Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 06/04/2011 9:54:02 PM PDT by UniqueViews
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie delighted conservatives last week when he pledged to withdraw his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) of Northeastern states. Conservative delight, however, quickly turned to frustration as Christie emphasized he was merely taking issue with the political and economic mechanisms of RGGI, but did not disagree with the notion that humans are causing a global warming problem that needs to be addressed.
"[W]hen you have over 90% of the world's scientists who have studied this stating that climate change is occurring and that humans play a contributing role, it's time to defer to the experts," said Christie.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.forbes.com ...
As I reported months ago when the draft Christie bandwagon started being dragged through one conservative camp after another, “Christie is no conservative. He is a Republican in a state dominated by left-wing zealotry and that zeal has leached its way into his political DNA.”
He is not even a real fiscal conservative. He is rather facing deficits impossible to sustain. He is simply being forced to make a virtue out of necessity, having reached the inevitable conclusion that the State gummint cannot continue the suicidal tax and spend policies of his radical-liberal predecessors.
Palin: Global Warming Just “Snake Oil”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/09/politics/main6189211.shtml
Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made (Aug 29, 2008)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/08/palin-global-wa.html
In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.
“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made,†Palin said
He is off the list. What a moron.
“90% of the world’s scientists who have studied this stating that climate change is occurring and that humans play a contributing role,’
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I would like for him to name some of them. And yes, I guess
one could say that when I strike a match, I am contributing to warming, and when I pea in the ocean, I am, indeed, causing
a rise in the sea level.
What caused the previous cycles of Global Warming before MAN?
It must have been them creatures in the ocean..
I am getting old, will definetly die - I guess MAN could be blamed for that also..
Actually I think it is ALL the fault of dear Mother Nature..
But I am not going to waste my vote on Romney, RINOs, nor Other Leftists Elites. I am still sticking with Cain / Palin / West / Bolton for now
So have I.
I like your list. Christie and Trump have shown us that bold attack is the style — because they gained traction even though neither is a conservative. Cain and West will jump ugly with the libs, and Palin will tweak them and manipulate them and drive them nuts. We need some combination of those skills.
We don’t need respectful disagreement. We need to attack.
I hope he contacts his buddy Wilkow about this....
“We don’t need respectful disagreement. We need to attack.”
Absolutely!
Dinosaur farts.
Another North East jackass.
Add Pawlenty to the GW list... big believer in man-made GW, now that he is running he flip-flopped.
“The biggest reversal has come from Pawlenty, who a year after signing a law in Minnesota to cut greenhouse gas emissions was featured in a radio ad for the Environmental Defense Action Fund. Joined by then-Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, now a member of Obama’s Cabinet, Pawlenty called on Congress to limit the pollution blamed for global warming. “If we act now,” he said in the spot, “we can create thousands of new jobs in clean energy industries before our overseas competitors beat us to it.”
Two years later, he wrote Congress opposing the Democratic bill, saying it was “overly bureaucratic, misguided and would be very burdensome on our economy.” In a South Carolina debate earlier this month, he apologized altogether for his climate past, calling it a clunker in his record. “I don’t duck it, bob it, weave it, try to explain it away,” he said. “I’m just telling you, I made a mistake.”
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700140035/Top-GOP-contenders-flip-on-global-warming.html?pg=3
And he admitted in the recent debate that he was completely wrong about the issue.
I won’t go so far to say “I respect him for that”, but to openly acknowledge bad choices does portend credibility.
I'm down to Cain and Palin now it appears. That is sad in this day and age. I don't believe in a life long positions of Gov't, but it is a nice transition to move from within a position of Gov't power (on some level) to the WH. Coming completely from the outside does not bode well. Who is the last person to win the Presidency that was not a sitting member of Gov't (State or Fed) while running?
We need someone else to jump in. Obama is tremendously beatable. But I fear we are going to put up the 1 or 2 candidates that he can beat. A la, Reid in NV last year. Angle was likely the only person in the whole State of NV that could make that race about HER, not about Reid and NV's terrible condition. And of course, she lost.
He outflanked himself. Down to Sarah and Michele now, maybe Rick.
Thanks UniqueViews.
as an engineer, i’m just sick of this kind of ignorance about science. it just shows that cristy is another lemming willing to follow so called authority off the cliff. i guess that’s what passes for leadership in the republican collective these days.
aside from the data that falsifies several major claims of AGW thus disproving it, science in no way advances by collective (consensus). it advances through the scientific method.
but for what it’s worth, wattsupwiththat took a look at their so called 90% whatever consensus:
“This number will prove a new embarrassment to the pundits and press who use it. The number stems from a 2008 master’s thesis by student Maggie Kendall Zimmerman at the University of Illinois, under the guidance of Peter Doran, an associate professor of Earth and environmental sciences. The two researchers obtained their results by conducting a survey of 10,257 Earth scientists. The survey results must have deeply disappointed the researchers — in the end, they chose to highlight the views of a subgroup of just 77 scientists, 75 of whom thought humans contributed to climate change. The ratio 75/77 produces the 97% figure that pundits now tout.”
“[W]hen you have over 90% of the world’s scientists....”
Completely untrue.
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