Thanx for the ping Army Air Corps !
Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 03/25/2011 6:24:19 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -- Potential presidential candidate Haley Barbour appears to be staking out a moderate position on global warming than some of his possible rivals, saying at an event in eastern Iowa on Friday that the country should “proceed in national policy as if global warming is actually happening.”
Barbour, who has consistently opposed regulation of the energy industry, made the comments in response to a question from an Iowa voter who asked the Mississippi governor whether he thought global warming was real.
“I think the prudent thing for us, when you consider the potential risk, the prudent thing is to proceed as if global warming is an issue,” Barbour said at a luncheon organized by a local Republican group, the Linn Eagles, “but we don’t have to destroy the American economy for no positive results to do that.”
But in an interview with a blogger at the Conservative Political Action Committee Conference in Washington last month, Barbour seemed more skeptical when asked to comment about record cold temperatures in parts of the country this year.
“This global warming is about to freeze me to death,” Barbour said in jest. It's not the first time Barbour has used the quip -- he said nearly the same thing in January during his State of the State speech at the Mississippi statehouse.
And on Friday, at the same time he acknowledged that global warming is occurring, he also added: “There are a lot of people who are very, very, very learned scientists who question whether or not what is happening is caused by man-made activity.”
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Scratch Barbour.
Well, I actually thought he might be a good possibility. Scratch that.
No one should suggest an action which may well be financially ruinous to his country on the premise that we might as well go along to get along. Especially when the proponents of such an action are mostly spurred by grants from the government of his country.
Haley, we hardly knew ye.
What a great president he would make! /s
Barbour’s statements are based upon the lie that human activity causes global warming. It doesn’t. If it had been me, I would have said that my realtor is currently investigating some beachfront property options in Greenland, in case solar activity increased.
Wow. That was quick. Did he even get to register his campaign domain name yet?
Buh Bye, Boss Hogg.
Political coward. He doesn’t believe in man-made global warming. He just feels it is not PC to say so.
Thanx for the ping Army Air Corps !
Hoax and Change!
Please accept my demonstration of utter stupidity in honor of the Three Stooges.
I am constantly amazed how politicians open their mouths and say ridiculous things for the benefit of a local audience that destroy them on the Internet within the next 24 hours, Newt said some absolutely idiotic things about ethanol subsidies to an Iowan audience a week or so ago as well.
Yep...done.
Adios, MoFo!
First open borders, now globull warming.
Fat and stupid is no way to go through primaries, Haley.
All Presidential candidates hold nearly identical positions on all major issues. Why do you think government only grows and personal freedoms are forever diminishing. Any candidate that goes against the people that run the world, the banking dynasty families is not even put in a position to contend.
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