Romney says would not put limits on emissions

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/26/us-usa-campaign-romney-idUSTRE77E64720110826

Romney says would not put limits on emissions

By Jason McLure

LEBANON, New Hampshire | Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:59am EDT

(Reuters) - Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in danger of losing his 2012 Republican primary front-runner status, on Wednesday he would not place restrictions on carbon emissions if elected.

Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, also said he does not know if human activity is the primary cause of climate change and does not favor spending heavily on climate solutions.

Asked about global warming at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, New Hampshire, Romney said he believed the world is getting hotter and humans contribute in some way to the change -- but could not judge to what extent.

"Do I think the world's getting hotter? Yeah, I don't know that but I think that it is," he said. "I don't know if it's mostly caused by humans."

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[sakabatou]

1. Romney: "I LOVE pollution!"

[Fearless]

2. Naturally. Only the businesses need to be healthy not the people.

:sarcasm:

[RoccoR5955]

3. Someone should put limits on HIS emissions!

And the rest of the Cons, and teabaggers as well!

[Fearless]

4. Zing! +1

[muntrv]

5. Mitty, go suck on a gaspipe!

[Guilded Lilly]

6. And thus we have the *Daily Moronic Mittney Musing*

[Tikki]

7. Better sell that $gazllion home in SoCal then...

We watch our emissions carefully here...He's gonna be the totally uncool dud on the block.


Tikki

[AmericaIsGreat]

8. Uh, did he not recently say he believed in AGW?

I'm pretty sure he did. And that was the only thing for which I gave him credit. Lmao. What a clown.

[OKIsItJustMe]

10. Yes, he did.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-06-04/news/29685848_1_global-warming-climate-change-greenhouse-gases

Romney reaffirms stance that global warming is real

Bucking skeptics, he urges changes

June 04, 2011|By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In the first town hall of his freshly announced presidential campaign, Mitt Romney yesterday reaffirmed his view that global warming is occurring and that humans are contributing to it, a position that has been rejected in recent years by many Republicans as the issue has taken on a greater partisan tinge.

After opening remarks in which Romney blamed President Obama’s policies for the new anemic hiring figures, the first questioner from the floor — a software developer from Hanover, N.H. — wanted to know the candidate’s position on climate change, an issue his opponents have generally avoided so far.

“I don’t speak for the scientific community, of course,’’ Romney said. “But I believe the world’s getting warmer. 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 … 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.’’

Romney has made clear that he opposes cap-and-trade, a system that would combat climate change by limiting total emissions and forcing polluters to pay for the greenhouse gases they produce. Instead, he said yesterday, he wants to wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil by seeking alternative sources of energy, and he said Americans should do more to conserve.

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[madrchsod]

9. so nixon`s epa is being gutted by the republicans...

[OKIsItJustMe]

11. Well, to be fair… Ehrlichman deserves a lot of the credit

http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=96-P13-00032&segmentID=2

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FITZPATRICK: As Nixon campaigned for the White House in 1968, pollution was beginning to emerge as a national issue. Nixon never spoke about it during the campaign. Instead, he spoke of healing the social wounds created by the Vietnam War.

(Nixon: "That will be the great objective of this administration at the outset: to bring the American people together.")

FITZPATRICK: Protecting the environment became a part of Nixon's attempt to unify the country. John Ehrlichman, who'd been picked by the President to coordinate domestic issues, persuaded Nixon that fighting pollution was both the right thing to do and politically popular among young voters. Nixon gave Ehrlichman and his staff tremendous freedom to draft environmental policy.

EHRLICHMAN: We would tell him what we were doing. When we got into a political pickle we would come to him for his decision as to what he wanted us to do. But otherwise, we had a pretty free hand.

FITZPATRICK: As the first Earth Day unfolded in 1970, members of Congress were also climbing aboard the environmental bandwagon. They competed with the President's staff in an unprecedented struggle to out-green one another. This competition resulted in the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act, all passed by Congress and signed by the President in just 3 years. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency by executive order.

(Nixon: "The price of economic growth need not, and will not be, deterioration in the quality of our lives and our surroundings. The destiny of our land, the air we breathe, the water we drink, is not in the mystical hands of an uncontrollable agent. It is in our hands.")

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[rurallib]

12. Willard proves evolution has an evil twin

which his life personifies.