Romney reaffirms stance that global warming is real - Bucking skeptics, he urges changes

boston.com ^ | June 04, 2011 | Matt Viser

[SoConPubbie]

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the first town hall of his freshly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that global warming is occurring and that humans are contributing to it, a position that has been rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the issue has taken on a greater partisan tinge.

After opening remarks in which Romney blamed President Obama’s policies for the new anemic hiring figures, the first questioner from the floor — a software developer from Hanover, N.H. — wanted to know the candidate’s position on climate change, an issue his opponents have generally avoided so far.

"I don’t speak for the scientific community, of course,’’ Romney said. “But I believe the world’s getting warmer. I can’t prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer. And number two, I believe that humans contribute to that … so I think it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you’re seeing.’’

[EGPWS]

"I believe that humans contribute to that … so I think it’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you’re seeing.’’

I bet that liberal hack wouldn't say that now!

Perhaps by next December he will commence with his GW BS.

[Steelfish]

That leaves Santorum as the only candidate in the race who can credibly challenge Obama on this trillion dollar boondoggle that masquerades as cap-and-trade.

[tpuskett]

There is no global warming. NONE! In fact the earth has cooled over the last 10 years That is why these control freaks who want you to return to the stone age NOW call it “climate change”. We must not have this weak minded romney as our candidate!!

[Dallas59]

M is crazy.

[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.

How do you misconstrue those actions Newt?  If you want me to accept that Nancy Pelosi owned your lunch there, believe me I do.  I'd be a lot more willing to believe you didn't acutally agree with her though, if you hadn't joined in this voluntarily, conducted interviews on the subject that revealed your true mindset on these matters, and even went beyond that.

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 big problem on this issue.

I'm having a very hard time seeing myself pulling the lever for Romney this year, so this is certainly no back-handed defense of him.

[Rashputin]

It's probably too late for Bishop Romney to get out of the deals he's in on to make a bundle from the various scams the global warming thugs have set up.

So, you can bet he'll stick to the same policies that make energy more scarce and more expensive. Once his personal deals payoff, though, whether he'll keep riding the global warming bandwagon or try and do something about high energy costs probably depends on which angle makes him the most money.

[Reily]

Every Anti-Romney candidate ought to lead with this Romney quote! One can be forgiven for accepting some of the claims initially (Even though in the beginning for earth science reasons I thought they were fundamentally preposterous!)
However after all that has happened ClimateGate 1.0, then ClimateGate 2.0, the uncovering of the corrupt peer review system in climate journals and all the new research, etc. To maintain that position is to fly in the face of a growing body facts! Someone needs to get in Romney's face about this!

[FrankR]

[GeronL]

If he becomes President he will the most pro-gay, pro-abortion, pro-global warming, pro-amnesty and leftwing President ever.