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GOP candidates urged to accept climate change by scientists
The Hill ^ | 12/29/11 | Andrew Restuccia

Posted on 12/29/2011 6:14:13 PM PST by Libloather

GOP candidates urged to accept climate change by scientists
By Andrew Restuccia - 12/29/11 11:49 AM ET

Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the “overwhelming” scientific evidence behind climate change.

The scientists issued the joint statement just weeks before the Jan. 10 New Hampshire primary, a key early test for the GOP White House hopefuls.

“We urge all candidates for public office at national, state, and local levels, and all New Hampshire citizens, to acknowledge the overwhelming balance of evidence for the underlying causes of climate change, to support appropriate responses to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases, and to develop local and statewide strategies to adapt to near-term changes in climate,” the scientists said.

“Ignoring the issue of climate change places our health, our quality of life, our economic vitality, and our children’s future at risk.”

The GOP presidential candidates have raised questions about climate science, a politically thorny issue in Republican circles.

“My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet,” Mitt Romney said during an October speech.

Romney has said he believes that climate change is occurring and that human beings contribute to it. But he has said he doesn’t know how much global warming can be attributed to human activity.

Other Republican presidential candidates have been more direct in questioning climate science. Rick Perry, for instance, called global warming “one contrived phony mess” in his book Fed Up!

Scientists at seven New Hampshire institutions, including the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College, signed Thursday’s joint statement. It was sent to the offices of all the presidential candidates as well as New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch (D).

The statement comes about a month after Iowa scientists issued a similar call for the Republican candidates to accept climate science.

The vast majority of the world’s scientists say climate change is occurring in large part due to such human activity as the burning of fossil fuels.


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To: Iron Munro
"They are hedging their bets now they can see Obama is in danger of losing his re-election bid. "

Many acedemics who claim to be scientists receive huge grants to rubber stamp the world-wide HOAX.

There is virtually NO money going to the "deniers".

It doesn't take Perry Mason, Sherlock Holmes nor Detectives Columbo or Goren to figure it out!

But we worry about the Republican Establishment that operates in the same Bizarro World as the freaks who promote the religion of "green energy and global warming"!

21 posted on 12/29/2011 6:34:12 PM PST by PALIN SMITH (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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To: Libloather

candidates urged to accept climate change

Let the socialists keep the hoax. They own it.

Grant Money , Grant Money


22 posted on 12/29/2011 6:35:19 PM PST by molson209
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To: mylife
Almost all of them are from the "Department of Natural Resources and the Environment." University of New Hampshire.

One can visualize the faculty meeting where the "Statement" was passed around for signatures--and returned to the Department Head.

Safe also to assume no one is accepted into this department in the first place without taking the "manmade global warming oath of allegiance."

23 posted on 12/29/2011 6:36:57 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: DLfromthedesert
Yup; the couch he was sitting on was made of hemp and other organic material.

However, his couch-mate was made up mostly of after-market, nonfactory inorganic parts.

24 posted on 12/29/2011 6:38:25 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: Libloather
...Fifty New Hampshire scientists ...

Fifty? In the global warming haydays they could pull in hundreds - thousands - anyone who had taken high school science qualified.

We've won ...

25 posted on 12/29/2011 6:39:56 PM PST by GOPJ (Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, Than a fatted calf with hatred - Proverbs 15)
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To: Libloather
Fifty New Hampshire scientists Thursday called on the Republican presidential candidates to accept the “overwhelming” scientific evidence behind climate change.

The only thing 'overwhelming' is the fudging of the data.

26 posted on 12/29/2011 6:40:35 PM PST by fhayek
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To: Libloather

The list. Look them up. The few I have are all “eco” frauds is some fashion.

Heidi Asbjornsen, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Semra Aytur, Ph.D., Department of Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire
Tom Ballestero, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
Mimi Becker, Ph.D, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Jeffrey Bolster, Ph.D., Department of History, University of New Hampshire
Julie Bryce, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Elizabeth Burakowski, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences, University of
New Hampshire
Rosemarie Came, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Janet Campbell, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space (Emeritus), University of New
Hampshire
Benjamin Chandran, Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of New Hampshire
Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences, University of New
Hampshire
Matthew Davis, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
Ellen Douglas, Ph.D., Hydrologist, Portsmouth, NH
Robert Eckert, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Serita Frey, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire
Steve Frolking, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
Kevin Gardner, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
John Halstead, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Lawrence Hamilton, Ph.D., Department of Sociology, University of New Hampshire
Richard Howarth, Ph.D., Environmental Studies Program, Dartmouth College
Stephen Jones, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Linda Kalnejais, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire.
Tom Kelly, Ph.D., Sustainability Academy, University of New Hampshire
Eric Kelsey, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences, University of New
Hampshire
Paul Kirsehn, Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
Ray Konisky, Ph.D., Newfields, NH
Richard Lammers, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New
Hampshire
William Leavenworth, Ph.D., Marine Historical Ecologist, University of New Hampshire
Anne Lightbody, Ph.D., Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire
James Malley, Jr., Ph.D., Department of Civil Engineering, University of New Hampshire
William McDowell, Ph.D., Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New
Hampshire
Robert McLellan, MD, MPH, The Jordan Institute
Shelley Mitchell, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences, University of New
Hampshire
Samuel Miller, Ph.D., Department of Atmospheric Science & Chemistry, Plymouth State University
Carolyn Murray, MD, MPH, Dartmouth Medical School
Science and Public Policy in New Hampshire December, 2011
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Philip Nuss, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources and Earth System Sciences, University of New
Hampshire
Scott Ollinger, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
Erich Osterberg, Ph.D., Department of Earth Science, Dartmouth College
W. Tad Pfeffer, Ph.D., Randolph, NH
Barrett Rock, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire
Shannon Rogers, Ph.D., University of New Hampshire
John Slater, Ph.D., School of Arts & Sciences, Southern New Hampshire University
Derek Sowers, M.Sc., Piscataqua Regions Estuaries Project
Jeannie Sowers, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of New Hampshire
Stacy VanDeveer, Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of New Hampshire
Cameron Wake, Ph.D., Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New
Hampshire
Alison Watts, Ph.D., Environmental Research Group, University of New Hampshire
Robert Woodward, Ph.D., Department of Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire
*The views expressed herein are those of the individual signatories, and do not necessarily represent the
views of the institutions with which they are affiliated.


27 posted on 12/29/2011 6:41:13 PM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: mylife
Here's a list of the "scientists:"

http://carbonsolutionsne.org/resources/reports/pdf/111228_Climate%20Science%20and%20NH2-1.pdf

They include MDs, sociologists, political scientists, a "marine historical ecologist," a historian, a civil engineer, etc.

28 posted on 12/29/2011 6:42:49 PM PST by hellbender
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To: raybbr

50 teat suckers.


29 posted on 12/29/2011 6:44:48 PM PST by Gene Eric (C'mon, Virginia -- are you with us or against us?!)
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To: hellbender

Thanks.
I knew it had to be complete BS.


30 posted on 12/29/2011 6:45:54 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Libloather

“Ignoring the issue of climate change places our health, our quality of life, our economic vitality, and our children’s future at risk.”

STFU,you liars.

I never thought I would live to see the very basis of science so compromised by the agenda driven whores.


31 posted on 12/29/2011 6:48:08 PM PST by Adder (Say NO to the O in 2 oh 12)
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To: Gene Eric
50 frauds.

Global Warming is not due to human contribution of Carbon Dioxide - Global Warming: The Cold, Hard Facts? By Timothy Ball

No Smoking Hot Spot (The Australian)

The missing hotspot (JoNova)

Those two articles take Greenhouse Theory at face value and by the criterion set up in the theory itself finds no evidence of warming on the basis of greenhouse effect.

Sky-high hole blown in AGW theory?

"Forbes reports on a peer-reviewed study that uses NASA data to show that the effects of carbon-based warming have been significantly exaggerated. In fact, much of the heat goes out into space rather than stay trapped in the atmosphere, an outcome that started long before AGW alarmists predicted:"

That article explains why no Hot Spot has been found.

The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics

Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'

It Is Impossible For A 100 ppm Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Concentration To Cause Global Warming

Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.

Those five articles each show that Greenhouse Theory has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics. No wonder the smoking gun "hotspot" can't be found.

Claim That Sea Level Is Rising Is a Total Fraud

That article kills any thought of planetary warming from any cause. Think about it. If there is absolutely no sign of rising sea levels how could the planet be warming? The rise in sea level in the last 100 years is almost exactly the same as the average over the last 40,000 years caused by the inter-glacial period we are in.

32 posted on 12/29/2011 6:48:43 PM PST by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Gene Eric
50 teat suckers.

Worse. I saw a couple that are "I also serve on the Advisory Board of UNH’s McNair Research Opportunities Program. " or something similar.

That means they are controlling the purse strings for research. They are an infestation...

33 posted on 12/29/2011 6:49:13 PM PST by raybbr (People who still support Obama are either a Marxist or a moron.)
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To: raybbr
They must be right...NO SNOW on the ground in Red Hampshire at the moment, and it looks like may be the case for the next fifteen days.

Since I don't ski or snowmobile...ya-frickin'-hoo!

34 posted on 12/29/2011 6:49:23 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Libloather

The climate has never stayed the same, there has always been climate change. The Ice Age came and went.

What we believe is that the anti-capitalist, anti-American Left has made up a hoax called “man-made climate change” to help destroy the free market capitalist private sector economy of America.

Stand up to these people Americans!


35 posted on 12/29/2011 6:57:10 PM PST by reaganator
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To: Libloather

My question is who is the one that Organized the 50 scientist? Why was it important.


36 posted on 12/29/2011 6:58:09 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: muawiyah
Fifty New Hampshire scientists

You said: There are no real scientists in New Hampshire.

You are correct, and the idea that there are 50 scientists who know about climatology who live in NH is insane. But I guess they truly expect us to believe that BS.

I know/knew many "real" scientists when I lived in NM. They worked at the labs. One of them actually walked on the moon. And he is a vocal denier of AGW. Surely no one really takes this AGW nonsense serious anymore.

37 posted on 12/29/2011 7:09:38 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Walkingfeather
My question is who is the one that Organized the 50 scientist? Why was it important.

My guess is that it was organized by the University of New Hampshire since everyone of them appears to be a PHD there. Not a very diverse crowd.

38 posted on 12/29/2011 7:12:23 PM PST by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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39 posted on 12/29/2011 7:19:01 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Occupy DC General Assembly: We are Marxist tools. WE ARE MARXIST TOOLS!)
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To: Libloather

Real scientists don’t have to beg people to believe them.


40 posted on 12/29/2011 7:24:12 PM PST by Blogatron (Brought to you by The American Frog Council; 'Frog - The other green meat')
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