Mitt Romney hit for past emissions stance [Inconvenient Truth on Climate Change]
June 15, 2011: Al Gore praises Mitt Romney on climate Mitt Romney on Wednesday got a big thumbs up for his stance on global warming from a source that likely won’t help him at all in the GOP primary: Al Gore.
The former vice president and Nobel Prize winner praised Romney for not heeding right-wing calls to reject the science behind climate change.
“Good for Mitt Romney — though we've long passed the point where weak lip-service is enough on the Climate Crisis,” Gore wrote on his blog. “While other Republicans are running from the truth, he is sticking to his guns in the face of the anti-science wing of the Republican Party.”
Earlier this month, Romney told a New Hampshire town hall meeting that he believes climate change is happening and that man-made emissions are a cause.
"I don't speak for the scientific community, of course, but I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," Romney said. "I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer.
"No. 2, I believe that humans contribute to that," he continued. "I don't know how much our contribution is to that, because I know there's been periods of greater heat and warmth than in the past, but I believe we contribute to that. And so I think it's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and global warming that you're seeing."....
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Perry isn’t my favorite, but I admit Romney did a hatch job on him -— what Perry is failing on would be foreign policy and a clue that people do NOT want to pay instate tuition for illegal aliens. Had he not blown himself up on that one issue I’d have taken a look at him.
But it always disgusts me when ‘moderate Republican’ is code for ‘doesn’t give a damn about abortion and will support it.’ ditto ‘Moderate republican’ means ‘can be rolled on principles and will give up core values to sign on to Democrap legislation.’
I’d much prefer Perry, flawed that he is, though Santorum would have 1st dibs on my vote, then Newt, then Perry. After that Huntsman (now we’re starting to get down to people I really don’t care for) then Romney (who I think is a blow dried creep of the first water) then Paul - who I think is a psychopath as far as conspiracy theories goes — never mind his head in the sand scary foreign policy thoughts. ANY ONE of them, however, I would vote for over zero. But I am praying it’s not Romney, or that nutbag Paul (whom I don’t think will last once the open primaries are out of the way — as I think that is where the bulk of his support is coming from — disaffected dems, not-too-bright-on-foreign-policy ‘independents’ and the oddball republican here and there who can’t point to Italy on a map to save his soul and who believes Marilyn Monroe killed JFK.