Democrats tout themselves as the “party of science.”
Yet we can now add climate change to COVID-19 and biological sex to the list of things for which Democrats emphatically reject science.
The Washington Times on Sunday reported on a new Google survey of 1,500 adults that revealed: “Republicans are better informed than their Democratic counterparts on several key climate issues.”
For example, by a 42-35 margin Democrats were more likely than Republicans to believe that more people are dying now from natural disasters than in the past. The Times noted that deaths from natural disasters have plummeted by 90 percent over the last 100 years.
In addition, by a difference of 71 to 30, more Democrats believed that we spend more on natural disasters as a percentage of gross domestic product – although that’s not true either. “In reality, the share of GDP spent on natural disasters has either declined or remained flat when ‘normalized,’ meaning when scientists take into account increased wealth in harm’s way,” the Times reported.
In two other examples, according to the Times, twice as many Democrats as Republicans think that deaths from natural disasters will increase down the road because of climate change. Yet the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global lead authority on the issue, “does not predict a reversal in the trend of declining deaths, ‘even under high degrees of warming,’” the Times reported.
Lastly, 67 percent of Democrats, relative to 43 percent of Republicans, agreed that “carbon emissions have risen in the United States over the last 10 years.” In fact, U.S. emissions dropped by 14 percent between 2011 and 2020.
The survey was conducted by Environmental Progress, a nonprofit research group founded by Michael Shellenberger, whom Time magazine once declared its “hero” of the environment.
In a tweet on Thursday, Shellenberger noted of the report, “It is wrong to mislead people about trends of rising resilience to the climate & declining emissions. Lying is wrong, as a rule and climate pessimism is contributing to rising anxiety, particularly among children, and despair, which is simply unwarranted. We should be optimistic.”
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