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50% of the New Congressmen Deny Climate Change

Ah, the fallout from the 2010 midterm elections — it just keeps on getting more depressing, at least from a climate and clean energy perspective. Yes, the folks over at Think Progress did some background research on the incoming Congressmen, and they reveal a disheartening stat: 50% of them outright deny that climate change is real. Nice.
Here’s the breakdown from Think Progress:
A new ThinkProgress investigation has found that the incoming GOP freshman class is rife with legislators who not only oppose climate change legislation, but deny that manmade global warming even exists …
Here is a snapshot of the GOP Class of 2010:
ENVIRONMENT
- 50% deny the existence of manmade climate change
- 86% are opposed to any climate change legislation that increases government revenue

Hooray! We can now look forward to many more years of the status quo — which, of course means continued dominance from the heavily subsidized oil industry, reliance on foreign oil, and increased industry-wide greenhouse gas emissions right at a time when we’re on track to have experienced the hottest year ever recorded.

The real winners of this election: oilmen and Koch brothers.

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