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Santorum Froths About ‘Facade Of Man-Made Global Warming’

source: http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/10/422979/santorum-froths-at-cpac-facade-of-man-made-...

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Rick Santorum, who scored several wins this week in the Republican presidential race, told a cheering crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington DC this morning that climate change is a leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America. He railed that the “facade of man-made global warming” might convince people with the “sentimentality” to be “stewards of this earth” to think their should be limits on the burning of fossil fuels:

“One of the favorite things of the left is to use your sentimentality, and your proper understanding and belief that we are stewards of this earth and we have a responsibility to hand off a beautiful earth to the next generation. They use that and they have used it in the past to try to scare you into supporting radical ideas on the environment. They tried it with this idea, this politicization of science called man-made global warming. President Obama, you may remember, tried to pass cap-and-trade and tried to get control not only of the health care system but of the energy industry, the manufacturing industry, another two big sectors of this economy, and using this facade of man-made global warming. I stood up and fought against those things. Why? because they will destroy the very foundation of prosperity in our country.”

Santorum argued that his public embrace of the radical conspiracy theory that the world’s scientific community has concocted the greenhouse effect to enable socialists to take over the fossil fuel industry will help him win the White House.

“They try to scare you and intimidate you to trust them and give them more power,” Santorum concluded. “We need somebody who is willing to go out on these big issues of the day and draw contrasts.”

By Brad Johnson on Feb 10, 2012 at 12:12 pm
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  • DashYoyo
  • Paratus
  • coolplanet
  • Gravity_Man
    • 0
      Gravity_Man  
    • coolplanet:

      All they need do is make a mixer device to add a few drops of water + a few drop-volumes of methane to gasoline and you'd have 1000% ROCKET FUEL, which would give cars 250 miles per gallon and actually reduce oil drilling.

      Or, looking at it from an even better direction add it to diesel fuel and make gasoline anywho. It would still be quadruple the MPG we have today.

      Actually, ahem, probably Double Quadruple Mileage. You could slash U.S. oil usage 400% in a couple month's time. Get totally off all sources of non-US oil.

      Plus be slashing the engine-generated CO2 by Leaps & Bounds.

      Energy Independence on-the-rocks! Oh Waiter!

    • 3 months ago
  • notsure
  • Paratus
  • coolplanet
    • +1
      coolplanet  
    • Paratus:

      Actually Gore was correct in phazing out ozone-eating CFCs and acid rain-producing sulfur dioxide, which both slowed down the crises and made money for the chemical and electric industries to boot.

    • 3 months ago
  • Swisher
  • corderodedios
    • +4
      corderodedios  

    • A "...leftist scientific conspiracy to destroy America?" Priceless.

      The field of Republican candidates has been narrowed down to the sorts of people the greedy wealthy who are financing this year's campaign have wet dreams about. Fanatic imbeciles created by Corporate Persons, a modern version of Frankenstein's monster. More powerful than a human being, but "persons" nonetheless.

      Santorum and his colleagues may be irrational clowns, but one of them may well be our next President. It would be a mistake to overestimate the American voter. These "candidates" are saying what they say because it plays in Peoria.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • circlesquared
  • EmperorThan
    • +2
      EmperorThan  

    • Froths. hahahah

      What's funny is Republicans are the ones politicizing global warming! Democrats, as he says, are the ones merely stating the facts. These morons are the ones who build campaigns against it.

      Anymore every Republican(except Ron Paul)'s platform is just anti abortion, anti gay marriage, global warming isn't happening, Earth was created in 6 days, continue the drug war, start wars (plural) to protect freedom, suck Ronald Reagan's dick, remove all taxes from the rich, destroy all unions, un-regulate Wall Street, teach the Bible in school, WAR ON CHRISTMAS!, repeal Obamacare!, and own no less than 5 guns.

      ALL AS ONE ISSUE. Not to deviate at any point from ANY part of the drooling masses' stance. Either you share every single same view on the 'issue' or you're not a true Republican. And they all seem to want to one-up each other at how much more fundamentalist they can push their view on it.

      "I'm THIS MUCH MORE crazier than my opponent and here's why!"

      And you'd THINK Americans would wake up to it but it's like mob mentality. The sheeple all line up and agree. It's so pathetic.

    • 4 months ago
  • coolplanet
  • thedirtman
  • bertfish
    • +1
      bertfish  

    • I keep going back to the fact that this electoral season would have been a perfect opportunity for the republican party to provide a candidate for the Presidency. And, yet they have provded one stumble bum after another.

    • 4 months ago
  • ROSERITA
    • +1
      ROSERITA  

    • when was the last time this Psycho too a walk with nature or played with animals? what was the last research paper or book he read on global warming.. you stupid idiot! Just shut up, please..

    • 4 months ago
  • JanforGore
    • +4
      JanforGore  

    • D E L U S I O N A L. Oh, and cooplanet, in your other post about art and climate change, I said that art is a form that can convey the essence of the importance of understanding the climate crisis... He however, wouldn't get it. You need a soul first.

    • 4 months ago
  • sugarmountian
  • bike10
  • warman1138
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • ThirdSection
  • COMMONSENSEFORCOMMONGOOD_COM
  • coolplanet
  • northernexpat
  • northernexpat
  • ThirdSection
  • Duplin
    • +6
      Duplin  

    • Hallelujah Brother Santorum! The entire global warming issue is obviously a blatant liberal conspiracy. Take last year's alleged 'hot summer' for example. The lame stream media inserted hidden hypnotic messages into all broadcasts which made us believe we were hot, when we were actually quite cool. They then bribed both public and private meteorologists to report false data, even going so far as to claim numerous so-called 'heat records.' I suspect George Soros was behind this dastardly deed. Also, what's with the absurd, left-wing claim that the earth is round and not the center of the universe...

    • 4 months ago
  • northernexpat
    • +6
      northernexpat  

    • All the GOP candidates, including Santorum are deniers. It's just not in there makeup to believe in climate change, because they take the Bible literally. As a result, they don't believe in science. So if you think things are bad now, it will get much worse if one of them win in November. You know their mantra -- 'drill baby, drill.

    • 4 months ago
  • coolplanet
  • northernexpat
  • coolplanet
    • +2
      coolplanet  
    • northernexpat:

      Perhaps a yurt or a tipi would serve me better year round.
      Be prepared my Canadian friends.
      If climate change happens as abruptly as witnessed in the past few years be ready for a bunch of rich Americans to move next door.

    • 4 months ago
  • joeredford
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • joeredford
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • Swisher
  • northernexpat
  • joeredford
  • joeredford
  • Leen61
    • +6
      Leen61  

    • First off, Ricky, the word facade is being used improperly here. He's not a very eloquent speaker. Why shouldn't we do whatever we can to protect this environment? But he's willing ot sell it out to big business interests.

    • 4 months ago
  • joeredford
  • The_Wanderer_Kansas
  • coolplanet
  • JanforGore
  • Truthitswhatsfordinner
  • coolplanet
    • +5
      coolplanet  

    • http://thinkprogress.org/green/2012/02/10/422796/rep-cory-gardner-assures-cpac-t...

      GOP Is Committed To Defunding Climate Change Research

      WASHINGTON, D.C. — Even before taking control of the House of Representatives last year, Republicans made concerted efforts to demonstrate exactly how little they care about climate change, defeating cap and trade in 2009 and opposing any effort to regulate carbon emissions or pollutants.

      But since taking the House, the GOP has taken those efforts to a new level, attempting to strip funding for climate change research from various budgets and spending proposals. Senate Democrats were able to protect such funding, but at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday, Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO) assured attendees that the GOP was committed to ending such funding and hinted that such efforts would continue:

      QUESTIONER: Since climate science is now all settled, Republicans and Democrats can agree that it’s all settled” the DOE budget is going to roll out, can we stop spending taxpayer’s money on climate science and ways and means of limiting carbon emissions.

      GARDNER: Those amendments were all added to the Republican past budgets and appropriations bills, stripped out of course by the Senate, so I think there have been attempts to get that money out of research that’s feeding the industry.

      The effects of climate change have become more evident over the last year, as extreme natural disasters struck across the country and record warm temperatures have hit the country this winter. Still, the GOP remains committed to doing nothing about it, and if Gardner is to be believed, Republicans will continue to assault funding for climate change research at every opportunity.

      By Travis Waldron and Scott Keyes on Feb 10, 2012 at 11:13 am

    • 4 months ago
  • coolplanet
    • +6
      coolplanet  

    • "They use that and they have used it in the past to try to scare you into supporting radical ideas on the environment."

      And exactly what "radical ideas" is Rick referring to?
      Phasing out CFCs to stop the destruction of Earth's ozone layer?
      Reducing SO2 emissions from coal-burning power plants to stop acid rain from killing lakes and forests?

    • 4 months ago
  • coolplanet
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