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Chris Christie has the chance to be a real leader on climate change
The Oregonian ^ | November 4, 2012 | By David Sirota

Posted on 11/04/2012 6:13:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

In light of horrific wildfires, a historic drought and now the destruction wrought by Hurricane Sandy, the political understatement of the year has to be President Barack Obama's recent comment to MTV. Asked about climate change's absence from all presidential debates for the first time in a generation, he said, "I am surprised it didn't come up."

Instead of "surprised" he should have said "appalled" -- because that's what he and most Americans should be. As Scientific American reports, while no one weather event can be blamed on climate change, science now definitively "link(s) climate change directly to intense storms and other extreme weather events."

Of course, the reason the issue hasn't "come up" in a presidential campaign roiled by climate-related disasters is because many voters refuse to acknowledge that human-intensified climate change is real.

This is why, just days before the national election, New Jersey's Republican Gov. Chris Christie is a potentially more important political figure than anyone running for the White House. Thanks to his fame, his credibility among conservatives and his ubiquitous media presence during the cataclysm, he has the rare chance to persuade Republicans to discard their denialism and finally face reality.

(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climategate; failure; hoax; socialism
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To: Tax-chick
Ditto... your post is most-excellent. I have grown weary of being called an ignorant denier. Until and unless the left provides mathematical proofs then I will remain convinced that the earth's climate is influenced by the wobble of earth's axis and the varying non-linear cosmic ray bombardment from our nearest star. God gave us the gift of life on this planet, and it is beyond arrogance and presumptuousness to think that humans have the power to determine the climate on our planet merely by controlling CO2 concentration in the atmosphere.
41 posted on 11/04/2012 8:06:57 AM PST by gcraig (Freedom is not free)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How much do donuts contribute to global warming?


42 posted on 11/04/2012 8:07:41 AM PST by dfwgator
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43 posted on 11/04/2012 8:10:14 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: CharlesMartelsGhost

Obama to Christie, “I’ve got fudge........Hershey’s Chocolate Kisses....We’re talkin’ Haagen Dazs, here, what do you say?”


44 posted on 11/04/2012 8:11:50 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator
LOL true or
45 posted on 11/04/2012 8:15:26 AM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

46 posted on 11/04/2012 8:19:46 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Onion? No?

It should be...


47 posted on 11/04/2012 8:20:17 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Tax-chick

Chris Christie is a true treasure to this country. His ass is so big it blocks out at least 25% of all the harmful UV rays from the sun. He is however, a Democrat, a great big Blue Dog Democrat. So just say it, let it go and let him go. He doesn’t represent me or my party in any shape, matter or form.

By the way I see how that Hope we get some help, and Change your underware because they’re pulling guns on us because we don’t have anything to give them for free is going in New York.

By the way please turn Bloomberg loose by himself in the wiped out areas. Then put that on Tru TV later. That would be a hoot! I bet he could run a New York Marathon trying to get away!


48 posted on 11/04/2012 8:20:58 AM PST by Kolar308 (Medical Alert)
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To: Tax-chick

Murphy’s law. Just when you think you’ve idiot proofed something. They will invent a better idiot...

The Left exemplifies this axiom...


49 posted on 11/04/2012 8:21:49 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: txrefugee

“Fat chance.....”

Worth repeating.


50 posted on 11/04/2012 8:28:46 AM PST by FryingPan101 (2016 looms)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ALL the evidence indicates that global warming has reached catastrophic levels. Except global temperature, which hasn’t changed in sixteen years.


51 posted on 11/04/2012 8:40:27 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (In Edward Kennedy's America, federal funding of brothels is a right, not a privilege.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The only real super hurricane to hit above Hatteras in the past 150 years was in 1938

Was that global warming

These libs are like superstitious witch doctor peoples

Long on fear short on knowledge


52 posted on 11/04/2012 8:52:08 AM PST by wardaddy (my wife prays in the tanning bed....guess what region i live in...ya'll?)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

With his head so far up Obama’s a$$ he don’t know what what the climate is really like.


53 posted on 11/04/2012 8:58:50 AM PST by Americanexpat
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To: mindburglar

He’s a first class bull sh*tter just like his butt girl Coulter. Yak, yak, yak.


54 posted on 11/04/2012 9:03:18 AM PST by Terry Mross (To former friends and relatives. Don't ever contact me if you still support obama.)
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To: Popman

Excellent commentary!


55 posted on 11/04/2012 2:10:00 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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