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Posted on 02/16/2012 9:07:59 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Presidential candidate Rick Santorum has touted himself as the staunch conservative to Republican primary voters, and when it comes to the environment his views are informed by his Christian faith, or rather his interpretation of it.
"We were put on this Earth as creatures of God to have dominion over the Earth, to use it wisely and steward it wisely, but for our benefit, not for the Earth's benefit," Santorum told an audience in Colorado last week, according to the Colorado Independent.
Santorum has argued that climate change is beyond human control, and any attempts to mitigate it are part of a left-wing political agenda.
"[Climate change] is an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life," he said.
"I for one never bought the hoax. I for one understand just from science that there are one hundred factors that influence the climate. To suggest that one minor factor of which man's contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face."
He also went on to criticize cap-and-trade schemes--which place finite limits on carbon emissions in the form of credits that must be traded between carbon producers--and his fellow Republican candidates, singling out Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney for their previous positions in support of them.
"We have politicians running to the ramparts--unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the Republican nomination for president--who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap and trade," he said.
Yeah Baby!
That’s what I’m talkin about!
Home run!
It’s the Warmists who are in denial.
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Every time the MSM tries to make him sound stupid... it just rallies the base.
I’m loving this.
How refreshing!
He doesn’t even try to kiss liberal butt!! Even if it doesn’t allow him to sit at then popular kids’ table!! I love it.
Right on...Right on.
Good, he might as well compile a list of all the fear fact crapola the left has been dishing out since FDR. What the hell ever happened to the Ozone hole, Killer Bees, and Giant Spiders?
Woooaaaa! :)... please don't change little Ricky, kick ass! You have come this far they way you are...DO NOT CHANGE!...
Finally...someone who is not ashamed to be a conservative.
Be still my heart.
We are so screwed. Maybe Big Rick Perry will jump back in.
This is the first thing that he has said that has excited me.
LLS
“Ms. Pelosi...we’re calling around to find another Republican to share your loveseat for the global warming ad. Senator Santorum said, ‘No.’”
“Ms. Pelosi...we’re calling around to find another Republican to share your loveseat for the global warming ad. Senator Santorum said, ‘No.’”
Ouch!
Amen brother Rick!
This is one of my biggest issues. Cap and Destroy destroys manufacturing, hurts trade, logistics, energy, and hurts national security.
I’m not even sure what kind of metric would be used to measure “the Earth’s benefit.” Keeping it as a maximally livable place for mankind is a very sensible plan. It’s nice to have umpteen zillion varieties of wildlife around, and they shouldn’t be done away with wantonly, but that really isn’t the highest priority. Besides I would ask our progressive, agnostic or atheistic friends that if evolution is king, why has it suddenly become an incompetent king? It is suddenly stymied by a little global warming, a warming far gentler than many other warmings the earth has seen in the past?
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