, to the residents of my congressional district. MoveOn.org has a district-by-district list of what your congressional district's contribution to the Iraqi War and Occupation could have bought instead.
The following is an ad from the Democratic Congressional Cmpaing Committee talking about Erik Paulsen. Paulsen is Democrat Ashwin Madia's opposition in the race to fill Republican Jim Ramsted's seat in the Third US Congressional District in Minnesota.
It is also about golfing.
President Bush did do a signing statement on HR 5631 - the 2007 defence appropriations bill
Chris, you'll not be surprised to hear that I blogged about this:
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/5/161237/0931
Look beyond the raw poll numbers, at the comments. Many of the GOP comments accept AGW, but not as the sole cause; or disagree about the degree of certainty.
And the GOP comments in the policy section in my opinion are more intelligent and insightful than the Dem. comments.
1. On the subject of global warming, there were two articles in todays Washington Post, an Op Ed by Rober Samuelson and a letter to the editor by C. Boyden Gray. I am posting a link to the former; the latter is not yet available on the Posts' web site.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR20070…
Gray basically backs biofuel production and carbon capture of coal burning; Samuelson backs carbon taxes to encourage conservation and alternative energy sources. Although some of the ideas proposed are helpful, they don't go far enough. It would seem that the following ideas should also be pursued.
1. Development of plug-in hybrids. ?This will require programs to develop better and cheaper battery technology. This approacy has been proposed by such conservatives as Frank Gaffney and James Woolsey who not even Mr. Harbison can accuse of being left wing Democrats.
2. Development of methods to extract natural gas from coal. If this can be done in an environmentally friendly manner, the resultant natural gas can be burned in power plants to replace the burning of coal. Natural gas has a much lower coal profile then does coal. Such a replacement would have an immediate effect on CO2 production because both China and the US have large coal deposits and produce much of their electricity from coal combustion. As Samuelson points out, China will pass the US in CO2 production by 2009 unless something can be done about coal combustion.