Posted on 01/22/2015 6:32:53 AM PST by bestintxas
As he considers a third presidential campaign, Mitt Romney said Wednesday night that one of the country's biggest challenges is climate change and that global solutions are needed to combat it.
"I'm one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that," he said.
The 2012 Republican presidential nominee spoke to a sold-out crowd of about 3,000 at an investment management conference. It was his second public address since privately telling potential donors two weeks ago that he's considering seeking the presidency in 2016.
Romney didn't address a possible campaign at the event, but he used his 30-minute speech and a Q&A session afterward to lay out what appeared to be a populist platform. While hitting familiar Republican points criticizing the size of the federal debt, Romney at times sounded like a Democrat, calling for President Barack Obama and other leaders in Washington to act on climate change, poverty and education.
His evolving platform comes as he works to reshape his image after consecutive presidential defeats. He spent little time talking about poverty, the middle class or climate change in a 2012 campaign in which opponents cast him as an out-of-touch millionaire. But in public and private conversations in recent weeks he has focused on poverty, perhaps above all, a dramatic shift for the former private-equity executive.
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Because he has an “R” after his name, silly!
Fix it yourself, Mitt. Stop breathing.
What a bunch of dolts...on all sides. There is zero evidence. Just grant money produced propaganda models. ALL actual facts show zero increase in temperature for a decade and a half.
I’m not a Romney fan, but I do think that a) The climate is changing, b) it’s getting more extreme - warmer AND colder and 3) that we DO contribute to it.
That’s different than saying we CAUSE it alone. There are more people causing more emissions and pollution in the world than ever. That in itself is an obvious factor. And with China putting on a new coal plant every other day, that’s another big factor.
But that “We” is not the US. We need to put pressure on other countries to get up to speed where we are. We do not need to throw more regulation and money at our companies because preventing a US faucet from dripping will mean nothing if China continues opening the dam.
STFU Myth
“spoke to a sold-out crowd”
The crowd was not the only one that “Sold out”
Goodbye Mitt!
IF Global Warming is indeed happening, we SHOULD tackle it!
Begin an advertising campaign discussing the benefits of Global Warming to farmers; how this climate change could ultimately bring us closer to ending world hunger.
/s: only because the enviro-Nazis would never think of this.
“I’m not a Romney fan, but I do think that a) The climate is changing, b) it’s getting more extreme - warmer AND colder and 3) that we DO contribute to it.”
Then you better start thinking how you will corral the 96% of all CO2 that comes from natural sources.
Good luck on that one, just don’t try to take my money to do anything about it.
In case you wish to see real science at work instead of fantasy explaining CO2 increases, here’s an article.
What ended the first ice age?
Dear GOP establishment morons,
Man-made global warming is BS! You are choosing to believe the 79 scientists who bothered to answer a poll (that makes up the BS 97%) instead of the 31,000 plus scientists are say it is what it is...BS! Suggest you look up “Global Warming Petition Project” and quit being Al Gore’s stooges. Oh...and find a CONSERVATIVE candidate to back while you are at it.
Morons.
The sun.
FU Mitt and F the GOP!
I’m also not a Romney fan, but I do think that:
a) The climate is changing; it always has and always will;
b) it’s NOT getting more extreme - warmer or colder; there is no evidence for this;
c) there is no evidence that human activity has any effect upon climate.
Mittens is a liberal.
He’s running to the left of El Jefe Jeb.
This is the guy who was soundly thrashed by Obama.
And now he wants to run for Obama’s third term!
Of course he believes we can change the weather. He is a GIT. One day the atmosphere of a far off planet will be his responsibility. He will be worshipped by a global population of humanoids. He needs to learn the appropriate skills here and now to fulfill his destiny then and there.
Thanks, I’ll check this out. All I’m saying is that I believe we CONTRIBUTE. How much? Don’t know. But I get what you’re saying.
I own my own wine business/website. (Media) The last time I was in Tuscany, I was walking vineyards that were 700 meters in elevation. The vineyard was strewn with clam and oyster shells. No greater evidence of past climate change could there have been IMO.
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