A new study shows how unique Republican views are across the developed world

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A new study shows how unique Republican views are across the developed world

Dana Nuccitelli, The Guardian, Business Insider

http://www.businessinsider.com/study-republican-climate-change-views

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With Australian coal reserves and Canadian tar sands, fossil fuels account for a larger share of both countries’ economies. Nevertheless, Båtstrand noted, "The [Republican] party seems to treat climate change as a non-issue ... this appears to be consistent with the U.S. national context as a country with large reserves of coal."


Båtstrand also found that the emphasis on free market ideology is relatively strong in the Republican Party platform. However, the appropriate free market approach to climate change involves putting a price on the external costs of climate pollution.

In fact, that’s why the President George H. W. Bush administration invented cap and trade as a free market alternative to government regulation of pollutants. So, free market ideology can’t explain the abnormal behavior of the Republican Party on climate change.

Fossil fuel funds + political polarization = climate denial

The answer may lie in a combination of fossil fuel industry influence, and increasing, record levels of political polarization. As shown by the Washington Post’s Christopher Ingraham, the conservative ideology score of House Republicans is the highest it’s been in over 50 years.



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[Human101948]

1. 'Mercan Exceptionalism!

We don't care how stupid it makes us look because all those cheese eating surrender monkeys can bite us!

[Warpy]

2. It's not a political party any more, it's a cult

supported by blatant racketeering plus slick and pervasive propaganda.

We need to find a way to stop them before they destroy the country and us with it.