[SeekAndFind]

This is the man Democrats say they fear most to be the GOP Presidential candidate.

SEE HERE:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2071003,00.html

TITLE : Jon Huntsman: The Potential Republican Presidential Candidate Democrats Most Fear

[Paperdoll]

Maybe one of the reasons Obama has shut down oil drilling in the U.S., and forced gad prices up up up. Take the peoPle’s freedom in transportation away so they will be forced to take Metro rail! I do not doubt that the gubmint arranged the oil spill in the gulf for it’s own purpose.

[hannibaal]

I dont see anything wrong with what he said. Sounds like most here want to crucify him, when he has probably said the smartest thing any politician has ever said on the issue. He leaves judgement to the scientific community because it is their field.

I would laugh in the face of a politician giving his opinion on anything related to chemical engineering if the politician has, lets say, a law degree.

Its absurd for people to be so reactionary to something they have no idea about. Lets be real honest here, 99% of the people here do not have the knowledge required to tackle or answer this question about our climate. He is right when he says most scientific acadmies around the world(including many in the US) believe that there is significant human contribtion to the climate. This isnt a liberal, conservative issue because I cant see how anyone can be liberal or conservative on this issue, unless if being conservative these days means echoing the views of a certain politician.

From one of the academies disputing climate change: American academy of petroleum geologists (AAPG) statement in 2007:

“the AAPG membership is divided on the degree of influence that anthropogenic CO2 has on recent and potential global temperature increases ... Certain climate simulation models predict that the warming trend will continue, as reported through NAS, AGU, AAAS and AMS. AAPG respects these scientific opinions but wants to add that the current climate warming projections could fall within well-documented natural variations in past climate and observed temperature data. These data do not necessarily support the maximum case scenarios forecast in some models”

Consequently, most of the members of the AAPG resigned or threatened to quit. In 2010 a new statement concerning climate change:

“Climate change is peripheral at best to our science…. AAPG does not have credibility in that field…….and as a group we have no particular knowledge of global atmospheric geophysics”

This is a group that has motive to dismiss a phenomenon such as this because it would directly damage the petroleum sector.

A 2010 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States reviewed publication and citation data for 1,372 climate researchers and resulted in the following two conclusions:

(i) 97–98% of the climate researchers most actively publishing in the field support the tenets of ACC (Anthropogenic Climate Change) outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and (ii) the relative climate expertise and scientific prominence of the researchers unconvinced of ACC are substantially below that of the convinced researchers

Oh geez I can just imagine the load of garbage im going to get now because I choose to take the rational road instead of the party line on a topic that apparently can turn people liberal eventhough it has no liberal/conservative context to it aside from Al bore. Im still yet to understand why this is such a polarizing topic, aside from having impacts on the energy sector. Ironic, since I work in the energy sector.

[PATRIOT1876]

Anyone in government who STILL believes in AGW cannot be trusted with the simplest of tasks. You might as well turn the reins over to Simple Jack, Lenny from “Of Mice and Men”, Lenny from Laverne & Shirley, or Joe Biden.

After Climategate, a politician should at least look at the evidence against the AGW scam.

Too bad. He’s too lazy or too stupid.

[repub4ever1]

Mr. Huntsman, which man made activity caused the melting of ice age glaciers 15,000 or so years ago? These glaciers were enormous and had enough water in them to form the Great Lakes.

[Interesting Times]

Scientists who don’t “believe in global warming” don’t get their grants renewed.

[olezip]

Jon Huntsman gave a relatively brief interview to Time, but it’s likely to create longer term problems for his rumored presidential run in the GOP. Huntsman says he opposes cap-and-trade proposals because “this isn’t the moment,” but he buys the climate change argument because “90% of the scientists” say it’s happening.

Jon ought to take another look. He might find out that “30% of the scientists” still believe in AGW. It would be even lower than 30% if you take away the votes of the "scientists" getting paid to prove that current climate change is caused by AGW; these folks would be more accurately classified as "lobbyists."

[Mike Darancette]

I believe in “Climate Change” 100%; 14,000 years ago Ice covered Central Park in NYC thousands of feet deep. 1,000 years ago they were growing wheat in Greenland. The climate is always changing.

[Let's Roll]

Not these scientists:
http://www.petitionproject.org/

Oh, wait, I bet the GW people have changed the definition of ‘scientist’ while rational people weren’t looking.

[Ratman83]

The man is an imbecile.

[dagogo redux]

And another one bites the dust.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Legions of Anthropogenic Global Warming Skeptics

• Global Warming Petition Project, also known as the Oregon Project, has been signed to date by 31,487 American scientists, including 9,029 with PhDs, and nearly 4,000 with specific training in atmospheric, earth, and environmental sciences. All signers have the necessary training in physics, chemistry, and mathematics to understand and evaluate the scientific data relevant to the human-caused global warming hypothesis and to the effects of human activities upon environmental quality.
• Statement by Atmospheric Scientists on Greenhouse Warming signed by 47 scientists against the highly uncertain scientific theories being used to support global environmental regulations in anticipation of the Earth Summit (Brazil 1992). FEBRUARY 27, 1992
• THE LEIPZIG DECLARATION ON GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE originally a prebuttal to the 1997 Kyoto Climate Treaty Conference. It has 105 signatories. (1995, 1997, revised 2005)
• The CATO Institute Climate Change Ad signed by 115 scientists, mostly PhDs. Ad in pdf form. March 30, 2009
• 141 Scientists Sign Letter Sent to UN Secretary-General Questioning Global Warming stating that the science behind anthropogenic global warming is anything but "settled". December 8, 2009
• U. S. Senate Minority Report: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claim Over 700 dissenting scientists to date  from around the globe challenged man-made global warming claims made by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and former Vice President Al Gore. Initially released December 2007.
• Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change approximately 1000 endorsers of the International Climate Science Coalition, March 2-4, 2008.
• Memorandum submitted by the Institute of Physics The Institute of Physics, with a worldwide membership of over 36,000, has submitted a memorandum to the U.K. Parliament in which they excoriate the CRU as an affront to the integrity of science, as well as decry the corrupt peer review process in climatology that has evolved to support the anthropogenic global warming fraud. February 2010
• More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims in an open letter to German Chancellor. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility." August 9, 2009

[Gritty]

One more schmoe off the list.

Man, oh man, this is easy...