{"id":319,"date":"2013-05-23T07:49:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=319"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:49:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T12:49:28","slug":"nationaljournal-com-the-coming-gop-civil-war-over-climate-change-thursday-may-9-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"NationalJournal.com &#8211; The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change &#8211; Thursday, May 9, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=NationalJournal.com+-+The+Coming+GOP+Civil+War+Over+Climate+Change+-+Thursday%2C+May+9%2C+2013\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=319\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nationaljournal.com\/magazine\/the-coming-gop-civil-war-over-climate-change-20130509\">NationalJournal.com &#8211; The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change &#8211; Thursday, May 9, 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff;\">&#8220;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;\">And a quiet, but growing, number of other Republicans fear the same thing. Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea-party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil-fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or deny climate change, the party will become irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;\">\u201cThere is a divide within the party,\u201d says Samuel Thernstrom, who served on President George W. Bush\u2019s Council on Environmental Quality and is now a scholar of environmental policy at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. \u201cThe position that climate change is a hoax is untenable.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; font-size: 14px;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NationalJournal.com &#8211; The Coming GOP Civil War Over Climate Change &#8211; Thursday, May 9, 2013. &#8220;And a quiet, but growing, number of other Republicans fear the same thing. Already, deep fissures are emerging between, on one side, a base of ideological voters and lawmakers with strong ties to powerful tea-party groups and super PACs funded by the fossil-fuel industry who see climate change as a false threat concocted by liberals to justify greater government control; and on the other side, a quiet group of moderates, younger voters, and leading conservative intellectuals who fear that if Republicans continue to dismiss or \u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/?p=319\"> Continue reading this post <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.themodestproposal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}