New Hampshire Republicans Are Really, Really Anti-Science - Why a climate change denier will almost certainly win Tuesday's GOP primary.

Donald Trump:

"The concept of global warming was created by and for the >Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive."source

"We'll be fine with the environment. We can leave a little bit, but you can't destroy businesses." source

Ted Cruz

And many of the alarmists on global warming, they’ve got a >problem cause the science doesn’t back them up. And in >particular, satellite data demonstrate for the last 17 years, there’s >been zero warming. None whatsoever. It’s why — you remember >how it used to be called ‘global warming’ and then magically the >theory changed to ‘climate change’? The reason is it wasn’t >warming, but the computer models still say it is, except the >satellites show it’s not.

“What do they do? They scream, ‘You’re a denier.’ They brand you >a heretic. Today, the global warming alarmists are the equivalent >of the flat-Earthers,” Cruz said in the interview Tuesday. “It used >to be [that] it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and >this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.” Source

Marco Rubio

“Our outdated government continues to make energy one of the >most politicized and regulated aspects of our economy. America’s >energy future must be entrusted to our businesses and scientists, >not our bureaucrats.”Source

"Lifting the export ban would also have climate ramifications, as lifting the ban would likely ramp up oil production, encouraging producers to flood the market with crude oil. According to the high-end estimates produced by the CAP study, lifting the crude export ban could add more than 515 million metric tons of carbon pollution each year — the equivalent of adding 108 million passenger vehicles to roads."Source

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