Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/03/2009 5:32:42 PM PST by Sybeck1
Well he wouldn't be wasting our time in Scandinavia, Check out all the others parrots saying it's "real".
CAROLYN WASHBURN: I want to take on a new issue. I would like to see a show of hands. How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
FRED THOMPSON: I’m not doing...
(CROSSTALK)
THOMPSON: I’m not doing hand-shows today.
WASHBURN: No hand-shows today?
THOMPSON: No hand-shows.
(CROSSTALK)
WASHBURN: And so, does that mean — is that yes or no for you? Do you believe that global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
THOMPSON: Well, you want to give me a minute to answer that?
WASHBURN: No, I don’t.
THOMPSON: Well, then I’m not going to answer it.
(LAUGHTER)
WASHBURN: OK.
(APPLAUSE)
MITT ROMNEY: How about 30 seconds?
WASHBURN: No. You know...
THOMPSON: You want a show of hands. I’m not giving it to you.
WASHBURN: We’re going to follow up on that, but what I need to know is: Who believes global climate change is serious and caused by human activity? And then we’ll talk in more detail about it.
(CROSSTALK)
JOHN MCCAIN: I think that climate change is real and I...
(CROSSTALK)
(LAUGHTER)
WASHBURN: I’m going to start with Senator McCain and come back to Mayor Giuliani.
MCCAIN: I’ve been involved in this issue since the year 2000. I have had hearings. I’ve traveled the world. I know that climate change is real. 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 capable of. Then all we’ve done is given our kids a cleaner world. But suppose they are wrong. Suppose they are 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? It’s real, we’ve got to address it, we can do it with technology, with cap and trade, with capitalist and free enterprise motivation. And I’m confident that we can pass on to our children and grandchildren a cleaner, better world.
WASHBURN: Mayor Giuliani?
RUDY GIULIANI: I agree with John. Climate change is real. It’s happening. I believe human beings are contributing to it. I think the best way to deal with it is through energy independence. And I...
WASHBURN: Who doesn’t...
GIULIANI: And I think energy independence is...
WASHBURN: Who doesn’t agree?
DUNCAN HUNTER: He said contributing, but not totally.
GIULIANI: Yes. Yes.
HUNTER: OK.
(LAUGHTER)
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: And I think that our party should embrace this as an issue for us and our...
WASHBURN: Let me come at it this way. Let me come at it this way. What impact on the economy would be acceptable in order to reverse global warming and greenhouse gas emissions? Governor Romney?
ROMNEY: Well, it’s going to help our economy because we’re going to invest in new technologies to get ourselves off of foreign oil. And as we get ourselves off of foreign oil, we also dramatically reduce our CO2 emissions. That’s good for the environment. It’s also good for our economy. Because buying $300 billion or $400 billion worth of oil a year from other people who use it against us, that’s bad for our economy. It’s also bad for the environment. We can do these things in a way that help both the environment and the economy and national security. That’s the beauty of what we’re talking about here, which is, yeah, is global warming an issue for the world? Absolutely. Is it something we can deal with by becoming energy independent and energy secure? We sure can. But at the same time, we call it global warming, not America warming. 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. But our independence is something we can do unilaterally.
WASHBURN: Mr. Keyes, what do you think about this?
ALAN KEYES: Well, what I think is that a lot of folks out there ought to understand that what you’re watching represents the situation in our country. Ask yourself who represents the people they don’t let you hear from. And you’ll know who you should vote for in the Iowa Caucuses. Who represents the voice that they’re absolutely determined to overlook in the discussion of our sovereignty and the betrayal of this people’s sovereignty, on the border, on our moral principles, on the major export overseas, which is our jobs. These folks represent the very elite who year, after year, after year, have destroyed our Constitution, betrayed our rights, and undermined our strength created by our people in the world.
WASHBURN: Ambassador?
KEYES: And yet the one person willing to talk about that is overlooked, time and time again. That person...
THOMPSON: I agree with Alan Keyes’ position on global warming.
(LAUGHTER)
WASHBURN: Let me come to...
KEYES: I’m in favor of reducing global warming. I think the most important emission we need to control is the hot air emission of politicians who pretend one thing and don’t deliver.
(CROSSTALK)
WASHBURN: Let me come back — let me come to a question that Iowans may not let you out of answering. Governor Huckabee, you’ve said you support increasing government mandates, requiring motorists to use 36 million gallons of biofuel by 2022, which is six times what we’re producing this year. Are you willing to increase that mandate, even if it will drive up feed for livestock producers or force consumers to buy flex-fuel vehicles?
MIKE HUCKABEE: I don’t think that’s what’s necessary. And the reason that this issue ought to be important is because we don’t own this Earth. We are simply stewards of it, caretakers. And I know on a day like today, it’s hard to believe there is global warming, if anybody’s been in Iowa on a day like today. But climate change and who’s causing it is of less importance than what Senator McCain said. He exactly right. We have done no harm if we take better care of this planet and give it to our children with cleaner air, cleaner soil, and cleaner water. We have done...
WASHBURN: So are you willing to increase the mandate?
HUCKABEE: I am willing for us to make the decisions which will not necessarily create the mandates. And let me tell you how we do it. You know who one of the biggest energy users is in the whole country? The United States government. If the government commits to being the primary user of alternative forms of energy, we have a market built in and, therefore — the big argument against having alternative energy is there’s no market for it. Let the government be a marketplace, and we’ll create the kind of demand that lowers the price rather than raises the price.
WASHBURN: Congressman Hunter?
HUNTER: You know, I’d say, instead of mandates, incentives. The problem with mandating only biofuels — and you know, ethanol is not the greatest thing in show business. You use a lot of energy to create ethanol and there’s other biofuels out there — biodiesel, etc. But by giving incentives in R&D, and by bringing our government laboratories together with business, with our educational institutions, the United States can become the center with a grand new industry of energy innovation. We can be the leaders in the world in this.
But you don’t want to push away things like hydrogen fuel cells and others things. Incentives is the way to go, and we should take the entire array of alternative energy sources and give incentives to private enterprise to get involved, to get into the business of delivering us a great product. And we can produce a great new industry for this next generation.
WASHBURN: Congressman Tancredo, what would you do about mandates?
TOM TANCREDO: No, I don’t believe in mandates. I don’t believe that they should be increased. I believe that the market is the best determinant of exactly how these problems should be addressed. I don’t mind and I would not be opposed to any investment in research and development. But the idea that the government knows the right amount somehow, some way, some brilliant analyst, usually some politician who hasn’t the slightest idea of the issue, will make a decision about what is the right amount of mandate to impose on the rest of the country. And you know what? It never works out right. Let the market — I trust the market more than I do the government.
You know - you really ought to provide more background... I don’t go clicking on every youtube link...
How about the basic interrogatives - Who, what, when, where, how and how much and add it Why? Why should we - why is it important... ?
You must have a lot of time on your hands if you - yourself go around FR and click on every link - when nothing is explained...
Green and meatless McDonald's will not work in Russia
Snips: About a 100 of McDonald’s restaurants in Germany will undergo the green restyling by the end of the outgoing year. The New green McDonald’s will embrace the whole of Europe in 2010.
The “green fashion” does not enjoy popularity in Russia at all. The same can be said about healthy food. The vast majority of Russians like eating meat, and they will not trade it for vegan dishes which often appear in the range of McDonald’s.
Newsweek magazine placed McDonald’s on the 27th place on the list of America’s greenest companies, which sparked outrage with green activists who traditionally criticize the food chain.
thanks, that was informative. Global warming is a con, just a way for the government to confiscate money for nothing.
If you are too lazy to click on the video and can’t understand the transcript, then you probably should move on to a simpler post.
See post number three.
So many on our “side” would have sold us down the river too.
Hunter and Tanc did not raise their hands either.
To me, this was the most memorable moment of the 2008 campaign, he was the only one that unequivocally said no to this nonsense and earned my respect more than McCain ever would or could.
I clicked on your post when it was the ONLY post... you should have included what I suggested ON THE INITIAL POST...
Lazy has nothing to do with it — YOU WASTING PEOPLE’S TIME is the problem...
Post a logical - rational initial post - with the basic facts.
Not my thread, dude. Just tryin’ to help.
Sorry - my mistake - just trying to respond to a guy who thinks ‘One Liners’ somehow convey communication...
Leave it to McQueeg.
I enjoyed reading that....it’s reads like a script for a SNL comedy!
He should have stayed in until at least Super Tuesday to smack down more of these presstitutes.
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