I speculated the other day that the Republican party will likely nominate a climate change denier for President in 2012. But we don’t have to look that far into the future for evidence that the GOP is the party of no solutions, at least when it comes to climate change:

Republican senators in Washington are not the only ones that are overwhelmingly opposing efforts to move a cap-and-trade bill, as the next wave of potential GOP officeholders has near-unanimously come out against the legislation.

In fact, there are virtually no major Republican Senate candidates running for office in 2010 that are in favor of the cap-and-trade climate bill.

That Republicans in solidly conservative states would run on anti-cap-and-trade platforms comes as no surprise. But the current crop of GOP candidates is primarily running in states that voted for President Obama last year and those states are seen as being somewhere between swing and solidly Democratic.

If the young people and environmentalists who propelled Obama to the Presidency actually turn out to vote next year, the chorus of pundits predicting a wave of Republicans will end up with egg on their faces.