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Chris Christie: Global Warming Real, Govt Efforts Flawed
Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 26 May 2011 | Newsmax

Posted on 05/27/2011 8:55:35 AM PDT by rightly_dividing

Chris Christie says global warming is real. It’s just the very man-made government programs to correct its effects that are bloated and flawed.

The Republican New Jersey governor launched into an explanation Thursday for why he’s bowing out of a landmark regional cap-and-trade program for power plants, according to Politico, but he first strapped on his layman scientist’s cap to give a brief overview of what’s widely considered accepted climate science.

His decision to leave the program, known as the RGGI, drew quick praise from conservative groups, including the Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity, that have long lobbied him to abandon the RGGI ship.

“In the past I’ve always said that climate change is real and it’s impacting our state,”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coal; globalwarming; greenhouse
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To: cartervt2k

You realize that twice in history, there were glaciers in Central Park, they went away long before man was here, at least as far as we know, nor have we dug up any SUV fossils, at least not yet.


21 posted on 05/27/2011 9:35:45 AM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: rightly_dividing

Christie’s way of saying irrefutably that he is not running for president.


22 posted on 05/27/2011 9:43:50 AM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: rightly_dividing

Man, just when I think there is a politician out there to lead us out of the abyss, this comes out. This puts a nail in the coffin as far as I am concerned.


23 posted on 05/27/2011 9:44:16 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: rightly_dividing

I am from New Jersey and have tried at different times to warn others that Christie is not a conservative. I am very grateful that he is squashing this insane cap and trade scheme but he continually takes left-wing positions such as the absurd claim that he makes here.

Christie obviously believes that man-made global warming is effecting New Jersey. How?

He is full of it. Maybe we could spend another 4 million in tax payer dollars here to study cow farts at Rutgers while real people here in New Jersey are suffering due to the high taxes and unfriendly business environment.


24 posted on 05/27/2011 9:44:28 AM PDT by TheBigIf
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To: rightly_dividing

Ah, Chris, we hardly knew ye. But a bit too much of what we did know, we didn’t like.


25 posted on 05/27/2011 9:45:46 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("It's hard to take the president seriously." - Jim DeMint)
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To: rightly_dividing

I don’t know if Christie is the greenest, but I do think that he is the most uninformed on the science of global warming (or lack of it).

I have to agree with him on the ban on construction of new coal fired power plants, but not because of global warming, but because they are just plain dirty and unhealthful. There is no reason to burn coal if we can burn natural gas.

Anyone who visited London, back in the nineties, will remember seeing all the cyclists wearing disposable masks to keep the coal dust out of their lungs and hearing the story of why there are so many buildings in London that are painted “Magnolia” white. It’s because some wealthy man, who was tired of seeing the blackened fronts of buildings (from the coal dust) around London, left his fortune to the city to paint buildings Magnolia white, once every ten years. If you want a different color, you have to buy the paint yourself.


26 posted on 05/27/2011 9:57:44 AM PDT by Eva
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To: rightly_dividing

So, if global warming is real then I guess Christie needs to go complain to China and Mexico!


27 posted on 05/27/2011 10:01:30 AM PDT by The Duke
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To: rightly_dividing
Sounds like he was swamped with local enviro propaganda - "90% of scientists believe in G.W."???..I thought it was fairly evenly split, but not 90%.

He needs to talk to Inhofe.

Regardless of what he said, he did the right thing.

If he runs, I'd want to hear his environmental and energy policy before condemning him.

28 posted on 05/27/2011 10:05:17 AM PDT by muleskinner
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To: itsahoot

Did you know that the polar ice caps on Mars are retreating?
Do martians drive SUV’s?


29 posted on 05/27/2011 10:06:17 AM PDT by forgotten man (forgotten man)
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To: rightly_dividing

This is just another reason the GOP is a mess. The party can’t effectively attack Obama when it is easy and can be done. even two of the big name tea party people elected, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, are a mess. Rubio supports amnesty and Rand is all over the map like not voting for Paul Ryan’s plan or supporting the Patriot Act. Then you have Col. West voting against piecemeal repeal of Health Care. Regardless of West’s reasons, it is making people like me confused, confounded and unsure of whom to trust.


30 posted on 05/27/2011 10:14:37 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: rightly_dividing

So why isn’t he supporting the cap and trade program? Does he not have the courage of his convictions?


31 posted on 05/27/2011 10:15:01 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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To: rightly_dividing

I meant that Rand Paul is not supporting the Patriot Act. Plus I am all confused about what he is doing. I read to really read up.


32 posted on 05/27/2011 10:19:30 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: rightly_dividing

I need to really read up on what is up with Rand. As for Christie he has a bunch of rino skeletons in his closet. Good for New Jersey not for the country.


33 posted on 05/27/2011 10:23:23 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Baynative

It was only a mattrt of time before Christie showed his real colors.

The good news is that it came sooner than later. Tea Party conservatives control this next election cycle. They will not support this guy if the RINOs try to run him.

Despite all that’s been written exposing the global warming scam, Christie cannot accept it because of the rigidity of his idiology. What really galls me is that the man believes in the gullibility of the majority of voters.

Buh bye Mr. Christie.

One more potential Pubbie candidate bites the dust.


34 posted on 05/27/2011 10:30:30 AM PDT by dools0007world
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To: rightly_dividing
I have read FReepers say that they liked Christie for Prez. I hope that they see this. I suspect that Mr. Christie could be the greenest Pubbie out there.

And ... he he has no problem with the illegal aliens who cost NJ tax payers ~10.5 Billion per year, nor with Moslem judges who like cheer lead for Sharas.
35 posted on 05/27/2011 10:43:22 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: Sans-Culotte
So why isn’t he supporting the cap and trade program? Does he not have the courage of his convictions?

His story is that the regional cap and trade program as it exists does not work. However he signed a bill to tax payer $$ to subsidize off shre windmills:

"The act mandates a percentage of electrical power sold in New Jersey eventually be generated by offshore windmills, and offers a mix of financial assistance and $100 million in tax credits to lure companies to build the turbines in Paulsboro and get the project underway."

"A few months ago, I was at the Jersey Shore talking about my renewed feeling regarding no offshore drilling in New Jersey and also that I did not want liquefied natural gas off the state of New Jersey’s coast, either," said Christie."
36 posted on 05/27/2011 10:52:46 AM PDT by algernonpj (He who pays the piper . . .)
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To: forgotten man

Yes I did know that.


37 posted on 05/27/2011 10:56:37 AM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: rightly_dividing

Normally, I don’t discount or write off a candidate based on a few off the conservative track beliefs, but this one is a big one that impacts how our country is going to be able to operate and grow our economy in the future. If he believes that global warming is real, that is, caused by man, and not just a sun/earth phenomenon that goes through cycles that cover generations at a time, there is a problem with that because of it’s reach into our pockets and limits to our freedoms..... He needs to be educated I think....


38 posted on 05/27/2011 11:05:51 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: rightly_dividing

An Islamic Judge and Global warming from this guy? And some think he’d be a good Presidential candidate? Not in my lifetime if I can help it.


39 posted on 05/27/2011 11:09:17 AM PDT by CynicalBear
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To: CynicalBear
An Islamic Judge and Global warming from this guy? And some think he’d be a good Presidential candidate? Not in my lifetime if I can help it.

I believe (correct me if I'm wrong) he is also on the wrong side of the "gun control" issue. He is no Conservative.
40 posted on 05/27/2011 11:28:06 AM PDT by PA Engineer (SP12: Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
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