[Eric Blair 2084]

The first GOP candidate brave enough to come out and say what they really believe...Global Warning is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by Environmentalists and grant junkies...gets my vote.

[zerosix]

....and Duncan Hunter’s position is?

[marron]

This separates the wheat from the dim-witted, the gutless, the panderers, the chaff.

If you don’t have the nerve or the clarity to see through this, how are you going to stand tough on anything else?

The answer is, you won’t.

[Binghamton_native]

Checkout this web-site. It looks like the global warming hoax is beginning to lose. But, as usual, are politicos are often way behind where its at.

http://www.greatglobalwarmingswindle.co.uk/index.html

[antinomian]

The first GOP candidate brave enough to come out and say what they really believe...Global Warning is a gigantic hoax perpetrated by Environmentalists and grant junkies...gets my vote.

The closest to that position is Ron Paul who usually side-steps the question with something about ending subsidies for this or that. He never call for any restrictions though. As much as his position on the war appalls me I'm leaning towards voting for him anyway. Wars end but government programs never do.

This is so obviously backdoor socialism. How do you fix global warming? Well by central economic planning of course.

[Shermy]

Mccain has been a cap and trader for a long time.

Clean coal, etc. would be good and needs not “global warming” to be attractive.

[denydenydeny]

The emergence of climate change as an issue dividing Republicans shows just how far the discussion has shifted since 1997, when the Senate voted, 95 to 0, to oppose any international climate treaty that could hurt the American economy or excused China from responsibilities.

Horse****. The 1997 Senate vote was about the Kyoto treaty, which was a blatant economic IED aimed at America. Any similarly ridiculous treaty that singled out America would meet the same fate today, "discussion" or no discussion.

[SuziQ]

Fred D. Thompson, after mocking the threat in April, said more recently that “climate change is real” and suggested a measured approach until more was known about it.

Fred is still mocking the hysteria of the Global Warming folks. His contention is that humans are not the cause of any warming that might be happening, but instead, it's caused by that big old furnace in the sky. If there are any 'preparations' that need to be done it's just to help folks adapt to what nature will do on her own.

Isn't it interesting that in this article about the 'leading Republican candidates' that Fred gets exactly two throw away lines, and these are meant to put a question mark to his credibility on the issue?

[Intolerant in NJ]

. It is a near-unanimous recognition among the leaders of the threat posed by global warming...watched the better part of a most interesting program on the International History channel last night - called the "Little Ice Age" it recounted a period of significantly lower global temperatures which lasted from about 1350 to about 1850, and which resulted in such incidents as the struggle George Washington had in his famous crossing of the Delaware which took nine hours because of the great amount of ice in the river, something not observed now because of the warming temps - but that warming is apparently just a return to more normal, typical temperatures with the waning of the "ice age" - in fact given this return to the norm, it is amazing that global temperatures rose only about .7 of degree in the 1900's (with .5 of the rise occuring during the first half of the century) - anyone not smart or honest enough to call the global warming hoax for what it is should never be prez.......

[TheDon]

Save the environment,
kill an environmentalist.

[GregoryFul]

Sounds like a good plan. Any candidate who buys into the man made GW hoax is an idiot.

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off
Click on POGW graphic for full GW rundown
Dr. John Ray's
GREENIE WATCH

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NYSlimes...

[freemike]

Is there no issue or principle that Republicans cannot bring themselves to cave on??!!

[traviskicks]

not sure if you got the ping on this story:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/rlc/1911983/posts

Q But often the cheapest energy sources, which the market would naturally select for, are also the most environmentally harmful. How would you address this?

A Your question is based on a false premise and a false definition of “market” that is quite understandable under the current legal framework. A true market system would internalize the costs of pollution on the producer. In other words, the “cheapest energy sources,” as you call them, are only cheap because currently the costs of the environmental harm you identify are not being included or internalized, as economists would say, into the cheap energy sources.

To the extent property rights are strictly enforced against those who would pollute the land or air of another, the costs of any environmental harm associated with an energy source would be imposed upon the producer of that energy source, and, in so doing, the cheap sources that pollute are not so cheap anymore.

Q What’s your take on global warming? Is it a serious problem and one that’s human-caused?

A I think some of it is related to human activities, but I don’t think there’s a conclusion yet. There’s a lot of evidence on both sides of that argument. If you study the history, we’ve had a lot of climate changes. We’ve had hot spells and cold spells. They come and go. If there are weather changes, we’re not going to be very good at regulating the weather.

To assume we have to close down everything in this country and in the world because there’s a fear that we’re going to have this global warming and that we’re going to be swallowed up by the oceans, I think that’s extreme. I don’t buy into that. Yet, I think it’s a worthy discussion.

Q So you don’t consider climate change a major problem threatening civilization?

A No. [Laughs.] I think war and financial crises and big governments marching into our homes and elimination of habeas corpus — those are immediate threats. We’re about to lose our whole country and whole republic! If we can be declared an enemy combatant and put away without a trial, then that’s going to affect a lot of us a lot sooner than the temperature going up.

Q What, if anything, do you think the government should do about global warming?

A They should enforce the principles of private property so that we don’t emit poisons and contribute to it.