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 dont 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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Not so much a friend of personal property rights, either.
Yep, he’s done.
I went a few rounds with a person who liked Barbour a few months back.
It was my take that Barbour was a part of the old school, the Republicans who got us in this mess not standing up to the Democrats when they had the chance in the 90s.
Now this.
Thanks Haley. Some of you folks just can’t help yourselves.
It appears that haley has decided to retire and pick cotton in Mississippi.
Trumpls not running.
Romney is running against himself.
Newt shot himself in the foot years ago
And Barbour just killed off any chance of being taken seriously.
What’s your point? That they’re the four (or 3) worst possible candidates who could win the nomination?
That’s exactly why I claim that those will be our only choices.
Another Republicrat bites the dust.
Yeahhhh . . . . Not sure I understood you clearly. /s
Good grief! Isn’t there ANYBODY (namely men) in the De-publican party that can shoot straight from the hip like Bachamann and Palin???? I mean, do us girls have to do everything???:) Haley, I love ya man but I’ll love ya just as much in Mississippi.
Yep! Scratch him off the list! That’s a deal break AFIC.
I dont know. I think well be left with a choice between Romney, Gingrich, Barbour, and Trump for the Republican Nominee.Trump in a heart beat.
Toast! Non-starter. Was this a balloon-float or is this guy serious?
LOL. Yep, he is well done. What a fool to not see the fraud that is Man-made Globull Warming.
Sarah is correct to call it "snake oil" science.
That’s very dangerous thinking. Assuming an unproven event is happening is like operating in an alternate reality.
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