So sad. A professional liar preaching to the choir is now what deniers are declaring victory over. How low they have fallen. But then, since every bit of science and data contradicts the denier cult myths, lying is the only course of action left to them.
This is yet another illustration of how nutty the Republicans have become. They're now the only significant political party on planet earth that still bitterly clings to denialism. Every other conservative party in the world has abandoned it. Those parties might still be fossil-fuel friendly, but they at least publicly agree that global warming science is correct.
More than Markets: A Comparative Study of Nine Conservative Parties on Climate Change - BÃ¥tstrand - 2015 - Politics & Policy - Wiley Online Library
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Cross-national comparisons of proposed policies of individual parties are an underdeveloped part of the literature on environmental politics in general and climate politics in particular. Although conservative parties are portrayed as skeptical toward adopting climate measures or even supposed to ignore climate change, this study of nine conservative electoral manifestoes nevertheless finds that most of them support climate measures, even in the form of state interventions in the market economy. Market measures are not as dominating as could be expected, but a clear finding is that available fossil reserves seem to have an influence on conservative climate politics. The U.S. Republican Party is an anomaly in denying anthropogenic climate change. Conservative parties as such are not in opposition to climate policies, but the pro-business position is evident in that conservative parties do not challenge coal or petroleum in countries with large reserves of these resources.
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