'Do WV political leaders believe in science?'

No less than most people (4.00 / 2)

Despite the growing scientific consensus that global warming is real, Americans have become increasingly polarized on the environmental issue

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

more people believe in "climate change" than in "global warming."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

Most Americans now agree that climate change is occurring, but still disagree on why, with opinions about the cause of climate change defined by political party

http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...

Is suspect their answers would have been slightly different if asked about climate change.

I think they needed to be asked more explicitly about balancing public health and environmental damage against jobs.

I keep reading more studies linking particulate matter pollution, which doesn't get much press, to all those ills WV has more of - obesity, diabetes, heart disease.  Maybe politicians and the public need more education on what coal may be doing to all of us - not just the ones drinking water from the Coal River watershed and living in earshot of the blasting.

Dead mayflies and arctic ice melting are one thing - your friends, family, neighbors with diabetes, heart disease, COPD are another.

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by: JAWVMM @ Wed Apr 20, 2011 at 16:52:26 PM UTC

Some do (4.00 / 1)

most don't....otherwise how else can you explain why
Coal is king, gas is queen, chemicals are the jester, and the joke is on the citizen of WV.

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by: JBdem4usa @ Wed Apr 20, 2011 at 20:21:08 PM UTC