"The world is getting warmer": Romney

Townhall/Reuters ^ | 6/3/2011 | Ros Krasny

[AT7Saluki]

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change.

"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.

"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."

[Hojczyk]

It is hopeless...best the country go broke and start over..

[Diogenesis]

“I'll tell them that I was brainwashed.”

[RasterMaster]

[Bobalu]

[Kozy]

To quote the mitt, I believe he’s room temperature.

Join Newt on the bench.

[driftdiver]

Didn’t say there was a substantive difference between Obama and mittens. I said your attitude sucks.

Now is the time to beat Romney not encourage a negative and defeatist attitude.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The wind must have shifted directions momentarily.

[RasterMaster]

[Bryanw92]

It’s June. Only the top half of the world is getting warmer. The bottom half is getting colder. Happens every year.

[GonzoGOP]

Now is the time to beat Romney not encourage a negative and defeatist attitude.

Defiance is different than defeatist. I may lose in either case, but I will not toe the GOP line and vote for Romney. Making that absolutely clear up front, and making it clear I'm willing to accept the consequences is the best way to avoid having Romney pushed on me. The GOP elite will continue to push Romney so long as they believe we will hold our nose and vote for him.

I agree that we need to stop Romney in the primaries. But if he wins, my plan B does not involve voting for Romney in the general.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Newt is a global warming believer too.

[Mr. K]

cool

[rockvillem]

Now is the time to beat Romney

This is the key part. I'll admit that a RINO would be better than an America-hating Marxist like Obama, but good lord do we need a TRUE conservative to win in 2012. No one who is able to win a statewide election in Massachusetts as a "Republican" is EVER going to be a true conservative. Next!

[vaudine]

And he furnished his own nails and hammer.

These idiots on "climate change' need to take a few courses in geology.

Change is what climate does. A few years ago the world was declared colder, now it's hotter. In geological time, glaciers melt, others grow.

A pox on all these idiots. They would wreck our nation.

vaudine

[ridesthemiles]

It has been snowing at the top of the Sierra Nevada mountain range for the past 2 weekends. 14 fresh inches of snow about a week ago.

There is a 100 mile ultra marathon foot race over that range in 3 weeks. The snow is so high, I wonder how they will be doing that even on time or whether they will have to postpone it.

Snow at Soda Springs along I-80 is still up to the 2nd floor of many houses there. The heavy snowpack there has damaged the propane lines of many residences.

It is so cold that many people still haven’t placed their veggies into their gardens yet.

I have been pulling a monstrous crop of wild mustard—wearing a down parka from Lands End!!

Horses are totally confused. The longer days are telling them to shed out & the cold is saying the opposite. Some of them have patchy coats as a result.

It was 32 degrees here at my house Tuesday AM.

The 63rd annual Highway 50 Historic Wagon train is facing snow & rain for this weekend, when they leave Lake Tahoe & head west. Participants are scrounging for cold weather gear. Bet my group uses all the Folger’s I bought for them.

Meanwhile—Mitt is a RINO-—cannot cast any vote for him.

[w1andsodidwe]

Mr Romney come to California and say that. We are still freezing out here and it is the 3rd of June. We are about 20 degrees below normal with raining non stop. We do not get rain this time of year.

I think that California has been so successful at combating GW that we have thrown the state into a new ice age. Let that be a warning to the rest of the country that is trying to follow our example.

[cherokee1]

We have sixteen (16) feet of snow where we usually have twelce(12). It snowed on my house day before yesterday. And I have to drain my irrigation pipes every night to guard against freezing three weeks before summer! Just shut the bleep up Mitt before you hurt yourself. Or maybe challenge Obamuzzie for the Dim Nomination.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Believe whatever you want, I am not going to pay for those beliefs. Damn, Mitt. Don’t you WANT to get elected?

CAVEAT: I will want to read and/or see the entire speech in context before passing final judgement. I won’t make up my mind based on someone else’s impression alone.

[gore_sux]

Another one bites the dust! What is with the Kamikaze candidates this year?

[dennisw]

Wow you even have Jesus and a bear doing face palms. I did not know this was possible.