Mormon Mitt Flip Flops on Climate Change
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After saying hundreds of times, and even writing it in his book, Mitt Romney, pictured in his Halloween mask, now says the science, overwhelming by any estimation, may not be accurate.
Clearly Mitt is pandering to his Hard Right base in an effort to curry their favor in the upcoming election. He can’t possibly be a Tea Bagger and believe in something as evil as climate change. That, after all, was not God’s plan for his Christian children.
Here’s the Newser story:
Mitt Romney’s views on global warming are back in the news. This week, he reaffirmed his skepticism about humans contributing to climate change. CBS News detects a “rightward shift” as the campaign goes on, and both Democrats and Rick Perry agree, notes CNN. Judge for yourself, as Politicorounds up some of his statements on the subject:
- Thursday: “My view is that we don’t know what’s causing climate change on this planet. And the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce CO2 emissions is not the right course for us.”
- August: “Do I think the world’s getting hotter? Yeah, I don’t know that, but I think that it is. I don’t know if it’s mostly caused by humans.”
- June: “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. … 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.”
- His 2010 book No Apology: “I believe that climate change is occurring—the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor. I am uncertain how much of the warming, however, is attributable to man and how much is attributable to factors out of our control.”
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Romney will say anything that he thinks anyone wants to hear. He is that desperate.
..and to think they say he is the sanest of them all!