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Tea party Republicans are biggest climate change deniers, new Pew poll finds

"Tea party Republicans are now the only group of Americans who think the Earth is not warming, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center, with just 25 percent of tea party Republicans saying global warming is happening. By contrast, 67 percent of all Americans say there is evidence climate change is underway, including 61 percent of non-tea party Republicans.

Democrats and independents are more confident about global warming: 88 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of independents say there is solid evidence climate change has taken place over the past few decades."

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"The survey is the latest evidence that the tea party has split Republican loyalists, not just over the recent government shutdown and the budget but on lower-profile issues such as immigration and the environment. Fully 70 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who agree with the tea party movement said there’s no solid evidence the Earth has gotten warmer in the past few decades. That compares to 61 percent of non-tea party Republicans who believe warming is happening, along with majorities in over 60 demographic and political groups that believe global warming is happening, according to the poll."

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