Posted on 12/12/2007 4:50:43 PM PST by Ol' Sparky
The Republican presidential candidates shown leading the race in recent polls all believe global warming is a serious threat and caused by human activity.
When asked at today's Des Moines Register debate in Iowa to raise their hands if they believed climate change were indeed a real problem caused by people, Sen. John McCain, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Gov. Mitt Romney all responded in the positive.
"Climate change is real. It's happening. I believe human beings are contributing to it," Giuliani said, calling for a "Manhattan Project" to wean America off foreign energy sources.
McCain chimed in, saying, "More than contributing, my friend."
"But let me put it to you this way: Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies which our economy and our technology is perfectly cable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world," McCain said. "But suppose they're wrong and climate change is real and we've done nothing. What kind of a planet are we going to pass on to the next generation of Americans?"
Mitt Romney, who has fallen behind the surging Mike Huckabee in Iowa, said the United States could not act alone.
"We call it 'global warming,' not 'America warming,'" Romney said. "So let's not put a burden on us alone and have the rest of the world skate by without having to participate in this effort. It's a global effort."
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And Fred say NO!
Good grief
If there ever were an infallible test for insanity, and disqualification for public office, this is it.
Stop breathing, y’all.
This was what Fred said a while back when he was sitting in for Paul Harvey. GO FRED! :)
Plutonic Warming
By Fred Thompson
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. It seems scientists have noticed recently that quite a few planets in our solar system seem to be heating up a bit, including Pluto.
NASA says the Martian South Pole’s “ice cap” has been shrinking for three summers in a row. Maybe Mars got its fever from earth. If so, I guess Jupiter’s caught the same cold, because it’s warming up too, like Pluto.
This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists who run their air-conditioning at 60 degrees and refuse to recycle.
Silly, I know, but I wonder what all those planets, dwarf planets and moons in our SOLAR system have in common. Hmmmm. SOLAR system. Hmmmm. Solar? I wonder. Nah, I guess we shouldn’t even be talking about this. The science is absolutely decided. There’s a consensus.
Ask Galileo.
I love it! Where did you get it? What’s the source?
This is what Fred said when he was sitting in for Paul Harvey some time ago. :)
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=NTQzYWY1MGM5NTkyZTM2YWVlMDMzMDlhMzQwNThhNDU=
Didn't someone make this argument about God? Pascal's wager, I think it was called. Libs don't accept that logic, however.
FRED THOMPSON (true Conservative Federalist) - NATIONAL SECURITY EXPERIENCE (I’ll do whatever it takes to stop the bastards, include water-boarding) - 2ND AMENDMENT ADVOCATE (arm everyone and the criminals will back off) - SECURE THE BORDERS (starve the bastards out and they will go home) - LAW AND ORDER (enforcement first and foremost) - SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM (the program can’t sustain itself) - DEFEAT THE DEMOCRAT (any fool they put up) – TAX SIMPLIFICATION (choice for the tax payer) - WON’T PUT UP WITH CRAP FROM THE MSM (including stupid questions by moderators) - PING!
Fred gained in stature today, for sure. Now if he could only bring Duncan Hunter along for the ride.
“But suppose they’re wrong and climate change is real and we’ve done nothing.”
Suppose Al Gore and company are wrong and we’ve squandered our descendant’s inheritance for the sake of an unproven theory?
I believe in silver at 16 to 1. Most important issue of our time.
The point I’m making is that fads come and go. Even fads prominent in Presidential campaigns.
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