60% of Virginians Disagree with Cuccinelli's Climate Change Denial

Although the Virginia GOP remains fearful to even use the terms "climate change" and "global warming" less they risk retribution from the jack booted messengers of The Family Foundation and Tea Party extremists, a new poll has found that 60 of Virginians do believe that climate change is occurring and that human activity is involved.  Perhaps this is yet another explanation for Ken Cuccinelli's tanking in polls.  As if his jihads against gays, women and minorities were not reason enough.Here are some of the findings:

Virginians, by almost a two-to-one super-majority, disagree with Cuccinelli’s view that climate change has little to do with humans.

In what the polling memo called a “lopsided division of public opinion,” 62.7 percent of respondents answered affirmatively when asked “Do you believe human activity is a major contributing factor in climate change?” Just 34.5 percent said they did not.

Cuccinelli has made his opposition to climate science a key selling point of his candidacy. In Thursday’s final debate, he boasted of his unsuccessful lawsuit to stop the EPA from regulating greenhouse gases and accused McAuliffe of waging a “war on coal.” 

In the debate, McAuliffe criticized Cuccinelli’s also-unsuccessful attempt to wage a witch hunt against a University of Virginia climate scientist that cost the university $570,000. Cuccinelli “intimidated scientists at our great universities,” McAuliffe observed, warning that this would scare off businesses from investing in Virginia. 

Inaction on climate change could cost Virginia even more than that. Excessive flooding from rising sea levels, heat waves, and warmer waters could combine to deprive Virginia of $45 billion and 314,000 jobs. By 2050, severe storms could threaten $129 billion of the state’s property. Past storms have proven that the threat is real: Hurricane Isabel killed 32 Virginians and cost the state $1.9 billion in damages.

Cuccinelli, like so many far right extremists just cannot accept objective reality or modernity.  The man needs a mental health intervention in my opinion.