Climate change is a 'belief' beyond Ben's capabilities

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f it weren’t such an incredibly pressing issue, it would be comical how Republican presidential candidates have responded to the simple question “Do you believe in climate change?”

Ben Carson - GOP presidential
 candidate doesn't have enough
faith to believe in
climate change or evolution.

At a campaign event on Wednesday at the University of New Hampshire, Ben Carson was asked: “You don’t believe in evolution or climate change, I believe. And I was just wondering, do you seriously not believe that climate change is happening?”

In responding to the question, Carson gives the tired conservative trope “the climate is always changing” before digressing into how he doesn’t have “enough faith” to believe in the Big Bang Theory and eventually musing “gravity, where did it come from?”

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, has been repeatedly ridiculed for his comments on climate change, not to mention his comments on sexuality and other issues.

Read the EcoWatch story - “Ben Carson Says He Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change or Evolution.”

(The trio of front-runners for the American Republican Party claim they don’t believe in climate change and Ben Carson, a GOP candidate for presidential pre-selection, not only rejects climate change, but doesn’t have “enough faith” to believe in evolution. Strangely, the retired neurosurgeon, has sufficient faith to believe in a god, whose existence is completely devoid of scientific evidence; evidence of the like upon which he built his career – Robert McLean.)

Global warming doesn't get a look in - in Australia it's the economy, in the U.S. is gay marriage

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enior Australia politicians have argued that the economy is vastly more important than concerning themselves about equity in marriage, meaning gay marriage.

Rick Santorum - he thinks it is more
 important to attend to gay marriage
than climate change.

Such a position is similar, but different from that in the U.S. where Rick Santorum, one of the many climate-denying GOP candidates running for president in 2016, who has argued that gay marriage is more deserving of attention than climate change.

Both are clearly about “business as usual”, growth and maintenance of the status-quo, a dynamic which Nicolas Stern says in his new book “Why Are We Waiting?: The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling ClimateChange” promise only serious climate disruption.

Soon after the U.S. Supreme Court of judicial overreach with its decision on Friday that effectively made same-sex marriage legal across the country Santorum said: “Instead of doing their proper limited job, they’ve decided to step into the realm of politics.”

Read the EcoWatch story, “Rick Santorum: We Need to Fight Gay Marriage More Than Climate Change”.