{"id":7269,"date":"2011-10-03T06:31:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2011-10-03T06:31:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T10:31:38","slug":"gop-faces-schism-over-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7269","title":{"rendered":"GOP Faces Schism Over Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/air-conditioning/"></a> It turns out that some leading moderate Republicans are chafing at the &#8220;anti-science&#8221; label being affixed to their party. The National Journal has the <a title=\"www.nationaljournal.com\/energy\/retired-republicans-quietly-try-to-shift-gop-climate-change-focus-20110930\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaljournal.com\/energy\/retired-republicans-quietly-try-to-shift-gop-climate-change-focus-20110930\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
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<a href="https://www.secpeinvestments.com/home/">https://www.secpeinvestments.com/home/</a> Now, moderate Republicans like McCain and Graham have quieted their voices on the issue, in part because acknowledging climate change puts them out of sync with the tea party base that has so energized their party, and because climate-change legislation stands no chance of passing Congress in the current political environment.<\/p>\n<p> 
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<a href="https://forgive123.com/travel/">Purchase Xanax Without Prescription</a> Some of that action described in the story is old news, but the larger concern about being tagged an anti-science party is growing in some corners of the GOP. And the response isn&#8217;t to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.american.com\/2011\/09\/the-right-still-isnt-anti-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">blow smoke<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.american.com\/2011\/09\/the-lefts-unscientific-definition-of-anti-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">at it<\/a>, but to actually face up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/contact-us/">https://ramedicare.com/contact-us/</a> It turns out that some leading moderate Republicans are chafing at the &#8220;anti-science&#8221; label being affixed to their party. The National Journal has the story: Between 2005 and 2010, prominent moderate Republican Sens.\u00a0John McCain\u00a0of Arizona,\u00a0Lindsey Graham\u00a0of South Carolina,\u00a0Lisa Murkowski\u00a0of Alaska, and John Warner of Virginia (now retired) were among Washington&#8217;s leading voices in the call&#8230;<span> <a href="https://growthjourneytherapy.com/contact/"></a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=7269\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/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":[2553,2557],"tags":[835,846],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-climate-politics","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269","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=7269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}