Climate risk for republicans
NOV 08, 2007
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.021651
Politico : A new survey by an environmental group suggests that tackling climate change is an issue republicans can no longer ignore. As Jim VandeHei and John F. Harris report in Politico , Rep. Bob Inglis (R-S.C.), once a skeptic of global warming, got a hint that the political winds might be shifting when a longtime supporter warned that he might vote against Inglis if he “didn’t clean up his act on the environment.” The warning came from Inglis’ eldest son, Robert Jr., now 22.
Now Inglis believes the science behind global warming, and a number of Republican thinkers are coming to the same conclusion. Environmental Defense, a special interest group pushing for limits on greenhouse gases and other global warming solutions, commissioned Republican pollster Whit Ayres to survey voters in the 49 most competitive House races, and the polling data suggests that independent voters in particular, will hold representatives accountable if not enough is done to combat climate change.
© 2007 American Institute of Physics
