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To: katiedidit1
He has studied both for years. It is a fact that the earths climate has changed over eons...it always will. I am not blaming man for it but even I know history shows changes in land, continents and species.

Keep in mind that Gingrich has been asked about this repeatedly for a decade now. His position has always been that "We don't know what is causing it."

Personally, I don't know what to think. I believe that there are some problems with how scientists are currently measuring the planet's temperature versus even 50 years ago. If they say that CO2 levels are going up, based on ice core samples, I can accept that with the caution that we know that research HAS been falsified for political agendas. And we also know that any increase in CO2 should be taken care of by increase green plant activity. And we don't really know that the types of increases people are talking about have any real effect on global temperatures.

In short, I'm with Newt on this one: Ignoring scientific research jest because we don't agree with the researchers politically is stupid. There may or may not be something going on, but we need to know a lot more.

50 posted on 12/20/2011 5:46:33 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

Bottom line is that opposition to neither global warming nor an individual health care mandate started out as some kind of core, biblical, conservative principle. Over time the movement has more or less found a consensus on them, but it is reasonable to assume that a thinking individual would mull them over and study them for a while before drawing final conclusions. There is no reason to doubt that Newt will stick to what his stated positions on those issues are in the campaign when he is elected into office.


52 posted on 12/20/2011 6:10:37 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Obama in 2012!)
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To: presidio9
You are either a total idiot or totally for Newt and trying to make excuses for him. I am for Newt, but his BS with Pelosi and global warming was just that, BS. CO2 is a plant food, nothing more, nothing less. It is a scientific fact(if you want to talk real science)that the warm periods in the past had lower levels of CO2 than we have now, and that some of the colder periods have more CO2 than we have now. CO2 does not affect the climate or the weather.

Anyone who buys into that sh** even a little, needs to have their heads examined.

53 posted on 12/20/2011 6:16:26 PM PST by calex59
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