Romney's Pending Sellout on Global Warming

The American Spectator ^ | March 7, 2012 | Peter Ferrara

[trappedincanuckistan]

But those conservatives and Tea Party patriots overlooking Romney's Romneycare apostasy to still vote for him in the primaries are setting themselves up to be gravely disappointed again on this issue. As Governor of Massachusetts, Romney appointed to state office Obama science czar John Holdren, a wacky far out leftist, and Obama EPA Assistant Administrator Gina McCarthy, who is writing and implementing all of the Obama restrictions on power plants.

Among the advisors to the Romney campaign on these issues today is James Connaughton, formerly head of the Bush White House Council of Environmental Quality, and a long time ardent supporter of cap and trade. Another is Jeff Holmstead, Bush EPA Air Chief who promoted global warming hysteria, and an interstate clean air rule providing the precedent for Obama's job and economy destroying Cross State Air Pollution Rule. Still another is Edward Krenick, another former Bush EPA supporter of cap and trade. No wonder highly active global warming skeptic James Taylor says that Romney's people on global warming are as bad as Obama's people.

[MestaMachine]

Oh, yoy! HOLDEN? OMG.

[EGPWS]

Oh no...no...NO!

Romney is way too severely conservative to pull anything like that!

[MestaMachine]

holdRen

It’s the shock!

[A. Morgan]

Monckton’s Schenectady showdown

Monckton vanquishes Union College “Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds”

THE NEWS that Lord Monckton was to give his “Climate of Freedom” lecture at Union College in Schenectady, New York, had thrown the university’s environmentalists into a turmoil. The campus environmentalists set up a Facebook page announcing a counter-meeting of their own immediately following Monckton’s lecture. There is no debate about global warming, they announced. There is a consensus. The science is settled. Their meeting would be addressed by professors and PhDs, the “true” scientists, no less. Sparks, it seemed, were gonna fly.

Traveling with Lord Monckton on the East Coast leg of his current whistle-stop tour of the US and Canada, I was looking forward to documenting the Schenectady showdown. I have had the pleasure of listening to His Lordship at previous campus events. He is at his best when confronted by a hostile audience. The angrier and more indignant they are, the more he seems to like it.

The Union Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) sponsored the lecture, which was video streamed by CampusReform.org (where a video recording is available). The afternoon of the event, Lord Monckton appeared on the CFACT leaders’ hour-long weekly show on the Union College radio station. As a result, that evening 200 people packed a campus lecture theater to hear Lord Monckton speak.
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Erin Delman, President of the Environmental Club, debates with Monckton - photo by Charlotte Lehman

As they filed in, Lord Monckton was chatting contentedly to a quaveringly bossy woman with messy blonde hair who was head of the college environmental faction. Her group had set up a table at the door of the auditorium, covered in slogans scribbled on messy bits of recycled burger boxes held together with duct tape (Re-Use Cardboard Now And Save The Planet). “There’s a CONSENSUS!” she shrieked.

“That, Madame, is intellectual baby-talk,” replied Lord Monckton. Had she not heard of Aristotle’s codification of the commonest logical fallacies in human discourse, including that which the medieval schoolmen would later describe as the argumentum ad populum, the headcount fallacy? From her reddening face and baffled expression, it was possible to deduce that she had not. Nor had she heard of the argumentum ad verecundiam, the fallacy of appealing to the reputation of those in authority.

Read the rest here:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/10/moncktons-schenectady-showdown/#more-58770

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks trappedincanuckistan.

[A. Morgan]

Romney is a watermelon: Green on the outside Red on the inside! Another Obama dressed up like a MODERATE!

[Marguerite]

It’s still a mystery to me on WHY so many Republicans vote for the M’eh fake.

[DoughtyOne]

I'm sorry folks, but at some point we MUST be honest with ourselves.

Pelosi / Gingrich thirty second spot circa 2008.  LINK

Cleaner forms of energy?  Damn, where have we heard this recently?  Hmmm...

Here it is, WeCanSolveIt.org.

Gingrich: "Oh sure, look, I was trying to make a point that we shouldn't be afraid to debate the left, even on the environment," Gingrich said Tuesday on New Hampshire's WGIR radio. "But obviously it was misconstrued, and it's one of the things I probably wouldn't do again."  LINK  What, unless the circumstances were just right?  Good grief.

What's your explanation for this Newt?  LINK



Two years before policital unpopularity forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to abandon cap-and-trade legislation regulate carbon emissions, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., praised the idea of "mandatory carbon caps" combined with tax incentives, and said that then-President Bush should have led the charge to implement such a policy.

"I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there's a package there that's very, very good," Gingrich said during a PBS interview on February 15, 2007. "And frankly, it's something I would strongly support." 

LINK  Really?

Do you involve yourself in all this if you don't believe in Man-Made Global Warming?  No.

New has participated in public discussions about how he came to realize the earth was warming rapidly, and we needed to take corrective measures.

Look, Mitt is wrong with his take on global warming, but folks he's not the only person who has a problem on this issue.

[SaraJohnson]

Please, Lord, have mercy on the US and world. No more global elitists (Tower of Babylon) in power. Let America’s Christian Constitutional ideal prevail with You at the center. Let us show the world, by example, what Your design of freedom is.

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks...UGLY.

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[Chgogal]

Tell me exactly how Romney is different from Obama?

[Still Thinking]

Asshat. RINO. Fraud!

[Still Thinking]

Tell me exactly how Romney is different from Obama?

Romney's a RINO asshat. Obama often is fairly honest about his values and goals. He's an authentic commie.