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Anecdotally I don't think choosing leaders with STEM backgrounds would produce improvements in acceptance of climate science. Here's some members of congress wh
by resfirestar 10y ago
Anecdotally I don't think choosing leaders with STEM backgrounds would produce improvements in acceptance of climate science. Here's some members of congress who are climate deniers despite their STEM backgrounds.
Joe Barton, Texas 6th, industrial engineer and climate denier.
Tom Coburn (senator from Oklahoma from 2005-2015) is an obstetrician and leading climate denier.
Thom Tillis, climate denier and senator from North Carolina, has a degree in "technology management".
Timothy F. Murphy, Pennsylvania 18th, climate denier with a Ph.D in psychology.
Steve Scalise, Louisiana 1st, climate denier with a B.S. in computer science.
And that's just what I found off the top of my head plus 5 minutes of clicking through the bios of some of the Republican members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, then googling to check if they were climate deniers. I'm sure people will take this opportunity to bash medical doctors, but I think it definitely counts as STEM, and they generally have abhorrent views on health policy as well.
- FireBeyond 10y agoI wonder how many of these people truly disbelieve climate change, and how many are "towing the party line"?
- resfirestar 10y agoToeing the party line would be voting no on climate change bills and keeping your mouth shut. I came across a couple of people apparently doing that, and they of course didn't make the list. I think all but one or two of the people listed gave some wacky statement invoking the Bible to say that humans can't change the climate.
- dagw 10y agoDon't forget that 2012 presidential candidate Herman Cain has a B.S in Math and a MSc in Computer Science. By that criteria he should have been HN's candidate of choice.