{"id":6913,"date":"2011-08-23T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T12:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=6913"},"modified":"2011-08-23T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T12:56:10","slug":"conservative-pushback-on-republican-fanaticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=6913","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Pushback on Republican Fanaticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/ Jon Huntsman’s callout<\/a> of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s\u00a0controversial statements<\/a> on evolution and climate change has garnered much attention and highlighted what Andrew Revkin at Dot Earth calls<\/a> “the fundamental Republican science problem.”<\/p>\n

Buy Valium Online Without Prescription Meanwhile, in a similar vein, but flying under the radar of the national media, another Republican governor has recently\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0Huntsman-like things\u00a0about climate change that have been met with disapproval by conservatives. Jonathan Adler, a popular conservative blogger, has taken note of this episode and\u00a0offers<\/a>\u00a0an incisive critique that speaks to the litmus test pathology afflicting the Republican party:<\/p>\n

Purchase Hydrocodone Online Until last week, many conservatives considered New Jersey Governor Chris Christie a hero. Some were even clamoring for him to enter the presidential race. Now, however, some of the same conservatives are branding him a heretic, even as he embraces policy decisions they support. What’s going\u00a0on?<\/p>\n

https://dinoeliadis.com/recommended-reading/ Last week, Christie\u00a0vetoed<\/a>\u00a0legislation that would have required New Jersey to remain in the\u00a0Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)<\/a>, a multi-state agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions through a regional cap-and-trade program. The bill was an effort to overturn Christie’s decision earlier this year to withdraw from the program. Given conservative opposition to greenhouse gas emission controls, the veto should have been something to cheer, right? Nope.<\/p>\n

The problem, according to some conservatives, is that Christie accompanied his veto with a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0acknowledging that human activity is contributing to global climate change. Specifically, Christie explained that his original decision to withdraw from RGGI was not based upon any “quarrel”\u009d with the science:<\/p>\n

“While I acknowledge that the levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in our atmosphere are increasing, that climate change is real, that human activity plays a role in these changes and that these changes are impacting our state, I simply disagree that RGGI is an effective mechanism for addressing global warming.”<\/p>\n

https://disneycruisinggroup.com/admins/ As Christie explained, RGGI is based upon faulty economic assumptions and “does nothing more than impose a tax on electricity”\u009d for no real environmental benefit. As he noted, “To be effective, greenhouse gas emissions must be addressed on a national and international scale.”\u009d<\/p>\n

https://www.secpeinvestments.com/sreach/ Although Christie adopted the desired policy “\u201d withdrawing from RGGI “\u201d\u00a0some<\/a>\u00a0conservatives<\/a>\u00a0are<\/a>\u00a0aghast<\/a>\u00a0that he would acknowledge a human contribution to global warming.\u00a0According to one<\/a>, this makes Christie “Part RINO. Part man. Only more RINO than man.”\u009d [“RINO”\u009d as in “Republican in Name\u00a0Only.”\u009d]<\/p>\n

Buy Ativan Online Without Prescription Those attacking Christie are suggesting there is only one politically acceptable position on climate science “\u201d that one’s ideological bona fides are to be determined by one’s scientific beliefs, and not simply one’s policy preferences. This is a problem on multiple levels. Among other things, it leads conservatives to embrace an anti-scientific know-nothingism whereby scientific claims are to be evaluated not by scientific evidence but their political implications. Thus climate science must be attacked because it provides a too ready justification for government regulation. \u00a0 This is the same reason some conservatives attack evolution “\u201d they fear it undermines religious belief “\u201d and it is just as\u00a0wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If enough conservatives speak up like this, they just might be able to lance the boil before it makes their party grotesque to the general electorate.<\/p>\n

https://prosthodontistlasvegas.com/financing-options/ https://raceflowdevelopment.com/customer-service/ UPDATE<\/strong>: From libertarian Ronald Bailey<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/home/ Case Western Reserve University law professor Jonathan Adler has a sharp analysis over at the Volokh Conspiracy of what might be called Republican “Climate Change Derangement Syndrome.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Klonopin For Sale Online Where the syndrome<\/a> is most acute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buy Online Soma Jon Huntsman’s callout of Texas Governor Rick Perry’s\u00a0controversial statements on evolution and climate change has garnered much attention and highlighted what Andrew Revkin at Dot Earth calls “the fundamental Republican science problem.” Meanwhile, in a similar vein, but flying under the radar of the national media, another Republican governor has recently\u00a0said\u00a0Huntsman-like things\u00a0about climate change that… Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2551,2553,2561],"tags":[835,846,851,887],"class_list":["post-6913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-bloggers","category-climate-change","category-climate-science","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics","tag-climate-science","tag-conservatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}