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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Republican convention in Cleveland has come to a close, and the official platform of the Party for 2016 maintains the Party’s continued refusal to act on climate change. The Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, openly admits that he believes climate change is a “hoax.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As easy as it is to forget, it is important to remember that political affiliation and Party platforms don’t always coalesce, and the platforms don’t always reflect the will of the Party members. And that’s certainly the case with climate change and Republicans.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It turns out that the majority of self-identified Republicans actually do accept climate science, and they understand that climate change is a very real threat. The views of Republican elected officials in Washington, D.C. and those funding the Republican Party do not reflect the attitudes of the voters on this issue anymore, and that’s a phenomenal step forward.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the partisan denial problem goes further than just one political part. It stretches all the way through conservative media outlets, particularly those owned by Rupert <b>Murdoch (Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and countless others.) This right wing echo chamber has played a major role in shaping Republican policy towards the environment, and has helped to keep Republican voters in the dark about the realities of climate change.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Convincing Republican leaders to accept the science that they’ve ignored or outright attacked for years may seem like a Herculean task, but that hasn’t stopped several conservative groups from trying to force the far right to stop denying that climate change is a threat.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Partnership for Responsible Growth, a conservative organization, ran ads during last week’s Republican National Convention on conservative media outlets showing Republican leaders like George W. Bush and Mitt Romney discussing the dangers of climate change, and urging other Republicans to do the same. Here is one of the ads that ran on Fox News during last week’s convention:</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But, as The Guardian pointed out, a far more poignant version of that same ad was </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">rejected by Fox, presumably because it called out specific climate change deniers:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The Guardian also notes that the Partnership for Responsible Growth has taken out a series of ads in the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, calling out the publication’s long history of climate change denial.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other groups, including <b>ConservAmerica,</b> are trying to force the issue of climate change onto Republican candidates, encouraging them to not only accept the science of climate change, but to rally behind solutions to help save the planet.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">....</div></div></div></div>