Why do conservatives so strongly oppose the idea of climate change

[Voyager]

@Shodan

No, the NIMBYs and the greens are blocking us, and the Democrats would rather do something else.

Regards,
Shodan

How many nuclear power plants are being built in Oklahoma.
None since the early '80s, it seems. This from a state where it took more earthquakes than we have in California to convince them that something was wrong with the way they were doing fracking.
The problem is that the nuclear industry is in such sorry shape that they don’t have enough money to pay off the right politicians, if you ask me.

[wolfpup]

@Voyager

The problem is that the nuclear industry is in such sorry shape that they don’t have enough money to pay off the right politicians, if you ask me.

It’s politics, not technology.

[Mijin]

@senoy

Nuclear though can scale up that quickly. It doesn’t mean that you aren’t scaling up renewables at the same time, but if you want to cap emissions on anything resembling a reasonable scale, it’s pretty much nuclear or nothing.

I’m not asking you to defend your point of view, I’m trying to explain to you why this is all a deflection.
Frankly, it’s annoying to me that many in this thread are taking the bait, and discussing nuclear power.

This is a thread about conservatives denying climate change

And all the problems that go with that – spreading of misinformation, shutting down any discussion of solutions (let alone any implementations) are a huge problem.

Now, I haven’t heard many Conservatives bring up nuclear power as being an influential factor on whether they believe in climate change, or trust Liberals’ motives. But even if they had, it’s still not good grounds for focusing our blame on the side that at least acknowledges that there’s a problem. We should still be saying to Conservatives “Hey, that’s no excuse for still denying the problem exists at all. Once you accept AGW and are willing to have a discussion *then *we can consider whether blocking nuclear power is then the #1 problem stopping us from addressing AGW”.

In the meantime, focusing on the Left in a thread about climate change denial is disingenuous.

[Voyager]

@wolfpup

It’s politics, not technology.

I’m sure they are doing better in Canada. I ran into some engineers from the nuclear power industry a while back on a trip - they had to share a hotel room, like grad students.

[Budget_Player_Cadet]

@Mijin

I’m not asking you to defend your point of view, I’m trying to explain to you why this is all a deflection.
Frankly, it’s annoying to me that many in this thread are taking the bait, and discussing nuclear power.

This is a thread about conservatives denying climate change

And all the problems that go with that – spreading of misinformation, shutting down any discussion of solutions (let alone any implementations) are a huge problem.

Now, I haven’t heard many Conservatives bring up nuclear power as being an influential factor on whether they believe in climate change, or trust Liberals’ motives. But even if they had, it’s still not good grounds for focusing our blame on the side that at least acknowledges that there’s a problem. We should still be saying to Conservatives “Hey, that’s no excuse for still denying the problem exists at all. Once you accept AGW and are willing to have a discussion *then *we can consider whether blocking nuclear power is then the #1 problem stopping us from addressing AGW”.

In the meantime, focusing on the Left in a thread about climate change denial is disingenuous.

This. Cmon, guys. Anyone claiming the left is the problem is deflecting harder than Genji fighting 6 Bastions.

[Happy_Fun_Ball]

There is so much to comment on in this thread (the left have equal amounts of science deniers? as if…); unfortunately all I have time to add is that we have done some informal polling here on the Dope about the left’s support of nuclear power and the vast majority was supportive:

How do you feel about nuclear power?