Rightwing attitudes toward science

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"At this point, general concern, good feeling, evidence of worry is not enough, so we are asking for specific plans. I think where the Republicans are, if you really listen to them, is that they've stopped denying the science. They've stopped saying they're no scientists, and they're just saying now that it's too expensive to fix.  The real irony is that the party of so-called business is now saying that business can't solve this problem, that there is no market solution available.  It's somewhere between ironic and ridiculous.  The answer has to be that they're answering to some other god."
  -- Tom Steyer, billionaire hedge fund manager, philanthropist, and environmentalist (who supports Democrats).

Thanks Bob. There is always another excuse of doing nothing. The reasons are simple:

1. Campaign contributions from the oil&gas industry
   
2. The fear climate change action needs involving the public sector
   

There is even a post here in this forum which containing the results of a research that shows conservatives only get critical of science when they fear public sector action is warranted.

It's that market fundamentalism again..

And it's fairly ridiculous:

• Pricing CO2 is a market based solution
  
• The income from CO2 pricing could be used subsiding the development of alternative energy, which could lead to whole new growth industries (this is already happening, of course, but all the conservatives are saying is "Solyndra")