New Scientist: Is the US Republican Party alienating its supporters by questioning climate change? Just 35 per cent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents support the party’s stance on the issue, according to a new poll.
“We were quite surprised by the low level of support,” says Ed Maibach of George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a member of the polling team.
During the 2012 Republican presidential primaries, candidates competed to demonstrate their climate-sceptic credentials.
But…