{"id":393388,"date":"2010-03-05T13:44:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=78517"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:44:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:44:47","slug":"romney-%e2%80%98climate-change-is-occurring%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393388","title":{"rendered":"Romney: \u2018Climate Change Is Occurring\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism about man-made climate change &#8212; once seen as a fairly fringe belief, now a pretty big topic of political debate &#8212; is increasingly the norm among Republican voters. A December 2009 <a href=\"http:\/\/theplumline.whorunsgov.com\/climate-change\/poll-republicans-increasingly-isoated-in-their-denial-of-global-warming\/\">Ipsos\/McClatchy poll<\/a> found only 57 percent of GOP voters saying climate change was happening at all, and a 42 percent minority chalking it up to human activity.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;No Apology,&#8221; Mitt Romney sets himself up in the shrinking &#8220;climate change is happening but we don&#8217;t need a carbon tax&#8221; camp.<span id=\"more-78517\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I believe that climate change is occurring &#8212; the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, this issue is evolving so fast, with people like Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) becoming Tea Party folk heroes and sites like Pajamas Media demanding that Al Gore return his Academy Award, that by the time Iowa caucus-goers come out, Romney might be in the deep minority of GOPers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skepticism about man-made climate change &#8212; once seen as a fairly fringe belief, now a pretty big topic of political debate &#8212; is increasingly the norm among Republican voters. A December 2009 Ipsos\/McClatchy poll found only 57 percent of GOP voters saying climate change was happening at all, and a 42 percent minority chalking it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}