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Romney: Earth is warming, emissions cuts needed
TheHill.com ^ | 06/03/11 04:59 PM ET | Ben Geman

Posted on 04/05/2012 10:25:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie

Republican White House candidate Mitt Romney said Friday that global warming is real and that human activity is among the causes.

Reuters reports from New Hampshire:

Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change.

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, N.H.

"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."

The story later adds:

The United States cannot go it alone in attempting to trim emissions levels and give a free pass to countries such as China and Brazil, Romney said. "It's not called American warming, it's called global warming," he said.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: romney
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1 posted on 04/05/2012 10:25:06 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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You really wanna make me hate this guy.


2 posted on 04/05/2012 10:29:11 AM PDT by allmost
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Oh, crap.


3 posted on 04/05/2012 10:29:21 AM PDT by PGR88
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Oh, hell, why don’t we just nominate Al Gore.


4 posted on 04/05/2012 10:29:32 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: allmost
You really wanna make me hate this guy.

sorry, really; I wish we weren't in this situation.

There really isn't anything to like about Romney.
5 posted on 04/05/2012 10:30:25 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Romney’s staff is full of global warming extremists.


6 posted on 04/05/2012 10:30:28 AM PDT by trappedincanuckistan (livefreeordietryin)
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To: SoConPubbie

I’m depressed.


7 posted on 04/05/2012 10:31:24 AM PDT by Essie
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Now that he is (almost) certain to be the nominee, he doesn’t have to pretend to be conservative anymore.


8 posted on 04/05/2012 10:33:52 AM PDT by FewsOrange
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Vote for Romney and May the Odds Ever be in Your Favor...


9 posted on 04/05/2012 10:34:38 AM PDT by daisy mae for the usa
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To: SoConPubbie

Keep on keepin on. I try to love you.


10 posted on 04/05/2012 10:38:19 AM PDT by allmost
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We are in an awful lot of trouble......THANKS GOP!


11 posted on 04/05/2012 10:41:15 AM PDT by Envisioning ( Call me a racist................, one more time......................)
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Gee, he sounds like Obama


12 posted on 04/05/2012 10:42:25 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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There really isn't anything to like about Romney.

I'm sorry, SoConPubbie, but that's just not so: he delivers first class concession speeches.

13 posted on 04/05/2012 10:42:54 AM PDT by Standing Wolf
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What do you expect? He gets his science advice from one of the head watermelons - James Hansen.

This should alarm everyone, not just because of the global warming/carbon tax angle, but also for what it sys about the advisors Romney surrounds himself with. You can expect that should it come to judicial appointments, Romney will reach in the same direction, i.e. leftwards, for his advice on Constitutional philosophy and judicial selections.


14 posted on 04/05/2012 10:42:59 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Romney's judicial appointments were more radical than Obama's)
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RIP Grand Old Party. You can do better than mittens. There is no way mittens can or will take on Zero and beat him. OWS and Obamacare will do him in.


15 posted on 04/05/2012 10:43:40 AM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: FewsOrange
Now that he is (almost) certain to be the nominee, he doesn’t have to pretend to be conservative anymore.

Time to shake that Etch-A-Sketch!


16 posted on 04/05/2012 10:44:17 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
17 posted on 04/05/2012 10:45:07 AM PDT by GraceG
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Another freakin’ Nixon. Great.


18 posted on 04/05/2012 10:46:55 AM PDT by Thorliveshere
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[ RIP Grand Old Party. You can do better than mittens. There is no way mittens can or will take on Zero and beat him. OWS and Obamacare will do him in. ]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whig_Party_(United_States)

Learn or Die....


19 posted on 04/05/2012 10:47:48 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Paine in the Neck

Please present yourself.


20 posted on 04/05/2012 10:50:47 AM PDT by allmost
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