{"id":20596,"date":"2010-08-18T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T13:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=20596"},"modified":"2010-08-18T14:09:27","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T20:09:27","slug":"pearce-martinez-share-global-warming-doubts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/pearce-martinez-share-global-warming-doubts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce, Martinez share global warming doubts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Republicans Steve Pearce (left, photo by Heath Haussamen) and Susana Martinez (courtesy photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

Republicans Steve Pearce<\/a> and Susana Martinez<\/a> are among an emboldened chorus of GOP candidates across the nation expressing doubts about the link between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, according to an article<\/a> published today by Politico.<\/p>\n

That could lead to a more influential voting bloc in Washington of lawmakers who doubt that global warming is caused by human activity. It could make it even more difficult to pass energy bills sought by Democrats including New Mexico\u2019s Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, chairman of the Senate Energy Committee.<\/p>\n

Fresh off a trip to New Mexico in which he interviewed Pearce, who\u2019s running for the 2nd Congressional District seat in Congress, and Martinez, the GOP gubernatorial candidate, Politico\u2019s Darren Samuelsohn features them both as among those GOP candidates who are skeptical of or don\u2019t believe global warming is caused by humans.<\/p>\n

Many of the candidates, Politico reported, are \u201cfueled by anti-Obama rhetoric and news articles purportedly showing scientists manipulating their own data.\u201d From the article:<\/p>\n

\u201cFour independent reviews have concluded that the so-called \u2018Climategate<\/a>\u2019 e-mails stolen last fall from a United Kingdom research unit showed nothing more than a frank discussion among scientists working through large and complicated sets of data. And while the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has admitted it erred in its 2007 report by citing a report concluding Himalayan glaciers could disappear by 2035, the Nobel Prize-winning U.N. organization said the mistake didn\u2019t undermine its larger body of work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still, Pearce told Samuelsohn that climate scientists should be questioned more thoroughly because of the e-mails.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we ought to take a look at whatever the group is that measures all this, the IPCC, they don\u2019t even believe the crap,\u201d Politico quoted Pearce as saying. \u201cThey\u2019re the ones who say in the e-mails we\u2019ve got to worry about this, keep these voices quiet. If they don\u2019t believe it, why should the rest of be penalized in our standard of living for something that can\u2019t be validated?\u201d<\/p>\n

Martinez is one of several Republican gubernatorial candidates expressing doubt about the science, telling Politico that she has doubts about the role human activity plays in global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure the science completely supports that,\u201d Politico quoted Martinez as saying.<\/p>\n

Update, 9:15 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish<\/a> is attacking Martinez for the comments she made to Politico. From Denish spokesman Chris Cervini:<\/p>\n

\u201cWith each passing day, we are learning more and more about Susana Martinez and her\u00a0true colors. Whether it is draining money from public schools through a voucher plan, using border security money to hand out fat bonuses to her top aides, or denying that global warming is human caused, New Mexicans are learning that Susana Martinez is just a typical Republican politician who doesn\u2019t get it. There\u2019s only one candidate who is on the side of New Mexico\u2019s families and understands that a vital piece of New Mexico\u2019s economic future is a strong investment in\u00a0renewable energy and clean-energy jobs \u2013 and that\u2019s\u00a0Diane Denish.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED: Republicans Steve Pearce and Susana Martinez are among an emboldened chorus of GOP candidates across the nation expressing doubts about the link between manmade greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, according to an article published today by Politico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,119,147,107,116],"class_list":["post-20596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-energy-policy","tag-environment","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}