Heads in the Sand<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Republican politicians are increasingly questioning or flatly denying the established science of climate change. Why now? \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A lengthy article from the National Journal on the (d)evolution in the GOP into a monolith that is — outwardly at least — silent at best and skeptical at worst over client change science. Even as the evidence has solidified, the party politicians have backtracked, flip-flopped, or hardened their positions. And the answer is very … Continue reading “Because being anti-science is a winning position … for someone”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,63,9,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-environment","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24352,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/08\/huntsman-buckles-to-the-party-line-on-climate-change.html","url_meta":{"origin":24297,"position":0},"title":"Huntsman buckles to the Party Line on climate change","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Dec-11 1:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jon Huntsman has distinguished himself in the GOP field for being relatively sane, somewhat moderate, and surprisingly \"maverick\" from the rest of the Koch-induced Republican field on the subject of climate change and global warming.Until now.Sad. #ddtb Embedded Link Huntsman Bows To Right Wing, Reverses Position On Climate Science At\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&gadget=a&resize_h=100&url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2Fjon-huntsman-fl-cpac-300x199.jpg","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9245,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/02\/will_kansas_evo.html","url_meta":{"origin":24297,"position":1},"title":"Will Kansas evolve?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Aug-06 9:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"A coalition of forces is gathering steam to try to reclaim the Kansas State School Board from the conservatives who took it over in 2004, and who put Intelligent Design...","rel":"","context":"In "School Daze"","block_context":{"text":"School Daze","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/school-daze"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10972,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/05\/one_would_hope_that_would.html","url_meta":{"origin":24297,"position":2},"title":"One would hope that would narrow the field some …","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-May-07 10:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"... but, no doubt, it won't.\u00a0 Republican candidates indicate if they don't believe in evolution. 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