Links tagged “romney”
- Romney Shifts on Climate Change Again: Laments Washington has done ‘almost nothing’ to address it
“I’m one of those Republicans who thinks we are getting warmer and that we contribute to that,” said Romney, adding that Washington has done “almost nothing” to address it.
Posted November 7, 20129:24 AM by Marc Morano | Tags: barack obama, hurricanes, media, romney, sandy - Report: Romney Says Global Warming Is Real And A Problem
- Mitt Romney flips again? From warmist to skeptic back to warmist: ‘While he hopes the skeptics about global climate change are right, he believes it’s real and a major problem’
- Mitt Romney becomes warmist again! Resurrects his Massachusetts stance on global warming – ‘Now sounds more Al Gore than Bain Capital’
Romney said he is now passionate about climate change, an issue that candidate Romney was reluctant to address head-on, and, if pressed, didn’t seem to think was such a big deal: 'It is a Democrat issue but I think it’s an issue for both parties,” he said. “If you think global warming is just in America, it’s not just America. There needs to be a global understanding and a real global effort. There’s no global effort whatsoever.'
- Gore calls lack of climate-related questions in presidential debates ‘pathetic’
- Forbes: Al Gore Richer Than Mitt Romney After Current TV Sale — Middle Eastern Oil Money Makes Gore richer
Gore 'sold his Current TV network to Al Jeezera for a reported $500 million last week, a move that will make him worth at least $300 million, according to an estimation by Forbes. That's more than Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who is worth about $250 million, according to a September estimate from Bloomberg'
- Dem Rep. Barney Frank: GOP paid price for ‘abysmal stupidity’ on climate change
'If Republicans got hurt because of the storm, it was because of the abysmal stupidity of their position denying climate change. And yes, so the storm did remind people how wrong they were'
- Michael Moore thanks ‘Mother Nature’ for sending Hurricane Sandy to help Obama
Moore: 'You, Mother Nature, with all your horrific damage, death and destruction you caused last week, you became, ironically, the undoing of a Party that didn't believe in you or your climate changing powers,' Moore wrote, referring to Hurricane Sandy. 'Thank you Gov. Christie for your new bromance with Obama. You know, you really didn't have to!'
- Sandy and the presidential election: ‘Many analysts felt that the arrival of Sandy gave [Obama] a boost last week by allowing him to display leadership in front of the American people’
'...as well as taking away valuable campaigning days from Gov. Romney' -- 'Chris Christie's bear hug didn't help either'
- Chris Mathews Gets A Tingle Over Sandy: Chris Mathews on Sandy: ‘I’m so glad we had that storm last week…The storm brought in possibilities for good politics’
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CNN: UN report warns ‘the climate time bomb is ticking’
Climate Tipping Points date back to at least 1864
“As early as 1864 George Perkins Marsh, sometimes said to be the father of American ecology, warned that the earth was ‘fast becoming an unfit home for its “noblest inhabitant,”’ and that unless men changed their ways it would be reduced ‘to such a condition of impoverished productiveness, of shattered surface, of climatic excess, as to threaten the depravation, barbarism, and perhaps even extinction of the species.’” —MIT professor Leo Marx
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UN Is A Climate ‘Disinformation Threat Actor’ – If UN & U.S. govt are so committed to censoring disinformation, why are they themselves spreading it?
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UN IPCC’s new report insists we can control weather & climate: ‘Whatever future we end up with is within our control’ — ‘If we act now’
It “is quite clear that whatever future we end up with is within our control,” Piers Forster, who helped write one of the panel’s earlier reports, told the Times. “It is up to humanity … to determine what we end up with.”
- Report: ‘Here’s what to expect from the latest UN climate change assessment’ – ‘Likely to feature…bold headlines’