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Mitt Romney: Climate Change is Real, World Must Tackle It
newmax ^ | 1/22/15

Posted on 01/22/2015 6:32:53 AM PST by bestintxas

As he considers a third presidential campaign, Mitt Romney said Wednesday night that one of the country's biggest challenges is climate change and that global solutions are needed to combat it.

"I'm one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that," he said.

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee spoke to a sold-out crowd of about 3,000 at an investment management conference. It was his second public address since privately telling potential donors two weeks ago that he's considering seeking the presidency in 2016.

Romney didn't address a possible campaign at the event, but he used his 30-minute speech and a Q&A session afterward to lay out what appeared to be a populist platform. While hitting familiar Republican points criticizing the size of the federal debt, Romney at times sounded like a Democrat, calling for President Barack Obama and other leaders in Washington to act on climate change, poverty and education.

His evolving platform comes as he works to reshape his image after consecutive presidential defeats. He spent little time talking about poverty, the middle class or climate change in a 2012 campaign in which opponents cast him as an out-of-touch millionaire. But in public and private conversations in recent weeks he has focused on poverty, perhaps above all, a dramatic shift for the former private-equity executive.

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To: bestintxas

Looks like a play to bring in some deep pocket donors to his side.


21 posted on 01/22/2015 6:46:54 AM PST by Boomer One ( ToUse)
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To: bestintxas
Did Romney fly over in his private jet to Davos, Switzerland's World Economic Forum?

Roughly 1,700 private planes will head to Davos, Switzerland for the 2015 World Economic Forum. That doesn’t include commercial air travel or any other method of transit to the conference. Ironically, the top article featured on the “Agenda” section of the World Economic Forum website on Jan. 19, boldly stated that “[d]ecarbonising the global economy in a matter of decades is the number one priority.

22 posted on 01/22/2015 6:47:12 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Blennos

All science and evidence points to the effects of mostly the SUN on climate change and often we see similar changes on nearby planets similar to our own. Considering man isn’t doing anything on Mars we must leave these climate changes to our solar system and the Sun.


23 posted on 01/22/2015 6:48:31 AM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: bestintxas

Will THIS finally wake up the Mitt Bots and make them realize that he is and always has been not only a RINO, but a LEFT WING Democrat.

I would have though him running to the LEFT of Ted Kennedy and inventing Obamacare would have done the trick.


24 posted on 01/22/2015 6:50:41 AM PST by Above My Pay Grade
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To: bestintxas

After much soul searching Mitt Romney has apparently decided that the reason he lost the 2012 election was: not liberal enough! So it’s full steam ahead fixing that.


25 posted on 01/22/2015 6:51:47 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Who is John Galt?)
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To: A CA Guy
All science and evidence points to the effects of mostly the SUN on climate change and often we see similar changes on nearby planets similar to our own. Considering man isn’t doing anything on Mars we must leave these climate changes to our solar system and the Sun.

The overwhelming case for natural causation can be made without hockey sticks and computer models. Empirical evidence is ALWAYS more compelling than a video game.

26 posted on 01/22/2015 6:52:50 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: bestintxas

Climate change is real. The real questions are:
Is it caused by human activity?
Is there really anything we can do, besides adapt?


27 posted on 01/22/2015 6:53:00 AM PST by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“The vineyard was strewn with clam and oyster shells. No greater evidence of past climate change could there have been IMO.”

I suggest you obtain some good reading from a geology book that explains how the earth has changed over the millennia.

The world is in a state of flux always, and will always be that way.

If man, who cannot even control a single thunderstorm, believes it can change the entire world, then it is delusional. It would be like changing the salinity of the oceans by throwing in a few teaspoonful’s of salt.


28 posted on 01/22/2015 6:53:58 AM PST by bestintxas (Every time a RINO is defeated a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: bestintxas

yeah, THAT’S gonna cause me to drag myself out of the house to go vote for him again. /s


29 posted on 01/22/2015 6:55:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: bestintxas

Hey Mitt: The Tea Party is real! Note for Ted!


30 posted on 01/22/2015 6:57:09 AM PST by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Look at that human-caused emission

31 posted on 01/22/2015 6:58:50 AM PST by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: bestintxas

Please jump into the race...please LOL


32 posted on 01/22/2015 7:00:25 AM PST by rrrod (at home in Medellin Colombia)
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To: bestintxas

He must have just gotten the word from the World Economic Conference, New World Order Guys meeting In Davos Switzerland.


33 posted on 01/22/2015 7:03:39 AM PST by late bloomer ( Neglegere homo pone aulaeum. semi-retired warlord)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Tsk Tsk!!! ;-)


34 posted on 01/22/2015 7:03:51 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: DJ MacWoW

35 posted on 01/22/2015 7:04:02 AM PST by Zakeet (Obama: fail ... deny ... blame ... golf ... distract ... lie ... repeat)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Apparently not everyone remembers grade school science. ;-)


36 posted on 01/22/2015 7:05:02 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: bestintxas

I always knew that guy was a moron. Now he’s proven it beyond all doubt.


37 posted on 01/22/2015 7:05:06 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: bestintxas

I keep saying this, but it’s true. If Milt would only run as a Democrat he’d be the next pResident.


38 posted on 01/22/2015 7:06:01 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: Zakeet
Ain't that the truth!
39 posted on 01/22/2015 7:06:43 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

“The vineyard was strewn with clam and oyster shells.”
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They could have been deposited there by a long-ago tsunami caused by a massive undersea earthquake or volcanic event in pre-historic times.


40 posted on 01/22/2015 7:07:43 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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