New Hampshire Senate Race: Republican Candidates Deny Global Warming

Wonk Room:

Every single Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) is a global warming denier. Appearing at a debate hosted by the Seacoast Republican Women in Portsmouth, NH on Wednesday, the six candidates -- from millionaire businessmen Bill Binnie and Jim Bender to former attorney general Kelly Ayotte -- were unanimous in their denial of man-made climate change, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence and the obvious changes that have already hit New Hampshire:

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Comments

[Richard2]

07:50 PM on 09/14/2010

These candidates are simply sceptical of the scientific hypothesis that man-made CO2 emissions are the driving force in climate change on the earth. They do believe in natural climate change, which has occurred for millions of years on our planet.

Their view is shared by a majority of the American people, and presumably by a majority of the voters in the state of Delaware . There is nothing extraordinary about candidates for political office taking positions consistent with the views of a majority of their constituents.

[TQQ]

08:23 PM on 09/06/2010

They are simply speaking the truth. Belief in global warming is misguided and silly.

[Ojodelgato]

03:44 PM on 09/02/2010

How about if we deny the existance of New Hampshire?

[maxwells]

02:58 PM on 08/31/2010

Here's some recent exposes of humongous funding of global warming denial and right wing causes by the billionaire (from coal and oil interests) Koch brothers, in order to rid themselves of taxes, corporate regulation, safety notes for the middle class like Social Security/Medicare/funding public schools, and essentially anything interfering with their will to rule ala the deMedicis of old.

www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Koch%20brothers&st=cse

[maxwells]

11:23 AM on 08/27/2010

Here's a link to a copy of a letter, written on the stationery of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy. It seems to be a direct bribe, aimed at various individual scientists.

www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/AEI.pdf

It's signed by Stephen F. Hayward and Kenneth Green.

Who are these people? Hayward thinks global warming concerns are silly...

www.aei.org/issue/24545.

Green and Hayward are virulently anti-IPCC

www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/013/275tmktp.asp

And the top link in a google search for "American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research" yields the following phrase from the organization's own web site...

"Conducts policy research supportive of limited government, private enterprise..."

http://www.google.com/search?client=gmail&rls=gm&q=%22American%20Enterprise%20Institute%20for%20Public%20Policy%20Research%22
Conducts policy research supportive of limited government, private enterprise

smoking gun? You be the judge.

[maxwells]

08:58 PM on 08/27/2010

To amplify just a bit, The British newspaper, The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/feb/02/frontpagenews.climatechange

reported that the AEIPPR received $1.6 million from Exxon Mobil and noted that former ExxonMobil CEO Lee R. Raymond was vice-chairman of AEI's board of trustees.

Meanwhile, Wikipedia notes that the AEIPPR "is the most prominent think tank associated with American neoconservatism, in both the domestic and international policy arenas. Irving Kristol, widely considered a father of neoconservatism, was a senior fellow at AEI (arriving from the Congress for Cultural Freedom following the widespread revelation of the group's CIA funding) and many prominent neoconservatives—including Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ben Wattenberg, and Joshua Muravchik—spent the bulk of their careers at AEI."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute#cite_note-Sample-130

It also observes that, "More than twenty AEI scholars and fellows served either in a Bush administration policy post or on one of the government's many panels and commissions. Among the prominent former government officials now affiliated with AEI are former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, now an AEI senior fellow; former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities Lynne Cheney, a longtime AEI senior fellow; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, now an AEI senior fellow; former Dutch member of parliament Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an AEI visiting fellow, and former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz, now an AEI visiting scholar."

[gallon]

10:03 PM on 08/27/2010

Good work Maxwells. Thanks. Helps guys like me to get properly armed with a full background. The fundamentals of established science aren't so difficult. The advanced science is, of course, still in the hands of qualified climatologists.

What is needed for the general population, besides the science, are ways and methods of communicating with the corps of inveterate and incorrigible luddites, such as we see in these climate threads. So many trolls, so little time.

"Republicans for Voldemort"

[SoCalHotOne]

10:26 PM on 08/25/2010

I post a few inconvenient facts about the global warming scam, like actual temperature records that show it's not happening, and the ones pushing this garbage come back with vitriol and childish name-calling.

They don't like it when someone calls attention to the fact that they derive their income through fraud.

[maxwells]

02:51 PM on 08/26/2010

You posted garbage from a known denier fraud web site.

And you don't like it when people call attention to the fact that you're a liar whose sole mission here seems to be to post lies incessantly about climate change.

As you have no understanding or education in science at all, you don't have the slightest credentials or qualifications to be remotely qualified to comment on the science of climate change.

You can't even do basic arithmetic correctly.

E.g., how does the current 390+ppmv of CO2 - 280 (pre-industrial level) = a change of only 20ppmv?

When people merely point out such fraud and basic utter incompetence, you break down and resort to name calling.

Pathetic.

[SoCalHotOne]

10:35 PM on 08/26/2010

Calculating anthropogenic CO2 is dependent upon establishing a residence time. Are you going with IPCC numbers or the scientific consensus on this one?

http://c3headlines.typepad.com/.a/6a010536b58035970c0120a5e507c9970c-pi

[SoCalHotOne]

01:46 AM on 08/24/2010

NEWSFLASH: James Cameron chickens out of global warming debate after demanding the debate!

The debate isn't over. It never happened. Your savior, Al Gore, won't debate. Now James Cameron has showed his true colors. So who do you have that is willing to actually debate the science?

http://climatedepot.com/a/7772/From-King-of-the-World-to-Chicken-of-the-Sea-Director-James-Cameron-challenges-climate-skeptics-to-debate-and-then-bails-out-at-last-minute

[gallon]

05:30 PM on 08/24/2010

trolling

[gallon]

05:55 PM on 08/24/2010

Your challenge is pointless and irrelevant. You presume science is established by debate. What else do you get wrong about this? You have been shown, time after time here, to have no credibility on this subject. Possibly you are aware of this, in which case you would be deliberately trolling here.

There must be an appropriate collective noun for deniers and trolls. There are so many of them around these days, in this thread and other climate threads and forums.

a swarm of deniers?
a colony of deniers?
an intrusion of trolls?
a rabble of climate change deniers?
a culture of deniers?
a crackle of deniers?
plague?
scourge?
clutter?
knot?
knob?
a coffle of trolls and deniers? (my favorite)

with apologies to eels, ants, cockroaches, butterflies, germs, crickets, locusts, mosquitoes,
spiders, worms, toads, asses - respectively.

[SoCalHotOne]

10:43 PM on 08/24/2010

I'm not really sure why you take this all so seriously, gallon. We know global warming didn't happen in New Hampshire. Nor did it occur in your neighborhood of Madison, Wisconsin.

http://www.appinsys.com/GlobalWarming/climgraph.aspx?pltparms=GHCNT100AJanDecI188020090900110AR42572556003x

[jbarelli]

12:30 PM on 08/23/2010

I've been to New England in the winter, and I'm betting that it isn't so much that they're denying global warming as looking forward to it. Considering the topography, they might even be looking forward to getting a bit more coastline.

Visit the sunny beaches of New Hampshire?

[henrypapillon]

12:02 PM on 08/23/2010

Also deny the idea of a round earth rotating around the sun.

[mmsuki]

11:56 AM on 08/23/2010

I hope everyone has noticed the shift in the flat-earth deniers' position of GW. First, there was denial that there was ANY warming. That went out the window with overwhelming scientific and, frankly, first-hand observation of change.
Now, they say there is no MAN-MADE global warming.

It angers me that these deniers claim to know more than people who have studied this issue for a good portion of their lives. The last science course most flat-earthers took was probably high school biology.

[castleblanca]

11:15 AM on 08/23/2010

However, they do believe in Santa Claus.

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

10:42 AM on 08/23/2010

Hmmm the evidence is some rain that we had recently in New England? How about our drought we are having now? Can't have it both ways. This is why the left fails to convince people of Global warming. Anyone who has lived in New England for decades, like me, knows New England has very interesting and ever changing weather with records broken all the time. As Mark Twain said, If you don;t like the weather in New England, wait a minute. He said that long before we were driving SUV's.


Itis refreshing to see candidates finally speaking up against the ruse of Climate Change. The fear of being labeled a "denier" is gone. It is replaced with the need to rescue this country from the grips of leftist fear mongering.

[taddles]

02:11 PM on 08/23/2010

You seem to have an inability to discern the difference between weather and climate. That's common amongst those with a rudimentary science education, nothing to feel ashamed about.

[mcmutter]

09:11 AM on 08/23/2010

deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny deny

LEARN THE GOP DOGMA .....

[Fattonecat]

12:18 PM on 08/23/2010

fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear fear .......lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie lie ...........................

[RSKaz]

08:27 AM on 08/23/2010

If elected, the NH Republican Tea Bag Party candidates plan to change the state motto to: "Live free from facts or die."

[Aquest]

10:12 AM on 08/23/2010

Or, 'live underwater free from facts or die'.

[Craig 212]

07:20 AM on 08/23/2010

This is why I defended Tea Party candidate Ron Johnson, in the comments of the article detailing that he believed climate change was the result of sunspot activity. Because as ridiculous as his theory is, at least he is admitting that climate change is real.

[gallon]

02:54 PM on 08/24/2010

So, you support him because he is half right? Actually, half right is about as much as one could expect from a teabagger.