Global Warming: "Patently Absurd"

[Ron Hill]

ELECTION 2012
GOP candidate: Global warming is 'patently absurd'
Republican takes opposite view of Mitt Romney, who thinks mankind is responsible
Posted: June 08, 2011
8:07 pm Eastern

By Joe Kovacs
© 2011 WND


Former Congressman and current Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is turning up the heat on the issue of man-made global warming, calling it "patently absurd," a stance putting him at odds with perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney.


Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum calls man-made global warming 'patently absurd.'
"I believe the Earth gets warmer and I also believe the Earth gets cooler, and I think history points out that it does that," Santorum said on Rush Limbaugh's radio show this afternoon.

"The idea that man – through the production of CO2 (carbon dioxide) which is a trace gas in the atmosphere, and the man-made part of that trace gas is itself a trace gas – is somehow responsible for climate change is, I think, patently absurd."

On Friday in Manchester, N.H., Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, took the opposing view.

"I believe the world is getting warmer," Romney told a crowd of about 200 at a town-hall meeting. "I can't prove that, but I believe based on what I read that the world is getting warmer and number two, I believe that humans contribute to that. I don't know how much our contribution is to that 'cause I know there's been – there have been periods of – of greater heat and – and warmth in the past, but I believe that 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 the global warming that you're seeing."

Limbaugh responded to Romney's remarks by saying, "Bye-bye nomination. Another one down."

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[Master Oil Racing Team]

I was concerned about Romney's liberal past and the health care bill he passed while he was gov. of Mass. I can understand why he did it at the time, although I think he was wrong, but for him to still cling to the fact that it was good except his predecessors screwed it up, us just plain lying. He's ahead in early Republican polls because the news media wants him to be. Now that he has openly declared his concerns about global warming, I hope everyone sees tha charlatin that he is. He's stated the liberal viewpoint for votes. Someone you can't trust.

I was concerned about his views before.....but now I know!

[Ron Hill]

The current regime spent a BILLION dollars getting elected. The Democrat Party will spend a BILLION dollars getting their man reelected. Hilliary considered running but knew she could not raise a BILLION dollars.

To win this coming election, there is more than ideas and concept required, there is MONEY needed.

When there are George Soros, NEA, United Auto, state unions, federal unions....Private sector workers need more than MITT ROMNEY!!!

[Master Oil Racing Team]

It's costing way too much to run for president. And what is really scary is that so much unidentified money is coming in. There was a number of unusual things that happened during the Obama run that I have never heard reported, buy I think they are tied together. This is just my opinion, but let's see if it repeats itself.

After Screaming Dean got so much money over the internet in his run for the presidency, the democrats saw a golden opportunity. You have to give Obama credit for taking internet donations to a higher level. He cleaned house. But this is where it gets scary. Six months to nearly a year out of the elections there were a series of identities stolen from banks and credit card companies. The numbers of names and identities was massive. Then some months prior to the elections, a number of people had reported that their bank account had been debited for 250.00, but then creditied back in. There were very few news reports about this, but apparently is was done all across the U.S. Most people probably never even noticed it because their accounts were not off, and they considered it a banking thing if they even caught it. Enough did though that it became a news story for a brief time, and I forget the reason the banks gave. I think it was something like a software glitch that took small amounts out of people's accounts, but it was put back in. Now here's where I come up with my conspiracy theory.

I noticed that Obama had an enormous about of donations over the internet for 250.00 or less. It was an abnormal amount of transactions if I remember correctly. The key is that political donations of $250.00 or less do not have to be reported. How many young people that know how to send money over the internet will have that kind of money to send. How many young people even bother to vote? A lot of the older people would just send a check, and the welfare voters arn't going to send their money to someone else. But just think of this scenario. Computer hackers in China steal hundreds of thousands of names from banks and credit card companies, then start entering the data in their computers. Hundreds of Chinese could enter all that data, then the hackers would use it to take $250.00 or less from accounts and send it via computer transaction to the Obama campaign. They then turn around and put Chinese money back into the Americans account so they wouldn't get suspicious and call the bank. Hundreds of thousands of complaints would lead to an investigation. By putting the money back, the Chinese would be able to finance Obama's election bid by laundering money through U.S. banks, and non of the transactions would have to be reported by name and address. I don't know if this really happened, but I say it's a very definite scary possiblility.

By the way, did you notice in the news last week that hundreds of thousands of identies were stolen from Sony, and their Playbook accounts? This is after a 300 thousand person identity theft in Texas several months ago.

[smittythewelder]

There is not a glaciologist on earth who will agree with Santorum. Nor any old Alaskans who live near a glacier . . . or rather, used to live near the glacier years ago. The United States Navy and Coast Guard, the Russian Navy, and the naval forces of Scandanavia and Canada all employ numbers of Arctic specialists, and none of them will agree with Santorum.

What cracks me up (as an old Goldwater campaigner) is having seen the days long ago in the Fifties and early Sixties, when conservation, the old word for concerns over the preservation of the the natural world and the waste of natural resources, and over looming global over-population, was a Republican issue!! Today's GOP, with its cast of conspiracy theorists, theocrats, and buffoonish Saturday Night Live candidates, would be unrecognizable to the intelligent, capable men who lead it in a different era; Ike, Goldwater, Nixon, and Ford.

[zul8tr]

A huge majority for over a millinum believed that the planets and the Sun revolved around the Earth, but a few (Copernicus, Galileo, etc) believed they were wrong and time proved the few correct. There were even many as far back as Aristotle that believed projectiles were pushed thru the air by some unknown force once they left the influence of the propelling force provider. This theory made its way to Greek javilins and they incorporated blunt backs to aid their travel thru the air

The proportion of man's influence on the climate compared to natural causes from the Sun is still under debate by many reputable researchers and differing opinions will continue because it will never be satisfactorily determined. Granted there is some man made influence to climate change but to be influenced by turning the natural forces by the puney efforts of man borders on futile and at a great cost that the world would sink to support. Just think of the environmental damage another Krakatoa volcano would do and man can not prevent such catastrophies and they will happen it's just a matter of when.

None the less it is up to the indivudual to be respectful of the earth and take personal responsibility to do there best to pertect this planet in a reasonable and common sense way, if that's reasonably possible. with all the hype that displaces clear rthought